St Mary's Calne News Sheet - 38

ST. MARY'S SCHOOL CALNE NEWS SHEET

NUMBER 38

OCTOBER 1953

ST. MARY'S SCHOOL, CALNE NEWS SHEET NUMBER 38

OCTOBER 1953

EDITORIAL There have been two unprecedented events during the year. One was the Coronation exeat of five days which made a welcome change, both for those who braved the London crowds to see the actual procession and for those who preferred convenience and comfort and watched it on television. Although most people returned to School in a state of exhaustion, no one seemed any the worse for the holiday.

The other surprise was a burglary which took place one night during the Spring Term. Fortunately, the loss was not very great and the presence of the local police, including a finger-print expert, caused much excitement.

This year, however, the School has also proved that many of its most important characteristics remain unchanged.

It was a tribute to the high standard of our French that when we entered a competition for French recitation and drama, organized by Bristol University, we won the cup for Drama, a picture as first team prize for recitation, two individual prizes and several commendations.

We realize that this success was largely due to Mile Antoine to whom we offer our grateful thanks.

The Musical Festival too, proved successful, as did the performance of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion on Founders' Day. Four people have gained vacancies at Universities, one of them winning an Exhibition.

It seems, therefore, that this year has been very happy and profitable in both new and traditional activities.

HILARY DEWAR.

THE GOVERNORS, 1952 J. T. Christie, Esq., M.A., Chairman.

J. A. Keevil, Esq. Miss G. Kirby.

S. Lloyd, Esq. Mrs. Maclean.

A. A. Martineau, Esq. The Rev. W. D. O'Hanlon.

The Honourable Eleanor Plumer.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

It is with the deepest regret that we record the death of Sir Granville Ram. His services to the School as a governor have been very great and he will be long remembered as a wise counsellor and much loved friend. We take this opportunity of expressing our very deep sympathy with Lady Ram and her family.

We are also very sorry that Mr. Phillips has retired from the Governing Body and would like to thank him very much indeed for his long years of service and many kindnesses.

We have already had the pleasure of welcoming as governors, Mr. Keevil and Mr. Martineau, and know how valuable their help and advice will be.

The Chairman was absent from the autumn and spring meetings on educational work in India, and, during his absence, Miss Plumer most kindly acted as Deputy-Chairman. We welcomed the Chairman back at our meeting in June.

THE CONFIRMATION The Confirmation Service was taken by the Bishop of Sherborne on Sunday, November 3oth, in the Parish Church.

The following were confirmed:— Susan Bewick Anne Lloyd Ruth Blackburn Margaret Lowe Sally Bkkeney Auriol Pares Charlotte Caulfeild Mary Grace Ram Mary Carslake Jill Rotherham Josephine Colbeck Jane Savage Anne Davies Ann Silverston Verena Fisher Philippa Tanqueray Sarah Ford Gillian Waldock Sheila Harrison Smith Gillian Walker Christina Hindson Patricia Wilson Sara Innes Sarah Windsor-Aubrey Mary Keevil Diana Woolley Mary Kimpton Penelope Worthington Catherine Lees May Worthington Ninety-two friends and relations were present and signed the register.

CHAPEL SERVICES We are grateful to those who have taken services or preached during the year :— The Assistant Bishop of Derby, the Archdeacon of Wilts., the Rev. W. D. O'Hanlon, the Rev. J. F. Collins, the Rev. S. Evans, the Rev. R. H. Redfern, the Rev. J. S. C. Miller.

FREE-WILL OFFERINGS Expenditure

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THE HEALTH FESTIVAL We were very grateful for gifts from the following :— Miss Alexander L. Barlee (Attlee) J. Blathwayt E. Burra M. Chitty M. Crawley (Durst) Miss Cridland B. & N. Cunliffe Miss Damant J. Delap M. Des Clayes (Westmacott) A. Deuchar Mrs. Ede M. Field

M. Groves J. Harper H. Harrison G. Kirby S. Mac Rae Sister Mansell E. Maundrell (Thomas) E. McGowan (Minnis) H. Moore L. Moule S. Newman J. Nicholson A. Norris (Brown) S. Parry Jones

S. Peck B. Pile H. Pullon E. Revell C. Smith E. Steele R. Strode M. Terry (Hort) M. Thynne J. Trevelyan D. Turk A. Wallace A. Walmsley A. Wilson(Chevenix-Trench)

THE STAFF In September we welcomed on the Staff Miss Stapleton, to be in charge of St. Margaret's ; Miss Tudor-Jones to help with the Music ; Miss Hobday to help with Mathematics and Physics ; and Miss Southall as Assistant Cook. Miss Whiteman came as Assistant Cook in January, and Mr. Lewis has taught wind instruments since May. Mrs. Armstead was with us as Matron in the Summer Term.

We were very sorry to lose Miss Wilson after 6 years ; Miss Greenwood, in March, after nearly 14 years ; and in July Miss Brett, after 8 years and i term; Miss Dickens, after 3 years ; and Miss McLeavey, who left, after 4 years, to be married.

Of the non-resident Staff we have been sorry to say good-bye to Mr. Nightingale, after many years, and Mrs. Lywood, who, since her marriage, has for 3 years been coming over to help with the Physics.

THE STAFF—July 1953 RESIDENT : Miss Thouless (Senior Mistress) English and German Mademoiselle Antoine, French and Italian.

Miss Barkley, Physical Training.

Miss Biddulph, Geography.

Miss Bompas, Classics.

Miss Brett, Mathematics.

Miss Dickens, Junior School.

Miss Fortt, Domestic Science.

Miss Hobday, Mathematics and Physics.

Miss Lancaster, English and Latin.

Miss McLeavey, Junior School.

Miss Nesbitt, Music.

Miss Seldon, Piano.

Miss Stannard, Art. Miss Stapleton, Junior School.

Miss Stedmond, History.

Miss Tudor-Jones, Music.

Miss Williams, Violin.

Miss Windsor-Aubrey, Biology and Chemistry.

Mrs. Armstead, Matron.

Miss Weetman, Matron-housekeeper.

Miss Jackson, Caterer.

Miss Southall, Cook.

Miss Whiteman, Cook.

Miss Cook, Sister-in-charge, Sanatorium.

Mrs. Hart, Secretary.

NON-RESIDENT : Mrs. Lywood, Physics.

Mrs. Phillips, French and German.

Mr. Douglas Guest, Director of Music.

Mr. Lewis, Wind Instruments.

Miss Bowlby, 'Cello.

Mrs. Vines, Assistant, Sanatorium.

SCHOOL LIST—July 1953 UPPER SIXTH Hilary Dewar* Celestria Noel* Ann Limehouse* Jane Christie*

Fynvola Maclean* (i) Veronica Johnston* Mollie Maurice*

Pamela Gurney* Maeve O'Ferrall * Carolyn Reynolds*

Shirley Aldrick Diana Ford Mary Gough Julia Grenfell Susan Miller Ann Montagu

Belinda Peall JulJa Smithells Jennifer Spry Diana Thring Juliet Tweddell Daphne Twyman

SIXTH (Miss Thouless) Georgina ChittyjSylvia Foxf Mary Helderf (2) Ann Holbrowf Wendie Nixon f Julia Spencerf

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UPPER FIFTH (East) Miss Stedmond Cynthia Aldrick Bridget Barker Deborah Bliss Jane Catling Mary Carslake Angela Cheshire Bridget Cochrane Elizabeth Crooks Anne Davies

Lindsay Duff Verena Fisher Rachel Frewer Christine Gibson Mary Harrison Sara Innes Kitty Lees Peggy Lowe Jillian O'Hara (3)

Olivia Rogers Ann Silverston Karin Smith Rosemary Spragge Sarah Tolson Anne Vaughan May Worthington Jane Wright

UPPER FIFTH (West) Miss Fortt Ruth Bkckburn Susan Cooper Joan Drewett Annarella Flower Gillian Hearn

Patricia Higginbotham Frances Hort Mary Livie-Noble Patricia Nugee

Jacqueline Pickford Mary Steele Patricia Wilson Sarah Windsor-Aubrey

LOWER FIFTH (Miss Brett) Penelope Athorpe Margaret Aylen Sally Blakeney Maureen Burchell Charlotte Caulfeild Josephone Colbeck Christina Hindson Mary Keevil

Anna Le Fanu Anne Lloyd Caroline Lumley Alethea Martineau Julia Medlycott Helen Moore Auriol Pares Sarah Prideaux

Mary Grace Ram Jane Roberts Jill Rotherham (4) Jane Savage (5) Philippa Tanqueray Gillian Waldock Diana Woolley Penelope Worthington

UPPER FOURTH (East) Miss Lancaster Mary Arber Susan Bewick Sheila Blair Jane Compton Sally Ford Jane Gee

Julia Gillett Dilys Griffith-Jones Jane Harland Janeen Holbrow Dilys Hughes (5) Elizabeth Leuchars

Erica Macfadyen Caroline Morgan (7) Julia Peel Belinda Pownall Mary Stallard-Penoyre

UPPER FOURTH (West) Miss Biddulph Penelope Angus Jillian Blades Susan B. Cooper Annette Fisher Barbara Glen Smith Geraldine Keen

Clare Le Fanu Jane Miller Jill Pickford Sally Smith Penelope Spackman

Carolyn Stubbs Betty Trevelyan Gillian Walker Daphne Williams Jane A. Wright

LOWER FOURTH (Miss Williams) Annette Bradshaw Honor Brooke Jane Davies Carole Davis Felicity Dicker Caroline Drummond Lindsay Errington (8) Mary Fearon Trenna Higginbotham

Anne Higson Robina Light (9) Rosemary Longe Sally Mackenzie-Grieve Elizabeth Moir Ann Patmore Gillian Pemberton Marion Pennan Jennifer Rice

Elizabeth Richardson Caroline Robbins Jennifer Roberts Sarah Rowe Dorothy Syms Susan Walsham Dilly Wharton Judy Wright

ST. MARGARET'S UPPER THIRD (Miss Stapleton) Anne Cameron Mary Drewett Gillian Cole Angela Hillyard Jane Collins Wendy Laughlin Anne Drew

Carol Maundrel (10) Betty Mowlem Anne Smellie

MIDDLE THIRD Patricia Bowtell Jennifer Haddrell

Marcia Holbrow Jeanne Phillips

Jennifer Pickford

LOWER THIRD Jane Keevil Pamela Ludlow-Hewitt

Monica Moore Andrea Smith

Judith Watson

SECOND (Miss Dickens) Gillian Bowtell Illona Linthwaite (n) Jennifer Cole Susan Moore Penelope Hudson

Barbara Smellie Philippa Stratton

MIDDLE SECOND Christine Forrest Sheila Jamieson Angela Newman

Lynda Stone Elizabeth Syms

Patricia Wiltshire Jennifer Wright

LOWER SECOND James Atwell Nigel Cole Elizabeth Davies

Gillian Drew Glenda Johnson

Evelyn Smith Jean Tyler

FORM i (Miss McLeavey) Miranda Ewing Margaret Heath Mary Gaze Michael Heath

Mary Herring Janet Rivett

KINDERGARTEN Timothy Atwell Redmond O'Hanlon Mary Jane Wilson John Bowtell Josaphine Russell Carol Wiltshire Judith Clark Lorna Williams Paul Wiltshire Robin James * Denotes School Prefect, f Denotes Sub-prefect.

Fynvola Maclean will be Head Girl next term and Pamela Gurney, Second Head Girl.

(1) Daughter of Margaret Maclean (Randolph).

(2) Daughter of Gladys Helder (Burnett).

(3) Daughter of Joan O'Hara (Bridgman).

(4) Step-daughter of Susan Rotherham (Hayter).

(5) Daughter of Monica Savage (Hill).

(6) Daughter of Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) (7) Daughter of Cicely Morgan (Cobb).

(8) Daughter of Reine Errington (Macaulay).

(9) Daughter of Audrey Light (Westaway).

(10) Daughter of Enid Maundrell (Thomas), (n) Daughter of Muriel Linthwaite (Gough).

EXAMINATION SUCCESSES OLD GIRLS University of Oxford B.A. Hons. Natural Science. Class IV. Jane Pelly.

Lady Margaret Hall. Vacancy. English. Joy Harper.

University of London B.A. Hons. History. Class II. Sarah Newman.

University of Reading B.A. General. Susannah Mac Rae. Guildhall School of Music A.G.S.M., G.G.S.M.

Catharine Westmacott.

PRESENT GIRLS University of Oxford St. Hugh's College. Exhibition in Geography. Meriel Lewis.

University of Cambridge Newnham College. Vacancy in Geography. Janet Innes.

University of London Guy's Hospital. Vacancy in Medicine. Ann Limehouse.

Westfield College. Vacancy in History. Beth Crawley.

Trinity College, Dublin Vacancy in Science. Sylvia Fox Royal College of Music Vacancy : Piano and Viola. Hilary Dewar.

General Certificate of Education, 1952 Advanced Level C. Christie. English, Latin.

B. Crawley. Latin, French, History.

H. Harrison. History, Art, Biology.

K. Hughes. French, History.

S. Wedgwood. Art. Ordinary Level K. Hughes (i)* S. Wedgwood (5) J. Christie (5) H. Dewar (6) A. Gunning (i)* V. Johnston (7) A. Limehouse (i)* A. Macfadyen (6)

S. Fox (9) P. Gurney (6) S. Harrison Smith (5) M. Helder (6) A. Holbrow (3) W. Nixon (8) M. O'Ferrall (5) H. O'Hanlon (2) 8

F. Maclean (5) M. Maurice (3)* P. Wykeham (i)* S. Aldrick (5) G. Chitty (4) P. Copeman (8) B. Cunliffe (6) P. Davies (8) D. Ford (9)

B. Peall (4) S. Pilcher (7) C. Reynolds (8) J. Smithells (2) J. Spencer (8) J. Spry (4) G. Stewart Cox (6) D. Thring (7) D. Twyman (7)

The number in brackets shows number of passes. * shows additional subjects added to previous General Certificate.

Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music Piano Grade VIII (Final). H. Dewar. Distinction.

Grade VII (Advanced). A Lloyd. Pass with Merit.

Grade VI. P. Higginbotham. Pass.

M. Livie Noble. Pass.

Grade VII.

'Cello G. Chitty. Pass with Merit.

General Knowledge Results, 1953 Senior: V. Johnston.

Under-fifteen: A. Silverston.

Junior : H. Brooke.

Parents : Mr. and Mrs. Dicker.

MUSIC OF THE YEAR Autumn Term.

Nov. I5th. Music Festival.

Nov. zyth. 'Cello Recital: Karel Horitz.

Dec. I4th. Carol Service.

Spring Term.

Feb. z6th. Oboe Recital: Leon Goosens.

Mar. 18th. Verdi Requiem at Salisbury.

Mar. zyth. Violin Recital: Alan Loveday.

Summer Term.

May May May

zoth. Halle Orchestra: Bath Assembly. zznd. Halle Orchestra: Bath Assembly. zyth. St. John Passion at Marlborough.

Although we have had fewer concerts this year, some very eminent artists have given us recitals and everyone fully appreciated them.

The first of these was a 'cello recital given by Karel Horitz accompanied by Lisa Marketta. It included three sonatas and two piano solos. In the Spring Term, Leon Goosens, whom most of us had heard before, played a wide variety of music, the majority of which was modern. Mr. Guest accompanied him. Before embarking on a tour of New Zealand, Alan Loveday asked if he might practise on us.

We were very glad he wanted some practice because he gave us such an excellent concert.

Two first-class orchestras visited Bath and Salisbury this year.

The Halle Orchestra came to Bath and as they gave two concerts, a large number of people were able to go. The programme of the first of these was devoted entirely to Elgar. In the second, Clifford Curzon was the soloist in Brahm's Second Piano Concerto.

The Salisbury Musical Society with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mr. Guest, gave a performance of the Verdi Requiem to which only members of the Upper VI and VI went. Very few people had heard this work before and they were most impressed by it.

The School's public performances have, as usual, been mostly choral. The Music Festival, which is the main event of the year, was again conducted by Dr. Jacques. We performed two works of contrasted character: the " Ceremony of Carols " by B. Britten, and an arrangement of scenes from " Orpheus " by Gluck. Of the orchestra, Dr. Jacques remarked that " This little band has come on quite a lot," much to our amusement.

The Carol Service came soon after and was more successful than that of the previous year as our singing seemed to carry better in the church. Besides the better known carols we sang three unaccompanied traditional part-carols.

In the Spring Term, Mr. Hilton Stewart was ill, so the performance with Marlborough of the St. John Passion was postponed until the Summer Term. One of the audience afterwards said it was the best performance by Marlborough and St. Mary's he had heard. Whether this was so or not those taking part obviously enjoyed themselves.

The success of this year's music is, of course, due to the Music Staff, to whom we are very grateful.

H. DEWAR and D. FORD

DRAMA Play Readings.

Senior. Oct. zjth.

Jan. 31 st.

I Have Five Daughters, adapted by M. Macnamara from " Pride and Prejudice."

The Cherry Orchard by Tchekov.

Junior.

Nov. 8th.

The Rose and the Ring (abridged) from the book by W. M. Thackeray.

Mar. 14th. Through the Looking Glass from the book by Lewis Caroll.

Form Shakespeare. i ;th and 16th Dec. First: Second

The Merchant of Venice Upper IVE. Coriolanus. Upper VI. Much Ado about Nothing. Lower VI.

Company Plays.

Mar. z6th. The House-Master by Ian Hay. Grosstete and Poor.

Mar. z8th. Cranford from the novel by Mrs. Gaskell. Osmund.

French Play.

Dec. iyth.

Nov. 3rd.

Mar. 18th.

June zyth.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Moliere. Lower VI. The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan. Lower VI. TheSto/eÂťDreambyA.G.He.tbertson. St. Margaret's.

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw.

There was much amusement to be derived during the past year from the remarks made immediately after a play had been performed. " If I had not read the book," said one critic, after watching the dramatized version of Pride and Prejudice, very well produced and amusingly acted by the Senior Play-Reading Society, " I should have thought that Darcey married Mary. I mean, they were both interested in books, and things like that." After The Cherry Orchard, however, an experiment which fitted in with the School's special study of Russia during the Spring Term, many people had to confess that they had not been able to appreciate it. Although it was interesting, and lively, some of the actors found it difficult to interpret and enter into parts which they did not fully understand. The Junior Play-Reading Society read dramatized versions of two children's classics : The Rose and the Ring and Through the Looking Glass. Everyone put a great deal of effort into these performances, and much individual acting was good.

Though the Form Shakespeare productions were of varying standards, and their merits hotly discussed, it was immediately evident that the Upper Fourth East's scenes from The Merchant of Venice reached an extraordinarily high standard for such a young form, and were beyond question the best. The acting was imaginative and mature, the speaking delightful and the production and grouping worthy of an experienced producer. The scenes from Coriolanus acted by the Upper Sixth, and those from Much Ado About Nothing by the Lower Sixth, which tied for second place, were also felt to be well interpreted and acted in their different ways.

Perhaps it was the extremely gay performance of The Housemaster with its excellent acting and production, amusingly topical theme and brisk dialogue, which led one person, trying very hard to be complimentary, to say, " I did think Cranford was good : such a contrast to these witty plays." In spite of this, however, the audience seemed to enjoy Cranford—or it may have been the largesse of sweets scattered to them, as well as to the Cranford urchins, by the re-united Matty and Peter, which really won their approval.

In the autumn a few members of the Lower Sixth augmented the usual end of term festivities with two scenes from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Their amusing performance, which displayed both the linguistic and the histrionic talents of the actors, was much enjoyed by the audience, some of whom could be heard to say, as their highest praise: " It was so beautifully acted that I could even understand what it meant."

Three other very different plays have also been acted during the year. In November, at half-term, the Lower Sixth presented The Winslow Boy which was very good. In the spring, the School attended a special performance of St. Margaret's play, The Stolen Dream. The cast included the whole of St. Margaret's, and it was obvious that everyone had worked very hard to make it a great success. The singing and dancing were charming, and the play was attractively produced and well acted.

It was inevitable that the more romantically-inclined members of the School should complain because Pygmalion did not end with the wedding-bells of Higgins and Eliza. The audience on Founders' Day was more appreciative, and thanks to excellent acting and producing and clever characterization, the play was very successful.

The Drama of this year has been enjoyed by both actors and audiences, and on the whole, has reached a hig h standard.

JANE CHRISTIK

LECTURES Miss McCulloch on the U.M.C.A. Capt. the Hon. A. Methuen on the Council for the Preservation of Rural England.

Jan. 29th, 1953. Miss Wake on the U.G.S. Mission.

Feb. zyth.

Mr. Tweddell on Modern Architecture.

Lectures here seem to be very popular; they are always well attended and enthusiastically applauded, and this year, although we did not have quite as many as usual, those we had were very much enjoyed.

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Miss McCulloch, who had just come back from Central Africa, gave an interesting talk in Sunday Evening Chapel about the work of the U.M.C.A. and described vividly the enormous difficulties with which the Mission has to deal in its work. The next morning she very kindly gave a short talk to the Upper Sixth about the Colour Bar problem which, though rather disquieting, was extremely interesting.

Captain Methuen's talk about the aims and achievements of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England was much enjoyed and, like Mr. Tweddell's fascinating lecture on Modern Architecture, encouraged us to look around us more critically than we had before.

Mr. Tweddell illustrated his talk most effectively with lantern slides to show a great many different buildings, varying from sky-scrapers to council houses, from railway stations to the Penguin pool at the Zoo. Miss Waite's talk on the work of the U.G.S. settlement in Peckham, especially with regard to Juvenile Delinquents, was much enjoyed ; as usual she made her speech very amusing as well as interesting by her anecdotes and lively imitations.

We are grateful to all those who have so kindly come to lecture to us ; to judge from the prolonged applause and favourable comments which followed each lecture, all these talks were much appreciated and enjoyed.

F. McLEAN.

HOLIDAYS AND ENTERTAINMENTS Although entertainment has by no means outweighed the serious side of school life this year, our holidays and expeditions have certainly been frequent.

It is the Staff who have provided us with a great deal of our leisure and pleasure. Firstly, instead of Tea and Speeches at the end of Autumn Term, they invited the School to Supper and Tests. The latter were not so alarming as one might think ; they were not academical, but consisted of guessing book-titles and popular phrases from ingeniously-devised shadow-pictures. Secondly, as the weather on Ascension Day was hardly suitable for a picnic this year, the Staff gave a fancy-dress party for us, at which everyone had to appear as a character or object connected with the Coronation. The orb and sceptre, a Coronation cake, a " free seat ", quantities of foreign potentates using very diverse means of transport, were among the entries, and choirboys and spectators of varying ranks and nationalities were very popular.

Miss Aubrey and Miss Biddulph have worked very hard for the Natural History Society, in which an increasing interest is shown. Miss Hobday took a few who were interested on a fascinating visit to the Pathological Laboratory, Manor Hospital, Bath. Miss Brett and Miss 13

Barkley with the Lower Fifth, went to see Anton Dolin's ballet in Bath which was greatly appreciated. The Sketching Club, encouraged

by Miss Stannard, has toured Calne and its neighbourhood in search of objects on which to practise its art.

At Half-Term in the autumn those who did not go out had a very good time. The Upper Fifth gave a party for the Fourth Forms on Saturday afternoon, and on Monday morning there was an expedition to Biddestone. The Lower VI gave an excellent performance of Terence Rattigan's The Wmslow Boy in the evening. The end of term was enlivened by the Dance which everyone much enjoyed. The Marlborough contingent drove off afterwards to the sound of a huntinghorn ! The Juniors were, as usual, entertained by the Upper Fifth, who performed a skit on a village pantomime, Cinderella, presenting it under the title of " The Puddlesworth Nuddle." A few days later all those who learned German congregated in the Division Room for a Christmas party. Mrs. Phillips was very kind in helping with the food and lending us carol books. We ended by singing carols and a few folk-songs in German.

The Spring Term being so short, we did not have a Half-Term Monday. However, the activities on Saturday made up for it. We spent the morning wandering on the Downs, and in the evening were treated to a delightful film " Kind Hearts and Coronets." Alec Guinness amazed us all by his skilful performance of eight different characters. At the end of term we had a frolic for Meriel Lewis, who had gained an Exhibition to St. Hugh's College, Oxford. This coincided with a violin recital by Alan Loveday, after which Miss Jackson provided us with a marvellous frolic supper.

The focal point of the Summer Term was, of course, the Coronation. We were given five days' exeat, and those who did not brave the London crowds went home or to friends, and many saw the procession and service on television. It was interesting afterwards to compare our several views with the technicolour film, to which we were very kindly taken on June zznd.

So altogether, with many lectures and concerts described elsewhere, we most certainly cannot complain of too few holidays, thanks to the energies of Miss Gibbins and all the Staff.

V. JOHNSTON and C. REYNOLDS.

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY We have been very lucky during the winter terms this year. In the autumn there were bird films in Swindon to which a few people went. " Greenacres " also very kindly invited a few of us to see some of their films. At the end of the Spring Term about twenty of us went

to the Severn Wild Fowl Trust at Slimbridge. Most of the birds were very tame and we were able to feed them. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed thise outings.

In the summer there were several expeditions. A Garden Survey has been started which ought to be very interesting.

Lastly, we should like to thank Miss Aubrey, Miss Thouless and the Staff who have so kindly arranged expeditions and outings for us.

L. DUFF and P. TANGUERAY.

THE BODINGTON LIBRARY Many sections of the Library have been greatly increased this year. Until now we have had one hundred and seventeen new additions _ We should like to thank the following people very much indeed for their gifts : Miss Gibbins Georgina Stewart-Cox Miss Alexander Janet Innes Miss Thouless Meriel Lewis Miss Brett Jennifer Houghton Mademoiselle Antoine Christina Smith Mrs. Maclean Beth Crawley Miss Skelton Susan Cowdell Julia Smithells BENEFACTIONS We should like most gratefully to acknowledge many gifts and kindnesses to the School in the past year. Mr. Lumley has very kindly had restored for us the fifteenth-century unknown Flemish painting (given by Sir Michael Sadler) which now hangs inside the chapel. Other presents include : A photograph of Mrs. Murray, an album of photographs and postcards of Japan, gramophone records, pinking shears, vases for the Chapel, embroidered hassocks for the Chapel.

E. M. G. SALE OF WORK On Saturday, October 3ist, the School is holding a Sale of Work to raise money in order to lay down a new hard-court which can be used for tennis or netball. The cost of the court will be over ÂŁ500, but for the Sale we have set ÂŁ300 as our target. This is ambitious, but with hard work and the aid of kind friends we should be able to reach it and we dream of exceeding it!

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If any of you who read this will generously send us any small saleable article we shall be most grateful. We are having the following stalls : Toys, Needlework, Knitting, Handicrafts, Cakes and Sweets, Toilet Requisites and Stationery. We also hope to have sideshows and raffles.

If you live near enough do visit St. Mary's at 2.30 on October 3 ist to buy your Christmas presents. Already the School are very busy and have made some really useful and lovely articles.

Please either send us something to sell to help raise the money or come and buy.

MARY BARKLEY.

THE ACTING CUPBOARD Following a Manners and Morals Meeting in the Spring Term, the Acting Cupboard has been given very serious consideration.

Volunteers have undertaken to wash and mend and the confiscation money is being diverted to remedy some urgent deficiencies. When you or your families are turning out your cupboards, please remember us. Almost anything is welcome, from Period Costumes to modern clothes—especially men's and boys'!

GAMES REPORT Autumn 1952—Summer 1953 We began the year well, winning our first match, and had many exciting matches in the Autumn Term, including one played in the snow.

In the Spring Term, owing to two unfortunate cases of mumps, matches were few and far between, but we did manage to get one or two. Company Matches as usual were very strenuous and enjoyable and ended with the invincible Moberly at the top.

The lacrosse season was rounded off with a delightful day at Merton.

We did not excel at Net Ball this year but all the players were very keen, The inter-company competition was won by Poore.

It has been another good Tennis season although we have not done as well as we might. The " Under 15" team did very well and won all their matches. Form Tennis was a great success and ended in a win for Upper VE. Only once have the courts been unfit for play 16

but we hope that enough money will be raised by the Sale of Work next term to make two new hard courts, which would mean that we could play matches in doubtful weather.

Rounders have been much enjoyed by both juniors and seniors this year though there has only been one match as the other had, unfortunately, to be scratched.

Once again, we should all like to give our thanks to Miss Barkley for all the hard work she puts in to make our games, dancing and gymnastics so enjoyable.

MATCH RESULTS Autumn 1952—Summer 1953 MATCH RESULTS. AUTUMN 1952—SUMMER 1953 Oct. 4th.

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Under 15 XII, playing in the West of England lacrosse tournament at Winchester. 2nd in section of 6 schools.

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Poem A grey goose, rising from the sleeping mere, Spurts sharp against the pool's recumbent rings, And breaks the ice-black water, darkly clear, Into a hundred ruffles with its wings.

Then, towards the morning's wind-stript sky, it flings Grey pinions, stretched in smoky symmetry.

There, high above the frosted flags, it brings A curve to match the circle of the sky, And wakes the marsh with harsh ecstatic cry.

JANE CHRISTIE.

THE NEWFANGLED EDUCATION Some people think that St. Mary's, Calne Is a grand seminary where daughters larn All that they ought to know ; How to speak German and French and Latin, How to make dresses of silk and satin, And how to make pudding from dough.

How wrong they are : for its real vocation Is just to disseminate co-education Throughout the national life ; But the co-educated, as you will hear, Are not little boys and their sisters dear, But long-suffering dad and his wife.

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The preliminary course in this curious College Is a monstrous paper on general knowledge, On irrelevant facts and figures, On breeds of potatoes and dates of kings, On ikons and protons and such-like things, On anthropoid apes and niggers.

The harassed parents dare not say " No. Nothing will force us to have a go," For fear of their daughter's scorn.

So in they plunge ; and they woefully wonder, " Would you call Boanerges the god of thunder, And when was Mo Connolly born ? " Simple minded, they hope that their witty replies Will meet the Headmistress's awestruck eyes And atone for their daughters' sins.

But no : their own daughter corrects their papers, In gleeful contempt for their floundering capers And filial irreverence wins.

The next examination in this family tutorial Is, we hear, a venture in the art of editorial, An experiment in poetry or prose.

It may reveal a Bishop who's a master of cartoon, Or a Chancery Solicitor who finds that he can croon Like Keats or T. S. Eliot. Who knows ?

So, parents all, polish up your knowledge; It is not too late to go back to college And revivify your A.B.Cs. No longer is money your main concern ; Your primary duty is simply to learn, For your daughters will be glad to pay your fees.

J. R. THRING. We thank Mr. Thring very much for this contribution and hope that more parents will follow his example next year ! EDITOR.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT We thank the following Schools for copies of their School Magazines, which we have read with interest: Sherborne School for Girls ; Queen Margaret's, Scarborough; The Royal School, Bath ; Leeds Girls' High School; Godolphin School; Westonbirt; Howell's School, Denbigh; Benenden; The Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong.

OLD GIRLS' SUPPLEMENT Officers of the Old Girls' Association

President: Miss Gibbins Vice-Presidents : Miss Alexander, 17 Beech Avenue, Sanderstead, Surrey Miss Thouless, St. Mary's School, Calne, Wilts.

Miss Jennings, 163 Gower Street, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Mile. G. Antoine, St. Mary's School, Calne, Wilts.

Miss I. Martin, St. Ann's Mead, Chertsey, Surrey.

Chairman : G. Beale, The Grey House, Minchinhampton, Glos.

Treasurer: R. Baker, 51 Church Road, Worle, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset Secretary : R. Strode, Blue Spur, Chesham Bois, Amersham, Bucks.

Group Secretaries : I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. iXII. XIII. XIV. . XV. 'XVI. SSVlI. Wtll.

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R. Baker, 51 Church Road, Worle, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

K. Yerbury (Beach), 74 Grove Park Road, Chiswick, W.I4.

J. Blaxter (Hollis), Pathside, Frithesden Copse, Berkhamsted, Herts.

L. Moore (Kirby), Lea-Hurst, 24 Powys Avenue, Leicester.

R. Buck, 50 Meadway, Barnet, Herts.

G. Kirby, 15 Essex Road, Gravesend, Kent.

E. McGowan (Minnis), 241 Eccleshall Road, Stafford.

M. Gooderham (Matthews), Shann Lea, 12 High Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, Yorks.

P. Wilson, ii Drayton Gardens, London, S.W.io.

T. Mackarness (Tidman), White Cottage, Sheet, Petersfield, Hants.

W. Willcox, (Dallas Ross) Dalkeith Cottage, Englefield Green, Surrey.

M. Tidman, 7 Weston Road, Petersfield, Hants.

P. Chadwick, 9 Canadian Avenue, Salisbury, Wilts.

R. Stroke, Blue Spur, Chesham Bois, Amersham, Bucks.

E. Wallis, Leyton House, Topsham, Devon.

D. Hort, 20 Avenue Rise, Bushey, Herts.

M. Groves, The Vicarage, Sonning-on-Thames, Reading, Berks.

C. Maclean, Catercross, Fittleworth, Nr. Pulborough, Sussex.

K. Hughes, i Southfield, Horton Crescent, Rugby.

LETTER FROM MISS GIBBINS St. Mary's

School,

Calne, Wilts.

July 28th, 1953.

My Dear Old Girls, This has been such a busy summer for everyone that you will all agree, I think, that the decision made last January to defer the Calne Reunion till 1954 was a wise one. We hope that we shall see a great many of you here next year.

With this copy of the NEWS SHEET, I hope you will receive a copy of the Eightieth Birthday Appeal. The Governors have already instructed the School Architect, Mr. Christopher Green, to prepare plans for tender and we hope to get some building done next year.

How much we are able to build depends on the success of this renewed appeal. As you will see, the 1950 appeal will, when covenants mature, bring in £10,000. The complete block we want to build will cost £50,000, a swimming bath another £5,000. We can, of course, raise part of the necessary sum by a loan, but only part, and how much we can build in 1954 largely depends on what we can raise this autumn.

Please do not think we are being extravagant: anyone who has seen the School recently knows that the huts must be replaced. I know that many of you gave generously to the 1950 appeal—I believe that if you can, you will give again this year, and that if you did not give then, you will do so now.

It has been a full and happy year for the School. We are tremendously blessed in our staff and are most grateful to them for all that they do. There are two staff changes I must mention. First of all we were all tremendously sorry to say " Goodbye " to Miss Greenwood after 14 years : she will be much missed by Old Girls and present Staff and girls alike. Miss Brett is also retiring this term. She has been here since 1945 and has very much become part of the School during her time here. We shall miss her, too, in many ways, not least because she has meticulously kept the School diary which you all enjoy so much when you come down as Old Girls.

Since the last number of the NEWS SHEET, Susan Rotherham has gone out to join her husband in the Canal Zone. I cannot thank her enough for her work as Secretary of the O.G.A. She was most kind to me as a new Headmistress and is always a tower of strength and resource. We are most grateful to Rosamund Strode for taking over her work.

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It has been a matter of great regret to us that Miss Alexander has not been able to visit the School this year though we were very glad she was able to get to the London Reunion. You will be very sorry to hear that she had had the misfortune to break her leg and will join with me in wishing her a speedy and complete recovery. Needless to say, in spite of domestic difficulties and illness her work for the O.G.A. and of the NEWS SHEET has gone on as usual.

I must not go on too long ! There is so much I would like to say.

Do come to see us whenever you can, giving me warning of your visit, if possible, so that I can be free for you ! We are very proud of you with your families and your work. Your doings make a real part of the life of the School. We have been very sorry that sadness and bereavement has come the way of so many of you this year and do send you our very deep sympahty.

With love and good wishes to you all, Yours affectionately, ELIZABETH M. GIBBINS.

CHAIRMANS LETTER As you all know the Reunion due to take place this year was postponed until next summer owing to the Coronation. We will all look forward to meeting again then at St. Mary's. The Committee hope a large number will make a great effort to attend the London Reunion in January.

There is little to report in the way of business. All appointments due to end this summer are extended until next. I should particularly like to thank Rosamund Strode for acting as Secretary while Susan Rotherham is in Egypt. May I ask all Old Girls who have failed to do so to send their subscriptions to their Group Secretaries immediately? Our hard-working and efficient treasurer, Ruth Barker, points out how much she is handicapped by late subscriptions. One or two payments due to the Bursary Fund under deed of covenant are also outstanding.

All members of the O.G.A. will be very sorry to hear that Miss Greenwood has left St. Mary's. Many Old Girls have affectionate memories of her during their school days and older members were always sure of a warm welcome when they visited the School.

We are very sorry to hear Miss Alexander has broken her leg.

Some of you will remember when this happened before during the War, Miss Matthews sent an ambulance to bring her to St. Mary's to be nursed as the raids on London were very bad just then.

Many Old Girls have visited the School during the year and found it flourishing under Miss Gibbins and her staff who manage to retain the old happy, friendly atmosphere in these days of constant change.

We feel those who spend their schooldays at St. Mary's are still the fortunate ones!

G. D. BEALE.

LETTER FROM MISS ALEXANDER " Cottesmore," 17, Beech Avenue, Sanderstead.

July, 1953.

My Dear Old Girls, I should like to thank you all, by means of the NEWS SHEET, for the lovely basket of strawberries and the cream which Elizabeth Holder brought me on your behalf when I was in a Nursing Home for a month. I expect this is news to most of you for I have not been able to write many letters.

I tripped up in our drawing room and broke a small bone in my thigh. I am home again now and should be able to put some weight on the leg in another fortnight.

My love to you all and best wishes for a good holiday.

Yours affectionately, E. M. ALEXANDER.

LONDON REUNION " Why do so few women go to their School reunions compared with men ? " was asked at a Town Forum, just after I had sent in my three shillings. Mrs. Mary Stocks' contemptuous reply that indeed she had never been to one, made me begin to tremble at the step I had taken. And there is not, at a London reunion, even a familiar building for us to take comfort in. There are no well-known paths and corners to contract us into ourselves as we were at school: we could not indulge in reminiscences or gossip. We were thrown together as a collection of strangers. We felt isolated and took refuge in the tea, and in the particularly good set of impressionist prints.

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Suddenly we found that we could talk to each other as we are now. We had gone by different routes to different points but because we had started together the different points were, so to speak, new aspects of ourselves. I think that when one has left quite recently, one is unwilling to acknowledge one's debt to St. Mary's. We like to flap our wings and temporarily " Die of the absolute parental care."

I went to the Reunion because I like talking to people and I was amused to see who would come. The fact that we found we could talk made our membership of St. Mary's a freeing rather than a binding acknowledgment.

Nearly sixty people were there, and they seemed to be a good cross-section. Miss Gibbins managed to combine talking to everyone and yet talking as if only she and oneself were there. As always it was a great pleasure to see Miss Alexander and it was good, too, to see Miss Nesbitt and Mrs. Terry (Miss Hort). We ourselves varied between an excited row of what was the Upper Fifth when I left, sitting on the floor in the window, a group discussing recent photos of their husbands and babies, and some who must have had their time at St. Mary's before I was thought of.

Daphne Hort was an excellent hostess—I think we should have run away if she had not welcomed us. The tea was superb. My only criticism would be that for those who were unable to come at the .beginning there were only cakes left. But that was my fault. I arrived early and ate more than my share of the delicious sandwiches.

We were glad to have gone—which is the most to be said about anything.

ANNE WATSON.

NEWS OF OLD GIRLS STAFF Miss Alexander. We were sorry to hear that Miss Alexander had still, at the time of writing, not sold her house.

Miss Bowden is still Head Mistress of St. Margaret's School, Vina del Mar, in Chile. She had a holiday kst year in Peru and Bolivia.

Miss Chesshire. We congratulate Miss Chesshire on her appointment as Head Mistress of Jersey College for Girls.

Miss Porter is still working at Ackworth.

Mrs. Tyler (Chapman) writes that her husband has been posted to Korea, so she and her children have gone to live with an aunt in Norfolk.

OLD GIRLS Joan Ash (Grover) was expecting to come home from Hong Kong this summer.

Althea Bailey (Roberts). We congratulate Althea on the birth of her daughter.

Cicely Baker is still nursing at St. Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and is very busy with her bees and gardening.

Ann Ball has acquired a car ; Julia is doing her Art Teaching Diploma course ; and Catherine has been riding in point-to-point races.

Laura Barlee (Attlee). We congratulate Laura on the birth of her third daughter. Her husband is now on the Staff of the R.N. College at Dartmouth.

Jane Baynes joined the W.R.N.S. in February and is now doing a nine months' Radio course at Worthy Down, Winchester.

Elisabeth Bell (Willink) is enjoying living in her cottage near Cambridge.

She took her Oxford Finals in December and is now a fully qualified doctor.

Elinor Birkbeck (Hollis) has been very busy as a member of the W.V.S., helping with the distribution of clothes to the flood victims.

Janet Blaxter (Hollis). Her husband was a Gold Staff Officer on duty in the Abbey on Coronation Day, and Janet had a seat in the Abbey too.

Violet Briscoe is the Matron at a Prep School at Ewhurst.

Margaret Brockway (Harris) has had a very busy year. She spent a fortnight with her sister Anne, who is at present living in Malta.

Penelope Brooke-Johnson (Ram) is living in Chester since her marriage in April.

Diana Brown is secretary to a Consulting Neurologist. Her work entails travelling all over Sussex.

Brigid Burra has gone back to St. Thomas's for another year. She is working in the children's ward and loving it.

Irene Campbell (Heywood) has not gone abroad again as she had expected to do. Her husband has a temporary job in London and they have found a house in Horley.

Isabel Cant (Martineau) is working in the Out-Patient Department of the Children's Hospital, Birmingham. She and her children had a wonderful ski-ing holiday in Austria in the spring.

Alice Carter (Le Mesurier) is still lecturing at the L.S.E. and researching into the history of the English Church at Amsterdam, which takes her to Holland annually. Her husband has been to New York to represent Great Britain on a delegation to United Nations.

Ann Carter (Garrad) has spent a busy year looking after her husband and home, working as Probation Officer for Great Yarmouth and District and serving with the Territorial Army.

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Virginia Carver is living temporarily in London, doing various jobs, including teaching French.

Margaret Chadwick is working as a Speech Therapist in school and hospital clinics in and near London.

Nancy Chase writes from Kabale, Uganda, where she is Head Mistress of a Mission Prep. School, that she hopes to be in England early in 1954.

Margaret Chitty took Part II of her Finals in June.

Catherine Christie has had six weeks in Paris and four months in India.

She saw a great deal of the country, staying sometimes with English people and sometimes with Indians which made the trip very varied and interesting. She was planning to go to Austria in the summer.

Ines Clark is in her second year at Stroud School of Art, where she won the Bruce Warwick prize for the best picture of her year. She hopes to study art in Paris for six months. She was taking part in the production which the Cotswold Players had entered for the County Drama Festival.

Elizabeth Copeman started physiotherapy at St. Thomas's hospital last October and likes it very much.

Susan Cowdell has just returned from 16 months in France, where she has much enjoyed travelling and studying a Secretarial Course.

Amy Crawford (Baker) has had a wonderful time in South and Central Africa. She went to the Victoria Falls and flew over them. She returned by the East Coast, landing at Zanzibar and Mombasa.

She has a new novel coming out soon.

Nicolette Cunliffe started work at the British Embassy in Paris in February and is much enjoying it.

Meg Davies (Pite) is in Adelaide, where her husband lectures at the University. She has seen Miss Morrison and Susan Pedro (Jefferis).

Prudence Davies was presented at Buckingham Palace in May. She has just finished a domestic science course, and is starting a secretarial course at Oxford in the autumn.

Leila Davis (Suffrin) was hoping to return to England for good this summer, and has bought a bungalow at Cranham, near Gloucester.

Josephine Delap is studying piano and flute at the Royal College of Music.

Monica Des Clayes (Westmacott) wrote that she was going to Australia for three years. Her husband has an appointment at the Royal Australian Naval College, sixty miles from Melbourne and near Molly Watson (Lushington).

Prunella Dibley is very much enjoying her work at Westfield College.

She was going for a fortnight to Madrid to take a Spanish course at the University.

Heather Dillon left St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, after five years there and had a long holiday at home. She is now back in London working at a smaller hospital which she likes very much.

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Diana Duthie (Leveson) is recovering from a slipped disc and sciatica.

Her husband has been made a Director of Darlington Forge.

Penelope Edwards (Bomford) and her husband are back from Egypt.

He now works at the War Office. They have bought a house in Woking.

Anne Eggar (Harris) expects to remain in Malta until the spring of I95.4Jacqueline Elgood (Tate) has a son born in February and is living in Hameln, where she finds it easy to get all the domestic help she needs.

Mary Ellingworth (Waterfield) married last October. Her husband is' at the British Embassy in Tokyo, where they expect to be for two years before getting home leave.

Stephanie Evans-Lawrence has had to return from the Embassy at Copenhagen to nurse her mother, who was seriously ill.

Charmian Fearnley spent five months in France attending lectures at the Sorbonne. She was going to Italy and Greece in the spring and to Duderstadt in Germany in the summer.

Mary Field is driving a mobile physiotherapy unit for the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She was hoping to visit her sister Jennifer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in July.

Gwyneth Fleetwood-Jones is still a Major in the W.R.A.C. She is serving in Aldershot on the Staff of the H.Q. Aldershot district.

Stella Foster (Remington Wilson) is still very busy as mother and housewife. She has been working part-time at Colchester hospital as a physiotherapist.

Alice Frayling. We are very glad that she is now much better after her accident last year, but were very sorry to hear of the death of her sister, also an Old Girl. She is leaving her home and going to live with her nephew at E. Croydon.

Celia Garnham (Rowley). Celia is now living at Durban, where her husband is in General Practice.

Shirley Grant (Stokes). Shirley is now living in a lovely part of Cornwall, not far from Truro. She has a baby son.

Heather Greenwood (Blackadder) much enjoyed the year at St. Andrews, where her husband studied for a degree in Education.

She was uncertain when she wrote of their future plans.

F.lizabeth Hann (Thomas). Elizabeth's husband has been moved to Oxford, where they were lucky to find a house fairly quickly.

The twins are progressing very well.

Mary Harker (Burdett) is busy with two children, house and garden and is enjoying Wales, but will be glad to get back to England eventually.

Joy Harper is going up to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in October to read English Literature.

Ailie Harrison (Sargeant) is the busy mother of four children. She has been lucky in finding a large flat near Kensington Gardens.

Mary Hibberd (Combes) is very busy with her children. Betty rents part of the house. Joyce has now gone to live near Bristol.

Betsy Hickling (Pryor) writes that they have now bought a house and she is very busy with her two little girls, chickens, geese and garden. She has seen a good deal of April Kay (Powlett) and Marygold Alexander (Congreve) and went to Penelope Ram's wedding in April.

Jennifer Hickie is in England for six months or so, with a secretarial job in London.

Katharine Hill was in hospital last year for three months after having been badly burned. She went to Kenya to visit her brother and complete her cure.

Suzanne Hobson is still working at the Foreign Office in London.

Ruth Howell has recently finished a six-months' French course at Fribourg University and hoped to find a secretarial post in London in the summer.

Anne Hudson (Knollys) is living in Putney until at least the end of the year, when her husband may be posted somewhere else. She loves being back in England.

Jean Hughes (Sorsbie) is still living a busy home life and coping with a large garden and five children in the holidays.

Elisabeth Hunkin is still a research student in the European section of the B.B.C. Elizabeth Hunkin (Wilson) has moved to Peterborough, where her husband has a curacy at the Parish Church. They enjoyed the year in Oxford.

Cecilia James (Livingstone) is kept very busy with her small son.

Jean Jauncey (Cunninghame Graham) has given up her teaching job, but is still running a Brownie pack and is giving her small son his first lessons.

Jeanette Johnston wrote that she was going to be married in April to Anthony Gawthrop, and Venetia Cornwallis and Bridget Cunliffe were to be bridesmaids.

Eleanor Keer (Samuelson) is busy being a farmer's wife in Devon.

Anne Kelly has passed her S.C.M. Examination and is going to the Liverpool Maternity Hospital.

Gillian Kempe is in her second year at the Wingfield Morris Hospital in Oxford and takes her Finals in November. She hopes to go on to King's College Hospital in February.

Priscilla Kidman has been working as an Almoner at the Royal Hampshke County Hospital, Winchester, since April 1951.

Rachel Kinchin Smith (Willink) writes that they are very pleased with their new house, and find life much less harassing in the country. She had been visited by Elizabeth Ormerod (Stamper) Barbara Brickdale and Rosemary Whiffen.

Gwen Kirby is in Brazil at a Nursing Conference.

Brenda Kirke is stationed at R.A.F. Bircham Newton, near Sandringham, in Norfolk, where she finds it very pleasant in the summer.

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Lorraine Knowles (Carleton) is busy with her small son and daughter.

She has met many Old Girls from time to time, including Pamela Preston and Priscilla Wilson.

Moyra Leatham is working mostly at home, illustrating books, but spends a few days in London every month. She had two weeks ski-ing in Austria in the spring.

Lesley Lea-Wilson has been to France for four months. She is now working at Chesters, the Music Publishers, where Mr. C. Fleming is also.

Pamela Littlejohns (Barker) has recently returned with her husband and two children from Malta, where they were for three years.

While there they were presented to the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, and the Duke of Edinburgh, and attended many functions at which they were present.

Margaret Macfayden is still studying Art at the Goldsmith's College School of Art. Her future plans are uncertain.

Susannah MacRae has completed her final year at Reading University.

Betty Malony (Sheldon) has received the Territorial Decoration.

Mary Margesson obtained her Inter-diocesan Certificate for Church Work with two distinctions in July 1952. She is having to live at home to look after her mother, but she is doing some part-time voluntary Church work in the Frome Deanery, for which she was to be licensed by the Bishop.

Barbara Marjoribanks Egerton (Chambers). Barbara's husband has a further appointment in Northern Ireland and they have found a little house nine miles from Armagh.

Ursula Marsh is nursing at a home for old people in Hampshire.

Delia Marshall is studying at St. James's Secretarial College, and hopes to get into the Foreign Office. For about three months she was working in Repertory Companies in Cornwall.

Jean Martin has been working at the Commonwealth Relations Office and in June was going to Canberra to work in the High Commissioner's Office for three years. She is looking forward to the Royal visit next year. She has cousins in Melbourne, and the Greek family she stayed with for two years in Casablanca are going to Sydney, so she will not feel too cut off.

Mabyn Martin is at present with the Foreign Office, at the Embassy in Cairo, where she expects to be until 1954Helen Maxwell-Lefroy is still working at Chatto and Windus, as assistant to one of the partners specializing in designing and producing the books. It is a job of great variety and interest, and authors such as Compton Mackenzie, Margaret Irwin, Colonel van der Post, William Sansom, etc. call frequently.

Christine McCrum (ffbrde) was married last September, by Ruth Chadwick (Hallward)'s husband, and is enjoying life in Cambridge.

Elspeth McGowan (Minnis) was glad to be moving from Stafford to Brundall, Norfolk.

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Audrey Mclsaac (Fletcher) has moved from Repton to Ryde, Isle of Wight, as her husband has been appointed Head Master of Ryde School.

Violet McDowell (Armstrong). Her eldest boy has passed into the Worcester, and the youngest has joined his brother at St. George's, Windsor, where he won a choristership.

Anne Michell (Shaw) is living in London at present as her husband, who is a Captain in the R.A.M.C., is at Millbank Hospital. Anne is doing a part-time radiographer's job in Wimpole Street.

Faith Miller (Nottidge) has two sons. She lives at Wynchlows, Hunsden, Ware, Herts., and would welcome visits from Old Girls living near or passing by.

Audrey Miller-Hallett moved into the B.B.C. Features Department as a secretary last November, and now works for a producer, helping to prepare the programmes, and in the control room of the studio during transmission.

Adelaide Milsted. We are sorry to hear that she is still ill, but we are glad- she is happy and can still run her flat in Norwich.

Jennifer Mitchell is at Repton, as assistant cook, in " The Hall."

Sarah Montagu was in Italy for a few months in the winter and is now working to get into Oxford in November.

Hilary Moore was leaving last April for 2 J years in Singapore with the rest of the family.

Lucy Moore (Kirby) has been a magistrate for the City of Leicester.

Stephanie Morgan (Rosedale) has moved to Hampshire permanently.

Her husband is at the Admiralty at present. She has seen several Old Girls—lona Wake-Walter (Maclean), Anne Kelly, Lesley Lea-Wilson and Valerie Donell (Rodd).

Lovedy Moule is Matron at the small girls' prep, school run by Julia Grenfell's mother. She often sees Beth Wallis.

Ruth Newberry (Matthews) is very much occupied with her four children.

Sarah Newman has just finished at Westfield College. She was looking for a job in a library for a year before taking a course in librarianship.

Diana Nicholson. We were sorry to hear that Diana had had to give up in her third year of reading for the Lambeth Diploma at King's College, London, owing to illness. We hope she will soon be quite fit again.

Anne Norris (Brown) is with her husband at Fayid. She has seen a great deal of Pamela Rifat (Saxon), who lives in Ismailia with her husband and new baby. She has alo seen Jan Dibley and Susan Rotherham.

Christina O'Gorman (Pound) now has a small son, and a flat. Her husband works in a London hospital and hopes to specialize in Pathology.

Ruth Palmer has gone to work as a nurse in Melanesia.

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Jane Pelly has finished at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and has decided to teach for a couple of years. She has a post at St. George's School, Harpenden.

Barbara Philips went out to New Zealand last October. She is working for the City Mission in Auckland, and strongly recommends the country to anyone wishing to emigrate ! She would like to hear of any other Old Girls out there.

Anne Pilgrim (Tanqueray) writes that she and her husband are very happily settled at Esher, where she finds the people most kind and helpful. She teaches a Nursery Class in the mornings.

Peggy Pope is still in the War Office.

Lois Porteous (Roome). Her elder child, Robin, is at a preparatory school in the Isle of Wight. She and her husband and younger child, Charmian, are sailing for Singapore in August.

Hilary Pullon has been doing " locums " in Hospital and General Practice for the past year and was starting a permanent post as Assistant in General Practice, with a view to partnership, with a woman doctor at Potters Bar in April. In October 1952 she gained the D.R.C.O.G. (Diploma in Obstetrics).

Jean Prideaux (Howell) has been doing some part-time work as Physiotherapist at her local hospital .

Ann Ree gave a recital in October 1952 and was working for another when she wrote. She has joined a dancing team as accompanist.

They give lecture demonstrations of classical Spanish dancing, and she has appeared with them in Nottingham and London.

She is still teaching, and accompanying Music and Movement classes.

Susan Ree is a secretary in a Chartered Accountants' firm.

Hester Reeve Fowkes (Cross) is busy with her family and cottage and large garden. We are glad to hear that the health of her family has improved. Her husband is editor of a new Printing Trade Monthly as well as having his School department work.

Jane Renwick wrote that she had just returned from the Gold Coast in order to be married, and was then returning to Accra where her husband is stationed.

Joan Roach is teaching a Nursery Class in an Infant School in Leicester.

Elizabeth Robertson (Puckle) has married a soldier. Pat is still working at her uncle's preparatory school at Ascot.

June Robertson (Parsons) has taken her M.A. degree.

Holly Robinson is still thoroughly enjoying life as an assistant matron in a Boys' preparatory school in the West Riding.

Ann Rollo (Pegg), who was married last year, is still working at the Foreign Office.

Rachel Rolt (Fortescue-Brickdale) has moved to an attractive village in Esses, and finds that the house and her small daughter keep her very busy.

Judith Rose is still enjoying teaching at Bexhill. She was singing at the Festival Hall on the eve of the Coronation and at Edinburgh Festival with the University Madrigal Society.

Susan Rotherham (Hayter) is enjoying life in Egypt, though she finds a good deal to criticize. She has come across several Old Girls.

Julia Routh is still doing secretarial work at the B.B.C., but intends to change her job before the end of the year. She is sharing a flat with Patricia Barbour and Angela Boschi.

Dorothy Sainsbury wrote that she was leaving British Honduras and returning to England in January of this year.

Elizabeth St. Leger Moor (Wilson) is finding that the children have benefited very much from the Scottish climate, and her husband finds his job most satisfactory.

Joyce Sharp (Chadwick) is now settled in a bungalow adjoining a Forces Preparatory School for Boys, and her husband grows vegetables for them and keeps pigs and poultry. They are very pleased to be back and settled in England.

Mary Sharpe (Lake) is on leave until October.

Shirley Smith is enjoying herself very much at Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy, Oxford.

Patricia Sowerby (Moss) has moved to Worcestershire where they have a new house with a lovely view of the Malvern Hills. Her two children keep her very busy.

Elizabeth Steele is still studying at the Guildhall School of Music and enjoying it very much.

Dorothea Stewart Cox is enjoying her work as a secretary at the National Gallery.

Patricia and Shirley Stratton are still studying at the Guildhall School of Music. Earlier in the year they had a wonderful six weeks' holiday in South America.

Rachel Swann is now a State Registered Nurse and finishes her four years at St. Thomas's Hospital in December.

Vanessa Swann is running a farm near Kettering.

Audrey Sweet (Barnes) was hoping to fly over to Oslo in August to see Sybil and her family. They are stationed there for the time being.

Barbara Taylor (Fortescue-Brickdale) is married to a sub-curator of the Ashmolean Museum. St. Mary's was well represented at her wedding.

Jane Thomas is now in her second year at St. Thomas's. She likes having Elizabeth and her babies so near, at Oxford.

June Thornton Scott (Priestley). June's husband has recently been appointed Senior Lecturer in Geography, to organise a new department in the University of Hobart. They now have two children, Alison (3!) and Hilary (i|).

Margaret Thorpe (Gibson) and her husband are working at St. Michael's Mission in the O.F.S. Margaret has started a clinic.

Marjorie Thynne is still at Seascale Preparatory School, Cumberland.

Mary Troutbeck is working in the Foreign Office in London. She flew out to Iraq for a three-weeks' visit to her parents in the spring.

Kathleen Trow returned to England from Australia in December.

She is a Lecturer at the Training College of Housecraft at Totley, Sheffield.

Jean Turner is in her first year at Dartford College of Physical Education and is enjoying it very much.

Mary Vischer is still working in the City with the Griffin group of companies.

Carol Waechter (Hale) has married an archaeologist. They have a lovely house near Hampton Court.

Felicity Walker-Watson (Brocklebank) is busy with her house and garden in Chelsea. She has been all over the country with her husband, whose job as financial advisor to landowners, involves a good deal of touring.

Beth Wallis is enjoying her work as secretary to the Head Master of Sherborne. She was hoping to go abroad in the summer holidays.

Ann Walmsley wrote that she was very happy in her second year of reading English at Durham.

Mary Warren has gained her L.C.S.T. Her husband is Senior Surgical Registrar at the London Hospital.

Ann Warrick has gained her D.C.H. We are very sorry to hear that she has had to interrupt her work as Registrar at the Royal Free Hospital owing to illness, and are glad that she is progressing well.

Joy Watkins is training to be a teacher at the Salisbury Diocesan Training College.

Barbara Watson (Mitchell) is having a most interesting time in Palestine, where her husband is stationed. She and Honor McCully (Ward) have acquired and furnished a " church room," where a fortnightly service is held. Barbara was allowed to accompany her husband when he went to fight a terrible plague of locusts which threatened the whole of the Middle East.

Joan Weller has been working as a full-time Orthoptist in the Winchester Group of Hospitals since July 1952. She travels round by car to Basingstoke, Andover and Alton. Her parents now live in Bournemouth.

Catherine Westmacott has gained her A.G.S.M and G.G.S.M. She is now teaching at St. Mary's School, Wantage. She still has singings lesson and occasionally picks up an odd engagement.

Diana Willcocks has been working in London since May 1951 as Secretary to the Principal of the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Staff College, in Cromwell Road, and is enjoying it very much.

Winsome Willcox (Dallas Ross) is busy looking after her son, and was looking forward to moving into her new house at Sunningdale at the end of the summer.

Rosemary Whiffen has gained her A.M.I.A. 33

Juliet Williams spent three and a half months in the Sudan in the winter, staying at Khartoum and doing " trek " down to the Ethiopian border.

Nancy Williams is Director of the Dorset Rural Music School, which is still growing. The students number about 400. All their work is instrumental teaching at present, and they take the violin classes in schools as well as independent classes, and small orchestras and individual pupils.

Priscilla Wilson is still working on The Economist.

Alison Wood is working with the L.C.C. as an assistant organizer in the Children's Clinic under the School Health Service.

Jane Woodroffe is still working as a Radiographer at Guy's Hospital.

She has gained her M.S.R. She enjoyed her first winter sports holiday in the spring.

Wendy Wotton is still in Los Angeles, California, and likes it very much. She is doing Physiotherapy in the office of an Orthopaedic doctor. She was hoping to have the summer free to travel with her parents, who were going out to visit her.

BIRTHS Bailey. On i6th October, 1952, to Althea (Roberts), a daughter.

Bannerman, On 23rd August, 1952, to Betty (Douglas), a third son, Timothy Alexander.

Barlee. On xoth March, 1953, to Laura (Attlee), a third daughter, Veronica Laura.

Boisseau. On ist April, 1953, to Ursula (Cleverly), a son, James, her fourth child.

Bridgman. On iyth July, 195 3, to Penelope (Herbert), a son.

Buckingham. On loth December, 1952, to Arminal (Conybeare), a son, Peter, her third child.

Cairncross. On 2nd August, 1952, to Mary (Glynn), a son, David John, her fourth child.

Caughey. On i8th August, 1952, to Catherine (Harvey), a daughter.

Chadwick. On i6th February, 1943, to Ruth (Hallward), a son.

Davies. On I4th May, 1933, to Ann (Phillips), a son, Michael Evan.

Des Clayes. On 29th August, 1952, to Monica (Westmacott), a son, Christopher Edward.

Edwards. On 6th September, 195 2, to Penelope (Bomford), a daughter, Jane Penelope, her second child.

Forbes. On i2th December, 1952, to Annilea (Thomas), a second daughter, Caroline.

Gent. On i4th November, 1952, to Elizabeth (Chapman) a son, Simon, her third child.

Goatby. On 29th April, 1953, to Veronica (Lloyd) a third son.

Grant. On 8th November, 1952, to Shirley (Stokes), a son, Andrew Charles.

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Harrison. On 2nd June, 1952, to Ailie (Sarjeant), a daughter, Sarah Anne, her fourth child.

Irvine-Fortescue. On i3th December, 1952, to Bridget (Awdry), a son, Alexander Ramsay.

Jennings. On yth May, 1953, to Betty (Osman Jones), a son, Michael Anthony, her second child.

McCrum. On yth July, 1953, to Christine (fforde), a son.

Newberry. On zoth November, 1952, to Ruth (Matthews), a son, Stephen James, her fourth child.

Newton. On 6th December, 1952, to Anne (Carey), a daughter.

O'Gorman. On zoth February, 1952, to Christina (Pound), a son, Michael Patrick.

O'Hara. On $ist March, 1943, to Joan (Bridgman), a daughter, Kathlyn Elizabeth, her fifth child.

Ormerod. On loth April, 1953, to Elizabeth (Stamper) a daughter, Anne, her third child.

Pedro. On 3oth January, 1953, to Susan (JefFeris), a son, Tony Silvester, her second child.

Pelham. On jth August, 1952, to Pauline (Brentnall), a second daughter, Rosemary Pauline.

Radford. On ist December, 1952, to Nora (Webb), a daughter, Barbara Mary.

Rifaat. On 26th February, 1953, to Pamela (Saxon) a daughter.

Rolt. On zist August, 1952, to Rachel (Fortescue-Brickdale), a daughter, Mary Lavinia Constantia.

Slowe. On 29th June, 1953, to Mary (Hale), a daughter, Alison Mary, her second child.

Smith. On 23rd September, 1952, to Ann Heather (Plummer), a daughter, her third child.

Terry. On 22nd June, 1953, to Margaret (Hort), a daughter, Rosemany Frances.

Tewson. On yth April, 1933, to Hannah (Bridgman), a son, her third child.

Wake-Walker. On 22nd October, 1952, to lona (Maclean), a son, Edward Collingwood, her second child.

Wallace. On i2th April, 1953, to Janet (Glossop), a daughter, Karen Margaret, her third child.

Wetherell-Pepper. On i6th February, 1953, to Joan (Alexander), a son, her third child.

Wilks. On lyth October, 1952, to Pat (Webb), a second daughter, Catherine Louisa.

Wilson. On 8th August, 195 2, to Anne (Chenevix Trench), a daughter, Francesca Dorothy, her second child.

Woolley. On 24th January, 1952, to Frances (Masters), a son, Christopher, her third child.

Zygade. On lyth July, 1952, to Prudence (Wood), a third son, Colin Mark.

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STAFF Davies. On 2ist February, 1953, to Mrs. Davies (Miss Hollingworth), a son, Stephen Vivian.

MARRIAGES Alexander-Congreve. On jth May, 1953, Major Ian S. Alexander to Marygold Congreve.

Boulton-Mattingly. On i4th May, 1953, Captain John Boulton to Brenda Mattingly.

Brooke-Johnson-Ram. On i8th April, 1953, St. John C. BrookeJohnson to Penelope Ram. Curzon-Streatfield. On 9th June, 1953, John Curzon to Diana Streatfield (Orlebar).

Ellingworth-Waterfield. On 25th October, 1952, Richard Henry Ellingworth to Mary Waterfield.

Frost-Gamble. On 24th September, 1952, Geoffrey A. C. Frost to Barbara Gamble (Lacon).

Lowe-Wheeler. On lyth May, 1952, Dr. Francis J. Lowe to Ruth Wheeler.

MacGregor-Beer. On nth October, 1952, Peter R. L. MacGregor to Rosemary Beer.

Michell-Shaw. On 2yth September, 1952, Rodney Michell to Anne Shaw.

Norman-Nicholson. On i8th July, 1953, Lieutenant D. G. Norman, R.N., to Jan Nicholson.

Norris-Brown. On gth October, 1952, Major Noel C. Norris to Anne Brown.

Robertson-Puckle. On i4th February, 1953, Major Godfrey L. Robertson, R.A. to Elizabeth Puckle.

Rollo-Pegg. On 22nd March, 1952, Colin Rollo to Ann Pegg.

Sheepshanks-Nickson. On 8th April, 1953, Charles Sheepshanks to Mary Nickson.

Taylor-Fortescue-Brickdale. On 8th April, 1953, Gerald L. Taylor to Barbara Fortescue Brickdale.

Thorpe-Gibson. On i8th October, 1952, the Rev. H. F. C. Thorpe to Margaret Gibson.

Waechter-Hall. On 2nd December, 1952. John Waechter to Carol Hall.

Fowler-Willis. On 1361 September, 1952, D. B. Fowler to Christine Willis.

Correction: Barbara Watson (Mitchell) was married on 2oth October, 1951, and not 1952, as stated in the previous News Sheet.

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R.I.P. Agnew. On zznd December, 1952, in the Arlberg avalanche disaster, Anne Mary Agnew, aged 26.

Baker. In September 1953, Glendolen Sophia Baker, aged 51.

Barton. On 2jth June, 1953, Annie Elizabeth Barton.

Brooke. On 25th December, 1952, as the result of an accident, Charles John Geoffrey Greene Brooke, aged 32, husband of Pamela (Philips).

Frayling. On i oth April, 1953, Laura Mildred Frayling, a god-daughter of Miss Ellinor Gabriel.

Legat. On 2ist February, 1953, John, son of Richard and Jill (Rhodes) at Dar-es-Salaam, aged 14 months.

Price. On i9th June, 1953, Margaret Winifred Agnes Price, aged 42.

Many of the members of the O.G.A. have lost parents or relatives during the year and we should like to extend to them all our very deep sympathy.— E.M.G.

ADDENDA Into Group XIX Jane S. Christie, The Lodgings, Jesus College, Oxford.

Priscilla M. Copeman, 26 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, N.W.j.

Elizabeth (Beth) Crawley, 7 London Road, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Bucks Barbara C. Cunliffe, Pakenham Lodge, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Hilary Dewar, Principal's House, Bishops' College, Cheshunt, Herts.

Annarella M. P. Flower, Saunder's Close, Bledlow, Nr. Aylesbury, Bucks.

Diana F. Ford, 6, Brentford Road, Dartford, Kent.

Sylvia M. Fox, Grange Lea, Guernsey, Channel Islands.

Julia M. Grenfell, Wick House, Downton, Nr. Salisbury, Wilts.

Alison Gresford Jones, Abbey Gate House, St. Albans, Herts.

Sheila M. Harrison Smith, Wilcot Lodge, Pewsey, Wilts.

Mary B. Helder, Little Court, Banstead, Surrey.

Janet Innes, Crossley House, Winterbourne, Bristol.

Veronica B. Johnston, Clare Hall, Clare, Nr. Sudbury, Suffolk.

Meriel J. M. Lewis, 17, Sedley Taylor Road, Cambridge.

Ann Limehouse, Charnwood, Bilton, Rugby.

L. M. Ann Macfadyen, 16 Draycott Avenue, Kenton, Harrow, Middx.

E. Anne Montagu, (The Honble), Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon.

Wendy F. Nixon, 50 Park Town, Oxford.

Celestria W. R. Noel, Roncombe, Sidbury, Sidmouth, Devon.

H. Maeve O'Ferrall, Cranham Rectory, Gloucester.

Helen, P. M. O'Hanlon, Abbey Grange, Sherborne, Dorset.

Belinda M. Peall, Hatfield Farm, Oare, Nr. Marlborough, Wilts.

Susan L. Pilcher, Leigh Holt, Crapstone, Nr. Yelverton, S. Devon.

Carolyn M. V. Reynolds, The Cottage, Tiddington, Stratford-on-Avon.

Julia L. Smithells, Old Job's, Narcot Lane, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks.

Jennifer T. F. Spry, 6, Ascham Road, Bournemouth, Hants.

(Georgina) E. O. Stewart Cox, Little Plumstead Grange, Nr. Norwich, Norfolk.

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CORRIGENDA Althea Bailey (Roberts), c/o Lloyds Bank, Budleigh Salterton, S. Devon Group IX Anne Baker (Norris), Flat 49, Johnson House, Ebury Street, W.i. ,, XV Betty Bannerman (Douglas), Croft Cottage, Lindow Common, Wilmslow, Cheshire „ VI Laura Barlee (Attlee), Ridge House, Dartmouth, Devon „ XI Gladys Beale, The Grey House, Minchinhampton, Glos. „ IV Deirdre Brett (Crosbie), 8 Neville Road, Bognor Regis, Sussex „ IX Penelope Bridgman (Herbert), Rapallo, Main Road, Clovelly, Cape „ VIII Privince, S. Africa Pamela Brooke (Philips), Chappel Court, Kenn, Exeter, Devon „ X Penelope Brooke-Johnson (Ram), c/o Messrs. C. Hoare & Co., 67 Park „ XII Lane, W.i.

Alice Carter (Le Mesurier), Wychwood, The Drive, Belmont, Surrey „ V Pamela Chadwick, Sunnyside Cottage, Woodgreen, Fordingbridge, Hants. , XIII Ruth Chadwick (Hall-ward), Merton House, Queen's Road, Cambridge , XIV Meriel Charsley, i Vale Road, Southborough, Kent , III Nancy Chase, Powerstock Vicarage, Bridport, Dorset , VII Bessie Clark, Ward 13, St. Andrews Hospital, Chippenham, Wilts , I Susan Crawshaw (Goodden), Wynyates, Bridport, Dorset , VIII Anne Davies (Phillips), Manor Farm, West Tytherton, Nr. Chippenham Wilts „ XII Leila Davis (Suffrin), Grove View, Cranham, Nr. Gloucester VI Alice Dyson, i St. James' Terrace, Winchester, Hants „ IX Penelope Edwards (Bomford), Lowbournc, Mt. Herman, Road, „ X Woking, Surrey Anne Eggar (Harris), 6 St. Saviours Street, Mdina, Malta, E.G. , XI Mary Ellingworth (Waterfield), The Paddock, Sotwell, Wallingford, Berks XI Violet Evelyn (Robertson), Milk River, Jamaica, B.W.I. , IV Joan Foster, 2 Gravel Path, Berkhamsted, Herts. , VI Christine Fowler (Willis), 18 Hughenden Road, Clifton, Bristol, 8 , XV Barbara Frost (Lacon), 5 Cannon Place, Hampstead, N.W. „ V Margot Fuller (Young), Waterloo House, Church Lane West, Aldershot „ VI Pamela Gage (Lacon), Briar Cottage, Ascot, Berks. „ VI Celia Garnham (Rowley), 104 Dowland Avenue, Hillary, Durban, Natal, S. Africa „ XIII Jeanette Gawthrop (Johnston), East Green Farm, Kelsale, Saxmundham, Suffolk „ XIII Elizabeth (Betty) Gent (Chapman), 22 White Hart Street, Beaminster, XII Dorset Mary Goodden, The Old House, North Cheriton, Nr. Templecombe, Somerset ,, VI Marcia Godderham (Matthews), 12 Nugent Road, Southbourne, Bournemouth „ VIII Shirley Grant (Stokes), Little Cosawes Farm, Perran-ar-Worthal, Truro, Cornwall „ XV Heather Greenwood (Blackadder), Cobbins, Blackheath, Guildford, Surrey „ X Margaret Guest (Henderson), Avondale, Tiddington Road, Stratford„ XIV on-Avon Elizabeth Harm (Thomas), 10 Kennington Road, Kennington, Oxford „ XIV Margaret Harvey, c/o Bank of New Zealand, Queen Street, New Zealand „ XII Annis Heawood, 3 Hollybush Hill, Hampstead, London, N.W.3 ,, XVI Kathleen (Kitty) Hood, 26 Downleaze, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, 9 „ XV Margery Hulbert, Skipreed, Chiddington Heath, Nr. Edenbridge, Kent „ II Elizabeth Hunkin (Wilson), 85 Alderman's Drive, Peterborough „ VI Northants

Gillian Kempe, The Yew Tree Inn, Lower Wield, Nr. Alton, Hants Priscilla Kidman, Park Nook, Quarndon, Derbyshire Elisabeth Lancaster, The Old Manor House, Theberton, Leiston, Suffolk Lesley Lea-Wilson, Fen Farm, Ardleigh, Essex Christine McCrum (fforde), 8 Kings Parade, Cambridge Violet McDowall (Armstrong), Cherry Trees, Little Panell, Nr. Devizes, Wilts.

Elspeth McGowan (Minnis), "Breckland," Strumpshaw Road, Brundall, Norfolk Rosemary Macgregor (Beer), c/o Lloyds Bank House, Warminster, Wilts Audrey Mclsaac (Fletcher), West Hill, West Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight Helen Macnab (Tench), 121 Cambridge Street, London, S.W.I. Barbara Majoribanks-Egerton (Chambers), Hillside, Annaghmore, Portadown, Co. Armagh, N. Ireland Ann Mandeville, 131 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire Ursula Marsh, c/o Lloyds Bank, Lydney, Glos.

Mary Matthews, Grandbaro, Lynton, N. Devon Faith Miller (Nottidge), Wynchlows, Hunsdon, Ware, Herts.

Jennifer Mitchell, Greenways Cottage, Donhead St. Mary, Shaftesbury, Dorset Margaret Monk (Perry), Pembroke Lodge, Pocklington, E. Yorkshire Hilary and Shireen Moore, c/o Group/Capt. C. P. Moore, R.A.F., Changi, Singapore

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„ XVIII &XVI Stephanie Morgan (Rosedale), 5 Swanmore House, Swanmore, Hants ,, XIII Anne Newton (Carey), 52 Silchester Court, Thornton Heath, Surrey „ XVI Rosemary Newton, Starres Hill, Marlborough, Wilts. ,, XVI Pamela Ogilvie Robb (Roe), Great Western Estate, Tallawakella, Ceylon „ IX Susan Pedro (Jefferis), Bridgewater, S. Australia „ X Barbara Philips, c/o Martin's Bank, Bruton Street, W.I. „ IX Mary Pierce (Hiscock), 79 Malmesbury Road, Chippenham, Wilts. „ IV Anne Pilgrim (Tanqueray), Hazel Cottage, Hillbrow Road, Esher, Surrey „ XV Lois Porteous (Roome), S. Lawrence, Totland Bay, Isle of Wight „ VIII Elizabeth Robertson (Puckle), Camlad House, Lydham, Bishop's Castle, Shropshire „ XI Rachel Roll (Fortescue-Brickdale), The Crosses, Great Warley, Brent„ XVI wood, Essex Julia Routh, 26s Belgrave Road, London, S.W.I „ XVII „ I Dorothy Sainsbury, at/The Vicarage, Horley, Surrey Janet Saunders, Flat 2, Rutland Lodge, Gratwicke Road, Worthing, Sussex „ XIV Joyce Sharp (Chadwick), 24, Walwood Road, Swansage, Dorset „ IX Mary Sharpe (Lake), Woodlands, Beaminster, Dorset „ IX Patricia Sowerby (Moss), 10 Players Avenue, Lower Howsell Road, Malvern Link, Worcs. „ IX Mabel Stevens, 12 Horsebrook Park, Calne, Wilts. ,, I Julia and Rachel Swann, The Old Manor, Combe Florey, Nr. Taunton, „ XIII Somerset & XV Vanessa Swann (Tennant), Orlingbury Hall, Nr. Kettering, Northants „ VHI Eileen Taverner (Wilcocks), 15 Earl Richard's Road, Exeter ,, II Margaret Terry (Hort.), 9 Hallowell Road, Northwood, Middx. „ VI Margaret Thorpe (Gibson), S. Michael's Mission, Dulcie's Netz, C.P., Via Zastron, O.F.S. „ IX Kathleen Trow, Totley Hall Training College of Housecraft, Totley, Sheffield „ VIII Caroline Waechter (Hall), Heron House, Thames Street, Hampton, Middx. „ VIII Elizabeth (Beth) Wallis, Half Moon House, Topsham, Devon „ XV Anne Walmsley, " Blissetts," West Hagbourne, Nr. Didcot, Berks „ XVII May Wardale, 2ia, Victoria Road, Salisbury, Wilts. ,, I

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Mary Warren (Rowley), 97 Denmark Hill, London, S.E. 5 Ann Warrick, 17 Conduit House, Hyde Vale, London, S,E.io Joan Weller, Narrow Water, Dalkeith Road, Branksome Park, Bournemouth Joan Wetherell-Pepper (Alexander), Cold Harbour Cottage, Wendover, Bucks.

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NEWS SHEET Staff Mrs. Henry, "Westfield," Gelt Road, Brampton, Cumberland Mrs. Jirk (Booth), The Elms, School Lane, Fetcham, Surrey .

Mrs. Tyler (Chapman), c]o Mrs. Flowerdew, The Cottage, Rickinghall, Nr. Diss, Norfolk.

Lost Members Addresses are wanted for the following. Any help in tracing them will be most welcome.

Doreen N. Bach (1936-40) Mary E. Cockerill (Tuckwell) (1932-35) Marygold E. Congreve (1941-43) Pamela Cusack (Angell) ( ? ) Marion I. Dahm (Stevens) (1917-21) M. Audrey C. Davidson (Naumann) (1939-40) Gretchen B. Ellis (1915-18) Stephanie M. Evans-Lawrence (1927-33) Barbara K. Goalen (Bach) (1936-38) S. Joan Gordon Johnson (Mallock) (1933-36) Joan F. Graham (Joscelyne) (1924-26) Dorothy H. Harrington Harvard (Dillon-Trenchard) (1923-28) Yvonne Hill (1929-30) Joanna Holland (Champion) (1934-38) Patricia M. F. Johnson (Mackay) (1929-30) Rosemary D. L. Lowry-Corry, The Honble. (Plumer) (1944-46) Joan E. Lucey (MacMunn) (1919-20) Daphne V. McKillop (Good) (1934-35, 1938-45) Lucy Marks (Tanner) (1946-47) Mary E. Munday (Dillon-Trenchard) (1923-26) Doris W. Murrell (1924-27) Diana K. M. Newberry (Maitland) (1929-35) Mary E. Powell (1938-41) Jennifer M. Rhodes (Field) (1937-41) Margaret Rowcliffe (Farrington) (1927-31) Gwendoline M. Scrivener (Croft) (1918-20) Laura K. I. Stanley (1936-37) Diana M. Streatfield (Orlebar) (1928-31) Edna P. Stubbs (Bartlett) (1916-17) Pamela K. Thomson (Reed) (1935-36) Eileen B. C. Trench (Marsh) (1920- ) Mary G. Walsh (Lees) (1938-43) Jean M. Warrand (1932-36) A. Daphne Wilson (Baines) (1916-18) 40

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