St Mary's Calne News Sheet - 30

S. MARY'S SCHOOL CALNE

NEWS SHEET NUMBER

30.

SEPTEMBER, 1945.

R. S. Heath, Printer, Calne.

ST. MART'S SCHOOL.

NEWS SHEET.

September, 1944-July, 1945.

Our deepest sympathy goes out to all those who have suffered so grievously in this last year of war.

S. Mary's Roll of Honour.

(Sixth List) Killed in Action.

Bickersteth. Lieut. Julian Dunlop Bickersteth, K.B.B.C. C.M.P, in January 1945. (brother of Elfride) Bradley. W/0. Charles Carrol Bradley, husband of Beryl (Chadwick) Gibson. Lt. Col. Jack Tremayne Gibson, the Welch Regiment, in September, 1944. (Husband of Jean, nee Ferguson) Gwatkin. Archibald Willoughby Gwatkin, and Frederick Charles Nicol Gwatkin, killed in action the same day, March, 1945. (Only brothers of Nan.) Hoyle. Capt. John Edward Hoyle, in February, 1945.

(Brother of Christine Dobson.)

Leigrh-Mallory. Air Marshall Sir Trafford Leigh Mallpry K.C.B., D.S.O., and his wife, Doris, killed in a flying accident, November, 1944. (Parents of Jacqueline.)

Lloyd. Lieut. Rodney W. B. Lloyd, in February, 1945. (only brother of Veronica.)

Priestley. Fit. Lt. Paul Henry Weston Priestley, in September, 1944 (only brother of June.;) Round. Fit. Lt. F. D. Round, in June, 1944 (husband of Frances, nee Masters.)

Thynne. F/0. Brian Winslow Thynne, R.A.F.V.R. Missing July, 1944, now presumed killed (brother of Marjorie.)

Died as Civilian Prisoner of War. Fraser. On July 25th, 1944. Hugh Fraser, Federal Secretary, F.M.S., at Civilian Internment Camp, Singapore, (father of Janet and Anne.)

1944—1945.

This has been a wonderfully happy year, with the growing hope, fulfilled on May 8th, that the war in Europe would soon be over. The thrill of V.B. Day will not soon be forgotten: we had just returned to School for the Summer Term when we were called upon to celebrate that great day. How we did so is described elsewhere.

We at S. Mary's have so much to be thankful for in that the long years of war have told so little upon us as a school, and we have emerged from them so safely and with so much vigour. We look forward to the future with high hopes. For a new chapter is about to begin, in November Miss Matthews announced her approaching resignation: after thirty years she felt the time had come to hand over the school to younger hands. On February 15th, the Governors appointed as her successor Miss J. I. Field, B. Sc. (Lond.) M.A. (Oxon.) Headmistress of the Cambridge and County High School. We are certain that under her S. Mary's will grow from strength to strength. We must prove ourselves ready to meet the new calls that' will come to us, in changed conditions;, and to each one of us comes the call to prepare for the part we shall have to play in helping to win a true peace for this troubled world.

THE GOVERNING BODY. We are glad to report that there have been no changes this year among the Govenors. We are always so glad, and proud, that we are allowed to welcome them to dinner in the dining room each Term, for in this way we are able to feel that we are really in touch with them.

Mr. Dunne, alone among the Governors, we have not seen. But he has been greatly in our thoughts, and in our sympathies this year. For in April we heard that he had lost Mrs. Dunne. Never can St. Mary's forget her gentle, gracious presence. What a wonderful hostess she was to us in early days at Highlands, and how thrilled we were by her hospitality on those delightful days we spent at Denford! Nor has her passing, after fifty-four years of married life, been the only sorrow that had come to Mr. Dunne within the year, as his only grandson, Timothy,

was ki.^d in action in Italy. Old girls will remember Timothy's baptism, which we all attended, in 1923. Our hearts have gone out to Mr. Dunne in his loneliness and sorrow. And as a school we should like, too, to extend our sympathy to Lady Colum Crichton Stuart, who has been called upon to face such shattering sorrows in the deaths in action in August of last year of both Lord Lansdowne and his brother Lord Edward FitzMaurice.

Both Lady Colum and Mr. Dunne have been remembered day by day in our Chapel services, together with all those many members of the school to whom the war has brought such loss, such suffering and such anxiety.

MISS MATTHEWS I think the majority of S. Mary's children would agree that Miss Matthews' influence on their lives during their girlhood was stronger than that of any other single person. This is not surprising for Miss Matthews has not played at being a headmistress. For thirty years she has devoted all the gifts of her rich personality, all her intellectual power, and above all her immense spiritual strength, to preparing her girls for life.

She has always set an immensely high standard, and has succeeded somehow in bringing out the best in most of us, however sadly we may have fallen off from that best after her influence has been removed.

Miss Matthews is a builder. She has more than quadrupled the number of boarders in the little, unknown, rather inadequately housed school to which she came in 1915, given it beautiful and gracious buildings and a highly qualified staff, and made it one of the best known schools in the West of England. Everything has been •done with patience and love, and no one who has held out ,a helping hand to the school has ever been forgotten.

The story of S. Mary's is a romance in which we have ;all played our tiny parts; we have shared in the comradeship of making a living thing. Many fine women, above all her old colleague and comrade Miss Alexander, have helped Miss Matthews in her task, but the chief vision and ÂŤourage and energy have been hers alone.

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not all-important things. At the same time Miss Matthews has built a school where imaginative consideration for others, courtesy and generosity abound.

It has a strong sense of its responsibilities to the outside world, good intellectual credentials, and a high standard in every detail of life. These are just a few of the intangible things that Miss Matthews has built at S. Mary's.

No one who has experienced it will ever forget Miss Matthews' teaching. If only all teachers were like her, how much we should learn! From the moment she entered the class-room we were carried along on the waves—sometimes rather stormy ones—of her enthusiasm, and while our imaginations were kindled, the essential points were always hammered home. Everyone who has been at S. Mary's long enough to be in Miss Matthews' Divinity class must have P.A.I.L.D. engraved on her heart.

Most people can still recollect that Pericles, Alexander and Hannibal nourished respectively in 444, 333. and 222, and the stupidest of us can still remember something about the Tudors and Stuarts. But for the majority of us the most inspiring thing about Miss Matthews' As teaching was her interpretation of Shakespeare. someone said to me on the way home from the Reunion "We all owe her a debt of gratitude for that alone."

How I myself looked forward to those Shakespeare lessons! (and my daughter loves them just as much.) To this day certain parts of Hamlet come to me in Miss Matthews' voice when I read them, and I unconsciously compare every Hamlet I see and incidentally every Mrs. Malaprop—-with hers. I left before the era of the Stratford visits—few headmistresses but Miss Matthews would have attempted them from a school at such a distance— but she has always done everything possible to make Shakespeare live for us. The results are seen in the really memorable performances by girls which most of us have seen in school plays or in form Shakespeare.

As to our own' callow efforts how encouraging Miss Matthews always was! It is so easy for a teacher to snub, to pick out obvious faults, to damp with faint praise, and to forget the effort that went into the crude but enthusiastic performance. Miss Matthews never forgot; she

always knew when one had put one's heart into one's work. What a thrill was an 'Excellent' from her, not halfhidden in a corner, but given like everything she gives, in full measure, and scrawled half across the page !

Lastly, it is impossible to write adequately of Miss Matthews' spiritual influence on us all. Her sermons in Chapel (how the words went home!) her confirmation classes, her talks to each of us individually—how infinitely much these have meant to most of us in our lives, both at school and afterwards. How greatly she has helped us all, and, I think I may be allowed to say just this once, how much we all love her. I wish that for the benefit of those who were not at the Eeunion I could have painted a picture of her looking at her bedspread that Saturday night in the Hall, surrounded by happy faces, mostly young, some middle-aged, all so pleased to have given her pleasure. We shall not florget her or what we owe to her, and we wish her many, many happy years at the White Cottage from which she can watch the school which she has built to go on to greater and greater strength.

In conclusion, I do apologise to my contemporaries for the inadequacy of this effort. The heart is full but the pen cannot express what it would say, and after all who •could really do justice to Miss Matthews? Only Shakespeare, I think.

1918—1922.

What does the School, past, present and future, owe to Miss Matthews? To estimate this is an impossible job and we all want it to be done, so done it will have to be.

First of all, Calne is no longer famous for pigs alone. As I progress from "new" to "lower middle" and then to "upper middle" Old-Girl, I notice that more and more people react with greater and greater enthusiasm to my oft-times stated membership of St. Mary's. We are now ^'on the map" and our daughters must be entered in their •cradles if they are to get to school before their heads grow grey. Our buildings once consisted of a nice stone house with good windows, a pleasant garden and an air of retiring criticism behind a thickish hedge. Presently walls were pushed out, extra windows and upper storeys appeared, and a juggle of huts with tortoise-stove heating sprouted in the garden. Soon the houses round became

conscious of the stretching hand, and St. Prisea's, St. Bridget's, St. Faith's and others were added. The general appearance is, perhaps, a thought patchy. But what a revelation is the Hall! Behind all this stand the Governors and the Architect, b'ut behind them, we all know verywell, stands Miss Matthews. And long may she so stand.

We need her vision of the Celestial City, translated into the good local stone that weathers so soon and so pleasantly.

To get us known and to increase our stature are not what we should first acknowledge as our debt to Miss Matthews. Within the new buildings is a new generation. How do they differ from us and how much of the difference is due to Miss Matthews? Of course they are better than we were, and of course it is due to her. She managed to create and then to keep and yet to renew a body of tradition that we can recognise but are obliged to hail as "maintained and strengthened." The practice of ancient customs brought up to date is one of the finest "values of life." We "upper middles" sometimes felt ourselves cut off from the outside world—the sixth form now has a whole day to devote to outside citizen activities.

We sometime felt ignorant of other people's beliefs—now they study comparative religions. In our day we never met boys and our possible later reactions to the opposite sex were never discussed. Now mixed parties are quite unremarkable, and courtships and marriage are placed in their proper perspective. Could anyone but Miss Matthews have moved so happily with the best trends of the times? And how fertile has her imagination always been.

Company Plays, not-too-edueational trips to Bath, "frolics," any sort of cheerful excuse for a bit of .extra fun, behind it all was Miss Matthews, obviously enjoying herself every bit as much as we were.

Now we come to the difficult bit. As well as all the things we owe in common to Miss Matthews, we have our own particular debt to acknowledge, some little bit of ourselves we can remember her planting, like "Flower in the crannied wall." What can we say about those? I could refer to the poem about Arnold of Eugby, which to us is perhaps a little self-conscious and lacking in humour, though its feeling is applicable. You had better look it 6

up for yourselves.

Or there is Kipling's "Let us now praise famous men—for their work continueth......greater than their knowing."

But some one will have to write a book about St. Mary's before justice can really be done to Miss Matthews.

Then we shall see her, in the tradition of Miss Buss and Miss Beale that was modified by Miss Faithfull (of Cheltenham) and Miss Douglas of Godolphin, and by Miss Matthews so successfully and subtly adapted to the needs of to-day. Do not let us forget, when we look back over our own lives, as well as the life of the School, that Miss Matthews above all is to be praised among those who: "With toil of their To-day Bought for us Tomorrow."

1921—192T. The originalty of Miss Matthews may be compared to the appearance of new phenomenon. Both paralyse attempts at description for there is a dearth of adequate words. For Miss Matthews' special qualities the curious word "LARGE" must suffice. Her designs were bold and wide; her details intricate but purposeful. Moreover, the forest, we believe, was never lost for the trees.

Great men have been praised in this vein before, but it cannot often be that their greatness itself includes, as Miss Matthews' does, a love of small'and ludicrous things, of paradoxical and almost irresponsible projects. Who else but she would so particularly like Black Sheep? Who else would lure us to be tidy by planting around the school divers litter, which in doggerel verse told the astonished scavenger to claim a savings stamp as a reward?

Who else would suddenly, just because it was a fine day, spring a holiday on us all?—or would, in the middle of lunch, pretend to be a bomb, sending us all headlong under the tables?—and who but she would regale innumerable Bishops with innumerable racy stories? Or publicly award the author of a successful practical joke?

Her zest for the present is huge, and it is that, probably, which we shall chiefly remember of her when we look back on our own years at St. Mary's. We could not be bored—we dared hardly be dull—-with her sprightly hand to stir us. But while we remember this day-to-day

exhilaration, we are equally conscious of the relationship which, in Miss Matthews' mind, the present bore to the past and the future. Every new project—even those which caused alarm and despondency in the staff room— was consistent with the whole plan, whose present enactment was the expression of yesterday's hopes and the foretaste of tomorrow's improvements. In our time we saw radical changes, with "Civilian Days" for the Upper VI., and with "Greek Weeks" and the like. But one felt that their origin was with her own, and that the stream of Old-Girl visitors and "Grandchildren" emphasised the unity of past, present and future.

The focus of Miss Matthews' work at St. Mary's was her ideal of the kind of life for which we should be educated. Old Girls are not lacking who are a witness both to the ideal and to the success of her methods. j What a great thing it would be if her ideal of education could make the same sort of mark as did Dr. Arnold's in the las century—if all one's years of schooling fitted one as well for a full and happy life as we believe we were fitted at St. Mary's. Much might be learnt from her method, its elasticity, its adventure, its stress on the Greek notion of the individual's ceaseless search for truth, with beauty and goodness, but we, who were at St. Mary's in the years between 1915 and 1945 must always be specially fortunate and thankful in having known "Matt" herself.

1938-1944.

DR. EDE. If ever Dr. Bde and I have had a slight difference of opinion there has come to my mind "Well, what can you expect? To him you are, after all, only a new comer!"

For it has always been a source of perhaps pardonable pride to Dr. Ede that his connection with S. Mary's began at least four months earlier than mine! (I do not suppose that he would grant that that was more than cancelled by Ms absence on service with the Forces in the last war!)

But, take it as you will, he and I have had a wonderful -partnership, and now alas, it is being broken for, by a strange coincidence, we are both retiring together.

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And what a loss he is going to be! For no school can ever have had a more considerate, more able Doctor, no school a truer friend than he. In how many minor tragedies has he not played a major part! We may at times have fumed against his regulations or restrictions, but how fully they have been justified. In his hands we have always felt so safe. We have admired his great skill, his outstanding integrity. His retirement—although we know how richly he deserves it—is little less than a calamity.

We wish him great happiness in the future—yes, and Mrs. Bde too, who has always been so good a friend to us all.

And we hope that as an Honorary Member of the O.G.A. we shall still meet him at Reunions, which he has never failed to attend.

B.M.M.

SCHOOL CALENDAR 1944-45 September 22. Beginning of Term.

28. Half-holiday for blackberry picking

October .„ 6-8. „ 12-13, » „ » „ „

I*18.

1926.

28.

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30.

31.

November.

I4.

6. » 13,, 25.

December.

3.

4.

9.

January.

February.

10.

12.

Reports by girls who had attended S.P.G. Conferenceat Oxford.

Visit from The Bev. F. "W. T. Craske.

Lectures. Mr. Ludwig Koch on "Bird Sond and Animal Language."

Lecture. Miss Yeaxlee "How to produce Shakespeare"" Health Festival. The Eev. H. V. White, in Chapel Lecture. Miss Edwards on Nursing as a Profession.

Young Farmers' visit to Flax Factory, at Devizes.

Young Farmers to Brains' Trust, at Chippenham.

Net Ball Match. Staff versus Form VI. Sixth Forms to a Brains' Trust at the Bentley School Visit from Bishop Weller; talk on his Diocese in S. America.

All Saints' Day. Half-holiday.

Lacrosse Match; y. Western Ladies.

Half-term Holiday. Conjuring Performance.

Mrs. Baskett. German Beading with Seniors.

Musical Festival, conducted by Dr. Eeginald Jacques Party to Bentley School for performance of Shaw's "You never can tell" Confirmation by Bishop of Salisbury.

School Certificate Examination.

"Bring and Buy" Sale. £57 raised for Malta and Gibraltar and the School "adopted" in Greece.

Performance by Seven o'clocks of "Mother Hubbard's Christmas."

Carol Service in Parish Church.

Mark Beading. Tea and Speeches.

17. Beginning of Term.

13. "School Certificate Frolic." "This Happy Breed"' at the Cinema. Frolic Tea. Entertainment by Candidates.

17. Governors' Meeting. Election of Miss Field as new Head Mistress.

19. Visit from Miss Field.

Dr. K. Caddick to Sixth Forms on 'Medical Practice*" 22. Dr. Smethurst.

Three addresses on "The Holy Communion."

24. Lacrosse Match; v. Westonbirt 26. Lecture. Miss Ellis, U.G.S. on Social Service 28. Dr. Reginald Jacques on the S. Matthew Passion10

March. „ „ „ „ „ „ April. „ „

May. „ „ „ „ „ „ June

July.

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2. Half-Holiday. Form Entertainments, 4. 'A Canterbury Tale' at the Cinema. Picnic lunches,.

Form Entertainments.

9. Song Eecital. Mary Linde and Eric Greene.

12. Lecture. Dr. Colin Edwards on "Speech Therapy a$ a Career."

21-24. Visit of Dr. Ludwig Koch. Lectures and expeditions to hear Dawn Chorus 26. Miss Stevens-Guille, on India.

1. Easter Sunday 2. Frolic in honour of E. Willink's Exhibition at Lady Margaret Hall.

3. Hymn Playing Competition.

4. Mark Beading 4. Beginning of Term 8. V.E. Day Celebrations 10. Ascension Day. General Knowledge Paper. Picnic to Sandy Lane.

15-17. Brother Charles, in Chapel.

18. Cinema; News Beel 26. Governors' Meeting Mr. Donald Grant; Lecture on the Tennesee Valley Authority.

30. Cinema; "Western Approaches" Concert; Isobel Baillie, at Chippenham 1.

2.

9.

15.

Young Farmers' Club Eally at Dauntsey's School Cricket with Marlborough College 'Bustles' Tennis Match against Chippenham Secondary School Tennis Match against Godolphin School, Salisbury (First Bound for the Aberdare Cup) Lecture to the VI. Forms; Mr. Peter Matthews 23. Cricket with Marlborough College 'Casuals' 27. Visit of Students from Southlands Training College, Display by School of Dancing.

30. Performance of The Ballet, 'Winnie the Pooh' and 'The Mountain' 2. Founders' Day. Address by The Bishop of Eochester Whole Holiday in honour of Elfride Bickersteth's University successes.

6. Visit of C. fforde and J. Parsons to the Godolphin School.

10. Tennis against Westonbirt. Party in Grounds arranged by Parish Church Fellowship Committee.

11. Violin Eeeital; Mme. Adila Fachiri and Mr. Hylton Stewart.

14. Tennis Tournament for Aberdare Cup, S. Mary's Convent, Ascot. Ancaster House, Bexhill. Talbot Heath. Bournemouth.

20-21. Three lectures on Greek Art by Mr. Barton 23. Address by U.M.C.A. by Dr. Leader Stirling 24. School Concert 25. Mark Beading.

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THE CONFIRMATION The Confirmation was held by the Bishop of Salisbury on Sunday, December 3rd in The Parish Church.

The following were Confirmed :Susan Agnew Ruth Howell •Julia Ball Moyra Leatham Rosemary Beer Margaret Macfadyen Felicity Brocklebank Alison Maclean Diana Brown Gillian Miller-Hallett Margaret Chitty Helen Mitchell Jane Cresswell Joanna Newton Nicolette Cunliffe Patricia Rickards Phoebe Des Clayes Mary Rowley Rachel Fortescue-Brickdale Susan Green Dorothea Stewart-Cox Prudence Harvey Rachel Swann Rosemary Harvey Susan Taylor Rosemary Herbert-Smith Jennifer Trower Diana Willcocks Fifty-six friends and relations were present and signed the Confirmation Register.

We are very grateful to those who have taken services <or spoken to us in Chapel this year:- The Bishop of Rochester, Brother Charles, S.S.F., The Rev. F. W. T. Craske, Dr. Smethurst, The Rev. C. H. S. Matthews, The Rev. H. V. White.

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TUESDAY

OFFERTORIES EXPENDITTJBE £ s.

HOME: TJ.G.S. Subscription 49 9 11 Postages "Eecords" 6 Wool, etc.

2 10 Merchant Navy Comforts fund 3 3 1 0 Waifs & Strays Earl Haig's Fund 7 5 'Old Ladies' 1 0 Xmas Hampers Friends of the 1 1 Cathedral Governesses' Bene4 0 volent Inst. .

2 2 Boys' Home Girls' Home 2 0 Naval War Charities! 22 2 12 Church Flowers FOREIGN: 13 6 U.M.C.A. Bishop of S. John's 6 14 Kaffraria United Aid to China Fund 5 0 2 12 Accra 4 10 S.P.G. Malta 5 0 Jersey Ladies' Coll. 8 0 8 Balance

EECEIPTS

£ s. d.

Balance 2 3 Tuesday Collections 50 15 11 Health Festival 41 12 7 Founders' Day 4 10 6 Earl Haig's Poppies 7 5 8 Bishop of S. John's Kaffraria 6 14 3 Sanatorium Box 9 0 Special Donations 4 0 0 ditto.

5 0 S . Margaret's 5 2 6 Chapel Box 1 18 1

£122 15 3

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& o< o> 0 0 0 6: 7 3 0 6 0 0 0 2

£122 15 3

We also raised £57 by our Christmas Sale, which we sent to the Fund for Malta, and to the School we have "adopted" in Greece..

HEALTH FESTIVAL The following Old Girls sent donations :A. Agnew E. Booker

M. Allen (Whieldon) V. Ashworth L. Attlee A. Ball E. Bickersteth J. Blathwayt H. Bolton (Cox)

M. Brockway (Harris) A. Brown E. Buck M. Burdett E. Burra D. Butler E. Buxton

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;D. Carkeet-James Margaret Chadwick Mary Chadwick B. Chapman B. Clark â&#x20AC;˘ C. Clarke D.. Drabble B. Egerton (Chambers) .8. Eyre A. Fletcher B. Fortescue-Brickdale E. Fortescue-Brickdale A. Garrad M. Gibson P. Gibson J. Glossop M. Goodden M. Gooderham (Matthews) :.P. Green (Beale) F. Groves (Farnfield) ..J. Hall (Young) M. Hamersley A. Harris A. Harrison (Sarjeant) M. Harvey .J. Herford (Hawkins) S. Hobson E. Homfray (Waller) A. Hornby (Sadler) J. Howell E. Hunkin H. Johnson-Smith P, Kidman G. Kirby M. Lees M. Lushingtou T. Mackarness (Tidman) M. Maclean (Eandolph) I. Martin . J.. Martin M. Matthew O. Matthews E. Maundrell (Thomas) O. Mayhew

E. Minnis B, Mitchell M. Morement B. Newton-Dunn(Brooke) B. Osman-Jones P. Parry-Okeden P. Pedley G. Pinckney L. Porteous (Roome) C. Pound M. Price J. .Priestley B. Pryor P. Earn A. Rhodes A. G. Roberts P. Robinson D. Rosedale F. Round (Masters) R. Russell J. Rutherford N. Ruthven E. Sarjeant M. Scott (Parker) E Stamper M. Steele (Smith) R. Stiitzel (Price) R. Taylor (Aidworth) R. Thatcher A. Thomas M. Thynne M. Troutbeck K. Trow M. Walder (Osman-Jones) A. Wallace A. Warrick M. Waterfield N. Webb P. Webb M. Westmacott P. Whieldon R. Whiffcn A. Wilson (Trench) E. Wilson S. Winser

The Archdeacon Miss Abdy Miss Alexander Miss Booth Miss Broome :Sister Cathrow ;Mrs. Coulter

Miss Damant Mrs. Ede Miss Ferris â&#x20AC;˘Mr. Greenwood Miss Grover Miss Hedley Miss Inglis Miss Powell Spye Park 14

THE STAFF In April we lost Miss Bowden, who had been with us as Mathematical mistress for nearly nine years. She has been appointed Head Mistress of S. Hilda's Diocesan .School, Buenos Ayres, and we congratulate her on this appointment. As Head of S. Prisca's, as Form Mistress of one of the School Certificate Forms, as organiser of the War Savings, and in countless other ways she has given very real and loyal service to the School, and she is greatly missed. We were glad to welcome her back for a visit in June.

In April we also lost Mrs. Garnett, who has taught German, so ably, for nearly 4 years.

Sister Allen, who has been with us for three years -also left in April, in order to return to work with her former Head Mistress. She will always be remembered for her kindly tenure of 'Gazelle', and her inspiring lessons in Home Nursing. She is now at S. Elphin's, Darley Dale.

After six years at S. Margaret's, where lately she has been Head of the Junior School, Miss Walker left us in July, and has been appointed to a boy's preparatory .school in London. She will be very much missed, especially by the Third Form, who have owed so much to her care.

With the end of the German occupation of the Channel Isles both Miss Chesshire and Miss Preston have been able to go back to their posts in Jersey Ladies' College.

They both came to us, Miss Chesshire to teach History, and Miss Preston Geography, in May 1942, and have done â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘excellent work in their three years here. While we are very sad to part with them we know that it is right that they should return to a school which has suffered so .greatly in the years of war.

Miss Ashdown, who had been in charge of the Garden for two years, left in March, and Mrs. CornishBowden, Assistant in the Sanatorium, left us in the .autumn and has been much missed.

We have welcomed during the year :Miss Brett, B.A., London, to teach Mathematics Miss Sparks, to teach in the Kindergarten.

Miss Jones to take charge of the Garden.

Miss Andrew as Secretary.

Sister King, to take charge of the Sanatorium Miss Lee Bennett as Assistant in the Sanatorium.

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SCHOOL LIST JULY,

1945.

UPPER SIXTH Christine fforde June Parsons Anne Kelly Lesley Lea-Wilson (1) lona Maclean Elizabeth Thomas Margaret Henderson

Came.

1939 3 1940 1 1939 3 1941 3 1940 2 1940 3 1940 3

Came.

Hilary Moore 1942 3 Diana Nicholson 1940 2 Valerie Bodd 1940 1 Joan Salmon 1940 2 Mary Chapman 1940 1 Jean Cunninghame Graham 1941 3 Mary Hale 1940 3

SIXTH Eosemary Beer Bridget Burra Venetia Cornwallis Mabyn Grace Mary Field Shirley Gregory Bosemary Harvey

1940 1940 1940 1941 1939 1940 1942

Bosemary Herbert-Smith 1934 Audrey James 1934 Anne Knollys 1940 Anne Norris 1940 Seymour Booke 1941 1941 Anne Trelawny-Boss 1941 Yvonne Troman Mary Walker 1945

3 3 1 3 3 2 3 2

LOWER SIXTH Diana Brown Tessa Diamond Anne Fraser Catherine Hallward Moyra Leatham Jane Benwiek

1935 1941 1941 1943 1942 1941

Felicity Brocklebank Kitty Hood Buth Howell Baehel Judd Helen Mitchell

UPPER 1941 1942 1942 1942 1942

TIPPER Julia Ball 1943 Margaret Chitty 1941 Jane Cresswell 1943 Nicolette Cunliffe 1942 Phoebe Des Clayes 1943 (2) Elisabeth Groves 1940 Aunis Heawood 1943 Daphne Hort 1944 Elisabeth Lancaster 1940 Margaret Macfadyen 1942

2 3 3 1 3 3

Janet Saunders Jenny Smithells Susan Tidbury Clare Troutbeck Jennifer Trower Elizabeth Willway

FIFTH (East) 3 Joanna Newton 1 Eosemary Plumer 3 Anne Tanqueray 2 Judith Tanqueray 1 FIFTH (West) 2 (1) Alison Maclean 3 Gillian Miller-Hallett 3 Patricia Bicards 2 Mary Bowley 3 Dorothea Stewart-Cox 3 Jacqueline Tate 3 Susan Taylor 2 Beth Wallis 3 Diana Willcocks 2 Christine Willis

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1941 1941 1939 1941 1943 1941 1

1943 1944 1941 1941

1 2 2 2

1942 2 1943 1943 1943 1943 1943 1941 1941 1943 1941

3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

LOWER

FIFTH

Came.

1942 1 Susan Agnew 1943 2 Elizabeth Burnett 1942 1 Susan Dibley Eaehel Fortescue-Brickdale ale 1940 3 1943 1 Susan Green 1943 3 June Haines 1942 3 Prudence Harvey 1943 3 (3) Joanna Hughes 1945 1 Alison Gordon 1943 2 Anne Morris 1944 2 Lovedy Moule 1943 2 "Ursula Nicholson

UPPER 1943 3 1944 1 1943 3 1944 3 1945 1 1943 3 1943 3 1939 2 1945 2 1944 3 1943 3 1945 1

Jane Pelly Elizabeth Eevell Holly Eobinson Anne Shaw Susan Skurray Shirley Stokes Bachel Swann Pamela Thomas Diana Turk Anne Walmsley Jane Westlake Catherine Westmacott Jane Woodroffe Susan Woodroffe

Came.

1945 2 1943 2 1942 2 1942 2 1942 3 1941 1 1942 2 1942 3 1935 3 1945 1 1941 1 1944 I 1944 2 1944 2

FOURTH Margaret Kent Margaret Meikle Shireen Moore Sally Newman Eosemary Newton Mary Nickson Susan Parry-Jones Daphne Poole Betty Eoach Joan Eoach Sally Euthven Julia Willink

1943 2 1945 2 1940 3 1944 1 1943 1 1944 2 1944 2 1945 1 1943 3 1943 3 -1941 2 1945 2

LOWER FOURTH 1945 2 Gillian Bliss Jane Peterkin 1944 2 Jane Fisher Elizabeth Pite Jane Fletcher 1945 1 Eosemary Eodd Susan Garnons Williams Julia South 1945 2 Hilary Salmon 1945 2 Elizabeth Glasbrook Bosemary Sellers (1) Christina Maclean 1945 ?â&#x20AC;˘ Jane' Thomas 1945 2 Susannah MaeEae Janet Trevelyan 1938 2 Mary Matthews Sally Webb 1945 1 Jennifer Mitchell Margaret Willcocks 1944 2 (4) Euth Orr Isabella Wilso:.

1944 3 1945 2 1943 3 1945 2 1944 3 1945 2 1944 2 1944 2 1945 1 1945 ?

1941 3

Gillian Brown Anne Carey Susan Chavasse Faith Crook Anne Crosse Lois D' Aubuz June Des Clayes Eobina Deuchar Charmian Fearnley Elizabeth Goffin (2) Miriam Groves Gillian Johnson

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Ann Deuehar Barbara Garrett Jennifer Haddon Maureen Holbrow Gillian Mary Osborne Euth Bobbins

S. MARGARET'S THIRD Came.

1941 2 Patricia Shaw 1944 3 jm Smeeton 1940 3 Patricia Stratton 1945 2 Shirley Stratton 1942 2 Jean Turner 1945 2 JOy Watkins

Shirley Aldriek Anne Gunning Ann Holbrow Jean Mountford

1945 1943 1945 1944

Valerie Hockey Mary Keevil Helen Moore

FIRST 1942 3 'Margaret Bees 1943 2 Ann Webb 1943 2 Elizabeth "Welch

Jessica Birnstingl Gillian Edwards John Lupton (5) Bobert Maundrell Andrew McElwee

KINDERGARTEN 1944 3 Gillian Beid 1944 2 Naomi Bobbins 1945 1 Gillian Bussell 1945 2 Sally Smith 1945 2

Christine (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

SECOND 2 Cecilia Bobbins 3 Bridget Smeeton 2 Jean Waterson 2

fforde is returning next term as Head Girl.

Daughters of Margaret Maclean (Bandolph) Daughters of Trances Groves (Farnfield) Daughter of Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) Daughter of Bachel Orr (Stiles) Son of Enid Maundrell (Thomas)

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1942 2 1938 3 1945 2 1945 2 1943 3 1944 1 1945 2 1941 2 1945 1

1942 3 1943 3 1945 1 1944 1945 1945 1945

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THE STAFF-JULY, i945.

Miss Thouless (Senior Mistress). English and German Mademoiselle Antoiae. French 'Miss Bowden, Mathematics.

Miss Chesshire. History.

Miss Cridland. Games, Gymnastics, Dancing Miss Hollingworth. Classics.

Miss Hort. French.

Mrs. Lennox. German Miss Nesbitt. Piano, Elecution Miss Preston. Geography.

Miss Roberts. Piano, Oboe.

Miss Stratton. Domestic Science.

Miss Walker. Junior School.

Miss Williams. Violin.

Miss Windsor-Aubrey. Science.

Miss Harris. Art. Miss Jones. Gardening.

Miss Greenwood. Matron.

Miss Weetman. Matron Miss Jackson. Housekeeper.

Miss Bomford. Cook.

Miss Cowell. Cook.

Sister King, Sanatorium.

Miss Lee-Bennett. Assistant Sanatorium.

Miss Andrew. Secretary.

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

Mr. Nightingale. Wind Instruments.

Miss Van Hulst. 'Cello.

Miss Chard, Piano.

Mrs. Bodman. History Lecturer.

Mrs. Euverby. History. Latin.

Mrs. Hall. Pre Nursing Class.

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EXAMINATION RESULTS OLD GIRLS Cambridge University.

Modern Languages Tripos: Part I. Class II. Division I. (German and Eussian) E. Hunkin Modern Languages Tripos: Part I. Class II. Division I. (French) Class II. Division II. (German) M. K. Troutbeck London University.

Westfleld College: History Class Class II. Div. I. School of Economies: Graham Wallas Scholarship Metealfe Scholarship Bedford College: Social Science Diploma

J. Rutherford.

J. Campbell

P. Earn.

Aberdeen University.

Classical Honours, Class I. Pullerton Scholarship (£175 for two years) Eobie Gold Medal in Greek.

Simpson Prize (£65) in Greek.

Seaneld Gold Medal in Latin.

Black Prize (£28) in Latin.

Royal Academy of Music.

L.B.A.M. (Teacher's Diploma.

Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Silver Medal. S. John Murray's Nursing Prize Radcliffe Infirmary.

Gold Medal

E. Bickersteth.

A. Bee G. Kirby.

D. Ede.

PRESENT GIRLS Oxford University Lady Margaret Hall: Exhibition (Medicine)

E. M. Willink

S, Hugh's College: "Waiting List (Medicine)

A. Powlett

London University.

Vacancy Bedford College (Sociology) 20

A. Butler

Cambridge School Certificate December, 1944.

E. A. K. James *D. E. Beer *S. J. Johnston *D. J. Brown S. A. Knollys E. B. L. Burra *M. Leatham M. M. Chapman C. Me G. MeCanee *V. M. Cornwallis *A. E. Norris *M. C. Grace *J. Eenwick *B. E. A. Cunliffe E. A. 8. Eooke *J. Cunninghame-Graham *J. 8. M. Saunders T. E. Diamond *J, M. Smithells *J. P. Dibley *S. E. Tidbury *P. N. M. Field *E. A. T. Trelawny-Boss *A. Fraser Y. F. Troman D. V. Good *C. J. Troutbeck 8. A. Gregory *J. M. Trower *M. H. Hale *M. E. T. Wigan *I. C. Hallward E. P. Herbert-Smith F. E. Willway Matriculation Certificate Whitehall Secretarial College.

Special Bursary

J. M. Morris

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V.E. DAY AT S. MAEY'S The War in Europe is over. Throughout the first week of May, when one piece of momentous news had followed another in breath taking successionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the death of Mussolini and of Hitler, the surrender of Northern Italy the fall of Rangoon, of Hamburg, of Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the tension had grown stronger and the excitement greater as the eyes of the world turned to Britain and millions listened to the news from London.

At the end of that week, on Monday 7th of May, the first rumours of unconditional surrender to all the Allies crept into S. Mary's. It grew larger and larger, fading temporarily after the six o'clock news, until at 8.30 p.m. it turned into Truth. Miss Matthews announced that tomorrow would be kept as V.E. Day all over the country.

It seemed only right that we should first hear the news of victory in Chapel, where for over five years we have prayed for it anxiously.

V.E. Day itself dawned clearly. After Chapel we struck the flag and then proceeded to decorate the houses, (having ornamented ourselves with bows of red, white, andj blue which each girl found on her plate at breakfast.)

One long string of flags was festooned with great difficulty and danger from window to window outside Bodinnar, while a second formed a triumphant V from the top of the porch to Miss Matthews' bedroom and sitting room windows.

At three o'clock we listened in Gabriel to the Prime Minister as he made his final statement about the war, and we heard descriptions of the crowd outside Buckingham Palace and Whitehall; then we marched down to a short Thanksgiving Service on the Strand, conducted by the Archdeacon. Hundreds of people formed a square round the band to sing "0 God our help in Ages Past," and to thank God for our deliverance. The town was gay with flags and everywhere red, white and blue decorations showed the spirit of rejoicing, but it was in the silence and the singing that we showed our true feelings of thankfulness and proud remembrance of the great sacrifices.

For the next two hours the school was one mass of feverish activity until our "Victory Dinner" at seven 22

o'clock. Miss Matthews found no uniform collection of girls awaiting her;the High Table had been transformed into Mount Olympus where the gods toyed with nectar and ambrosia, while below them Squander Bugs frolicked with Savings Stamps, and Snow White conversed with Alice. We followed up Miss Jackson's marvellous supper with toasts to the King and the Prime Minister and the Forces, drunk in orangeade.

After two triumphant marches round the Hall for the benefit of the Staff, Mr. and Mrs. Gandhi, Alice, Queen Elizabeth, 5/- Savings Stamps, gipsies, gods and dwarfs alike hurried off to change back into blue cotton dresses, for at 8.15 there was dancing on the cricket pitch, which had been thrown open to the public.

We all joined in dancing "The Lancers", "The Velita" and the waltz to Mr. Henly's band. It was cool after the heat of the day and we made many friends. Old couples who hadn't danced for years joined in with great enthusiasm for two hours on end, broken only by the King's speech at nine o'clock.

Then it was time for the bonfireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the great moment.

For days Dickson had been building it on the Workhouse site and it was really enormous. On the top were two straw effigies, presumably of Hitler and Mussolini, (though there was no striking likeness) while a little way off washing flapping merrily on the "Seigfried Line." The flames were huge, and as their orange tongues shot into the darkness towards the sky everyone cheered; then, led by the self-appointed Master of Ceremonies, a Scots airman, we burst into "Land of Hope and Glory". Under his direction we sang for about half-an-hour ending with "Auld Lang Syne."

Then we went to bed. The war had touched some more than others, but even the youngest had known a little of the terror and much of the glory, and while we remember that, we will never forget V.E. Day, so happily spent at S. Mary's.

C. fforde.

POUNDERS' DAY. Founders' Day this year was celebrated by a whole holiday instead of the customary half; this was in honour of Elfride Bickersteth's outstanding achievements. The

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day was not as sunny as we could have wished, but that did not prevent it from being a great success. There were many more visitors, who came for the weekend and were able to stay for the service, than in previous years. The service was held in the hall, which was beautifully decorated with lilies and delphiniums for the occasion. The Archdeacon conducted it and the Bishop of Rochester preached a very moving sermon, appealing to everyone present in a personal way. Psalm 15, sung in the newly pointed way, gave it quite a new feeling; we also sang Christopher le Fleming's "I love all Beauteous Things", which we hope will always be included in the school festivals. The afternoon and evening were free until after supper, when a final performance of the ballet was held for Calne visitors; fortunately the weather was fine enough for it to take place outside.

All who were at S. Mary's on June 2nd, 1945, will remember it as a day which was full of joy, though not by any means free of sadness, knowing as we did that it was Miss Matthews' last Founders' Day here.

E. Thomas.

M. Hale.

We had hoped to print the Bishop of Rochester's most beautiful address, but paper restrictions make that impossible. We have, however, several typed copies, and if anygne would care to have one she should write to Miss Matthews, The White Cottage, Wilcot, Marlborough, Wilts, who will be glad to send one.

MUSIC OF THE YEAR (Autumn and Spring Terms.)

S. Mary's has always been very lucky in its musical friends and aquaintances, but lately these seem to have been even more numerous than in the past. We have known and enjoyed more than one musical hey-day in the short space of two terms, for when, in November, Dr. Reginald Jacqques came to conduct the Music Festival, he invited the School to sing the ripieno choruses in the Bach "S. Matthew Passion" in the Royal Albert Hall, with the London Bach Choir! Miss Matthews was not the only one "bursting with pride" on that day. Our Music Festival 24

programme was mainly choral, but there were of course instrumental items as well. The orchestra surpassed itself in playing Dr. Jacques' own arrangement of the three Purcell dances from the "Fairy Queen," and also a new suite, the'Tilford Suite," by Mr. le Fleming. The highlight of the whole Festival was, however, for carols from Benjamin Britten's, "A Ceremony of Carols," which we found \pery difficult to learn but very exhilarating to sing.

This Music Festival of 1944 will long be remembered by all who took part in it as being the climax of many years of hard work on the part of the music staff.

At the end of the Christmas term we had a carol service in the Parish Church, and sung again the Benjamin Britten, as well as many other better known, carols.

Not all our musical activities, however, have been confined to performing ourselves. In the Spring we were delighted to see Dr. Jacques again when he came to give us a talk on the "S. Matthew Passion," so that we should not arrive in London completely ignorant of the work in which we were to sing. But alas! such are the vagaries of fate and war that the whole plan was vetoed by the Governors, who were reluctantly compelled to forbid it, unless the rocket-bombs stopped in time, (which they did not.) This was a great disappointment, but we have heard that the invitation still holds good for 1946, so we are looking forward to a real peace-time debut in the Albert Hall.

Mr. Eric Greene and Miss Mary Linde came in March and gave us a most delightful concert in their usual intimate and friendly manner. The success of this particular concert can easily be judged by the number of encores demanded, and the fact that certain of the songs performed may still be heard hummed and sung in all corners of the School!

Yes, we are lucky in our music at S. Mary's, and even the most "un-musical" among us discover that they are not quite so devoid of music as they suppose themselves to be.

B. Strode.

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SUMMER

TERM.

AnotherArtist whom S. Mary's had heard before,.

Madame Adila Fachiri, came down in Summer Term. We were all thrilled by her recital, especially over the Kreuzer Sonata by Beethoven, and the Devil's Trill by Tartini, and hope that perhaps she too, may honour us with another visit some day. We were most thrilled by Mr,fcHylton Stewart, her accompanist.

The Vlth forms have been to several excellent concerts outside the school. In the Autumn Term the R.A.F. from Yatesbury gave an orchestral concert in the Town Hall and in the Summer Term three airmen gave a recital of violin, piano and vocal music. Both of these were extremely good, and those of us who went very much enjoyed them. The Chippenham Secondary School very kindly invited us over to a concert given by Isobel Baillie and Watson Forbes, and this was also very much enjoyed, and felt to be well worth the bicycle ride. The New London Orchestra, conducted by Alec Sherman and Myra Hess as Soloist, came to Bath in the Summer Term, but unfortunately, very few of us were able to go owing to travelling restrictions.

This year there were hymn-playing competitions for both Seniors and Juniors. There were six entrants for the Senior, and three of them reached 1st class standard and were awarded their badges, V. Rodd, C. Troutbeck and E. Groves. In the Junior competition S. Green reached 1st class and M. Kent was awarded her Junior badge. The general standard of hymn playing seems to be rising rapidly, especially among the Juniors who are very enthusiastic about it.

A rather harrowing innovation is "solo playing" at the end of each term. Everyone is expected to produce an item, solo pianoforte or two piano piece, which she plays to the rest of her form, the music staff, and sometimes a few of the other staff, who are dragged along to make it as frightening as possible. But it will certainly be very good for us, and by the time we have played every term, from Lower IVth to Upper Vlth, we should certainly be well prepared for future public performances of any nature.

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The Music Club continues to flourish, and increase in numbers. We are especially glad to welcome members of the Bentley School to our meetings, which are always attended with much enthusiasm, though not always with as much music as could be desired. In the Lent Term Miss Nesbitt, who works very hard in arranging all our meetings, gave us a most interesting talk on "Music of the Last Hundred Years", illustrated by gramophone records.

Everyone enjoyed playing two Toy Symphonies. Other activities were madrigal and round singing and various competitions. There was no time for meetings in the summer Term but we hope that next term they will be continued with fresh enthusiam and ideas.

This has been a most full and successful musical year in every way and we are very grateful to all the music staff, Mr. le Fleming, Miss Nesbitt, Miss Williams, Miss Roberts, Miss Chard, Mr. Nightingale and Miss Van Hulst who do so much for our music in teaching us, and helping in their free time, especially with the Orchestra, Music Club and extra chapel and singing practices. They work very hard for us and we do want to thank them very much.

Lesley Lea-Wilson V. Rodd.

From the Records of a Meteorologist in Hertford, November 25th, 1944.

Vibrations of the atmosphere were felt and heard As three phenomena occurred.

At first the motions of the air Ran through every movement ever known And many more besides, The currents whirling in a million tides, And different whirling waves of sound were thrown Across the sky in patterns rare.

Quick running breezes and deep humming meets Yet other waves of sound pulsing in single beats.

Drops of sound hung poised in space And were released now slowlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then in a race.

And though each separate motion's come and gone The whole makes one phenomenon.

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The next strange happening in the air Was simple—more consistent—shorter, This was a deep strong rumbling Which tended to dislodge bricks and mortar And lastly came a series of staccato pops— Over a hundred, and two were noticed very loud, As though many crabs had burst their shells And of their growth were very proud. *

What was the meaning of this mystery?

Did the first mean sun, snow, wind or rain 1 Who knows? To such events as these Cyclones and mathematics don't pertain.

The second—Was it British bombers roaring forth in spate?

Or a new invention of the devil's mate?

The third defies all explanations— Even quadratic equations.

At last a scientific reason has been found The responsive air carried the sound Across three counties, and relaid it to the ground, It's source S. Mary's, and the music that was sung And secondly the loud applause that rung In their ears—thirdly—Who needs an explanation?

It was the result of Dr. Jacques' Admiration, And the two loudest pops ? Of course the answer to that Is Christopher le Fleming and Matt!

E. Stamper.

PRACTISING. "That trill was good enough, now to play the lovely bit at the beginning once again." But no, under the severe eyes of the Governors courage fails. "Don't give up", they chant in unison, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." And the stiff and stumbling fingers obey the stern command.

Everywhere you practise eyes are watching you.

Bach seems to smile and nod his head as he hears the beginning of a minuet from "A little Notebook for Anna 28

Magdalena," but the smile fades from his eyes as the rhythm flags and the notes falter. "Ah me!" he says, "how beautifully she used to play it, but there, they are young, they will learn." Mozart listens with pleasure to one of his sonatas. "I enjoyed writing that and this girl has caught the mood of it, it is a pitv she only conies once a week, I like her playing.

Whatever is this strange music she is playing now1? Debussy, did she mutter to herself?

Extraordinary ! A series of discords apparently, music has changed since my day, but some of its lovely, curiously haunting."â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Everywhere you practise ears are listening to you.

V. Rodd.

THE ART OP THE YEAR. This year a revival of interest in Art has sprung up within the school and we are hoping to have more opportunities of getting to know the beauty of our own Wiltshire villages next year. In the Lent teram an Art Society was founded consisting of about thirty keen members, but it did not really find its feet until the Summer term, when it became very much alive under the energetic interest shown by Mrs. Lennox. With her we set off on our bicycles: laden with picnic suppers and sketching blocks and explored the countryside. The first of our many expeditions was to Devizes. Here we were especially thrilled, with the beautiful old Church of St. John, with its lovely Norman chancel and tower. Another time some of us were able to go to Compton Bassett, where we were amazed by the beautifully carved screen in the church,and another time to Lacock. Those who are unfortunately not yet allowed bicycles concentrated on sketching,, particularly the Church and in the grounds.

On Monday evenings we were given a series of lectures by Mrs. Lennox on the History of Italian Art, which were most interesting.

At the end of the Summer term we were pleased to have M. Barton with us again and hear his three delightful lectures on Greek Art. We hope the Art Society will continue to thrive and increase in members throughout the coming years.

J. Salmon, M. Chapman.

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COMPANY

ART

COMPETITION

1. Poore 4. Edmund Rich 2. Osmund 5. Moberly.

Grosstete.

On the whole this was a better show than last year's; it was encouraging to see a greater number of larger paintings, though too many of these were sadly lacking in finish and detail. Miss Murray, who came from Buckswood Grange to judge the competition, said that she thought the general standard was high—each Company seemed to have at least one outstandingly good piece of work. After much consideration, she decided that Poore deserved to come first, having a larger collection of firstclass pictures than any other Company This Company had one particularly good sketch in oils of a bridge, which was considered the best thing in the room; the colour was sensitive, though subdued, and the perspective was very sound. There was also a very dramatic 'Eruption of Vesuvius' and an exceedingly charming mid-Georgian 'Family Group.' All the plant drawing in this set reached ,a very high standard.

It was too diffiult to decide between Osmund and Grosstete, each having an equal number of good entries.

Osmund had one or two very good illustrations—one 'Family Group' was done in a very amusing and detailed fashion, though the family was an absurdly small one for Victorian days. Grosstete made up for a deficiency in other things by some excellent lettering, which was some of the best work in the exhibition.

Edmund Rich distinguished itself chiefly in plant •drawing; a study of clematis was exquisitely done.

Moberly gave itself little chance of success by having :so few entries. It had, however, one good version of the 'Eruption,' which was more classical in style than any of the others; there was also a very pleasant pencil study of a boy, which distinguished Moberly from other Companies.

Miss Murray went away with the feeling that she had judged a very cheerful and successful competition.

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READING COMPETITION The reading throughout was of a very high standard, .and improvement was particularly noticeable in the 'unseen' reading. In the preliminary reading the chief fault was a lack of variety in the pitch; several more people would have been in the First Class but for this. Four Senior and two Junior badges were awarded. â&#x20AC;˘Grosstete Badges (10) P. Harvey (J) (H44)

1st Class (6) D. Nicholson S. Moore (J)

2nd Class (4) A. James R. Harvey D. Hort .S. Taylor 38

Moberly

Osmund

Poore

Edmund Ric:

C. Troutbeck E. Thomas (1944)

V. Rodd M. Rowley

C. fforde (1944) J. Des Clayes (J)

.T. Trower J- Parsons (1944) S.P-Jones(J)

J. Salmon B. Wallis A. Morris (J)

M. Hale

S. Green

R. F-Brickdale A. Maclean J. Thomas (J) I. Maclean J.WoodroffeCD S.Woodrore(J) 46 42

M. Henderson S. Gregory L. Moule (J) M. Nickson(J) 42

A. Fraser E. Groves J. Ball M. Groves (J) 46

For the first time since the Reading Competition was instituted twenty-one years ago, the Picture is to be held by two Companies, Edmund Rich and Moberly, who tied for first place. Moberly has a good tradition of good reading as they hold the Picture for the ninth time, it having been won by Edmund Rich six times, Osmund four times and Grosstete and Poore twice.

We are most grateful to Miss Nesbitt for all her excellent work in judging, and to Mrs. Gotch who has also .judged for three years running in the final test.

LECTURES OF THE YEAR. We have had fewer lectures than usual this year, but they have been the more interesting because of the wide variety of subjects.

We had three on medicine, which is becoming increasingly popular at St. Mary's. Miss Edwards, from the Nursing Recruiting Centre talked to all VI. forms and also gave individual interviews to all who intend taking up nursing. Also Dr. Colin Edwards, Assistant Medical 31

director to the Training School of Speech Therapy spoke to us on this subject, and opened up a new branch of medicine to many of us. Dr. Caddick kindly devoted one of her busy evenings to us and led a discussion on the White Paper.

We were also very fortunate that Mr. Donald Grant was again able to spare time to give us a very interesting lecture on the unusual subject of the Tenessee Valley Authority, accompanied by beautiful coloured slides..

Another friend of the school, Mr. Peter Matthews, held an informal discussion on the San Francisco Conference and cleared up many questinos that arose. Another spirited lecture on topical events was that by Miss Eleanor Caddick on the Labour Party, accompanied by much heckling on the part of the school!

Last, but certainly not least, we have been much benefitted by a series of lectures on the History of Art by Mrs. Lennox on Monday evenings this term.

A. James.

R. Harvey.

THE GREEK "INTERLUDE".

On the last weekend of he Summer Term we had a short Greek "interlude".

Mr.Barton gave us three extremely interesting lectures on Greek art.

In his first talk he explained to us that the ancient Greeks were the intellectual pioneers of the world, and s.howed that Roman art was largely inspired by that of Greece. He gave us examples of the rationality and imagination of Greek thought, and told us that the brilliant style of the Greek writers was generally acquired from social intercourse rather than from study of the works of other men.

In his second and third lectures Mr. Barton took us on a tour of Greece and Crete. He showed us some very beautiful lantern slides of all the most famous buildings in each town we visited, and his explanations of the pictures were so clear that we all felt we had really seen the 32

original places. We were also shown many examples of the carvings of prehistoric as well as of classical Greece.

Mr. Barton concluded his survey of Greek art by showing us some photographs of coins and figures carved in relief. We are all extremely grateful to him for giving us such an enjoyable time.

M. Grace.

THE BALLET. We were so pleased to be able this year to produce the long-waited Ballet. As before we did two, a Junior, "Winnie the Pooh," and a Senior, "The Mountain."

As "Winnie the Pooh" is always a favourite book, the Juniors specially enjoyed dancing it as a Ballet. Pooh (G. Brown) and Piglet (J. Des Clayes) gave a lively performance, and so did Lois D'Aubuz as Tigger, while J. Hushes made a very good Eeyore; all the other parts from Rabbit down to the smallest beetle fitted their parts verywell. We were especially grateful to Mr. Le Fleming for the music he composed for us.

The Senior Ballet described the adventures of three children climbing a mountain, and their struggles with storm, river and mist; as the programme said, "This Ballet is a fairy tale and like all real fairy tales it has a two-fold meaning; one for children and another for grown-ups."'

The group movements were extremely effective, especially in the striking finale. The three children were played by D. Nicholson, M. Chapman and E. Groves, and J. Parsons was the Spirit or Signpost who helped them in all their difficulties.

We are most grateful to Miss Cridland for the stupendous amount of work she put into it, and to those who by their help with music and clothes, especially Miss Roberts and Miss Stratton, contributed towards the success of the Ballet.

J. Parsons, I. Maclean.

THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. In the Spring Term we were greatly honoured by a. visit from Dr. Koch, the well-known expert on bird song.

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He was with us for three days and we were able to arrange several expeditions. Some of us went with him to Bowood to listen to the Dawn Chorus, and we also played some of his records of bird songs in the garden to watch the effect this would have upon the birds nearby.

We all thoroughly enjoyed these three days and we were very grateful to Dr. Koch for spending them with us.

We have seen some interesting birds this year which liave not before been seen in this vicinity by the Natural tlistory Society. In January a Black Redstart was seen two or three times near the school buildings. The weather was very cold and we concluded it had come for the food that we had put out.

This summer many more expeditions than usual have been arranged owing to the fact that buses are now again available. We have been to the Downs several times and found there two eggshells of a Quail, which is an uncommon breeding bird in England.

We have also :seen Tree-pipits there, and a nest of this bird was found.

Earlier in the term a Wood-lark was heard near Bowood and a Lesser Whitethroat in the grounds.

On the Downs some interesting flowers were found.

There were Bastard Toadflax, Field Ragwort and also Bee, Frog, and Pyramidal Orchids.

We have begun a collection of butterflies and moths which has revived some interest in this section. Most of the common species have now been captured.

Marbled White, Ringlet and Small Blue butterflies were seen on the Downs, and Eyed Hawk and Five Spot Burnet moths have been captured.

The Natural History Society has had an interesting year and we hope that next year will be as successful.

S. Taylor.

YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB. The Young Farmers have been very active this year although the numbers have somewhat dwindled. In the Autumn term we had two outings, one to a flax factory near Devizes, which is one of the very few flax factories 34<

in England and has only been set up since the war, the other to a Brain's Trust at Chippenham, where Mrs. Hudson, wife of the Minister, and Mr. Becles were two of the Brains.

During the Autumn Term we had several meetings in the gymnasium. The Chippenham Club was asked to one of them and there was a Quiz between the two clubs. Two of us helped to make up the Calne team, but we did not help it very much, as we were asked questions about tractors and diseases of wheat, which, of course, we could not answer. At another meeting two of us gave five minute talks in a speech-making contest, one was on horses' teeth and the other on keeping geese. They were, perhaps, a little too amusing for the rest of the Young Farmers, but they were politely applauded by them.

In the Lent term there were several more meetings held in the gymnasium, when lectures were given and slides shown on incubators and agricultural activities of the schools in Wiltshire. In the summer, some of us bicycled to a meeting at a farm on the way to Heddington where we were given instructions in judging Rhode Island Reds. About a week later two of us, and a boy representing the Calne team, judged poultry in the competition at Dauntsey's School, and another member from the school went in for a competition for identifying wild flowers.

The Calne Club did not win anything, but we all enjoved ourselves very much. The Rally was just the same as last year with all kinds of competitions, the usual gymnastic display and a speech made by Mr. Hudson. Altogether the events of the last year show that the School members of the Club have taken a much larger part in its activities and we hope we shall be able to continue to do so.

H. Moore.

EXPEDITIONS TO BATH. In the Spring Term all the leaving people, instead of going to Salisbury with Miss Matthews, were allowed to go in couples to Bath for the day. This was repeated in July and will, we hope, become a tradition.

Having thoroughly read up the subject beforehand, and armed with a sketch-map of the things we were to see, and our lunch, we set off by the nine o'clock tra.in.

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The Abbey was the first place we visited, and there we especially admired the roof, the west door and the Apostles climbing the ladder to Heaven. Next we made our way to the Baths themselves where we spent a considerable time; we had heard much about the famous hot springs and they fully came up to our expectations. In. the Pump Room we stood for some time imagining Jane Austin and her contemporaries coming here to dance and. gossip. We also drank some of the famous water which we found quite disgusting.

After sotne searching we found Sally Lunn's house and were duly shown round; it is an amazing place, built in Tudor times, with a Roman crypt, and made famous by an Eighteenth Century Pastry-cook! We were very much struck by the symmetry and beauty of the Circus and the Crescents, and do not think they can be overrated.

We greatly enjoyed, and learnt much from, our day in Bath, especially as after having seen all the main sights, of the City there were always fascinating little porches and balconies of the Regency period which we came upoiL in the most unexpected places. Indeed there seemed to be no end to the interesting things to be seen in Bath, and a week there would have been too short. But we think the outing an excellent plan and hope future generations of "leavers" will be able to enjoy it too.

A. Kelly.

I. Maclean.

CONTACTS WITH OTHER SCHOOLS. The increased number of contacts with other schools that this year has brought us foreshadows, we hope, the complete return to the freedom of pre-war days. The general relaxation of travelling restrictions has enabled us, and others, to go farther afield.

Salisbury has been our furthest goal so far. M. Field and C. fforde very much enjoyed their visit there this Summer in return for the night spent here by Godolphin Tennis Team, while playing the first round of the South of England Inter-Schools Tournament. We loved entertaining them and hope that links between the two, schools will continue to be be strengthened.

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We were afraid the the departure of Westonbirt from Bowood would mean that visits would become fewer, but we have been able to keep in touch, through matches and an exchange of visits. R. Hallward and J. Parsons were interested to see Westonbirt in proper action.

It seemed almost like pre-war days when on July 14th, we welcomed three schools here for the next rounds for the Aberdare Cup. The Talbot Heath Team spent the night here, while S. Mary's Ascot and Ancaster House came over the next day. We were very glad that Ancaster House brought others besides the team since it enabled us to see more of one another.

We have kept up our usual contacts with Chippenham Secondary School, Buckswood Grange, (to whom we were sorry to have to say goodbye) and Marlborough College. Altogether this has been a satisfactory social year.

C. fforde.

J. Parsons.

FROLICS AND HOLIDAYS. This year we have had no holidays by Royal Decree â&#x20AC;˘or victory, but we have either been given or gained ourselves holidays for Miss Matthews' birthday, a frolic for Elisabeth Willink's exhibition and a holiday for Elfride Bickersteth's achievements, a School Certificate Frolic, and Ascension Day. On Miss Matthews' birthday all forms (once again) had to attempt to entertain the school in the evening.

Standards good and bad were reached, but the Upper Sixth's play of Shakespearian quotations crowned the â&#x20AC;˘evening.

To follow the usual S. Mary's Ascension Day tradition, it poured with rain, but we took our lunch to Sandy Lane as always, and enjoyed a lively picnic.

According to our custom Elisabeth and Elfride were presented with tokens of merit, and Elisabeth's future as a doctor was portrayed in an amusing entertainment by the staff.

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A startling event occurred in the Spring Term. The school saw two films in one term: "This Happy Breed"' on the Frolic, and "A Canterbury Tale" soon after Miss Matthews' birthday. There is no need to sey how much they were appreciated.

The Upper Fifth kept up the old tradition of winning us a Frolic every other yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;much to the surprise and pleasure of everyone!

Apart from the cinema in the morning the day was free until after "The Tea" which was wonderfully provided by Miss Jackson. The winner of the Frolic had to entertain the School in the evening.

Eventually a ridiculous play called "If at first you don't succeed" was decided upon, which was much enjoyed by all.

A. Knollys.

M. Field.

COMPANY

REPORTS.

EDMUND RICH. Edmund Rich has on the whole had a successful year; our greatest achievement was being second in the Company Lacrosse, having been bottom the year before. We also won the Date Cup in the Spring Term. We were proud to beat Poore, last year's holder of the cricket shield, in the first round of Company Cricket but in the finals Grostete beat us with ease. The junior members of the company have been extremely, keen 1 throughout the year and Edmund Rich should be heading for a successful future.

J. Parsons.

GROSSTETE. Grosstete has had a successful year so far as Netball is concerned as we won the three cups but we have twice been bottom in Marking Inspection. Osmund and Grosstete tied second for the Company Art Cup and we won the Cricket Shield. We have been a very senior company throughout the year and so are hoping for some more juniors next term.

D. Nicholson.

MOBERLY. Moberly has shown much keenness, especially among our many juniors, but unfortunately has not been successful in winning cups! Games do not seem to> 38

be our strong point as we were beaten in Lacrosse, Netball and Cricket. We won the "Snowbuilding" competition with a dragon called "the Headmistress". But Marking.

Inspection seems to have been our only bright spot, which we won in the Lent Term (with 100 per cent) and again, in the Summer.

J. Salmon.

OSMUND. Osmund has not distinguished itself this year;: we were second (with Grostete) in Company Art last year but were three times second bottom in Marking Inspection, and once bottom in Dates. In the Company Sale,.

Osmund made most money, ÂŁ10, largely owing to Mademoiselle who raffled a tin of Nescafe.

Individually the company is keen, but it is obvious that a greater effort is, needed if Osmund is to be successful next year.

I. Maclean.

POORE. Except for one bad bump when we were bottom in Dates (19451), Poore has had a fairly successful year,.

We won the Company Art and Company Lacrosse and also the Marking Cup for 19453. We came second in CompanyShooting, Company Netball and Marking Inspection (19542) almost tying with Moberly for marking in!9451..

A. Kelly.

LACROSSE AND NETBALL. Unfortunately in Netball the only VII. match of the season against Bristol University had to be scratched,however we had a most enjoyable staff match instead which the school won. The Under Twelves had a match against Spye Park which was won by the latter 12â&#x20AC;&#x201D;8.

The Company and Junior Netball were both won by Grosstete and the Form Netball by the Vlth.

All the matches shewed an improvement in the standard of play especially in spacing.

In the Spring Term Miss Cridland with S. Bosedale and A. Kelly gave a broadcast on Netball with Mr. Creek at Bristol.

We have only had two Lacrosse matches this season since Westonbirt left Bowood. The first was in the Aut-

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umn against "The Wanderers". It was a good match and there was a great feeling of dash and energy, the School won 10—6. In the Spring term! we managed to have 1st and 2nd XII matches against Westonbirt. They were both fast games considering that bad weather had prevented much practice. Westonbirt finally won a good match, The Company Lacrosse was won by Poore, with Edmund Rich second. The general standard of play has been greatly raised, the pace was much faster and in all matches there was a much better feeling of team work and ^combination.

This year again in the Easter holidays, we were able to send a team to St. George's, Harpenden for the InterSchools' Lacrosse Tournament. In the first round the School beat Drayton Manor, Guilford School, Carshalton House and Downs School, Seaford, thus reaching a place in the semi-finals. In this we beat Berkhamsted 1—0.

After a very good demonstration game the finals against Queen Anne's Caversham, took place. By this time it was raining and was very slippery; Queen Anne's won 7—0 due to their good shooting and quick acceleration.

Miss Cridland has been untiring in her coaching of all games and umpiring and we are most grateful to her for the way in which the general standard has improved.

Net colours were won by:- S. Rosedale, A. Kelly, and E. Thomas.

Lacrosse colours were won by:- P. Grant and E. Willink.

Umpire badges were won by:- A. Kelly, S. Kosedale, E. Thomas and I. Maclean.

S. Rosedale (Netball Captain).

A. Kelly (Lacrosse Captain).

TENNIS AND CRICKET. Not since pre-war days have we had so many matches in one summer term. Altogether we have played two cricket matches, one rounders match and six tennis matches. The reason for this increase in tennis matches 40

was that we entered for the inter schools tennis tournament in which a hundred and twenty six schools took part. We played in the South of England group and found ourselves bracketed in the first round with Godolphin. We won by one set, or, if the score had been counted in games, one game, a breath taking match. This meant that we next came into contact with Ancaster House, Talbot Heath from Bournemouth, and St. Mary's Convent Ascot. Unfortunately we came bottom of the four schools even though we had the advantage of playing on our own grounds, but everyone enjoyed the tournament immensely and we hope very much that we shall enter for it again next year.

We were also lucky in having a match against Westonbirt who managed to come over here from Tetbury, and we also had our annual match against Chippenham Secondary School as well as an under fifteen rounders match. The scores for these matches were 7—2, 8—1, and 4—3| to the school.

Despite a heavy rain storm the 'Rustics' from Marlborough bicycled for cricket and between the showers we were able to play tip and run. However the day for the 'Casuals' match was exceptionally hot and as usual the ball frequently sailed into the quarry pond.

Cricket on the whole has been more popular this term but the company matches were disappointing and the standard was not as high as in previous years. The shield went to Grosstete.

The Upper Sixth won the form tennis match after a very close match against the Upper Fifth East, winning by only one set.

J. Cresswell won the senior singles against U. Nicholson, and A. Carey the junior against S. Ruthven.

All the schools who played here in the tournament were greatly impressed by the clearness and efficiency of our umpires. E. Thomas, A. Kelly, C. fforde and I. Maclean are all to be congratulated on the high standard they have reached, due we are sure to all Miss Cridland's •coaching.

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The tennis team have certainly gained experience this, term and there have been some extremely good matches.

We only wish that the 2nd VI had been able to have a match as well and we were verj- sorry not to have our usual staff match.

M. Chapman (Cricket Captain).

D. Nicholson (Tennis Captain).

Cricket, colours were awarded to M. Chapman, and Y. Troman gained her umpire's badge.

LACROSSE STICKS. If any Old Girls have lacrosse sticks in good order which they do not need, the School will be most grateful to receive them, as games equipment is almost unobtainable nowadays.

Please send them to Miss Cridland at the School.

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OLD GIRLS' SUPPLEMENT. Officers of Old Girls' Association.

President: Miss Matthews Vice-Presidents: Miss Alexander, Miss Jennings, Miss Thouless, Mile. AntoineChairman: I. C. Martin, Woodham Lodge, Addlestone, Surrey.

Treasurer: M. W. Goodden, Chettle Lodge, Chettle, Blandford, Dorset.

Secretary: D. E. Homfray, (Waller) 7, Lorraine Eoad, Glasgow, W. 2.

Group Secretariesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; I. Euth Baker, Ewhurst Place, Ewhurst Nr. Guilford II.

Kathleen Yerbury, S. Ives, Fordingbridge, Hants.

III. IV.

Janet Blaxter (Hollis), 8 Nettleden, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.

Gladys Beale, The Yews, Minchinhampton, Glos.

V.

Rachel Buck, 27, Battlefields Eoad, S. Albans, Herts.

VI.

Bridget Gardiner, 5, Beach Eoad, Paignton, S. Devon.

VII.

Brenda Kirke, Tirley Garth, Tarporley, Cheshire.

VIII.

Ailie Harrison (Sarjeant) The Dower House, Ben Ehydding^.

Yorks.

Susan Eotherham (Hayter), Flat A, The Orchards, Bagged Appleshaw, Andover, Hants.

IX. X. XI.

Torla Mackarness (Tidman), The Green, Fowlmere, Eoyston, Herts..

Laura Atlee, Knole, Manor Eoad, Milford-on-Sea, Hants~

XII.

Audrey Fletcher, The Priory, Hiuton Charterhouse, Bath..

XIII.

Pamela Chadwick, Orchard House, Oundle, Peterborough, Northants> Eosamund Strode, Lockhill House, Stubb's Wood Eoad, Chesham Bois, Bucks..

XIV.

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LETTER FROM MISS MATTHEWS My dear O.G.A When I sent out, last November, my letter to tell you of my approaching resignation I little thought that I was •condemning some of you, especially Ivy Martin to many months of hard labour! But that you should have given me so wonderful a send off must surely have meant that for months past plans have been maturing, and at The Reunion they were sprung upon me with the result that I 'have left all a'glow with your amazing generosity.

I think the thing that has impressed me most is the •extraordinary phenomenon of a large number of usually perfectly sane and well balanced people having been determined to don, as one man, the rosiest of rose coloured spectacles, and to look back upon their school days, and their old H.M. in far, far too favourable a light! And with what results? A fabulous cheque, which has not only lightened all my financial anxieties in settling into my new home, but holds out the promise of a new car, a shower of little gifts all sent along anonymously to greet me on my arrival at the cottage—and that glorious labour -of love—the bedspread! Was there ever such an original idea so successfuly accomplished ? The script of the entertainment that was the foil for its presentation ought, of course, to appear in print. It is sad that that is an impossibility, but as I read it through and linger •over each name, and admire again and again each wonderful square, I know that I can never adequately express in words even a tithe of all that I owe to you all, all that I feel.

My one hope is that you will care to come and see me in my cottage. It really is extraordinarily attractive. I shall be so proud to show it to you, and to have you as my guests. Do invite yourselves!

Thank you again "for your great generosity, for all your forgiveness of my many mistakes, for all your belief In me. You have indeed sent me on my way rejoicing.

Yours ever affectionately, B. M. Matthews.

The White Cottage, Wilcot, Station—Pewsey (2 miles).

Marlborough.

Telephone—Pewsey 2186.

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LETTER FROM MISS FIELD. Dear O.G.A., Miss Matthews has invited me to send a brief letterto the news sheet of 1945, and appearing as this does in September, it will serve to date the change from one Headmistress-ship to another.

You and I have not yet met, but it is already clear to me how strong and vital a part of S. Mary's your Association is. My work for the School is as yet in the future, and I lot>k forward most confidently to your support and encouragement, for S. Mary's has too deeplyrooted a past for a newcomer to wish to break the continuity of its ideals and traditions. But you would not want us to stagnate, or to remain nothing but a faint copy of the School as it has been under the adventurous leadership of Miss Matthews. I am sure you want us to find our way bravely through these next difficult post-War years.

Your Secretary has already invited me to your London meeting in January, when I shall hope to make the acquaintance of many of you whom I shall not previously have met as parents of present girls.

Yours sincerely, JOYCE I. FIELD. O.G.A. SECRETARY'S REPORT. The Reunion at Calne in July 1945 gave us the opportunity for Committee and General Meetings once again,, the first held since January 1939, so it was a busy weekend for all Committee members. All Group Secretaries available are welcome on the O.G.A. Committee. The following were able to attend one or more meetings:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I. Martin, M. Goodden, E. Homfray, E. Baker, J. Blaxter, G. Beale, B. Gardiner, A. Harrison, S. Rotherham, L. Attlee, P. Chadwick, R. Strode, C. fforde (Head of School).

All Old Girls have been circulated about the O.G.A. presents to Miss Matthews.

We welcome Miss Thouless and Mile. Antoine as VicePresidents.

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R. Baker will become Treasurer in January in the place of M. Goodden, who wishes to resign. M. Goodden has been treasurer since January 1938, and the O.G.A. is greatly indebted to her for all the work she has done.

S. Rotherham (Hayter) has most kindly agreed to become Assistant Secretary. I shall continue to look after the Records, but shall pass everything else on to Susan, who will be my liason with the School and will act for me at Committee meetings which I am unable to attend.

Four Groups have changed their Secretaries during the year, namely, Groups I, V, IX, and X. Group XIV now has ten members with R. Strode as Secretary. Miss Thouless has started a second Staff Group. Group Secretaries will revert to their pre-War practice of sending out subscription forms early in March.

The Building Fund is closed, and the "Marcia Matthews" Bursary Fund will take its place on the forms.

There will be an O.G.A. Reunion in London during January. R. and E. Willink have kindly agreed to act as Joint Secretaries for this. A Committee meeting will take place immediately before the Reunion. Old Girls will look forward to meeting Miss Field on this occasion, and we shall hope to have our President and Vice-Presidents with us.

D. E. HOMFRAY (WALLER) Hon. Sec. S. Mary's O.G.A. O.G.A. ACCOUNTS Eeceipts Balance in hand Interest on stock Health Festival Contributions Subscriptions to (XG.A. Subscriptions to TJ.G.S. Subscriptions to News Sheet Subscriptions to Building Fund

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£ Expenditure 7 Postage expenses News Sheet expensesi 5 11 Printing expenses Subscriptions to 39 I.C.A.A. Packing & transport of 2 goods to TJ.G.S. Subscriptions to 19 TJ.G.S. Subscriptions to 12 News Sheet Subscriptions to 19 Building Fund Present to Mr. Pulleinn 5 106 Balance

£ s. d.

92 14 2 10 15 2 41 12 1 31 7 6 19 2 0 12 19 6 19 10 0

s. d.

7 6

0 0 0 3 7 0

5 1 2

0

19

6

10

0

5 0 4 1

£228 0 5

£228 0 5

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THE 'MATTHEWS' BURSARY FUND. A joint Appeal was sent out by the Govenors and the O.G.A. The object of this fund is to found a Bursary for the daughters of, Old Girls and thus form a link between Miss Matthews' Old Girls and those who come after It is hoped to raise a sum sufficient to bring in £50 a year.

The Fund has made a splendid start but many Old •Girls have not yet subscribed. We hope that they all will so that every Old Girl may have a part in this scheme to •commemorate Miss Matthews' great work at S. Mary's.

The following points may be of help.

1. A Deed of Covenant may be signed for any amount.

'2. The most convenient method of payment is a Bankers' Order, authorizing your bank to pay yearly for seven years the sum you wish to give, to Lloyds Bank Ltd., Calne, Wilts., for the credit of the account of the Trustees of the Marcia Matthews Bursary Fund.

3. With the present rate of income tax, for every £1 you subscribe the Fund receives £2, provided you or your husband pay income tax.

4. The other objects referred to in the Appeal concern the Governors only. All O.G.A. subscriptions go direct to the Bursary Fund.

Gladys G. Beale (Appeal Secretary) The Yews, Minchinhampton, Glos.

SOME mPRESSIONS OF THE JULY RE-UNION.

(1.)

This is not a formal account of Who Came, and whatwe-did-when.

It is more an attempt to give my own personal reactions, and so, perhaps—in part— to express what we who came to the Re-union felt about it all, for the benefit of those who didn't. (So that you'll know what you missed.)

I myself went with mixed feelings.. It might be rather fun . . . . but I should probably end up mildly bored, 47

with a faint nostalgic melancholy—reflected from adolescent Sunday summer evenings long ago. Was it sentiment or sentimentality to try to recapture memories that went so far back in the past? Why, the saplings we planted in the corner of the cricket field had been growing for a quarter of a century, and they would throw a sizeable shadow across the grass.

Overshadowing everything else, there was the retirement of Miss Matthews. It had to happen some time— but it would be a hard thing to say, "The King is dead.

Long live the King." That was one -good reason for giving the whole set-up a miss. It was also a convincing reason for packing a bag and piling into the old familiar 4.1& from Paddington to face it out.

And then in the end there was nothing to face, but instead such a warmth of welcome, such a sense of continuity, that any bogus bonhomie shrivelled away, and one walked straight into the vigorous comradeship of the present.

As to Miss Matthews—she was so determined that no one should be sad about her going, that one at last felt proud that she was going. It seemed in keeping that she should hand over all that she had made in thirty years while success was still so richly on the up and up. We were just proud to say "Thank You" and to wish her well on the new adventure of a hard-won private life—sure that it would not in the Churchillian phrase, be any "turning out to grass."

And now ourselves. It was such a nice lot that turned up—with a few faces missing that I'd have liked to have seen—but all so eager to be friendly, and to enjoy whatever came up. And we all—I think—drew confidence from finding ourselves back on common ground, where we all found the same things lovely, the same things ridiculous. And how we laughed. Sometimes at the old far-off absurdities—pre-war and almost pre-the-last-war— and sometimes at more recent happenings, fresh minted currency, to jingle from pocket to pocket down the terms, and down the years, along with all the S. Mary's smallchange of our little failures and successes.

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It is beginning to make up quite a rich fund of tradition—that small change. And just because Miss Matthews has done so much to keep it—as it were—on the Gold Standard, hoarding it, spending it, raising more, investing it, and calling in dud coin—her resignation falls into perspective. She will always be there in spirit—in her own room, in the hall, and in Chapel—as a great headmistress of S. Mary's.

She was always one of the few who saw how lightly this twentieth century was dissipating the moral capital so painfully built up by those figure-of-fun Victorians; and while Progressive parents were saying they could afford to bring up their little horrors to express themselves and do exactly as they liked, (and while Youth Organisations just across the North Sea were systematically teaching children that black was white) Miss Matthews stood her ground.

Year after year she talked about Service and Courtesy, and although we often listened with the deafest of ears, its impossible not to see here, if anywhere, moral capital has not only been held in trust, but has paid a dividend.

D. W. URWICK.

(II.) When I said good night just now, I added "It's been LOVELY! What a mug I am not to have been to a Eeunion before."

Incredible—the changes in the place since 1921!

Incredible—the lack of change in the people! Everyone recognisable, but the old staff haven-t changed by a hair's breadth.

Satisfactory sensation of having "come home". lovely family atmosphere.

A

Having lived through the whole war with all chores to cope with, am much impressed by the lashings of good food, beautifully clean and shining premises, and well tended gardens.

Query—How is it done?

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Delighted to find people all "nice to know"! Had a queer fear that one or two might have developed exotically, and run to masses of silver fox furs, six inch heels, and long magenta talons of the deepest dye. All too fearfully "up stage" to know one! Not a bit of it. Strikingly noticable that everyone is just as nice as they could be, and the kind one would want to make a friend of.

Present girls—they all have such poise, and selfNot a sign of a gawky shy creature to be assurance. seen.

What we did—was there anything we did not do?

Services, nice everyday ones in Chapel, besides the formal one in Hall. Theatricals, produced, almost on the spot, with less than an hour's rehearsal—a concert, and what a standard of music compared with my day—games galore for those who wanted them, and the weather was perfect throughout. Miss Matthews' reading aloud on Sunday afternoon—voyages of discovery through the new buildings, including the kitchens, and staff quarters—long strolls through seemingly endless gardens, chatting "nineteen to the dozen", and scrounging tea at unearthly hours from an apparently unperturbable Miss Jackson.

I'm not in a position to compare this Reunion with others, as I've never seen before, but am tremendously impressed by the O.G.A. as such—efficiently run by such an inexhaustable committee, who think of everything— special reference to Ivy Martin—we owe her a lot.

The whole show went with an effortless swing—all praise to those responsible; the exchange of telegrams with Miss Field added to our happiness, because the spirit of it showed she is already one of us.

But above and behind everything, was that almost "dentist feeling", caused, in all of us, by the knowledge that Miss Matthews was going, which till now, had been unthinkable—impossible. In the middle of something happening in an easy normal atmosphere, uncomfortable lumps would threaten to choke us, and we wished, for a moment, that we might have been emotional foreigners, and able to show our feelings.

We gave her presents—(and really, the patchwork quilt was a masterpiece in its finished state) but the gen-

eral feeling was that no matter what we gave her, even, though we stripped the very rags from our backs—or gave her the world itself, we still could never express our gratitude, nor repay her for all she had given of herself with her indomitable spirit, to all of us.

B. M. SCOTT. St. Prisca's, Midnight, July 29-30, 1945.

(III.) Nearly two hundred were present at S. Mary's for the first Reunion held there since before the war; there were Victorian Old Girls and Edwardian Old Girls, and common or Georgian ones,while a large number of us were so new as never to have been to a Reunion before.

For us new Old Girls everything was exactly the same as it always had been—in fact we almost began to wonder whether we really had left school or whether we had only dreamt it, until we discovered that a lawn had had time to grow up in the Upper VI flower bed, and a flower bed time to appear in the Chapel lawn. S. Mary's had not changed.

Never having been to a reunion before, I cannot compare this summer's with previous ones, but I think that we must have done all that has been done in the past. We talked unceasingly, and made the most of the fact that after lights-out conversation was allowed to proceed undisturbed ! We entertained and were entertained; we created a new Old Boy (Mr. Gough), and two new VicePresidents of the O.G.A. (Miss Thouless and Mademoiselle Antoine) ; we pored over the school diaries; we had a concert; we had a most lovely service in the hall, at which the Bishop of Sherborne preached; we had "Matt's Reading" on Sunday afternoon—Mr. Collins' proposal once more. In fact, as far as we can gather from the reminiscences of old hands, reunions have not changed.

At the same time, however, we were thinking about a change which made this reunion different from all previous ones. We had come, not just to meet our friends, or for old times sake, but to "see Matt off." We were 51

representing all you unlucky people who were kept away by your families and your work; dozens of things happened for which we wished you were all there, but as there is not room to write about everything, I'll tell you about, the Bedspread. It is a most magnificent affair, and we thrust it upon Miss Matthews after an entertainment in which some of the squares came to life. There is a beautifully embroidered E.M.M. in the centre, and the rest of the bedspread is made up of 120 or more squares showing everything imaginable from lilies to zip fasteners The bedspread, in fact, was a success, and so was the Re-union. The only fault that we had to find with the former was that it lacked a fender stool, and with the latter, that it ended all too soon!

J. GLOSSOP.

LONDON RE-UNION.

JANUARY 9th, 1946.

At last, after all these years of war, we are hoping once more to hold a London Reunion. Miss Field has promised to be present.

This will be on Wednesday, January 9th, at Bailey's Hotel, Gloucester Road, S.W. Committee members will meet at 2.30. The Reunion will be at 3 o'clock, un^il 7.30.

Tea will be provided, and supper for those unable to arrive until late. The charge, excluding dinner or supper, will be 2/6.

Those intending to be present are asked to inform the Reunion Secretary, Rachel Willink, Lady Margaret (Late Hall, Oxford, before Saturday, December 1st. applications can be sent to her at 102 Hamilton Terrace, N.W. 8, but it is essential that she should know numbers as early as possible).

SUMMER REUNION, 1946.

It is delightful to hear from Miss Field, "Do, certainly, arrange for a Summer Reunion at Calne in 1946. It will be a great pleasure to have you all there at the end of my first year."

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NEWS OF OLD GIRLS. With the restricted paper at our disposal—and with our ever growing numbers—bare lists must still take the place of the more "gossipy" news of our Old Girls. But the lists are very inadequate: they cannot possibly reveal the many activities, the many adventures, that have been the lot during this last year of the members of the O.G.A. It was delightful to meet so many at the Reunion, especially those who had so recently returned Home after years overseas—Peggy Hopkins from Australia,Monica Savage (Hill) and Susan Randolph from South Africa, and Veronica Brown-Douglas from New Zealand. We would that we could also haVe welcomed Ruth Newberry (Matthews) now Home after her many years of nursing in the Middle East, and Cicely Conwy Morgan (Cobb) who has recently arrived with her three children from S. Africa.

We have thought much of those who have recently married overseas, Hilary Dickson (Riley) in South Rhodesia, Audrey Sweet (Barnes) in South Africa and Eleanor Ann, (Fortescue Brickdale) in Malta.

It was good to think that S. Mary's was represented in her bridesmaid (Pat Puckle).

It is difficult to single out individual members, but we want to offer our special congratulations to Anne Wood for her work with U.N.N.R.A., and for her speech at the great Women's Meeting in the Albert Hall.

Dorothy Morrison, too, is to be congratulated on being one of the first two Chaplain's Assistants to go overseas. We want to send a special word of good wishes to Monica Wood, who has recently succeeded Mrs. Franeillon as Principal of Harcombe House. We hope our many links with Harcombe will be maintained and strengthened.

We are proud, too, of our University Honours and send special congratulations to Elfride Bickersteth and Joan Campbell.

But we cannot but think most of those to whom the ending of the war in Europe has restored their Husbands and Brothers, many of whom had been Prisoners of War for so long. May those in the Far East also come saflely Home. And to the far larger number—sixty in all—who

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have suffered such grevious loss by death in action, we send our love aiid sympathy at this time. We remembered them very specially at our Reunion Services.

It is very good to feel that the O.G.A. has so proud a record of War Service: now we look forward to hearing of the part played by you all in helping to lay firm foundations of peace in the world. Our great heritage brings with it very special responsibilities.

NEWS OF OLD GIRLS * Commission.

A.T.S. C. Brackenridge* R. Durie M. Fabian (Merrett) G-. Fleetwood-Jones* E. Jardine* S. Jefferies E. Jephson

D. Mobbs M. Pite* P. Roe* E. Sarjeant* B. Sheldon* M. Young*

W.A.A.F. D. Bach P. Bomford P. Brentnall P. Brooke (Phillips) Anthea Carter W. Dallas Ross J. Findlay H. Macnab* (Tench) M. Martin W.E.N.S. L. Attlee* S. Barnes M. Burdett* J. Cameron* P. Clarke A. Fletcher B. Fortescue-Brickdale

D. Maundrell B. Mitchell D. Powlett* J. Priestley* F. Round* (Masters) M. Stead J. Weller* B. Woodmass* W. Wotton J. Foster N. Hale C. D. Hall* A. Harns C. Harvey K. Hill* Y. Hill* 54

M. Perry A. Pinckney S. Remington-Wilson* E. Sherwood (Mausergh) M. Thynne* M. Westmacott.

N. Williams* C. Valli (Hall)* H. Vines

E. Hocking M. Hulbert* M. Hurst D. Kenrick* P. Kidman A. LeMesurier* V. Lloyd M. Matthew A. Naumann W.T.S. S. Eyre WORKING ON LAND C. Ball J. Cole V. Gillingham M. Kendall I. Martin DOCTORS.

B. Parry Okeden M. Smith R. Thatcher M. Tidman N. Webb '

I. Cant (Martineau) J. Malins (Hughes) NURSINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;PHYSIOTHERAPY V. Ashworth D. Hill C. Baker J. Howell J. Beighton R. Jenner K. Blair V. Jones H. Bridgman G. Kirby D. Carkeet-James M. Legh 'Smith P. Catesby (Evans) B. Long J. Chadwick A. Mayhew B. Chapman P. Moss G. Clark-Kennedy R. Newberry M. Cole F. Nottidge.

D. Crokat R, Palmer D. Crosbie A. Pennant (part-time) D. Ede A. Pickering Pick J. Fraser C. Pound B. Gardiner P. Robinson P. Harrison (V.A.D.) P. Saxon

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A. K. K. A.

Scott Stone Synge Thomas

V. Turner B. Wasley P. Wheildon M. Whiffen

TEACHING M. Gooderham (Matthews': N. Highmore M. Hort 0. Kendall B. Lutener R, Moilliet D. Owen (Hobbs) P. Parry Okeden A. Ree M. Steele (Smith) K. Trow (Asst. Lecturer) H. Walton E. Wilson Peggy Wilson

R. Amphlett M. Baker B. Bannerman G. Beale B. Bickersteth H. Blackadder V. Brown Douglas D. Capewell (Clayton) N. Chase J. Collard J. Cooke G. Dixon P. Dixon D. Drabble M. Goodden

DOMESTIC SCIENCE (Matrons' Cooks, etc.)

B. Adelman (Adnitt) Margaret Chadwick B. Glyn Jones

M. Price A. Savory S. Winser

NURSERY WORK. D. Rosedale

J. Blathwayt J. Drabble SOCIAL WORK

M. Hamersley (Welfare) C. Waldo (Welfare) M. Trask (Blind Welfare) M. Roberts (Lucas) (Help Holland) B. Phillips (Special Libraries and Information Bureaux)

R. Buck (Youth Organiser) C. Dobson (Hoyle) (Clubs) P. Ede (House Property Management) H. Dillon (Almoner) A. Dyson (Almoner) P. Hopkins (Almoner) A. Durst (Welfare) 56

SECRETARIAL. C. Livingstone (M.O.I.) 0. Matthews (B.B.C.) B. Osman Jones A. Zinovieff (Mead)

F. Bartlett C. Church J. Cole M. Beloe (F.O.) E. Buszard (Admiralty) B.B.C. D. Urwick RED CROSS

J. Lovell

D. Haviland M. Hopkins BUSINESS

F. Pocock P. Pope M. Vischer

R. Baker C. Churchill H. Johnston Smith D. Lewis FOREIGN OFFICE S. Evans-Lawrence A. Pegs B. Pryor WAR

B. Trevor Lewis B. Wilson

OFFICE.

M. Allen (Whieldon) G. Shipley E. Kitson Priscilla Wilson H. Maxwell-Lefroy INDIA OFFICE. E. Booker.

MINISTRY of LABOUR J. Jenkins (Morris) (Tern. Assistant Principal) MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE. M. Pollock MUNITIONS. V. Carver (Lab. Officer) U.N.R.R.A.

E. Hylton Stewart

Anne Wood 57

CENSORSHIP.

I. Hey wood

UNIVERSITY. Oxford: A. Agnew (History) H. Ball (History) D. Butler (History) M. Lees (History) E. Burra (French) B. Stamper (History) E. Willink (Modern Greato) E. Willink (Medicine) Cambridge: E. Hunkin, (German and Russian) M. Troutbeck, (French and German)

London: J. Campbell (Soc. Science) M. Coventon „ „ A. Butler „ „ R, Whiffen A. Warrick (Medicine) Birmingham: R. Wheeler, (Soc. Science) Bristol: J. Chase E. Thomas G. Pinckney (Medicine) M. Taylor, (Medicine)

ROYAL ACADEMY of MUSIC A. H. Plummer ROYAL COLLEGE of MUSIC J. Burrell R. Strode P. Chadwick L. Lea Wilson T. Kirkpatrick TRAINING B. Cunliffie (Secretarial) J. Dibley D. Good M. Harvey I. Maclean J. Morris S. Rooke A. Wallace M. Lushington (Teaching) J. Rutherford „ J. Swann „ B. Tweed M. Wigan „ P. Grant (Dom. Sci.)

A. Kelly (Dom. Sci.) C. Rowley (Dom. Sci.) D. Carkeet James (Physiotherapy) P. Herbert (Occupational Therapy) A. Brown (Physical) P. Pedley (Physical) S. Gillett (Infant Welfare) C. McCance (Norland) A. Powlett (Medical) N. Ruthvean (Ballet) P. Wood (Singing)

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OVERSEASâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Mary Chadwick (W.R.N.S.) B. Hindley (W.R.N.S.) S. Hobson (W.R.N.S.) M. McKenzie B. Rodale (Betty) P. Waddilove (Nursing) India: D. Binney (Mallock) V. Briscoe L. Carleton L. Cooke (MMical) J Mitchell (Rew) J. O'Hara (Bridgman) Siam: R. Stutzel (Price) Australia: E. Minnis* (W.R.N.S.) B. Stockham (Stone) New Zealand: J. Wilberfoss Fiji: H. Bolton (Cox) Columbia: P. Hubbard (Buck) British Honduras: D. Sainsbury (S.P.G.) Jamaica: V. Evelyn (Robertson) B. Pengelly (Isaacs) Canada: K. Brichta P. Frank (McCormick) D. Kirke U.S.A.: M. Crawley (Durst) C. Millikan (Leigh Mallory) B. Robertson (Leigh Mallory) A. Rolls (Conybeare)

Europe: A. Garrad (A.T.S.) A Gay Roberts* (A.T.S.) S. Goodden* (W.A.A.F.) V. Halford (Durst) C. Jarrett (M.O.I.) M. Lake (A.T.S.) D. Morrison (Chaplain's Assistant) M. Patey, (A.T.S.) E. Puckle (A.T.S.) P. Puckle (W.R.N.S.) E. Remington-Wilson* (W.R.N.S.) M. Tuckwell Egypt: C Clift (Allan) B. Goalen (Back) North Africa: M. Joy (N.A.A.F.I.) Sudan: L. Deimison (Wollen) Nyasaland: M. Margesson, (U.M.C.A.) South Africa: P. Ball (Jenkins) H. Dickson (Riley) N. Dillon (Cooper) (Teaching) M. Gibson (Nursing).

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Of the Girls who have left us during the year: ~E. Willink (Head Girl (1944-45) is going up to Lady Margaret Hall to read medicine.

Jill Burrell (Second Head Girl 1944-45) is studying Music at the Royal College.

April Powlett is to train in Medicine.

Anne Butler is to read for a degree in Sociology at Bedford College, London.

Rosamund Strode and Lesley Lea-Wilson are studying music at the Royal College.

Janet Morris and Daphne Good are at the Whitehall Secretarial Training College.

Julia Swann has entered Bishop Otter College, Chichester.

Janet Fraser, Stephanie Rosedale and Anne Kelly are to train as hospital Nurses.

Sella Gillett is at S. Thomas's Baby Hostel Pamela Grant is training in Bexhill in Domestic Science. and Celia Rowley is at Harcombe House, lona Maclean; Bridget Cunliffe and Janet Dibley are all taking secretarial courses.

Elizabeth Thomas is to enter Bristol University to read for a degree before taking a course in Social Science.

Jeanette Johnstone is at Onslow Hall, Shrewesbury, as are Anne Knollys and Rosemary Herbert-Smith.

Marged Wigan has been helping in a kindergarten. She is to train for PN.E.U. at Ambleside.

Ruth Hallward is at home, working for College Entrance, at Clifton High School.

The following Old Girls (in addition to those who came to the Re-union) have visited the School during the year: B. Adelman (Adnitt), A. Agnew, M. Allen (Whieldon).

M. Anthony (Gunning), V. Ashworth, L. Attlee.

A. Ball, G. Beale, I. Bowyer (Gough) her husband and Carol, C. Brackenridge, F. Bragg (Bradford) and her husband, A. Brown, E. Burra, E. Bickersteth.

B. Chapman, J. Chase, N. Churchill, P. Clarke, M. Cowgill (Ogle) and Helena, J. Collard, B. Cunliffe.

P. Dixon, M. Dealtry (Wood), J. Dibley.

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A. Fletcher, B. Portescue-Brickdale.

S. Gillett, M. Gooderham (Matthews), C. Griffith (Churchill) and Dilys, F. Groves (Farnfield), P. Green (Beale) and her husband and Nicola.

J. Hall (Young) and Mary, C. Harvey, E. Homfray, (Waller) and Rosamund, J. Howell, J. Hughes.

(Sorsbie), A. Hornby (Sadler) and Frances.

H. Johnston Smith.

P. Kidman, G. Kirby.

M. Lees, E. Lewis (Bodinnar), and Joan, M. Linthwaite' (Gough), V. Lloyd.

I. Martin.

D. Owen (Hobbs).

G. Pinckney, M. Pite, A. H. Plummer, P. M. Robinson, L. Porteous (Roome) and Robin, A. Pickering Pick (Nettelfield), M. Pite.

A. Ree, J. Rutherford, N. Ruthven, P. Ram, P. Rudler.

J. Swann M. Steele (Smith) and Malcolm.

M. Taylor, I. Telling, M. Trask, R. Taylor (Aldworth) and Wendy, A. Thomas.

A. Warrick J. Weller M. Wells (Gale) and Anthony, M. Westmacott, P. Whieldon, E. Willink, R. Willink, W. Walder (Osman Jones) and John, R. Whiff en. also: Miss Anderson, Mrs. Baskett, Miss Booth, Miss Chapman, Mrs. Coulter, Miss Freke, Miss Goodrich, Miss Hedley, Miss Powell, Miss Stevens-Guille.

NEWS

OF "OLD STAFF"

It was delightful to welcome so many to The Reunion.

It seemed so natural, somehow, to see Miss Alexander, Miss Dam ant, Miss Williams and others, looking just the same as when they played so big a part in our daily lives.

It was good to welcome, after so many years, Miss E. P. Clark, home on leave from her important work in East Africa, and Miss Chapman, home again from Ceylon. We are glad to hear of her impending marriage. We much enjoyed a visit earlier in the year from Miss Stevens-Guille She has returned for a short time to her work in India, but will, we hope, be home again before very long, when she. too, is to be married.

We are proud to think of the important work for Religious Education being done in the Diocese of Adel6V

aide by Miss Morrison, who took up her post there in January. We are thinking much, too, of Miss Bowden, soon to begin her work as Headmistress of S. Hilda's School, Buenos Ayres. Another "old staff" who is shortly to go overseas is Miss Evans, who has just been appointed Headmistress of Nga Tawa, Marton, New Zealand. We .are very proud of these appointments.

The Staff groups are of real importance to the O.G.A. We are glad to think that the first one, with its full complement of fifty members, under Miss Alexander, is being succeeded by a second group, to be shepherded by Miss Thouless.

Does the O.G-A. realise the immense work done for it by Miss Alexander? All the lists in this News:sheet, as in the former ones, are her labour of love for us all. She has made them her special task, working for us almost as hard as in the days when she was a member of the Staff. She keeps in touch with everyone—no one is married—no one has a baby—no one passes an examination—no one changes her address—but Miss Alexander comes to hear of it, and it is duly noted in the wonderful O.G.A. Diary which she keeps so regularly. Please all of you lighten her laborious task in any way you can by .sending her news.

Miss Alexander,, 17, Beech Avenue, Sanderstead, Surrey.

BIRTHS. Bolton. On January llth 1945, to Hilary (Cox) a son, David Trevor Sproule.

Bowyer. On April 3rd, 1945, to Isabel (Gough), a son, Michael William, her second child.

Bradley. On November 28th, 1944 to Beryl (Chadwick), a daughter, Carol Briony.

Bullick. On May 30th, 1945 to Barbara (Ridley), a daughter, Sheila, her third child.

Cutts. On May 29th, 1945, to Penelope (Hawkins) a daughter, Celia Penelope.

Dalglish. On September 19th, 1944, to Mollie (Longridge) a son, Charles.

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Duveen. On April 8th, 1945, to Eileen (Gowers) a daughter, Sally Charmain.

Errington, On July 10th, 1945 to Beine (Macaulay) a son.

Humphrey John, her third child.

Fawcett. On August 18th, 1945 to Anne (Whiffen) a son.

Forde. On January 26th, 1945, to Pamela (Robinson)'a daughter, Pene.lope Jane.

Forrest. In June, 1945, to Mabel (Fraser) a daughter, Fiona, her third child.

Gardner. On April 19th, 1945, to Sheila (Ferguson) a daughter, Lucy Jean.

Glennie. On October 9th, 1944 to Ursula (Paries), a son, Michael Hastings, who lived only a few hours.

Gordon-Johnson. On November llth, 1944, to Joan (Mallock) a son, Peter.

Green. On August 15th, 1945, to Peggie (Beale) a son, Timothy Grenville Miles, her second child.

Gregson. On May 8th, 1945 to Joan (Alexander) a daughter, Marcia Dorothy.

Jones. On June 15th, 1945, to Mary (Higgins) a second daughter, Elizabeth.

Kraemer. On March 7th, 1945, to Helen (Bartrum) a second son, Nicholas William.

Linthwaite On February 19th, 1945, to Muriel (Gough) a daughter, lllona.

Maugham-Brown. On April 30th, 1944, to Valerie (Townshend) a daughter, Jennifer Jane, her third child.

Millikan. On January 5th, 1945, to Clare (Leigh-Mallory) a third son, Mark Andrews.

Xewberry. On August 3rd, 1945, to Dinan (Maitland) a son, Neil Geoffrey Maitland, her second son.

Norfolk. On April 6th, 1944, to Clarice (Gale) a son, Howard Alan.

Palmer-Jones. On November 9th, 1944 to Nancy (Ben son) a son, David.

Rawlins. On August 14th, 1945 to Carola (Alexander) a second son.

Steele. On January 8th, 1945, to Marguerite (Smith) a son, Charles Malcolm.

Whinney. On December 3rd, 1944, to Nora (Reade) a daughter, Rosalind Macleod.

Wilson. On May 9th, 1945, to Anne (Chenevix Trench) a son, Nicholas Alan.

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MARRIAGES. Ann-Fortescue-Brickdale. On May 18th, 1945, Capt. John Ann, R.A. to Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, W.R.N.S. Dickson-Riley. On April 14th, 1945, Fit. Lt. R. R. Dickson, M.B. to Hilary Riley.

Fawcett-Browne. On November 18th, 1944, Sub Lt. (A) R. P. Fawcett, R.N.V.R. to 2nd Officer Anne Browne (Whiffen) W.R.N.S. Hibberd-Combes. On April 4th, 1945, Hibberd to May Combes.

Robert Sidney

Jenkins-Morris. On January 20th, 1945, Capt. Roy Harris Jenkins, R.A. to Jennifer Morris.

Kempton-Combes.

On January 28th, 1945, George Aubrey Kempton to Joyce Combes.

Lowries-Butler. On October 21st, 1944, Leonard Brian Lowries to Betty Butler.

O'Callaghan-Stiles. On April llth, 1945, Capt Denis Sayer O'Callaghan, late 6th K.A.R. to Sybella Stiles.

Pennant-Carver. On January 10th, 1945, Arthur D. JL Pennant to Ann Carver.

Rhodes-Field.

On May 2nd, 1945, F/0. David John Rhodes to Jennifer Field.

Roberts-Milton. On July 28th, 1945, Cecil Leon Roberts to Marguerite Milton (Lucas).

Sweet-Barnes. On March 1st, 1945, Capt. H. S. Sweet, R.A.M.C. to Audrey Barnes, V.A.D. Valli-Hall. On February 9th, 1945, Capt. V. F. Valli, R.A. to Catherine Hall, 3rd officer W.R.N.S. E.I.P. Bailey. On March 27th, 1945, Vera Doris Bailey (19181920).

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ADDENDA. Into Group 1.

Mrs. Crawford (A. Baker) C/o. National Provincial Bank Ltd., Stratford-on-Avon.

A. Gunning, 29, The Green, Calne.

V. Gunning, 25 High St., Calne D. Harrington-Wright, The Old Rectory, Beaconsfield, Bucks.

A. Ludgate, Nortonbury, Brands Hill, Colnbrook, Bucks.

E. Rutherford, 61, London Road, Calne.

M. Stevens, 125 London Road, Calne.

Into Group V. J. Herford (Hawkins) 5 Foulis Crescent, Juniper Green, Edinburgh.

Into Group XIII. J. Burrell, Dunley, Knutsford.

A. Butler, Brabourne, 31 S. Stephens Road, Cheltenham.

B. Cunliffe, Commodore's House, R.N. Barracks, Devonport.

J. Dibley, Lexden, Hartley Avenue, Mannamead, Plymouth.

J Fraser, The Gables, Willand, Devon S. Gillett, Hallaton, Garlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey.

D. Good, Bank House, Calne.

J. Johnston, P.. Grant, Cullercoats, Coden, Bexhill, Sussex.

M. McCance, Dower House, Bartlow, Cambridge.

J. Morris, .Brynderi, Pontardulais, Swansea.

A. Powlett, Godminster Wood, Wimbledon, S.W. 2.

C. Rowley, 13 Walliscote Road, Weston-super-Mare.

M. Wigan, Chobham House Cottage, Chobham, Woking, Surrey.

Into Group XIV. A. Kelly, Stonehouse, Brimpton, Bath.

A. Knollys, Red Roofs, Kingsland, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

I. Maclean, Copse Cottage, Wickbam, Hants.

E. Thomas, The Shrubbery, Stow Hill, Newport, Mon. L. Lea-Wilson, 16 Albany Road. Bexhill-on-sea, Sussex.

R. Herbert Smith, Chilvester Hill House, Calne, Wilts.

S. Rooke, Ben Mead, Box, Wilts.

R. Strode, Lockhill House, Stubbs Wood, Chesham Bois Common, Bucks.

E. Willink, 102 Hamilton Terrace, N.W. 8.

Into Staff Group I. Sister Allen, 101 Constable Road, Ipswich.

Miss Bowden, S. Hilda's School, Buenos Aires, Argentine.

Mrs. Cornish Bowden, Moorgate, Widdecombe, Devon.

Into Staff Group II. Miss Chesshire, Jersey Ladies' College, C.I. Miss Preston, Martindale, Meadow Road, Seaton. Devon.

Miss Walker, Lyneham Vicarage, Chippenham, Wilts.

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CORRIGENDA. L. Attlee, Knole, Manor Road, Milford-on-sea, Hants.

Group XI E. Bagley, (Westaway), 1 Beaconfield, Exmouth.

Group V B. Baker, c/o. Lloyds Bank, Ewhurst Place, Ewhurst, Guildford, Surrey.

Group I A E., F. K. and A.M. Barton, Eectory Cottage, Dean, Salisbury.

Group I J. Blaxter (Hollis), 8 Nettledon, Hemel Hempstead.

Group III H. Bolton (Cox), Please forward, The Eectory, â&#x20AC;˘ Newbold-de-Verdun, Leicester.

Group Xl M. Brockway, (Harris), Hawksfold Farm, Fernhurst, Near Haslemere, Surrey.

Group XI E. Buck, 27 Battlefields Road, S. Albans, Herts.

Group V M. Cairncross, (Glynn), 43 Kensington Park Gardens, W.ll.

Group VIII J. Cameron, Cherry Tree Cottage, Shroton, Near Blandford, Dorset.

Group VIII D. Carkeet-James, King's House, Tower of London, EC.3. Grp. XIII R. Coney, 26 Little Green Lanes, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham Group III A. Fawcett (Whiffen), Tivoli Myddleton, Ilkley, Yorks. Group IX A. Fletcher, Priory, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath.

Group XII P. Forde (Robinson), 8 Hillside, Wimbledon, S.W.19. Group VIII B. Gardiner, 5 Beach Eoad, Paignton, Devon Group VI J. Gibson (Ferguson), Tower Hill Cottage, Crossways, Newcastle, Near Monmouth.

Group V V. Gillingham, Lytchett House, Fishers' Brook, Calne.

Group IX M. Gooderham, (Matthews), 38 Oak Road, Redcar, Yorks. Group IX C. Griffith (Churchill) 79 Stratford Eoad, Wolverton, Bletchley. .

Group VII. G-. Grove, (Turner), c/o. Miss Turner, 7 Manson Place, S. Kensington, S.W.7.

Group V M. Hibberd (Combes), Calcote Farm, Coate, Devizes. Group VIII J. Hindlcy, Littlehurst, Milford, Godalming, Surrey.

Group VII P. Hodgson (Lacon), Hillfleld Farm, Aldenham, Watford. GroupVI E. Homfray (Waller), 7 Lorraine Road, Glasgow, W.2. Group VII M. Hulbert, 27 Cooper Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. Group II F. .Tardine, Newton Vallence Manor.

Group IX Newton Vallence, Alton, Hants.

C. .Tarrett, c/o. The Ministry of Information, Malot St., W.C.I. Group XII S. Jefferis, 12 de Vero Gardens, Kensington, W.8.

Group XII M. Jones (Jtiggins), The Liberty, Wells, Somerset.

Group IX

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B. Kirke, Tirley Garth, Tarporley, Cheshire.

M. Koch (Jenkins), The Eange, Enkeldoorn, Southern Bhodesia.

E. Lewis (Bodinnar), 14 New Church Road, Hove 3, Sussex. .

J. Lovell, By-the-Way, Philpot Lane, Chobham.

B. Loweries (Butler), The Lodge, Arnewood House, Hordle, Lymington, Hants.

B. Newberry (Matthews), 5 Courtlands Avenue, Lee, London, S.E. 12.

A. Pennant (Carver), Nantlys, S. Asaph, N. Wales M. Perry, Chilmark Eectory, Salisbury.

B. Phillips, 3 Cranley, Gardens, S.W.7.

M. Price, Guards' Club, Brook Street, W.I. A. Bee, Best Beech Cottage, Pinner Hill, Pinner, Middlesex.

M. Roberts (Lucas), 56 Priory Boad, West Hampstead, N.W.6.

S. Botherham (Hayter), Flat A., The Orchards, Bagged Appleshaw, Near Andover_ Hants.

P. Saxon, Shortlands, Northfield, Birmingham 31.

M. Smith, c/o. Knowles Farm, Froxfleld, Marlborough.

K. Stone, 98 Maison Dieu Bad, Dover.

M. Taylor, 5 Pembroke Vale, Clifton, Bristol.

V. Turner, 7 Manson Place, S. Kensington^ S.W..7.

B. Tweed, 9 Campbell Boad, Southsea, Hants.

M. Wardale, 24 Melford Street, Salisbury.

S. Winser, Byfield Bectory, Bugby.

N. Whinney (Bead), 47 Ember Lane, Esher, Surrey.

S, Winser, Tan-y-Foel, Aberdovy, Merioneth.

M. Wood, Harcombe House, Uplyme, Lyme Begis Miss Broome, Garthwyn, Glyn Avenue, Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire.

Miss Powell, 1 Stanley Crescent, W.I.

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Group VII Group III Group V Group VII Group VI Group VI Group VII Group X Group IX Group V Group XII Group IV . Group IX Group XII Group IV Group III Group XII Group IV Group XIII Group XII Group VII Group XII Group III