St Mary's Calne News Sheet - 53

ST. MARY'S SCHOOL, CALNE NEWS SHEET NUMBER 53

OCTOBER 1968

EDITORIAL It seemed hardly possible that a building could grow so rapidly in eight weeks, but when we came back in the Auiumn Term, we found the New House almost completely finished. The number of people who are to sleep there each term proves its great success, and we are very lucky to have such an imaginative architect as Mr. Lloyd.

In the same short space of time, the Plumer Wing dormitories were transformed into the new Bodington Library and eight study bedrooms. Apart from providing more space for books and reference work, the attractive colour-scheme and design of the library makes it an extremely pleasant room.

We all enjoyed seeing the old girls at the reunion we held during the Summer Term, and the alterations in the usual programme were generally thought to be more successful. Together with the traditional Tennis Tournament, the Old Girls had arranged a " nearly new " sale, which triumphed by raising a handsome sum for the Chapel fund.

This year we have abolished the prefect system and now find that with the entire Upper VI taking over all responsibilities, the various duties are more evenly distributed. Several new societies and activities have been started, including brass-rubbing and craft lessons, which have been enthusiastically welcomed by everyone. An entertaining magazine called Omega, edited by form representatives, provides both humorous and serious articles covering a wide range of subjects.

Altogether, this year there have been many innovations in the school, in its running, activities and surroundings.

SALLY GAMINARA.

R.I.P.

DR. C. C. EDE Many generations of people connected with St. Mary's will have been very sad to hear of Dr. Ede's death in January this year.

He was in practice in Galne, with an interval for service in the R.A.M.G. in World War I, from 1913 to 1945.

Though he had retired before I came to St. Mary's, he and Mrs. Ede used to visit the school quite often. I feel privileged to have known him. Clearly he was a family doctor of great character and a most respected and loved friend of many people, both at the school and in Calne.

E. M. GIBBINS

THE GOVERNORS—July, 1968 Sir Edward Compton, K.C.B., K.B.E. (Chairman) Lady Brooke of Cumnor, D.B.E. Mrs. Walter Hamilton J. A. Keevil, Esq. Miss G. Kirby S. Lloyd, Esq. (Chairman of Finance Committee) A. A. Martineau, Esq. The Reverend Canon W. D. O'Hanlon W. A. Prideaux, Esq. The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

H. H. West, Esq. Mrs. G. A. Wilkinson As ever, we are very glad to have this opportunity of expressing our deep gratitude to our Governors for their unfailing support, thought and care for us.

We were honoured that our Chairman spared his most valuable time to come, with Lady Compton, to Founders' Day, especially when there was a Governors' meeting here on the following Saturday. It is a great delight to the school when he is able to spend the night before the Governors' meeting at school, as he has done twice this year.

We are very sorry that Canon O'Hanlon has had so much trouble with his health this year and do much hope, next term, that we shall see him back really fit again.

E.M.G.

STAFF AUTUMN TERM 1967. We welcomed Miss Du Feu (Music), Miss Hazell (German) and Mademoiselle Loustau (French).

SPRING TERM 1968. We were sorry to say goodbye to Sister Fisher.

SUMMER TERM 1968. We were sorry to say goodbye to Miss Boulton (Cook/Caterer), Miss Eldridge (Physical Education), Miss Hazell, (German), Miss Oram (Assistant Matron) and Mrs. Sykes (Secretary).

SCHOOL LIST—JULY 1968 UPPER SIXTH Sally Gaminara Susan Agnew Jennifer Ashford-Russell Joanna Brown Julia Buckingham Fenella Casswell Penelope Coles Nicola Dancy Tessa Dinnis Jane Ferrar

Ruth Forder Jenny French Amanda Grey Elizabeth Ham Elizabeth Harker (1) Bronwen Howell Rachel Miller (2) Diana Moir Ruth Moore Frances Morton

SIXTH EAST Mr. Murray Sarah Hann (7) Elizabeth Beardsmore Olivia Hardie Susan Blades Victoria Harrison-Cripps Ann Gatterall Patricia Hindson Theresa Chidley Susan Hooper Caroline Donell (6) Anne Finch Anna Kay SIXTH WEST Mr. Bieneman Clare Ashcroft Sandra Hunt Heather Connell (8) Sheila Hunt Jane Ingram Jean Fuller (9) Frances Maitland Penelope Hann (7) Penny Martin Belinda Hick Dorothy Nasolo Angela Hookway Gillian Hunt UPPER FIFTH EAST Miss Hayes Rebecca Gibbins Jill Bailey Veronica Barlee (10) Anthea Gough Jane Hayter-Hames Charlotte Barry (11) Vanessa Bord Susan Maundrell (13) Emily Morton Olivia Cook Anne Murray (14) Jane Edwards (12) UPPER FIFTH WEST Miss Stedmond Jane Barraclough Christine Heath Alison Brown Juliet Heywood Nicola Clements Pauline Home Susan Hulbert Felicity Coles Fiona Jackson Caroline De Butts Georgina Laws Victoria Evans Ruth Maccormac Fiona Geake Lucilla Napier Sarah Hargrave LOWER FIFTH EAST Louise Arbuthnot Amanda Barker-Wyatt Rosemary Barnett Emma Blades Elizabeth BowenChlthurst Susan Clements Janet Des Clayes (18)

Miss Washer Sara Feilden Diana Holland Sandra Hopper Lucy Jenkins Susan Kinnear Amanda MackenzieStuart Hilary Matthews

Amiel Osmaston Frances Petty Susan Porter Victoria Richardson Yda Richardson Marjorie Smith (4) Philippa Stevens (5) Margaret Thuillier Julia Wells

Elizabeth Lloyd Prudence Phillimore Caroline Porter Catherine Stamper Phyllis Waldock Zoe Wilson Karen Phillips Jane Reeve Anna Thornton Jane Tyndall Henrietta Wells Mary Woods

Ruth Pope Sarah Sharpley (15) Audrey Smith (4) Patricia Soames Miranda Stuart-Williams Karen Wallace (16) Mary Rolt (17) Katharine Roskill Anthea Salmon Caroline ScarlettStreatfeild Sarah Wilson Sharon Woodley

Jane Peebles Jane Prescot Jacqueline Rae Harriet Richardson Pamela Rowe Claudia Still Rosemary Terry (19) Sandra Watson

LOWER FIFTH WEST Miss Taylor Jacqueline Higginson Brasilia Bates Fiona Kerr (20) Susan Collins Eleanor Ferrar Geraldine King Deirdre Gillies Clare Lowe (21) Cicely Greenwood Lucia Morton Gillian Marker (1) Heather McCallum Clare Headlam-Morley Anne Ross (22) UPPER FOURTH EAST Miss Kidney Penelope Arkell (26) Helen Ferrand Jane Baillie-Hamilton Clare Francis Jane Barclay (27) Catherine Gordon-Clark Jane Baron Sarah Greenwood Catherine Blades Belinda Hayter-Hames Rosalind Bullock Susanna HeadlamFiona Conant Morley Caroline Craven Amelia Jackson Janet Donell (6)

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff Arminel Sebesta (23) Caroline Shillito Helen Smith (4) Caroline Thackara Susannah Valli (24) Caroline Warren (25) Elizabeth Jeary Emma Kyrle-Pope Charlotte Morgan (28) Lavinia Norman (29) Nicola Pope Joanna Pyne Katherine Shelley Karen Trotter

UPPER FOURTH WEST Miss Hazell Susan Adams Melissa Richardson (3) Sophie Hamilton Alexandra Sherston Sabrina AshfordMiranda Hearn Russell Nicola Ingram Elizabeth Stamper Sarah Berry Sara Tomson (32) Susan Lowe (21) Anne Bosset Anabel Morrison Mary Trinick Antonia Bullard Elizabeth McCrum (31) Charlotte Wilson Caroline Evans (30) Philippa Newborne Tessa Wilson Jennifer Osmond Jennifer Wimperis Philippa Forwood LOWER FOURTH EAST Miss Hannay Anna Acworth Teressa Dunlop Ruth Annable Judith Elgood (33) Amanda Barnett Lucy Holland-Hibbert Lucinda King Caroline Boughton Jennifer Loch Nichola Chamberlain

Jane Moore Amanda Oldfield Victoria Scott

LOWER FOURTH WEST Miss Hannay Rosemary Crow Lucy Adams Crispin Anson Elizabeth Davies (34) Una Downer Mary Rose Barnett Angela Cecil Jocelyn Holland Deboram Colombo

Susan Leather Cynthia Millar Emma Smith Alison Waldock

Daughter of (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14)

Mary Harker (Burdett) Elizabeth Miller (Sarjeant) Octavia Richardson (Mayhew) Ann Heather Smith (Plummer) Sybil Stevens (Barnes) Valerie Donell (Rodd) Elizabeth Hann (Thomas) Marcia Connell (Whiffen) Margot Fuller (Young) Laura Barlee (Attlee) Marianne Barry (Taylor) Penelope Edwards (Bomford) Enid Maundrell (Thomas) Marion Murray (Neatby)

(15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34)

Elizabeth Sharpley (Jardine) Janet Wallace (Glossop) Rachel Roll (Fortescue-Brickdale) Monica des Clayes (Westmacott) Margaret Terry (Hort) Eleanor Kerr (Samuelson) Ruth Lowe (Wheeler) Elizabeth Ross (Groves) Prudence Sebesta (Clarke) Catherine Valli (Hall) Mary Warren (Rowley) Gillian Arkell (Brown) Clare Denman (Troutbeck) Stephanie Morgan (Rosedale) Janet Norman (Nicholson) Helen Evans (Johnston-Smith) Christine McCruh (Fforde) Susan Tomson (Parry-Jones) Jacqueline Elgood (Tate) Anne Davies (Phillips)

THE CONFIRMATION The Confirmation Service was taken by the Bishop of Sherborne on Sunday, 3rd December, 1967, in the Parish Church.

The following were confirmed: Clare Ashcroft Jill Bailey Veronica Barlee Rosemary Barnett Elizabeth Bowen-Colthurst Nicola Clements Felicity Coles Caroline De Butts Victoria Evans Sara Feilden Eleanor Ferrar Fiona Geake Rebecca Gibbins Anthea Gough Jane Hayter-Hames Susan Hulbert Fiona Kerr Susan Kinnear Georgina Laws Ruth Maccormac

Amanda Mackenzie Stuart Hilary Matthews Emily Morton Anne Murray Jane Peebles Prudence Phillimore Jane Prescot Harriet Richardson Mary Roll Anne Ross Pamela Rowe Audrey Smith Patricia Soames Miranda Stuart-Williams Rosemary Terry Caroline Thackara Karan Wallace Caroline Warren Sandra Watson

CHAPEL SERVICES We are grateful to those who have preached or taken services during the year:

Dr. Kathleen Bliss, the Reverend M. Currah, the Reverend W. D. Dinnis, the Reverend G. E. Griffiths, the Reverend A. R. Moore, the Reverend F. Weston, the Reverend C. E. Willis, the Reverend Canon C. Witcomb.

FREEWILL £136 Is. 8d. was given in freewill offerings during the year, and was divided between the following: P.D.S.A., Arab Refugees, Grenfell Association, Missions to Seamen, Children's Villages, Hammersmith Hospital, Holidays for London Children, Sicilian earthquake, British Home for Incurables, Shelter, Operation Neptune, British Heart Foundation, N.S.P.C.C., Sunshine Homes, Vietnam Refugees, Cancer Research, World Wild Life, Drug Addicts, Pearson's Fresh Air Fund and Save the Children Fund.

Special collections in addition were: Music Festival £52 5s. 10d., donated to Salisbury Cathedral Appeal; Confirmation £9 2s. 3d., given to the Bishop of Kimberley's Fund, and a special appeal at the end of the Summer Term which resulted in our being able to send £56 16s. 4d. to Oxfam Biafra Fund.

EXAMINATION SUCCESSES UNIVERSITY RESULTS DEGREES, ETC. University of Oxford B.A. Hons. Music Class II Essex County Travelling Scholarship B.A. Hons. P.P.E. Class III B.A. Hons. History Class III History Prize, Lady Margaret Hall

N. Le Fanu E. Kessler A. Rathbone C. Stancliffe

University of Cambridge M.A. Cantab.

Architecture and Fine Arts Tripos Part I, Class II, Div. I Oriental Studies Tripos Part I (Arabic and Persian) Class II, Div. II (Medical Sciences Tripos Part IA, Class I (College Scholarship Medical Sciences Tripos Part IB, Class II, Div. I Historical Tripos Part II, Class II, Div. II

M. Peddie A. Wrangham

University of Aston at Birmingham B.A. Hons. Behavioural Science Class II, Div. I

R. Fison

University of Durham B.A. Hons. Philosophy, Class II, Div. I

L. Prideaux

University of Edinburgh B.Sc. Anthropology

R. Berry (Vaughan)

University of East Anglia B.A. Hons. Mathematics Class II, Div. II

E. Frost

University of London B.A. .Hons Italian Class II, Div. II

C. Stopford

University of Sheffield B.A. Hons. Statistics and Mathematics Class II, Div. I University of St. Andrews M.A. Hons. French and German Class II

S. Newman P. Connolly R. Fletcher E. Gaminara

K. Jenkinson

R. Lloyd

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCES University of Oxford St. Anne's College—Biology Lady Margaret Hall—Medicine St. Anne's College—English Lady Margaret Hall—History

R. Ashcroft M. Maccormac S. Maitland J. Roskill

University of Cambridge Newnham College—Classics Newnham College—Geography Newnham College—Medical Science

S. Brodhurst J. Ritchie M. Dick

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University of Bristol French University of Exeter History University of Sheffield Zoology

J. Buckingham

University of St. Andrews Arts

M. Unwin

J. Guillaume D. McQueen

ORDINARY LEVEL—DECEMBER 1967 S. Agnew (1)* S. Leather (1)* J. Ashford-Russell (1)* E. Lloyd (2)* E. Beardsmore (1)* F. Maitland (3)* S. Blades (1>* P. Martin (1)* T. Chidley (2)* D. Nasolo (2)* H. Connell (1)* K. Phillips (3)* A. Finch (1)* C. Porter (3)* P. Mann (1)* M. Smith (1)* S. Hann (2)* H. Somerville (2)* E. Marker (1)* G. Stamper (1)* V. Harrison-Cripps (2)* A. Thornton (1)* P. Hindson (1)* J. Tyndall (1)* A. Hookway (2)* P. Waldock (1)* G. Hunt (2)* Z. Wilson (1)* A. Kay (1)* M. Woods (1)* *Denotes subjects added to previous General Certificate.

ADVANCED LEVEL—JUNE 1968 J. Ashford-Russell (E) J. Brown, German (E) J. Buckingham, Physics, Chemistry, Biology (S2) (E) F. Casswell, Physics, Chemistry (E) P. Coles, English, History, Pure Mathematics (E) N. Dancy, English, Applied Mathematics (E) T. Dinnis, Art (E) J. Ferrar, Physics (E) R. Forder, English (E) J. French, Geography (E) S. Gaminara, Geography, French (S2), Russian (E) A. Grey, English, History (E) B. Howell, History, French (SI), Russian (E) R. Miller, English (E) D. Moir, Biology (E) R. Moore, English, History (E) F. Morton, History, French (S2) (E) A. Osmaston, English, French (S2) (E) F. Petty, Mathematics (E) S. Porter, Mathematics (E) V. Richardson, English (E) Y. Richardson, French, German (E) M. Smith, English, Biology (E) P. Stevens, History, French (SI), German (E) M. Thuillier, English, History, German (SI) (E) J. Wells, French, Biology (E) P. Hindson, Art A. Hookway, Art

K. Phillips, Art, Study of Art (O) (51) denotes Supplementary Grade with Distinction (52) denotes Supplementary Grade with Merit (E) denotes Pass in Use of English ORDINARY LEVEL—JUNE 1968 J. Ashford-Russell (1)* J. Bailey (4) E. Beardsmore (1)* V. Barlee (4) A. Finch (1)* J. Barraclough (9) J. Fuller (1)* C. Barry (4) O. Hardie (1)* V. Bord (1) V. Harrison-Cripps (1)* A. Brown (6) J. Ingram (2)* N. Clements (5) A. Kay (1)* F. Coles (3) P. Martin (1)* O. Cook (6) A. Osmaston (1)* C. De Butts (3) C. Porter (1)* J. Edwards (6) P. Waldock (1)* F. Geake (6) Z. Wilson (1)* R. Gibbins (4) A. Gough (6) R. Pope (7) S. Hargrave (2) M. Roll (8) J. Hayter-Hames (6) V. Roskill (5) C. Heath (6) A. Salmon (5) J. Heywood (7) C. Scarlett-Streatfeild (2) P. Home (6) S. Sharpley (3) S. Hulbert (8) A. Smith (4) F. Jackson (3) P. Soames (8) G. Laws (5) M. Stuart-Williams (4) R. Maccormac (7) K. Wallace (8) S. Maundrell (1) S. Wilson (4) E. Morton (6) S. Woodley (4) L. Napier (10) Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Piano— Grade V Pass with Distinction Grade VI Pass Grade VIII Pass with Distinction Violin—• Grade CelloGrade FluteGrade Theory— Grade

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Janet Des Clayes Mary Rolt Sandra Hunt Sheila Hunt

VII

Pass with Distinction

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Frances Morton

VI

Pass with Distinction

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Anne Oatterall

VIII Pass

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Henrietta Wells

V

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Anne Catterall Sarah Greenwood Henrietta Wells

Senior

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Junior

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Parents

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Pass

General Knowledge Results 1968 — 1. Bronwen Howell 2. Tessa Dinnis } Tled rr. , Anna Kay f — 1. Cynthia Millar 2. Anna Acworth ) -,,. , Judith Elgood f Iled — Colonel and Mrs. S. T- Watson) x.iefl, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. T. Home f ' 10

MUSIC 1967 Oct. 9th La Boheme—The Opera Players.

Oct. 19th Piano Trio—Ann Stow (Lloyd), Mr. and Mrs. Wells.

Nov. 18th Music Festival.

Nov. 24th Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Swindon.

1968 Jan. 21st Feb. Mar. May June

29th 17th 16th 28th

Song Recital—Monica Dart, accompanied by Winifred Chard.

Chamber Music Competition.

Verdi's Requiem at Marlborough.

Frederick Grinke—violin recital.

Bath Festival—concert and ballet.

In March this year the Sixth Forms, together with Marlborough College, sang Verdi's Requiem, and it proved to be an even greater success than the previous year's performance. Certainly it was an exciting experience, which we all enjoyed, and Graham Smallbone again was a stimulating conductor.

We were very much honoured when, in May, Frederick Grinke came to the school. He played Mozart's violin concerto in G major with the orchestra; and this, in addition to the rest of the programme, was much enjoyed by us all.

These two events were perhaps the highlights of the year, but we have had several other concerts as well.

In the Autumn Term the Opera Players visited the school and gave a delightful performance of La Boheme—we also had an enjoyable trio concert given by Ann Stow (Lloyd) with Mr. and Mrs. Wells from Winchester. At the beginning of the spring term Monica Dart, accompanied by Miss Chard, gave an excellent song recital.

The Music Festival was once again conducted by Bernard Shore. The main choral work was Acis and Galatea and the orchestra played the Thievish Magpie overture and the first movement of Mozart's Haffner Symphony. Owing to the hard work of Miss Nesbitt and the other music staff, the concert seemed to be a success.

Later in the term the orchestra was greatly inspired by the splendid playing of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Swindon.

A visit to the Bath Festival to hear Yehudi Menuhin and Igor Oistrakh play was a wonderful end to this year's concert going.

Finally, enthusiasm within the school has been shown by the large entry in the chamber music competitioin, which Dr. Still kindly judged for us once more.

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We are very much indebted to all the music staff for their encouragement and patience throughout the year, and are extremely sorry that the end of this term marks Miss Bowlby's retirement. We should like to thank her for all she has contributed to the school's music.

FRANCES MORTON and ELIZABETH HAM.

DRAMA Dec. 14th and 15th Form Shakespeare Competition, 1968.

March 23rd Daddy Long-legs by J. Webster.

March 25th Pygmalion by G. B. Shaw.

March 26th The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie.

July 6th The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolph Besier.

In the Autumn Term, most of the Form Shakespeare productions reached an unusually high standard, both in preparation and execution. Although some forms chose plays that were perhaps a little ambitious, all performances were most enjoyable. Gups were awarded to the Sixth Form for their production of Richard HI, and to the Upper IV West, who acted Twelfth Night. There were some fine individual performances; and in some plays unity of production was achieved.

The Company Plays, this year, all had large casts, which enabled a greater number of people than usual to show their talent. Many of the leading parts were handled very competently by members of the lower half of the school and in all the plays, the producers achieved continuity of action, and exacted a high standard of diction. The scenery, too, was excellent and veryrealistic, especially in The Admirable Crichton.

The Founders' Day play was distinguished by some excellent acting, and Jane Tyndall, who took the leading role of Elizabeth Barrett, provided an atractive focal point, around which the actions of the other characters revolved. The six brothers acted successfully and amusingly and made good foils for the other characters, as well as providing relief from the more serious aspects of the play. The three facets of the play, the jealous fury of the father, the devotion of the family and the love between Robert and Elizabeth were well conveyed to the audience.

Miss Nesbitt, whose rehearsing and clever casting made the performance such a satisfying one, is to be warmly congratulated on the success of the play, while Miss Stannard's effective scenery contributed to its admirably Victorian atmosphere.

NICOLA DANCY and MARGARET THUILLIER. 12

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES 1967 Oct.

6th

Oct. 10th Oct. 22nd Nov. 11/12th Nov. 26th 1968 Mar. 4th May 8th

Miss Heckels of Bristol University Women's Appointments Board on courses for women graduates.

Commonwealth Institute Conference.

Janet Trevelyan on New Guinea. Talk and Slides.

Diocesan Conference at Dinton.

Margaret Brooke on V.S.O. in Nigeria. Talk and Slides.

Sixth Form Christian Education Conference.

Beth Crawley on Voluntary Work at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

As always, the lectures given to the school over the past year have been both varied and enlightening, but perhaps the most interesting of all was Margaret Brooke's talk on her experiences at a grammar school in Nigeria, while doing V.S.O. One gained a very good impression of the Nigerian way of life, not only from her stories but also from her excellent slides.

We were very fortunate that the Rev. A. C. Bridge was able to preside over the Vlth Form Christian Education Conference which was held at St. Mary's in March. He was most impressive, not only in the talk he gave at the beginning of the conference, but also in the way he answered the questions arising from the various individual group discussions that were held.

The Commonwealth Institute Conference held at Swindon proved to be the scene of much lively discussion resulting from the diametrically opposed opinions expressed by the two speakers.

The topics for discussion at Dinton this year were the different attitudes to life of the Existentialist, the Humanist and the Christian. These subjects were so interesting and provided so much food for thought, that it was agreed by all that, not only had the weekend been a success, but also that an extra day would have been welcome.

PENNY COLES and AMANDA GREY.

SENIOR SOCIETIES Classical 'Society. It is a great pity that we have been only able to have very few meetings this year, owing to school work and other engagements, as such meetings as we have had have been enthusiastically attended.

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In the autumn term Mrs. Dancy very kindly lent us some films that had been taken while her husband was lecturing on various Hellenic cruises. They were extremely good, colourful and well taken, and gave a very clear idea of what Greece really is like. We were also very lucky in having Mr. Annable, the Curator from Devizes Museum, who gave an informative lecture on " Romano-British townships". This was made especially interesting by a series of very good slides, in particular of Mildenhall, a recently discovered township near Marlborough.

Finally this term we were very honoured when Mr. Dancy lectured to the Society on the " Golden Age of Athens ". This lecture was one of the best we have yet had, since it managed to cater equally well for those who knew a certain amount on the subject already, and those who knew nothing at all. It was really extremely interesting and very much enjoyed by us all, and we are very grateful to Mr. Dancy for sparing us some of his precious time.

This year as far as the Society's activities go, might be summarized " quality, if not quantity". It is to be hoped that next year we shall be able to fit in more meetings; and I am sure that, with the enthusiasm and encouragement of Mr. Murray and Miss Hannay, every effort will be made to do this.

F. MORTON. The Play-reading Society. The Society has still remained one of the most popular, and has been enthusiastically supported throughout the year. The reading has been good, on the whole, and the plays have been varied—they include The Lark, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Linden Tree, Ring round the Moon and a seasonable Christmas Carol.

The Upper Sixth were lucky enough to be able to see Marlborough College's production of Measure for Measure. Everyone was tremendously impressed by the performance and admired the setting and scenery very much indeed. The acting, too, was good and the whole expedition proved a great success. We are very grateful to Marlborough for their generous hospitality.

The Upper Sixth produced their customary hurried play f t the end of the autumn term. This year it was The Chiltern Hundreds by William Douglas-Home and was thoroughly enjoyed by the school, despite its datedness and frivolity. The acting cupboard managed to supply a number of 1930 garments which helped to create the right atmosphere; and both the actors and the audience entered into the spirit of the play with enthusiasm and good humour.

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It is hoped that the same enthusiasm will be maintained throughout the coming year and that the whole society will be able to go on an outing.

E. HAM and B. HOWELL.

Scientific Society. The Scientific Society has continued to be well supported, but fewer meetings than might have been wished for have been held. Two films, one on chemical glass, the other on the element bromine,—although technical—were appreciated, and we are very grateful to Mr. Crawford for an interesting talk on synthetic fibres. An evening spent glass bending and "growing " chemical gardens was thoughly enjoyed. A quiz was held and was enthusiastically received—possibly more for the edible prizes than the scientific merit, however.

We are sorry that owing to the duration of public examinations, we have been unable to go on any outings. However, several of the school's scientists enjoyed a visit to the Science Fair in Bristol, organised by schools from the West country, and we hope that the much longed for visit to Fry's will materialise in the near future.

We are very grateful to the staff for all their help and advice throughout the year, and we wish the Sixth form success in organising the Society in the coming year.

TESSA DINNIS and BRONWEN HOWELL.

Stamp Club. This year the number of members has greatly increased, and the meetings have been enthusiastically attended. In addition to the usual meetings, a competition was held and the film " A Pageant of History " was shown.

We are very grateful to Miss Gibbins for the varied and exciting stamps which she has so kindly given to us.

SUSAN HOOPER.

JUNIOR SOCIETIES Musical Society. This year, the Junior Musical Society has had several meetings and competitions. At the beginning of the summer term, we went to see Gilbert and Sullivan's " Patience " at the Bentley Grammar School. It was an excellent performance, and everyone enjoyed it very much.

At the end of the summer term, we also had a Talent Competition. There was a very encouraging number of entries, a great many of which were original to say the least!

We would like to thank all the Music Staff, and especially Miss Nesbitt, for their help and co-operation throughout the year.

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The Play-reading Society. After a rather hesitating start, the Junior Play-reading Society read their first play, Esther McCrackens' A Quiet Weekend, and it was found most enjoyable for a first attempt.

Due to the fact that examinations have taken up the best part of this term, little headway has been made. However, we hope next term to make great improvements and produce some rewarding results.

AMANDA MACKENZIE-STUART.

The Bird Society. The Bird Society has had many new members this year, among which are many keen enthusiasts.

During the summer term, we were very glad to have Captain Ennion to come and give us a very interesting lecture, which we all enjoyed tremendously.

We would like to thank Miss Taylor very much for all the help she has given us in organising the various quizzes and competitions which have taken place throughout the year.

LUCIA MORTON.

The Animal Society. The Animal Society has had many enthusiastic members throughout this year. We were very sorry to lose the hamster. However, soon afterwards we acquired a budgie for a short time, which was then given away.

We have had a number of meetings and quizzes, and are grateful to the Bird Society for letting us join them for several meetings and lectures.

CLARE HEADLAM-MORLEY.

The Gym Club. The Gym Club was supported most enthusiastically in the winter terms—so much so that we had to organise two groups every time because there were so many people. We held competitions almost every week, which were well supported on every occasion.

Many thanks to Miss Thomas and Miss Eldridge for supervising it.

HEATHER McCALLUM.

THE LIBRARY This year has been a busy one for the sub-librarians and their helpers, for the moving of hundreds of books from the old to the new Bodington Library was quite an undertaking, as was the re-shelving that followed. Some re-arrangement of the Coulter 16

Library was examinations was modified by making it

made at the same time; and later, when G.C.E. were over, the order in some of the English sections according to a newer Dewey classification, thereeasier to find a required book quickly.

Since July 1967, 297 new books have been added, some of which have been gifts from Old Girls and friends. We thank them for so kindly remembering us; and we also thank the many people who have worked so responsibly in the reorganization of the books.

S.B.

GAMES REPORT Tennis, swimming, lacrosse and netball have, as usual, been enthusiastically supported, especially the junior swimming team and the netball teams, which all reached a particularly high standard.

The lacrosse season finished with the traditional London Tournament held at Merton Park. In virtually unheard of conditions, for a lacrosse tournament, brilliant sunshine and temperature 68 °F, we came third in our section. At the beginning of the season we played in the Wiltshire Tournament, and the following people were chosen to be reserves for the County Team —J. Brown, P. Hann, V. Richardson.

The highlight of the netball season was the winning of the Dr. Ede cup, by the under 14 team. This was the first time for many years that St. Mary's have won the cup from the Royal School.

Tennis in the summer term was inspired even before Wimbledon started by the introduction of the " Nestle's Ladder ". This involved twenty-four members of the Sixth forms being placed on a ladder to challenge each other over a period of eight weeks.

Owing to bad weather and examinations we did not play as many matches as was hoped. Prudence Phillimore managed to retain her place at the top, which gave her an opportunity to play in the singles tournament arranged by Nestles.

For the second year in succession we played in the Aberdare Cup. Unfortunately we were knocked out in the second round by Sherborne. In their usual enthusiastic way, Miss Thomas and Miss Eldridge have arranged for the first two couples of the tennis VI to play in the " Open Schoolgirls' Championships" at Queens at the end of this term.

Although the swimming teams have only had three matches, they have swam consistently well, the junior team not losing one match. The high standard of swimming in general is clear from the fact that four school records have been broken, one by 17

Jacqueline Higginson, three by Elizabeth Stamper and the junior medley relay team, V. Barlee, E. Stamper, J. Higginson, H. McCallum.

Much to the approval of both the games and non-games players, a number of subsidiary games have been introduced, such as putting, volley ball, hockey, quoits and squash. Miss Eldridge very kindly took four of the Upper Sixth each Thursday afternoon in the winter terms to Devizes, where we played on the town squash court for an hour. This was very popular and ended with a very well organised tournament, won by Susan Agnew.

We are very sorry to say goodbye to Miss Eldridge, whose enthusiasm and help we shall miss very much.

V. RICHARDSON and R. MILLER.

The following people have played in the teams: *Denotes Colours Lacrosse 1st XII

U15 XII

F. Petty* R. Miller J. Brown* E. Bardsmore E. Ham F. Casswell P. Hann V. Richardson (Captain)* A. Catterall F. Maitland S. Agnew* S. Gaminara S. Brodhurst J. French

A. Ross A. Smith A. Brown* P. Phillimore (Captain)* I. Edwards H. McCallum S. Kinnear G. King H. Richardson A. Murray E. Ferrar J. Peebles J. Tyndall R. Gibbins* K. Wallace

Netball Under 14 VII E. Blades E. Bowen-Colthurst* J. Higginson S. Clements N. Ingram S. Valli* E. Stamper S. Hooper

Under 13 VII C. S. C. K. T. S. L. A. B.

Wilson Berry Evans Shelley Wilson Greenwood Norman Jackson Hayter-Hames 18

Under 12 VII A. Acworth K. Trotter A. Waldock E. Smith S. Ashford-Russell C. Boughton L. King S. Hamilton

Tennis 1st VI V. Richardson (Captain)* R. Miller G. Hunt F. Maitland S. Agnew J. Brown F. Casswell E. Ham P. Hann P. Phillimore

Under 15 VI A. Brown (Captain) K. Wallace E. Ferrar H. Richardson A. Murray J. Edwards S. Kinnear I. Peebles P. Home A. Salmon E. Blades O. Cook C. Barry

Swimming Senior M. Smith* (Captain), N. Dancy*, J. Ashford-Russell, M. Woods, L. Napier, A. Thornton, G. Stamper, F. Petty.

Junior H. McCallum*, V. Barlee (Captain), J. Higginson, E. Stamper*, E. Bowen-Colthurst, K. Shelley, R. Barnett, J. Peebles, L. Scott-Moncrieff, C. Headlam-Morley, S. Valli, S. Headlam-Morley, H. Smith.

RESULTS Autumn Term, 1967 Lacrosse 1st XII, Ists lost 1st XII, Ists lost

2nd XII, U 15 XII v Godolphin, Away.

29—3, 2nds lost 23—3, U15s lost 14—1.

2nd XII, U15 XII v Newbury, Home.

3—4, 2nds won 6—4, U15s lost 7—1.

Winchester Tournament St. St. St. St.

Mary's v Havant Mary's v St. Swithun's Mary's v Newton Manor Mary's v North Foreland Lodge

Lost Lost Won Won

3—5 2—7 6—0 6—3

Won Draw Lost Lost

3—0 0—0 0—3 2—6

Royal School, Bath, Tournament

1st XII St. St. St. St.

Mary's Mary's Mary's Mary's

v v v v

Cheltenham Royal School Howells Westonbirt 19

U15 XII

St. St. St. St.

Mary's Mary's Mary's Mary's

v v v v

Cheltenham Monmouth Malvern Howells

Won Won Lost Lost

1—0 2—0 0—3 2—4

1st XII, 2nd XII, U15 XII v Westonbirt, Home.

Ists won 8—7, 2nds lost 2—12, U15s lost 2—9.

1st XII, 2nd XII, U15 XII v Downe House, Away.

Ists won 9—3, 2nds won 8—2, U15s won 4—3.

1st XII, U15 XII, v South Wilts, Home.

Ists lost 4—5, U15s lost 0—10.

"A" Team, U15 XII v Downe House, Home.

"A" won 9—4, U15s won 5—4.

Spring Term, 1968 "A" Team, U15 XII v Westonbirt, Away.

"A" lost 1—10, U15s lost 2—7.

Inter-Company Lacrosse won by Grosstete.

1st XII, 2nd XII, U15 XII v Sherborne, Away.

Ists lost 4—6, 2nds lost 3—15, U 15s lost 1—4.

1st XII, U13 XII, U14 XII v Newbury, Away.

Ists lost 3—7, U13s lost 3—6, U14s lost 0—15.

Autumn Term, 1967 Netball U13 VII v Newbury, Home.

U13s lost 11—12.

U14 VII, U13 VII v Hatherop, Home.

U14s won 28—0, U13s won 16—5.

U14 VII, U13 VII v Downe House, Away.

U14s drew 9—9, U13s won 20—15.

U14 VII, U13 VII v South Wilts.

U14s lost 9—12, U13s drew 6—6.

U14 VII, U13 VII, U12 VII v Downe House, Away.

U14s won 7—5, U13s won 13—11, U12s won 15—1.

Spring Term, 1968 U14 VII, U13 VII, U12 VII v Royal School, Home.

U14s won 7—3, U13s lost 7—15, U12s lost 6—8.

U14 VII, U13 VII, U12 VII v Hatherop Castle, Home.

U14s won 28—4, U13s won 16—3, U12s won 18—0.

U14 VII, U13 VII, U12 VII v Bentley, Away.

U14s won 6—4, U13s lost 7—10, U12s won 13—4.

U13 VII v Newbury, Away.

UlSswon 11—8.

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Summer Term, 1968 Tennis 1st round Aberdare Cup v Cranborne Chase, Home.

St. Mary's won 3—0.

1st VI, 2nd VI, U15 VI v Godolphin, Away.

Ists lost 3—6, 2nds won 5—4, U15s lost 3—6.

2nd round Aberdare Cup v Sherborne, Away.

Sherborne won 3—0.

Wiltshire Tournament 1st couple tied first (Section A).

In the play off Marlborough Grammar School reached the final v Godolphin.

St. Mary's 2nd couple (Section B)—Runners-up.

1st VI, U15 VI, U14 VI v St. Mary's, Wantage, Home.

Ists won 9—0, U15s lost 1—8, U14s lost 1—8.

Parents' Tennis Match: Mrs. Phillips and Karen Phillips beat Capt. Dwerry and Harriet Richardson.

1st VI, U15 VI v St. Helen's and St. Katherine's, Home.

Ists won 6—3, U15s won 6—3.

Swimming Senior and Junior v St. Mary's, Wantage, Home.

Seniors won 41£—36£, Juniors won 49—29.

Seniors and Juniors v St. Helen's and St. Katherine's, Home.

Seniors lost 37f—49£, Juniors won 49^—38£.

A MARINE ECOLOGY COURSE The fog thickened, and the rain dripped steadily down the window panes as our train drew into Pembroke Station. We were to spend a week in this typical Welsh weather making a biological survey of the shores under the title of a marine ecology course at Orielton Field Centre.

Our first shock came after supper that evening when we were given an introductory talk by the biology lecturer. He warned us to be careful and obey instructions throughout the week and told us that the previous year four students went out along the costal footpath, which was out of bounds, and only three returned!

The curriculum seemed somewhat strenuous—working hours were almost twice those of St. Mary's! After breakfast each day we were given some idea of our day's labours and told how to tackle the problems we might meet. We then loaded ourselves up with equipment, the most vital of which was an assortment of various sized polythene bags, the largest of which served as a 21

cover for hand, notebook and pencil, and enabled one to continue taking notes in the severest rain.

We studied four different types of shore—from extremely boggy saltmarshes to rocky headlands, the ascent to which was so incredibly steep that the twenty females amongst us had to be lowered down (after the equipment!) by the boys. The day was usually spent in collecting data, and a few specimens which were analysed and recorded in the laboratories in the evening.

Thus, you can imagine our delight when, in "A" level six weeks later we were faced with a biology question worded "Describe an ecological study you have made ". We decided then that the " stoical" life we had led at Orielton had been worth it.

V. RICHARDSON and M. SMITH.

CREWING ON THE "SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL" SCHOONER During the Summer Term I was fortunate enough to be able to go on the Second Girls' Cruise, aboard the " Sir Winston Churchill" and on Sunday, 9th June, I embarked at Fowey, Cornwall, with thirtyeight nervous girls of various ages between sixteen and twentyone.

The first day was spent in harbour, learning how to manoeuvre the sails and finding our way around the ship. There was great excitement when we were each given our navy-blue jerseys with the name of the schooner on the front of them, which we had to wear in harbour.

We left Fowey very early on Tuesday morning and arrived in Brest at 1300 hours after a fairly smooth crossing. I was very honoured to be asked to steer the ship in, and out of, Brest harbour! I was also proud to be one of the nine out of the trainees who were not sea-sick!

We stayed in Brest for two and a half days. We then sailed on a course for St. Malo. On the way the wind dropped and so we all had a chance to swim in the middle of the channel. Unfortunately the radar broke down one night, when it was very foggy, so we altered course and steered for Alderney and arrived there on Monday.

We stayed there for one day during which we all went ashore.

On leaving we headed for the Isle of Wight, making very slow progress. We reached Cowes on Thursday evening. We sailed again from Cowes to Southampton, which was the best sailing on the whole voyage, having covered a distance of 613 miles in all.

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So we disembarked very sadly on the Saturday morning, all feeling very fit and well after our fortnight at sea!

I had a wonderful, and most enjoyable time, and a great experience which I shall always remember; and I am very grateful to Miss Gibbins and the staff for allowing me to go.

P. HANN. A SHORT STAY BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN The cruise from Tilbury to Leningrad which was the start of our holiday, was a pleasant and restful prelude to our somewhat strenuous and unexpectedly eventful holiday. After two short visits to Copenhagen and Helsinki, we eventually arrived at Leningrad late in the evening, only to find that our accommodation in the hotel for which we had been eagerly waiting, and which " Intourist " had promised us, was already occupied. The eventful outcome was that our stay in Leningrad was cut down to two days, and we slept in tents in an indescribably squalid camping site. In spite of our domestic discomforts, however, we were all most impressed by the beauty and elegance of Leningrad, in particular the Winter Palace which played a great part in the revolution, and now houses the most fabulous art collection.

Having travelled overnight to Moscow, we were much relieved to find accommodation in a very adequate hotel just by the Red Square. We were able to see Moscow fairly thoroughly owing to extra time available, and were lucky enough to go to the famous Kirof Ballet and the theatre. The fairy-tale appearance of the Kremlin itself with its cupolas and cathedrals made a lasting impression on us, as did the remaining treasures of Tsarist Russia, displayed in the Armoury Museum.

It was a pity that our visit to Yaroslavl, Zagorsk and Rostov, some two hundred miles north of Moscow, was disappointing, as many interesting buildings were closed owing to restoration work.

Zagorsk as the home of the Metropolitan, and centre of Russian Orthodoxy, was particularly impressive as there was a feeling of great devotion and sincere faith there.

The return journey through Poland, stopping at Warsaw, Cracow and Poznan, was interesting but too exhausting to be fully appreciated. Virtually five days of solid travel by rail across Europe, resulted in an extremely tired party returning to England, but once we had caught up on our lost sleep, we never once regretted our journey behind the Iron Curtain.

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OMEGA In February, various members of the community decided that the literary element of the school needed a means by which they could express their points of view. A meeting of those interested was held, a great number of people attended, and a committee was elected. General organization was established and Marjorie Smith took the editorial seat. The first issue was published at the beginning of March, and subsequent issues followed at almost regular intervals, though surprises occurred on occasions. " Omega " supplies the needs of those wanting light entertainment, and provides a medium for self expression. Contents included " Swan", a poem by Melissa Richardson, interviews with Miss Thomas, Mr. R. O. Davis, and the head girl, which were very popular, and two articles on anti-bloodsports, which enraged many keen hunters. " Omega " is grateful to Mrs. Sykes and Mr. Bieneman for their help, and we will be sorry to lose our efficient editor. We hope that " Omega " will continue as successfully in the future.

A. SMITH and J. HAYTER-HAMES.

CHANGE The little house, so dear to me, we left Behind : the garden, toolshed, greenhouses, The smelly farmyard, milking shed and hens, The tractors, green landrovers—muddy all— And mooing cows, which woke me every morn.

Thence to the unwelcoming new house we moved, To high, large, dark, and empty, echoing rooms, And peeling paint and paper, dampness and draughts, Bad lighting, shadows, creaking stairs—and all Disturbed my dreams—and yet, in spite of this, I grew to love it.

HENRIETTA WELLS.

DRUMS It seems so near, and yet, so far away, That I was once, a young and carefree child.

Clearly do I remember, lying in my bed at night, The beating of my native Afric drums Come floating to my room before I slept.

The gentle sound rang sweetly in my ears, Filling my slumber—so it seemed to me— With an element which otherwise it lacked.

Again, when I awoke to see the quiet morning, 'Twas to the sound of the melodious drums, Calling me from the depths of undisturbed sleep.

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A MAN NOT FORGOTTEN A small, bent outline against the grey winter sky, Strangely out of place among the cold, inscribed slabs of granite.

The scarlet geraniums, she held, Were strangers in the lifeless maze of stone.

She knelt, pulling the shawl a little closer, Carefully arranging the flowers in a jam-jar.

Then, looking one more time, at the headstone, She turned, to go.

NICOLA INGRAM.

A BLACKSMITH He seems to be there still.

His weathered face haunts the blackened stone, Within which he laboured all alone.

No one there, nothing used.

No roughened hand grips the aged iron To beat the nails to unshod hooves Of creatures, who, with his gentle voice he soothes.

It is no more. That's all past.

The anvil and the hammer no longer strike their tune, For, like him, it died.

S. ADAMS. ON A WAVE Deep turquoise, sea green And frothing fresh foam, Rising majestically then falling Submerged, sighing, suffocated.

Then rising up again, Pushing, petulantly at the boats Battering and banging them Against their sides. And then Hissing, sighing, whistling, Subdued, in hues of green and blue, Resting in the quiet green depth.

Then rising to the turbulent world Jeering, laughing, chafing In the stiff, salty air, And moving on and on— Then, crashing, splashing on the sand.

Turning back again Wave, frothing foam on every fish Splashing sea on slimy weed Fly on, over the waters The sea is yours.

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A WINTER EVENING AT HOME The warm fire flickering, The children's faces glowing, The old dog snoring— All on a winter evening, At home.

Beside the fire, Mother sits sewing; At her feet, two children quietly playing; By the table, Father earnestly smoking— All on a winter evening, At home.

JOCELYN HOLLAND.

THE FLIGHT OF THE GEESE Wild and free, up there, where no one goes, Circling, reeling in the grey sky, Their cries of hope sound in the air.

With wings outspread, Beak to tail, they speed upon their own free way.

Even they, their wild free selves, Yet know not where they go.

When the great howling storm Tosses the birds upon its wild breath, Their cries for help rend the air.

One falls down To the mouth of the wild sea, The grey, dark, hungry, foaming beast, A speck on the great ocean, Then gone for ever.

ANGELA CECIL.

A FIELD-MOUSE I heard a movement in the grass.

I stood and waited.

Again I heard the movement.

Then, I saw, through the grass, A little, brown mouse, A little, brown field-mouse.

He scuttled through the grass, As fast as his legs could carry him.

Then he stood still.

He saw me, watching him.

He froze with fright.

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His little body trembled in the sunset light, But then he had the courage To run to his little grass home, To meet his little brown wife, And there he was safe No more would he roam.

MARY ROSE BARNETT.

LOVE When I met love, I thought Of God above, Whose Son, Christ, gave His life For us to save.

Would You sacrifice, And pay The great price Of your life, And giving, Stop living?

EMMA SMITH.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the following schools for copies of their school magazines : Benenden; Godolphin; Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong; Howells, Denbigh; Leeds Girls' High School; Queen Margaret's School, York; The Royal School, Bath; Sherborne; St. Swithun's School, Winchester; Westonbirt.

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ST. MARY'S (CALNE) ASSOCIATION Officers and Group Secretaries, July 1968 President: Miss Gibbins, St. Mary's School, Calne, Wilts.

Vice-Presidents: Mile. Antoine, 31 Rue de la Corderie, Angouleme (Charente), France.

Miss G. Beale, The Yews, Minchinhampton, Glos.

Miss Jackson, Flat 7, Seaforth Lodge, Old Beer Road, Seaton, Devon.

Miss Jennings, The Retreat, Broadlands, Shaldon, Teignmouth, Devon.

Miss I. Martin, Ridgeway, 17 Ridge Hill, Dartmouth, S. Devon.

Miss Nesbitt, St. Mary's School, Calne, Wilts.

Miss Thouless, Flat 8, 16 Cyprus Road, Exmouth, Devon.

Miss Weetman, 2 Roseberry Avenue, Seacroft, Skegness, Lines.

Miss L. Williams, 14 Eltisley Avenue, Cambridge.

Miss Windsor-Aubrey, 2 Darlington Place, Bathwick Hill, Bath.

Chairman: Mrs. S. Rotherham (Hayter), 3 Heath Mead, Parkside, Wimbledon, S.W.I9.

Treasurer: Miss A. Boschi, 20 Gordon Place, London, W.8.

Secretary: Mrs. W. Willcox (Dallas Ross), Ridgemead, Shrubbs Hill Lane, Sunningdale, Berks.

Group Secretaries: Staff I Miss G. I. Helliwell, 43 Sutton Park Road, Seaford, Sussex.

Staff II Miss E. M. Thouless, Flat 8, 16 Cyprus Road, Exmouth, Devon.

Staff III Miss K. D. Stedmond, St. Mary's School, Calne, Wilts.

1 D. Sainsbury, St. Mary's Convent and Guest House, Burlington Lane, Chiswick, W.4.

2 J. Hughes (Sorsbie), Downfield, Brockweir, Chepstow, Mon. 3 J. Blaxter (Hollis), 28 Hall Park, Berkhamsted, Herts.

4 L. Moore (Kirby), 7 Knighton Rise, Leicester.

5 R. M. Buck, Littlebourne, 12 Grange Road, Broadstairs, Kent.

6 R. Rundle (Hales), 21 Loomes Lane, Radlett, Herts.

7 E. McGowan (March), Breckland, Brundall, Norwich, NOR 86Z. 8 R. Amphlett, 45 Whiteknights Road, Reading, Berks.

9 M. Hamersley, 4 Farndon Road, Oxford.

10 E. Kerr (Samuelson), Windrush, Poltimore, Nr. Exeter, Devon.

11 W. Willcox (Dallas Ross), Ridgemead, Shrubbs Hill Lane, Sunningdale, Berks.

12 A. Bosworth-Smith (Ree), 7 Hillside Road, Northwood, Middx.

13 A. Robertson (Ball), Lower Doatshayne Farm, Musbury, Axminster, Devon.

14 J. Strode (Burrell), The Old Bakehouse, Ramsden Heath, Billericay, Essex.

15 B. Ford (Wallis), Dryden House, Oundle, Nr. Peterborough, Northants.

16 J. Otway (Woodruffe), 90 Park Road, Camberley, Surrey.

17 A. Boschi, 20 Gordon Place, London, W.8.

18 J. Houghton, Rural Music Schools Association, Little Benslow Hills, Hitchin, Herts.

19 E Crawley, 2 Roehampton Wick, 401 Upper Richmond Road, London, S.W.15.

20 F. Simpson (Hort), 37 Strathaven Road, Lee, London, S.E.12.

21 M. Keevil, Conigre, Calne, Wilts.

22 T. Woods (Higginbotham), 3 Long Grove House, Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, Surrey.

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(Temp, for R. College (Light)), A. Fisher, The Orchard, Stoke Green, Nr. Slough, Bucks.

D. Wheatley Price (Brocklebank), Lacock Vicarage, Chippenham, Wilts.

R. Harris (Lloyd), Warner House, 11 Chalmers Street, Edinburgh, 3.

A. Bunney, 14 Stoneygate Avenue, Leicester.

S. Frost, 26 Halmer Gate, Spalding, Lines.

P. Ecclestone (Herring), Dolphins, Roncombe, Sidbury, Sidmouth, Devon.

S. Birtwistle, Manor House Farm, Wiswell, Blackburn, Lanes.

M. Acworth, Battle House, Goring, Oxon.

V. Brain, Chesley, Queen's Road, Maidstone, Kent.

R. Bowen-Cplthurst, Stable House, Berechurch Hall, Colchester, Essex.

S. Agnew, Bilbrough Manor, Bilbrough, York.

LONDON REUNION, 1969 There will be a Tea Party at the English Speaking Union, Dartmouth House, Charles Street, W.I, from 4 to 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, 25th January, 1969. Invitations will be sent out in December but if by any chance you do not receive one please let Miss A. Fisher, The Orchard, Stoke Green, Nr. Slough, Bucks, know by Thursday, 23rd January, if you are able to come.

SUMMER BALL The Summer Ball will be held during the first week of June, 1969, at Westfield College, Hampstead, where we are extremely fortunate to be allowed the use of a group of large modern rooms looking out over London. These are not at all institutional and will provide a much more attractive setting for a dance than many London hotels. Full details will be sent to you in February.

17 Greenway Gardens,

David Brewer.

London, N.W.3.

LETTER FROM MISS GIBBINS St. Mary's School, Calne, Wilts.

July 24th, 1968.

My dear Old Girls, It has been a very great pleasure to see so many of you this year.

The January Reunion in London was a great success and the summer reunion at Calne seemed to be a particularly happy one. In addition, I have been so glad to hear of plans for various regional reunions and we had a delightful card, greetings and a present for 29

the Chapel Fund from a reunion for Kent, held at Leelands by Miss Barkley. We have also much enjoyed the individual visits to Calne so many of you have been able to make.

We are more grateful than I can say for all your care and thought for St. Mary's. We know that a good school never consists only of those members of staff and girls there at a particular time. Your interest is invaluable and the officers of the O.G.A. give us unfailing support. I would like this year, in particular, to thank you for all the help you have given, and are giving, to the Centenary Fund. We have already raised £34,757 for this fund, some of this money went towards the new house, but over £18,000 is available for the new chapel. Of this more than £7,000 has been raised by Old Girls. We need a good deal more by 1971 if the chapel is to be built by 1973, but I feel confident that we shall succeed.

The new house and alterations are a continuous delight. We now have first-class new sleeping accommodation for eighty girls, twentyeight of these have study-bedrooms or single rooms. The new Bodington Library is splendid and the enlarged office and alterations at my end of the building make life much easier.

I am always most interested to read your letters and the postcards you send with your news. We are glad and proud to hear of your doings and believe that St. Mary's, through you, is playing a really active and useful part in the world. I remember, at a Reunion here, one of our gardeners asking me—rather surprisingly—" What do you think of your end-product?" I think our end-product is very good!

We are fortunate to have few staff changes this year. It is of incalculable value to a school to have so many members of staff who serve for so long and become so very much a part of the place.

I must, however, mention one loss to the school this year. Mrs. Sykes, my secretary, is having to retire to look after her mother.

We shall miss her enormously. In five years she has made a great contribution to St. Mary's.

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LETTER FROM O.G.A. CHAIRMAN 3 Heath Mead, Parkside, Wimbledon, S.W.I9.

July 1968.

My dear Old Girls, Miss L. Williams has agreed to become a Vice-President of the Association and it is my pleasure to welcome her on your behalf; for many years Miss Williams was Secretary to Staff Group I and she is always a loyal supporter of all our activities.

We shall miss the tremendous help which Mrs. Sykes has so generously given to the O.G.A. when she leaves the school this term, hut we are most grateful for all the time Mrs. Robshaw allows the Association from the other school work she has to do.

I am also happy to tell you that Winsome Willcox has agreed to continue as O.G.A. Secretary for another term of office and we now have an appointed Financial Sub-committee to advise us, so we are in good hands.

Our money-raising activities throughout the year have been very varied; ÂŁ10 was raised by two Old Girls who hired out their father's dolled-up ex-service uniforms to young men ! One Old Girl and her husband are giving a generous percentage of the profits from a printing enterprise to the Chapel Fund.

Group 2 led by their indefatigable Group Secretary made the most glorious patchwork bedspread which we raffled at the summer reunion, and together with the Nearly New Sale and Penguin Book Stall we made about ÂŁ150 in one afternoon.

We have already had one successful regional reunion in Kent and later this year we hope to have one in Devon. In 1969 the London Tea Party will be at the English Speaking Union on 25th January and we hope to see a lot of people there. As well as this in 1969 it has been suggested we might run reunions in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire so if you are interested let your Group Secretary know and she will see that you are kept informed of the arrangements.

You will read elsewhere of the happenings at the Summer Reunion at Calne, but all those who were there will agree with me, I am sure, that we had a very happy time; as always all our needs were well supplied by staff and girls.

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We cannot fail to be proud of the present school, their good manners, their sense of fun and yet obvious ability to get down to hard work when necessary. The new buildings are a sign of the tremendous faith and foresight of the Governors and by our efforts, however small, to support the Building Fund we can be sure that we are contributing to something inestimably worthwhile.

Yours ever, SUSAN ROTHERHAM.

OLD GIRLS' REUNION,

1968

Having left school (horrifying thought!) some thirty years ago. and never, to my eternal shame, having been back to a reunion at St. Mary's in all that time, it seemed perhaps a bit late to start.

However, I was eventually persuaded by my daughter, who felt it would be great fun to entertain her mother among the other " Old Girls "—and so I duly arrived, full of apprehension and wondering what on earth I had let myself in for.

I need have had no qualms. It was a lovely weekend from every point of view—lovely weather (most of the time), lovely food (all the time), lovely flowers wherever you looked, and a lovely warmhearted welcome from everybody, staff and girls alike. It is such a nice idea to have a reunion where the present girls can take part as well—it makes the Old Girls feel they really belong to the present community, as well as to the pas^.

It was very imaginative and considerate of the powers that be to have left us to our own devices, to wander round as we liked, to meet old friends and make new ones, without being collectively " organised." I am sure this helped to make the weekend such a peaceful and happy experience. We all met together for chapel, morning and evening, and of course for meals, the highlight being the magnificent buffet supper laid on for Saturday night.

Our warmest thanks are due to Miss Gibbins and all who helped her plan the weekend : the organisation and hard work that went on beforehand must have been quite a headache. The result was a very great success—everybody enjoyed themselves, and I am sure we shall all be looking forward to the next Calne reunion in two years' time.

CATHERINE VALLI.

THE GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL VOLUNTEERS We now have approximately one hundred regular weekly volunteers at the hospital, working for anything between two and twelve hours a week at set times. They come from all kinds of background, 32

and from all over London. Although most hospitals have the benefit of voluntary workers in a few of their wards and departments, only twenty-three so far have appointed their own paid organisers of voluntary help. However, thirteen of these twenty-three were appointed in the last year or so, and other appointments are being planned, so it certainly looks as though the movement is gaining momentum.

Many of the volunteers are housewives with some time to spare.

Others are secretaries, teachers, technicians, administrators., policemen and students, to name but a few, who come when their day's work is over, or as their arrangements allow. The organiser's job is to find enongh volunteers to meet the hospital's needs, and to assess both work and volunteers, so that the right placements are made.

With a full-time paid organiser, the hospital's needs can be made known and interpreted to new would-be volunteers, giving the latter usually a variety of different types of work to choose from, and enabling the hospital to make the best use of the available talent.

Part of the organiser's work, too, is to co-operate closely with voluntary organisations, such as the Red Cross and W.R.V.S., who well may be able to supply volunteers from among their members, and may in fact have been established at the hospital long before the paid organiser was even thought of. Volunteers need to be prepared for their work, and to know the layout of the hospital, and some basic facts about it. They need support from time to time, and someone who can look after their interests if necessary. Close liaison with all the relevant staff as well as with the volunteers is vitally important.

At Great Ormond Street, the voluntary workers who are placed on the wards help the nursing staff with all kinds of duties that nurses normally have to do, but which do not require nursing training. These include helping to feed and bath children, escorting them to other departments, taking messages, fetching prescriptions, making beds, tidying cupboards, mending and marking, dealing with birdcages, fish-tanks and flowers, etc. The volunteers are not usually asked to cope with severely ill children, but they must be prepared to come across these patients in the course of their work, without being unduly disturbed. The hospital has unrestricted visiting hours, and many children see a good deal of their parents. However, those who are lonely or anxious can be helped enormously by a volunteer who has time to spend with them. Sometimes, for children who are convalescent, trips outside are arranged for them by volunteers, after consultation with the appropriate staff and their parents. This can do an immense amount to add interest to the patient's life, and on occasion helps to restore his (or her) confidence in his ability to cope with the outside world. Incidentally, volunteers run a flourishing Scout meeting, also Cubs and Brownies, at the hospital.

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It is essential at all points that the voluntary workers at a hospital work very closely with the paid staff. They should be able to feel part of the team, making their own particular contribution to the whole scheme of things. They should not have to do work that could easily be done by the paid staff, although their work, whatever it may be, should be just as well done as that of the staff.

The purpose of having volunteers in a hospital is basically to improve the service for the public. In effect this may mean the volunteers helping the patients themselves in a variety of ways, or it may mean helping at a key point in the hospital where staff are in short supply or there is exceptional pressure of work. Direct help is given at Great Ormond Street by the volunteers on the wards, as we have seen; also by those who help with reception work in the out-patients' department; those in the out-patient canteen, where light refreshments are available during the day for parents and their children; those who escort the daily coach to and from Tadworth, the country branch; those who transfer children to other hospitals or their own homes; and those who accompany disabled parents to the hospital (who otherwise would have great difficulty in visiting) and sometimes look after brothers and sisters of patients while parents visit the wards.

The work in the departments and elsewhere in the hospital can be just as interesting and rewarding, and is needed just as urgently.

Several volunteers give typing and clerical help in busy departments. Others help with a variety of laboratory procedures, and the preparation of equipment. Another looks after the despatch and collection of research publications. Several people help with the packing and labelling of materials for the wards and operating theatres, before they go into a James Bond type of machine for sterilisation. One volunteer comes in on Saturday mornings to help with a particular type of test; she gives all her attention to reassuring the child, thereby freeing the staff to do the test more quickly and easily. Other volunteers are attached to the X-ray department, and go to the wards to collect children for X-ray, and stay with them till the process is over, again being able to devote their whole attention to reassuring the child, and saving many hours of nurses' time, freeing them for duties where their professional skill is essential.

There are volunteers too in the School of Nursing. One has helped with the reorganisation of the library, and comes for 2 whole days weekly. Others are helping with cross referencing, visual aids, and with the equipment cupboards, all helping to make the tutors' lives a little less strenuous, and enabling improvements to be brought in more rapidly than would otherwise have been possible, to the general benefit of the School. Another 34

volunteer comes weekly to help with clerical work in the nurses' sick bay, leaving the sister and her staff rather more time for their essential work. Yet another volunteer offered to give a hand with the clerical work of the Nurses' League (the former students association) which has grown into several hours work a week, which can ill be spared by the sister who is the hon. secretary.

No special qualifications are needed to be a volunteer, but it helps if you like people, have a quotient of common sense, and are willing to learn.

If anyone would like further information on voluntary work in hospitals, I'd be very happy to help. Perhaps some Old Girls are in a position to start such a scheme themselves, or enlarge an already existing one. One final cautionary note: it is essential that hospital staff are fully consulted before launching any volunteers at all, for they must be wanted as well as needed if the scheme is to succeed.

BETH CRAWLEY.

NEWS OF OLD GIRLS Staff Miss Bowden is still teaching at Abbotsford School, Kenilworth.

Last year she had a wonderful time in Pakistan, India and Iran with the I.F.U.W. Miss Brett had a lovely holiday in the Swiss mountains last September and was hoping to go to Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta this spring.

Mile. Chapoulou is glad to be still teaching.

Miss Chesshire is thoroughly enjoying her retirement and is looking forward to going to New Zealand with Miss Preston in the autumn.

Mrs. Creed (Gritton). We were sorry to hear that she had had to have an operation last year and are glad that she. is now well and has resumed private teaching in her own home. She has 20 piano pupils and finds gardening a very satisfying spare time occupation.

Mrs. Fursdon (Dickens) is enjoying life in Nairobi. She has 2 adopted boys: Timothy (2|) and Benjamin (1). Her husband is on his second 2-year contract and is now Senior Lecturer in Surveying and Warden of one of the men's Halls of Residence. They hope to go on a second work safari in July and August.

Miss Jackson thoroughly enjoyed her 10 week vis't to Rhodesia last spring. She is always glad to see anyone from St. Mary's.

Miss Jennings has been in Newfoundland for a year, but was hoping to return to Devon in September.

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Miss Maguinness is working for her Ph.D. and has been teaching 6 hours a week in Queen's College (her old school). She has an appointment for next October as Assistant Lecturer in the classics department of Westfield College, London.

Miss Preston was retiring from Jersey College for Girls in July and going to New Zealand for 6 months.

Miss Reeve is teaching at Burlington School in London. She finds life more regimented and with less variety in the time-table than at St. Mary's.

Mrs. Walls (Henderson) is settled in London for 2 years and now has a daughter.

Miss Wood is teaching Classics at Wycombe High School.

Old Girls Meriel Acworth has a very interesting but rather hectic job at 10 Downing Street.

Margaret Agutter was to be married in July to Richard Morgan, who teaches English at Radley and Margaret is much looking forward to living near Oxford.

Joan Ash (Grover) was shortly moving to Andover. Her husband is in the R.A.F. and they have a daughter of 19.

Cecilia Assheton is still thoroughly enjoying herself at Reading, learning how to garden.

Elizabeth Bagley (Westaway) spent a wonderful holiday in Hong Kong in November 1967, visiting John and his family, and she made a special tour of the Diocesan Girls' School. She is expecting more grandchildren this year, and finds plenty to do in the Parish.

Sarah Bailey is thoroughly enjoying her Introductory Course at the Middlesex.

Mollie and Cicely Baker had a holiday together in Devon in May. We were sorry to hear that Cicely had had to give up her flat owing to arthritis of the spine. She is now in a small home for old ladies in Egham.

Veronica Bardswell is enjoying graduate life in Oxford and has decided to stay on and work for a D.Phil.

Laura Barlee (Attlee) is still doing Secretarial Work for Cancer Research. She and her husband are operating a small hand printing press and they print " personal stationery ". Proceeds go to the Leukaemia Research Fund and the Sue Rydes Trust.

Joan Bennett (Weller). Joan's husband is now out of the R.N., but is still doing much the same job in the dockyard at Rosyth as a civilian. Their son is at a local prep school in Fife and the 2 girls travel daily to school in Edinburgh.

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Ursula Boisseau (Cleverly). We were very sorry to hear that Ursula's father had died in 1966. Ursula is busy with village affairs and also as Guide District Commissioner. Her eldest son is doing V.S.O. in Columbia. Her 2nd son is reading History at Durham and her daughter has just started training at Addenbrookes Hospital. Her youngest son is at Sherborne.

Hilary Bolton (Cox) was moving to a charming little Regency cottage in July. Her eldest son, David, was to be married in June. Jeremy is in business in London and Caroline is in her 1st year as a boarder at West Heath.

Virginia Borthwick has completed the second year of her art course in Canberra and is very much enjoying life in Australia. She plans to return to England in December.

Gillian Bowtell is at long last in Holland, working for a firm of exporters growing house-plants. She finds the people and country very interesting.

Diana Brocklebank is hoping to get married in September and will be living in Bristol, where her fiance is a doctor.

Sally Brodhurst has taken a very interesting Cookery Course and when she wrote was about to go to Paris for 3 months to look after a couple of French children before starting at Cambridge.

Margaret Brooke was evacuated from Nigeria in August 1967, 4 months early because of the deteriorating situation. Since then she has been very much enjoying teaching in London.

Susan Butterfield is finding it fun working for an advertising agency in London.

Irene Campbell (Heywood) had a wonderful holiday in Tunisia last summer, and this spring they were going to Switzerland to introduce Colin (aged 12) to ski-ing.

Dorothy Capewell (Clayton) is still living quietly at home. She may visit her daughter and grandchildren in Australia this autumn.

Priscilla Carr is working in a Travel Agency and has recently started a Secretarial Agency in Lymington.

Anne Carter (Garrad). Her 3 sons are happily settled at the Norwich School and Anne continues to teach French, parttime, at the Old Hall School, Hethersett. Last year she was elected to the Executive Committee of the Council of the Girl Guides' Association, and was commissioned to write two of the handbooks incorporating the new Guide programme: " The Ranger Guide Handbook " and " The Handbook for Ranger Guides ", both now in use throughout Great Britain.

Anne Carter is now teaching immigrant children in Birmingham.

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Diana Casswell (Rosedale). Diana's interests extend from Play Groups to Pottery, the family and parish. She is also representing the diocese at the World Conference of the Mothers' Union in July.

Sarah Caran (Windsor-Aubrey), after her marriage, went ski-ing in Switzerland and was going to spend 18 days in America, as her husband is playing Rugby for Blackheath.

Nancy Chase is very much enjoying teaching at Newell House School, Sherborne. She helps with Children's Missions or Christian Holiday Conferences in the holidays. She is clerk to the local Parish Council.

Annarella Clark (Flower) has moved to Brighton, to a Regency house near the sea. She has opened an antique shop in Brighton. She and her husband went to Paris for a British Fortnight, which included a large proportion of her husband's designs.

Christine Claydon (Gibson) is enjoying life in Northern Nigeria where her husband teaches in a government school. They help the local church when time permits with 2 lively children to look after.

Susan Cole-King (Wilson) writes that they are all very happy in Malawi. Their 2 older children are at boarding-school and go out to Malawi for the holidays. The 2 younger ones, Stephen (3) and Ada (2), are also very happy in Malawi. Paul is the Country's Director of Antiquities and Susan has become very interested in preventative medicine and is doing a survey on it for the Ministry of Health.

Jane Colville (Horland) has moved permanently to N. Hayling Island and would love to see any Old Girls who are in the district. She has two little girls, aged 2 and 1.

Isobel Compton is doing a Cordon Bleu Diploma Course.

Meriel Cpnnell had a marvellous 7 months in America last year and is now in her 1st year studying Orthoptics at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

Mollie Cook was Assistant Matron at Chafyn Grove, Salisbury, for the summer term before entering the College of Sarum St. Michael, Salisbury, in September.

Margaret Cowgill (Ogle) Helena, Elizabeth and Susan. Helena and her fiance, at the end of their 4th year's medicine at Birmingham, were doing their 1st Part Finals and were then going to the Continent in the family Dormobile, taking Liz to her French course in Grenoble. She then goes on to Vienna, and has been thrilled by Leningrad and Moscow. She founded and is President of a Russia Society at Bristol, swims a lot and plays in the orchestra. Sue finds Kent stimulating and is 38

busy with the university magazine " Unjustified ". She greatly enjoyed a Land Rover trip to the Black Sea Coast of Turkey and was going to Italy this summer in the Dormobile. Margaret and Frank are busy carpentering, decorating and gardening.

Sheila Cox (Harrison Smith) is thoroughly enjoying life in the north. Of her 2 children, Tricia is 9 and Sue 7. She is now a " University Landlady " with 2 girl students.

Beth Crawey is the Voluntary Workers' Organiser at the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street.

Rosemary Culley (Sutton) is much enjoying teaching Juniors.

Jane Dal ton (Baynes). Jane's husband now has a shore job in Portsmouth so they have a spell together again and have rented a house at Rowlands Castle, near Havant. We were sorry to hear that her mother died last year. Alistair (3ÂŁ) is to go to a Nursery School in the summer. David is 2.

Mary Daniel (Bartholomew) is very much enjoying married life and has a marvellous flat near the zoo.

Christine Davidson is now in her 2nd year at the University of Kent. She was to spend the long vacation in Kenya.

Meg Davies (Pite). Most of Meg's time is taken up with the family but she was thrilled to be able to accompany her husband to a conference in Prague in March. She spends 2 mornings a week as a Research Assistant (Hon.) in the Audiology Group at the University, at present working with deaf children.

Lesley Davis (Lea-Wilson). Lesley's husband has left the army and is preparing to become a teacher. They have been busy settling in to an old farm house near Colchester.

Caroline Dawson (Carr) was in Sydney until May, having travelled overland through Asia. She was married last year in Sydney.

Her husband is a teacher.

J. H. Divers (Cross) is living all the year round aboard "Wingoes ", moored out in the Humble. They work on her and get all the sailing they can at weekends and in holidays. Her husband works at Proctors and she does part-time gardening and housework.

Valerie Donell (Rodd) much enjoys visits to St. Mary's to see Caroline and Janet, and seeing contemporaries who also have daughters there. She is still occupying herself during termtime with part-time music teaching at a Primary School in Lambeth.

Frances Dower (Baker) married last year and spent her honeymoon in Cornwall. She hopes to qualify as a doctor at the end of next year and then move to Northumberland.

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Suzanne Dudley-Smith (Hobson). We are very sorry to hear of the death of Suzanne's husband last October. She is working in the Winchcombe Library.

Joan Duncan (Salmon) is very busy with her family of 4. Her eldest son is now a schoolboy.

Anna Dunlop (Le Fanu) was busy planning their move to Norwich.

She has taken evening classes in computer programming and typing and hopes to start a part-time job when Christopher (4|) and Sarah (2ÂŁ) are established at school and play group.

Diana Duthie (Leveson). Her daughter Charmain was married on June 27th to Richard Dickson. Her son, Sandy, returned from a year in New Guinea and has started training as G.E. in London. Any spare time Diana has is taken up with gardening, dog, Chinese geese and local activities.

Anna Dymond (Collingwood) is at present advising N.L.F. on guerilla tactics. She has written a handbook on contraception and abortion. She is campaigning for the abolition of public schools and conventional morality and U.S. imperialist aggression.

Pippa Eccleston (Herring) gave up midwifery after 3 months to get married. She is working at St. Thomas's in the outpatients' department while looking for a house in London.

Sally Fallon (Hazell) took her certificate in Social Studies at the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne in June 1967 and now has twin sons.

Alison Finch is now working in Edinburgh at the Regional Computing Centre in the University and is enjoying her surroundings much more than London. She has done some ski-ing in Cairngorms and in the summer was singing in the Festival Chorus. She would love to see anyone passing through Edinburgh.

Ann Flynn (Warrick) is busy with part-time medical work and full-time housework!

Patricia Frank (McGormick). Their son Richard is to be ordained on September 22nd, 1968, in Durham Cathedral. Their youngest daughter Beccy is going to be a Sister Tutor to the Cardiac Unit of Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she took her training.

Elizabeth Gaminara is having a very nice time at Cambridge and has recently had a short holiday in France.

Celia Garnham (Rowley) has had another busy but happy year in Australia. Her son Malcolm had a wonderful time in January at the Australasian Scout Jamboree in Queensland.

Susan Garrett-Cox (Guest) was expecting her first baby in August and was very busy. She much enjoyed having piano lessons during the winter.

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Heather Greenwood (Blackadder) has moved up to Westmorland, where her husband is Director of Education. They had to leave Alison (17) behind to finish her 'A' levels. Tessa (16) and Biddy (12) are at the Lakes Comprehensive School and the others at Primary Schools. Heather has had 2 terms settling in and was glad to be starting teaching again after Easter.

Penelope Guest spent 3 years cooking Directors' Luncheons for the Thomson Organization and was leaving in September to go off to Africa, where she is hoping to work in Cape Town.

Jeanetta Hall (Vaughan) is still running part of a language and 'A-leveP school in Oxford. She was divorced in May 1967 and her 2 eldest children, boys, are at Summerfields. Katherine, aged 4, is bright and longing to go to St. Mary's.

Penelope Halse (Chorley) is looking forward to spending ten months in E. Africa.

Alice Hands (Toop) is busy in her garden. Elizabeth and John are living in Wandsworth, as John is lecturing about the army at Greenwich. Jane is still Treasurer at Somerville.

Rosemary Harris, after having travelled round the world via Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Malaya (where she stayed with Angela Newton Dunn), Ceylon, India, Kenya and Tanzania, is now working in London and living with Ann Bunney.

Sheila Harvie Clark (Lunt) says they are much enjoying country life after 20 years in Birmingham.

Monica Harvie Clark has been working as Assistant Catering Officer at the Prince of Wales General Hospital, Tottenham, since November and is enjoying living in London and finding herself in touch with many friends.

Elizabeth Heath (Jephson) has moved from Sutherland to Salisbury. Anne is a day-girl at the Godolphin. Her husband works part-time with the Friends of the Cathedral. She has met Barbara Watson (Mitchell) and Margaret Cowgill (Ogle).

Mary Hellings (Steele) finds the house very quiet with all the children at school.

Jean Herford (Hawkins). Her youngest daughter, Elizabeth, was to begin training at Great Otmond Street in June. Henry was about to sit his finals in Cambridge and hopes to work in London for at least a year. John is still happy and busy teaching Music at Rugby. Penelope has got her Ph.D. and is on the staff of Aberdeen University.

Pamela Hilton (Clarence). Pamela's husband has been appointed, by the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children, Director of the new Rural Training Unit at Lufton Manor, near Yeovil. It was to be opened in June, with Pamela as 41

Matron. It is the pilot scheme for the whole country, indeed Europe. The object is to train mentally handicapped young people, from anywhere in England, in 2 years, to return home and do a paid job in agriculture or horticulture. Visitors are always welcome.

Judith Hodgson is in her 2nd year of studying Law at King's College, London. She has been very busy as the Secretary of the Sailing Club and was organising a marathon inter-collegiate 12-hour team race.

Grace Hole (Combes) was busy preparing for Sally's wedding in August, as she finished her teacher's training in June and hoped to get a job near her flat in Timsbury. Peter is doing well with Formica near Newcastle and Bobby has just become engaged. He is Chairman of the Wilts Y.F. Rally Committee for the 2nd time. Grace is full of W.I., G.G. and local work in general.

Hilary Horderu left England at the end of September 1967 and spent 2 weeks in Canada, visiting Expo, Niagara Falls and ' Vermont in Autumn Leaf'. She then flew via New York to Trinidad, where she spent 3 days before sailing through the Panama Canal and north to Vancouver, and then south and west to Sydney. She is loving Australia and is now working at the Psych Department at Adelaide University and would love to see any Old Girls there.

Daphne Hort, Dss., C.S.A., is still working in Canterbury and much enjoying the tremendous challenge of working among students and teaching R.I. in the school.

Anne Hudson (Knollys). They have moved to Winchester, where Anne's husband is Regimental Colonel. Their 3 children, Sarah (9), Simon (7) and Jessica (4) are all at local day schools. Last year they bought a house near Pangbourne and hope one day they will be lucky enough to live in it.

Ann Hugh (Patmore) is still in Montreal but may move to Toronto in the near future. Sally is now 5 and Christopher 3, and a new baby was due at the end of May. They all spent March in Jamaica, which was a great success. Last year was very eventful with Expo and many visitors.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is continuing with her 'A-levels' at Beechlawn Tutorial College in Oxford. She hopes to spend 2 months in Florence from October, before taking Oxford Entrance in autumn 1969.

Sarah Inglis. Having finished her course at the Study Centre for History of Decorative Arts and gaining the diploma, Sarah has, after various jobs, got one in the Wallace Collection in London and is very much enjoying it.

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Sarah James is still working in the book and manuscript department at Sotheby's. Last summer she went to Greece with Margaret Agutter and is now living with Rosalind Henderson.

Veronica Johnston had a most exciting winter working as cookquartermaster for 2 trans-Sahara expeditions. Now she is jobhunting again.

Griselda Kellie-Smith (Williams) will be, for the next 3 or 4 years, living in the hills 15 miles from Durban. Sam is now 2, and very independent, and another baby is due in July. Anyone passing is enormously welcome.

Alison Kennedy has been stage-manager at the Mermaid Theatre since last September, which has been hectic but most interesting. At the time of writing she was working on " Hadrian VII " with Alec McCowen.

Nicola Le Fanu had a wonderful last year at Oxford. She has much enjoyed specialising in Opera, being on the Oxford Opera Club Committee and presenting Mozart's " Idomenco ".

Last summer, after a lovely hoilday in Italy with Gaily Stopford, which included a stay on Elba, she went to the Durham Twentieth Century Music Concert. She was hoping to go on the Composition Course in Siena in August, after which she will study Composition in London.

Susan Lloyd is working as full-time violin and piano teacher at Stamford School, Lincolnshire.

Penelope Loder (Forde) is loving life in Ireland and they are hoping to breed lots of winners, if possible racing them themselves. They were to come over for Ascot week.

Susan Lowden (Brennan) had a fascinating holiday in Iran just before her marriage. She is now living in London and was about to start work as a part-time Physiotherapist.

Torla Mackarness (Tidman) describes herself as a mature student at King Alfred College, Winchester, learning to teach juniors.

She has one more year of the course to go.

Virginia Mackenzie (Clapham) has at last found a house and has been busy decorating. She now has 2 children, James (nearly 2) and Sacha (6 months). She would be delighted to see any Old Girls.

Jane Maclure (Savage) has been since January 1967 in New Zealand, where her husband teaches. They have 2 sons Mark (3) and Tom (6 months).

Ursula Marsh is still able to attend Overseas Needlework Meetings, help with Church work and visit elderly and sick persons.

Jean Martin finished her tour in Pakistan in July 1967. She had a wonderful trip home via Afghanistan, Iran and Scandinavia.

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is thoroughly enjoying the wonderful ballet and music. She was just off for a trip to Samarkand, Bukhara, Tashkent and Tbilisi.

Gilian Martin-Jones is thoroughly enjoying student life in her 2nd year at Maria Grey College of Education in Richmond. She was particularly interested in the spring term in helping with two play groups, one in the College and one in London for Deprived Children.

Anne Mathias (Davies) is as busy as ever on the farm. She was expecting her third child at the end of August.

Elizabeth Mathias has qualified for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of London.

Jill Mayhew (Rotherham) will be in Devon for the next 2 years and hopes that any Old Girls coming in that direction will call in. Her husband's next appointment is a ship going to the Far East and Jill has three little girls to keep her occupied.

Mary Rose Marjoribanks (Miller) left Northern Nigeria in July 2 days before the fighting officially started, though they had seen plenty before. After a short stay in Britain they went out to Canada, where her husband has a teaching job. They like Kelowna. The two older boys are at school there and Mary Rose is teaching riding at a local ranch. If any Old Girl goes out to B.C. she would be very glad to see her.

Elspeth McGowan (Minnis) is fully occupied with her job, garden, house and voluntary activities. Hugh (19) is at Dartmouth and Moray (17) has a conditional place at Newcastle for October.

Deborah McQueen has had a wonderful holiday in France, where she fell in love with Paris. She was hoping to go to Florence in July.

Charlotte Mery has left the British Museum after a year and was doing a Secretarial Course until the end of June, when she was hoping to find a job in the antique trade.

Elizabeth Miller (Sarjeant) was leaving for the States in August for a year. Her husband is going to teach at the Hill School, Pottstown, near Philadelphia. Jane, who has just finished at East Anglia University may join them later. Rachel hopes to get a job out there. Alison will be going to a State School.

Her son Gerald is going to Newcastle University in October, but may be able to join them in the summer vacation in 1969.

Kay Mitchell (Costley-White). After a trip to England for their marriage last year, Kay and her husband are settling in Vancouver and would like to see any Old Girls who might go there. She is doing part-time medical work.

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Susan Mitchell had a marvellous journey all round Canada and U.S.A. in the autumn of 1967 and visited Expo '67, meeting Sally Corry and Sally Dureen there. She also met Rosemary Harris in Boston and Vivien Owston (Bellany) in New York.

She is continuing to run her dinner party service in Central London.

Mary-Grace Mollison (Ram) moved to Warminster last July. Both boys are at school, which leaves her time to take a part-time job as a school secretary. They no longer farm. Her husband, Keith, has joined Ranks Agricultural Engineering firm in Warminster.

Margaret Monk (Perry). They are much involved in the manufacture and sale of cornetts, which her husband does as a sideline. Margaret was doing part-time teachng for a few weeks.

Jocelyn is Secretary at Oxford University Department of Engineering Science. Philippa is reading English at Sheffield.

The other two are at school.

Hilary Moone is now working in Ripon as a Lecturer in Education at Ripon Diocesan College of Education.

Stephanie Morgan (Rosedale) and her husband were off to Singapore in May for 2 years. The children will fly out for two holidays a year. She would be delighted to see anyone who finds herself out there.

Eleanor Mynors is very much enjoying the Institutional Management course at Guildford Technical College.

Sarah Newman has had another busy year at New Hall, Cambridge, The University gave her the degree of M.A. this spring.

Priscilla Noble spent 3 months in France in the spring. In the autumn she is starting a secretarial course at Queen's.

Anne Norris (Brown) has been made a J.P. on the Battle Bench.

Maeue Oram (O'Ferrall), after living in 6 different houses in less than 6 years, now has a house of their own, and hopes to settle down for a bit. Ann, aged 4, goes to the Nursery School in Southwold.

Rachel Orr (Stiles) leads an uneventful life. Her daughter, Ruth Peters, is now in Salt Lnke City with her girl and two boys, and Rachel's son lives in Scotland and has two sons.

Gill Peacock (Pinkney). Colin is at Winchester College. Christie is longing to go to St. Mary's in 2 years' time. Gill is very busy teaching riding to disabled children, being secretary of the Pony Club, lecturing and doing locums.

Julia Peel has for the last year been working on the vast Mangala Dam Project in West Pakistan for an engineering firm. She is having a marvellous time with 2 holidays in India, the last at Srinagar, starting on a houseboat. She has also been to 45

Delhi and seen the Taj Mahal. She leaves in October and hopes to go to Katmandu, East Pakistan and South India before coming home via Kenya.

Rosemary Peile having taught in Zambia for a year, Rosemary is now thoroughly enjoying teaching Physical Education in the Senior Girls' Approved School in Sheffield.

Ann Pick (Nettelfield) has started doing a part-time physiotherapy job at the local geriatric hospital and finds it very rewarding.

Gill seems to be doing well at St. Thomas's Medical School.

David was confirmed at Sherborne in the spring and plans to be a vet.

Daphne Powlett finds it more difficult to arrange lodgings as the University of East Anglia grows. She would be glad if any St. Mary's girls who are at the University would make themselves known to her.

Hilary Pullon finds that General Practice in Potters Bar gets busier every year. Her senior partner is retiring this summer.

Susan Reddaway is in her 1st year of an honours Nutrition Degree at Queen Elizabeth College, London.

Ann Robertson (Ball) has been extra busy since January with her new baby, Elizabeth Jane. They have found a suitable small farm at Musbury in East Devon and expect to move there in September.

Rosemary Rocke (Herbert Smith). We were sorry to her that Rosemary's husband died in November 1966. Rosemary now has a post as lecturer at Newton Park College of Education, Bath. Clare (10) and Thomas (9) go to the village school at Newton St. Loe at present.

Charlott Roper, having finished 4 years at St. Thomas's, was spending the summer at home. On November 1st she is going to Bristol for a midwifery course for 6 months or a year.

Susan Russell. After 6 months in London, Susan was going to the West Indies for a month or two before going up to Homerton in September.

Charmain Rylands, having given up nursing at the Middlesex, is now doing a secretarial course with the aim of becoming a medical secretary.

Penelope Sabben-Clare was to finish part II of the midwifery course at Leeds Maternity Hospital in June, and she and Janice Hardie, with whom she shares a flat, intend to do a Health Visitor Course at Leeds University and then work in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Dorothy Sainsbury made a round of visits in May. Last year she stayed with Alice Barton in June and with Mollie Baker in October.

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Marion Salmon. On completion in July of a most interesting secretarial course in Eastborne, Marion was looking forward to working at home in Germany for a few months.

Brenda Selby Johnston (Kirke). Her son, (11^), has just gone to board at his prep-school. Besides her housekeeping, gardening, etc., they have had a group of people interested in esoteric healing there each week and patients coming in from a wide area.

Joyce Sharp (Ghadwick). We were sorry to hear that Joyce had lost her parents this year.

Mary Sharpe (Lake). Mary's husband is now Receiver to Exeter Cathedral. Her daughter is at the House of Citycenship.

Mary Sheepshanks (Nickson) has three children: Belinda (13), Susannah (8) and William (5).

Rachel Sheldon (Frewer) is happily settled at King Edward's, Witley, where her husband is Director of Music. Rachel teaches a little in the Music Department and enjoys her contact with the girls, particularly through two knitting groups she runs, producing garments for the Queen Mary Guild. She had a major operation last September and we are glad to hear is now feeling much stronger. She has three boys: 9, 6 and 3. The eldest is away at prep-school. They spend their holidays in a cottage in Cornwall.

Belinda Southwell (Pownall) has had to move to a larger house and is kept busy with the children, who are now 5, 2| and 10 months.

Rosemary Spragge has recently returned home after 2 years in New Zealand, where she had a wonderful time working on farms and travelling around on her motorbike. She had 5 weeks in Australia in the spring. She will now be looking for a job.

Patricia Stanton left the Middlesex in June 1967 and went to York, where she did private nursing. She is now back in London doing private work temporarily.

Elizabeth St. Leger Moore (Wilson) is enjoying living in London after so many naval moves. She is able to do more work for the Morland Nursery Training College, of which she is a Director. She says they can board children in an emergency or holiday crisis.

Gaily Stopford has enjoyed studying History of Art and Italian at London University. Last summer she spent a wonderful time in Tuscany, following up her interest in Etruscan Sculpture.

She was hoping to return to Florence this summer before helping her parents with the Overseas Bishops coming to the Lambeth Conference in September, and she plans to begin studying for the post-graduate Diploma in Applied Social Science at Nottingham University.

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Margaret Stroud (Cole) has moved into a new home in the country and is always busy. Their younger daughter has moved near them and they enjoy baby-minding.

Rosamund Stuetyel (Price) was in England last October. Her elder daughter now has a daughter. Linda was marrying an Englishman on June 14th. Rosamund hopes to visit Europe again this year. All Old Girls flying through Bangkok are most welcome.

Lucy Swinburn (Gardner) went to New Zealand in November 1966. She came home to be married and returned via Expo '67 and Honolulu in time for lambing. She has learnt to spin, and breed ducks. She would love to see any Old Girls in the neighbourhood.

Gillian Tait (Kempe) and her husband are thoroughly enjoying life in Long Island where he has an appointment with an aircraft company.

Margaret Tatton-Brown is doing a secretarial course in October and then hopes to go to the Coustauld Institute.

Susan Tennant (Beale) is at present living at Hildesheim, West Germany, where her husband's regiment is stationed. Her son, Mark, is 2 and she was expecting a 2nd baby in June.

Catherine Thuillier is very much enjoying her course in Music and English at Birmingham University. She was hoping to get a job in Edinburgh during the Festival this summer.

Josephine Till spent most of 1967 in Beirut but had to leave after the Arab-Israeli war. She hopes to go back later this year.

Juliet Tweddell was in charge of a Special Care Unit for severaly sub-normal children for 10 months and was looking forward to returning to nursing at St. Thomas's Hospital in June.

Shireen Uren (Moore). They are happily settled in a home in Perth. Their daughters Tanya (13f) and Judith (12) attend St. Hilda's School and Susan (8) goes to the locnl State Primary School. Tanya won the 2nd of 3 open scholarships for St. Hilda's last year.

Mary Vischer, after helping a Swedish selection mission in the selection of Albanian refugees, was assigned to a refugee camp in Germany for 2| months. Unfortunately, she fell ill and is now back in Geneva.

Rose Voelcker. After 3 months touring in Turkey last summer Celia and Rose took jobs in London. Rose is working as a Girl Friday to a doctor and his wife, who is an artist. Celia has just left to run villas in Corfu for the summer and Rose hoped to join her there for her holiday.

Ann Waldock started training at Great Ormond Street in January, after spending 3 months in Paris.

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Ann Wallace, since October 1967, has been Assistant Director of Studies at the Edinburgh School of Speech Theraphy.

Thelma Wallace is enjoying Oxford. She has changed her course from Biochemistry to Psychology and Physiology.

Barbara Warburton (Pritchett) has recently moved to Malvern and has opened an antique shop there. She would be glad to hear of any Old Girls of her group in that area.

Mary Warren (Rowley) does part-time Speech Therapy at her local hospital and has just started at a school for handicapped children.

Margaret Wettern (Macfadyen) has been doing a little Art and Handicraft teaching at a boys' prep-school while their teacher was ill, and one afternoon a week at a school in Westerham.

She has also been involved in an exhibition " Brasted Chart and Toys Hill in the last 100 years ".

Winsome Willcox (Dallas Ross) has returned to radiography, parttime.

Nancy Williams has just returned from a 6 months' holiday in Australia and New Zealand, where she has a large number of cousins. She went by sea via Suez and returned via Panama, so was able to see some wonderful places on the way.

Yvonne Willway (Troman) has recently moved to Putney, where they hope to remain for the next 2ÂŁ years which her husband is with the T.A.V.R. Regiment in the London area. Both their daughters are now at prep-school.

Peggy Wilson is still at Kendall High School. She has just designed costums for Benjamin Britten's " Noyes Fludde " given very successfully in 2 local churches.

Rachel Woods is running a literary scheme for illiterate adults in South London, although she works all over greater London.

She is also still helping children who have reading difficulties.

Richenda Woods is in her 1st term of teaching General Science and Biology by new methods to 14—16 year old girls. She visited her brother and family in New Guinea for 5 weeks over Christmas.

Susan Wort is living and working in Switzerland for an American Chemical Company in Zurich. She is engaged to a Swiss and is hoping to be married early next year.

Diana Wright (Brown) has three children: Marie Louise (7), Michael (5) and Susanna (2), and is busy working for her husband as architect's secretary.

Mary Wright was still working in Canada, but was leaving for Mexico and South America before returning to England in August.

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Elizabeth Yule (Mackenzie Crooks). Elizabeth's husband is with I.C.I, at Harrogate. They love the town and Yorkshire countryside. She now has 2 children: Andrew (2f) and Sarah Kate (10 months). She would love to see any Old Girls who might come near Harrogate.

MARRIAGES Old Girls Annesley—Lumley. On 7th September, 1968, Noel Annesley to Caroline Lumley.

Cavan—Windsor-Aubrey. On 16th December, 1967, Capt. Malcolm Cavan to Sarah Windsor-Aubrey.

Collington-Kershaw. On 4th May, 1968, Richard Ian Collington to Priscilla Kershaw.

Daniel—Bartholomew. In October, 1967, Daniel to Mary Bartholomew.

Dawson—Carr. In 1967 (in Sydney), Alan Dawson to Caroline Carr.

Dower—Baker. In November, 1967, Robin Dower to Frances Baker.

Ecclestone—Herring. In 1968, Ecclestone to Prudence Mary (Pippa) Herring.

Hughes—Bunting. On 9th October, 1967, Paul G. M. Hughes to Philippa Bunting.

Lowden—Brennan. On 29th July, 1967, Lowden to Susan Margaret Brennan.

Milner—Richardson. On 3rd August, 1968, David Selbv Milner to Elizabeth Wigham Richardson.

Mitchell—Costley-White. In December, 1967, Peter Mitchell to Katharine Costley-White.

Price—Brocklebank. On 7th September, 1968, Dr. Michael Wheatley Price to Diana Brocklebank.

Steensma—Herring. In January, 1967, Hayo P. Steensma to Paula Jane Herring.

It is understood the following marriages have taken place, but we have no details: Berry to Rosemary Vaughan.

Oakshot to Jennifer Littlejohns.

Owston to Vivien Bellamy.

• Sands to Nora Slade-Powell (Reade).

-- Warwick to Karen De Chassiron.

BIRTHS Old Girls Craufurd. On 14th July, 1967, to Catherine (Westmacott), a second daughter, Penelope Jane.

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Fallen. On llth July, 1967, to Sally (Hazell), twin sons, Thomas Benedict and Oliver Patrick.

Giffin. On 3rd July, 1967, to Jane (Wright), a sister for Justin, Nicola Jane.

Graham. On 22nd July, 1967, to Catherine (Kitty) (Lees), a brother for Elizabeth and Dorothy, Roderick Meynell.

Halse. On 1st November, 1967, to Penelope (Chorley), a daughter, Caroline Sarah.

Harris. On 22nd August, 1966, to Ruth (Lloyd), a daughter, Rachel Anne.

Harriss. On llth November, 1967, to Jane (Peterkin) a son, Edmund James.

Howard. On llth August, 1967, to Elizabeth (Casement), twins, Tom and Emma.

Loder. On 12th March, 1968, to Penelope (Forde), a daughter, Gillian.

Mackenzie. In February, 1968, to Virginia (Clapham), a second son, Sacha.

Maclure. On 27th August, 1965, to Jane (Savage), a son, Mark and on llth December, 1967, a second son, Tom. Ostler. By adoption. Ostler (Tanqueray) twins, Anthony and Jon, born 29th March, 1968.

Pike. On 8th August, 1967, to Jane (Davies), a sister for Rachel, Caroline Alice.

Redmayne. On 30th April, 1968, to Harriet (Bagley), a son, Oliver.

Robertson. In January, 1968, to Ann (Ball), a sister for James and Bridget, Elizabeth Jane.

Robinson. On 23rd March, 1968, to Bridget (Janes), a brother for Caroline, James Mark Salmond.

Shaw. On 10th June, 1967, to Caroline (Robbins), a son, Andrew.

Simpson. On 10th May, 1966, to Ann (Limehouse), a son, James Neil, and on 3rd March, 1967, a daughter, Katherine Jane.

Sparrow. On 25th October, 1967, to Joan (Drewett), a daughter, Ruth Elizabeth.

Southwell. In October, 1967, to Belinda (Pownall), a second son, Philip.

Steensma. On 12th October, 1967, to Paula (Herring), a son, Robyn Wilfred.

Yule. In October, 1967, to El-zabeth (Crooks), a sister for Andrew, Sarah Kate.

Staff Thompson. On 12th March, 1968, to Mrs. Thompson (nee Reed), a second son, Edwin Mark.

Traves. On 5th November, 1966, to Mrs. Traves (nee Bedford), a daughter, Hanna, and on 3rd December, 1967, a son, Jeremy John Erik.

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R.I.P. Balch. On 25th February, 1968, Ellen Ezit Balch (Keevil).

Ede. On 22nd January, 1968, Dr. C. C. Ede, B.A., M.D. Short. On 15th March, 1968, Sarah Short (Haywood).

O.G.A. CHANGES OF ADDRESS July 1968 Baker, Cicely, St. Alban's, Osborne Road, Egham, Surrey.

Barton (Findlay), Janet, 4 Osborne Road, St. Anne's-on-Sea. Lanes.

Beresford-Stooke (Sevenoaks), Jill, 42 Cecily Hill, Cirencester, Glos.

Bolton (Cox), Hilary, Claremont Cottage, Claremont Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Brackenridge (Thomas), Elizabeth-Ann, Cheakers, Coltsfoot Drive, Burpham, Guildford, Surrey.

Brashich (Crawford), Prunella, U.S.Aid, c/o U.S. Embassy, Kinshasa, Congo. Or c/o Sir W'm & Lady Crawford, 20 Hornton Court, Kensington High Street, W.8.

Bridges, Barbara, 51 Curzon Park, Calne, Wilts.

Brooke-Johnson (Ram), Penelope, H.Q., A.F.S.E., B.F.P.O. 8, Naples.

Brookfield (Kirkaldy-Willis), Jane, 18 Embercourt Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Browne (Nicholson), Ursula, Mount Ida, Trinity, Jersey, C.I. Bullick (Ridley), Barbara, (Temporary) Starbeech Cottage, Drybrook, Gloucester.

Carr, Priscilla, Paddock Cottage, Southampton Road, Lymington, Hants.

Carson (Stratton), Shirley, The Old Rectory, Alton Barnes, Marlborough, Wilts.

Caughey (Harvey), Catherine, 73 Portland Road, Remuera, Aukland 5, New Zealand.

Clark (Flower), Annarella, 38 Norfolk Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN1.3AB. Colville (Harland), Jane, Church Cottage, North Hayling, Hants.

Colwill (Stratton), Patricia, 36 Drayton Court, London, S.W.10.

Cook, Mollie, 32 The Green, Calne, Wilts.

Cornish (Moule), Lovedy, 23 Broadhinton Road, Clapham, S.W.4.

Cowdell, Susan, c/o Brook Cottage, Berrington, Tenbury Wells, Worcs.

Craufurd (Westmacott), Catherine, Brightwood, Aldbury, Tring, Hants.

Crawford (Hood), Kitty, 8 Golf Road, Newlyn, Auckland 7, N.Z. Cutforth (Innes), Sara, Wingfield, Thursby, Carlisle, Cumberland.

Dalton (Bavnes), Jane, Meadowland, Rowlands Castle, Hants.

Daniel (Bartholomew), Mary, 50 Regent's Park Road, London, N.W.I. Dawson (Copeman), Elizabeth, 12 Ilchester Place, London, W.14.

Dennison (Wollen), Lesley, Woodglade, Lingfield, Surrey.

Divers (Cross), Hester, S/Y " Wingoes", c/o Westminster Bank, 12 High Street, Southampton.

Dower (Baker), Frances, 20 Sloane Gardens. London, S.W.I. Dunlop (Le Fanu), Anna, 252 Unthank Road, Norwich.

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Dymond (Collingwood), Anna, 2 East Road, London, S.W.14.

Egerton (Chambers), Barbara, Hillside, Ardress East, Portadown, Co. Armagh, N.I. Fallen (Hazell), Sally, 4 Worcester Road, London, S.W.19.

Ferguson (Smellie), Anne, Barley End, River Gardens, Bray-onThames, Berks.

Finch, Alison, 15 Moston Terrace, Edinburgh, 9.

Goatly (Lloyd), Veronica, 13 Jalan Ampang Hilie, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Gosling (Thomas), Pamela, 34 Park Road, Surbiton, Surrey.

Greenwood (Blackadder), Heather, Beckstones, Rayrigg Road, Windermere, Westmorland.

Halford-Macleod (Durst), Vanna, British Embassy, Reydyavik, Iceland.

Hall (Vaughan), Jeanetta, School Farmhouse, Maidwell, Northants.

Harvie Clark, Monica, Hackthorn Vicarage, Lincoln.

Hearn, Gillian, Holmwood, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.

Heath (Jephson), Elizabeth, 14 Shady Bower Close, Salisbury, Wilts.

Hennah (Barbour), Patricia, 32 Barratt Road, Southport, Lanes.

Hickman (Williams), Juliet, The Chestnuts, Gibbet's End, Hanley Castle, Worcs.

Higginbotham, Patricia, P.O. Box 253, Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada.

Hilder (Hussey), Joan, 3 Tiddly Wink, Yatton Keynell, Nr. Chippenham, Wilts.

Hilton (Clarence), Pamela, Lufton Manor, Nr. Yeovil, Somerset.

Howell, Penelope, Foxbury, Shalbourne, Marlborough, Wilts.

Hudson Knollys), Anne, Little Orchard, Frilsham, Nr. Newbury, Berks.

Hughes (Bunting), Philippa, 30 Marlborough Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.

Jago (Nugee), Mary, 13 Archer Road, Penarth, Glamorgan.

Tudd, Rachel, The Coach House, Nunney, Nr. Frome, Somerset.

Kellie-Smith (Williams), Griselda, 21 Springdale Road, Kloof, Natal, S.A. Leacock, Elizabeth, Hope Cottage, Easton, Winchester, Hants.

Lewis (Bodinnar), Edna, Montcalm, Newport, Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

Lewis (Brackenridge), Clare, North Close, Milverton, Taunton, Somerset.

Longe, Rosemary, 26 Westcote Road, Reading, Berks.

Lowden (Brennan), Susan, Flat 4, 11 Hornton Street London, W.8.

MacGaffey (Innes), Janet, Haverford College, Haverford, Pa, U.S.A. Mackenzie (Clapham), Virginia, The Cottage, High Street, Bramley, Nr. Guildford, Surrey.

Maclure (Savage). Jane, 23 Peakes Road, Wanganui, N.Z. Marjoribanks (Miller), Mary, 1525 Mountain Avenue, Kelowna, B.C., Canada.

Martin, Ivy, Ridgeway, 17 Ridge Hill, Dartmouth, S. Devon.

Matthias (Leuchars), Elizabeth, 17 Eton Villas, London, N.W.3.

Mayhew (Rotherham), Jill, Ladram House, Otterton, Nr. Budleigh Salterton, Devon.

Mealing (Dixon), Gwendoline, 23 Rookery Park, Calne, Wilts.

Melville, Clarissa, 26 Swain's Lane, London, N.6.

Merz, Charlotte, Little Warren House, Hever, Kent.

Milligan, Rosemary, 125 Ashley Gardens, London, S.W.I. Mitchell (Costley-White), Katherine, Apt. 302, 1054 West llth Ave., Vancouver, 9, B.C., Canada.

Mollison (Ram), Mary-Grace, Claypits, Crockerton, Warminster Wilts.

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Morgan (Rosedale), Stephanie, c/o Captain of the Fleet, Staff of Commander, Far East Fleet, Singapore, B.F.P.O. 164.

Newberry (Mathews), Ruth, 5 Stanley Crescent, London, W.ll.

Oakshott (Littlejohns), Jennifer, The Vineyard, Channel View, Hope Cove, Nr. Kingsbridge, S. Devon.

Oliver (Cresswell), Jane, Castleton, Ocle Pychard, Hereford.

Oram (O'Ferrall), Maeve, Woodlands, Wangford, Beccles, Suffolk.

Owston Bellamy), Vivien, c/o Manor Cottage, Coln-St.-Aldwyns, Cirencester, Gloucester.

Pike (Davies), Jane, 19 Butterfield Road. Wheathampstead, St. Albans, Herts.

Priest, Sarah, La Garenne, Clos dufalle, Jersey, C.I. Pryor (Deuchar), Ann, 12 North View, Kaskiri Street, Carltonville, Transvaal, S. Africa.

Redmayne (Bagley), Harriet, 102 Meadow Close, Lower Way, Thatcham, Berks.

Rice, Jennifer, 3 Ashbourne Grove, London, W.4.

Robinson (Janes), Bridget, Longfield Cottage, Tadworth Street, Tadworth, Surrey.

Rocke (Herbert-Smith), Rosemary, West View House, Inglesbatch, Bath, Somerset.

Salmon, Marion, c/o Brigadier H. L. B. Salmon, H.Q. 1 (BR) Corps, B.F.P.O. 39 Sands (Reade), Nora, East House, Adderbury, Banbury, Oxon.

Savage (Hill), Monica, 67 Wendover, Small Parade, Durban, S. Afica.

Simpson (Limehouse), Ann, Beech Barns, Beech, Alton, Hants.

Simpson (Hort), Frances, 37 Strathaven Road, Lee, London, S.E.I2.

Slayton (Fearon), Mary, North Shore Road, Hampton, N.H. 03842, U.S.A. Southwell (Pownall), Belinda, 19 Chelsea Park Gdns., London,S.W.3.

Stallard-Penoyre, Mary, 2 Graham Terrace, London, S.W.I. Steensma (Herring), Paula, Beatrixstraat ID, Leeuwanden (FR), Holland.

Stevens (Barnes), Sybil, 66 Horndean Road, Emsworth, Hants.

Tail (Kempe) Gillian, 2391, Peg Lane, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, U.S.A. Tennent (Shaw), Patricia, Little Mystole, Mystole Park. Chartham, Nr. Canterbury, Kent.

Trethowan (Reynolds), Carolyn, 15 Pembroke Square, London, S.W.8.

Trevelyan, Kate, 13 Wilton Street, London, S.W.I. Uren (Moore), Shireen, c/o Malaysian Singapore Airlines, 168 St. George's Terrace, Perth, W. Australia.

Vaughan, Rosemarv, Hillside, Salford, Chipping Norton, Oxon.

Wainman (Judd), Diana, Upper Ashe House, Basingstoke, Hants.

Walker (Winther), Marilyn, 1/6 QEO Gurkha Rifles, Gallopoli Barracks (N.T.) B.F.P.O. 1.

Wallace, Ann, 17 Stirling Road, Edinburgh, 5.

Warburton (Pritchett), Barbara, The Hermitage, Pickersleigh Road, Malvern Link, Worcs.

Warwick (De Chassiron), Karen, Hillside Cottage, Odiham, Hants.

Wasley, Betty. 27 Madresfield Road, Malvern, Worcs.

Wilks (Webb), Patricia, 30 Hillside Park, Bargoed, Glamorgan, S. Wales. ' Willway (Troman), Yvonne, 2 Oake Court, Portinscale Road, Putney, S.W.15.

Woods (Higginbotham), Trenna, 3 Long Grove House, Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, Surrey.

Wort, Susan, Zurichstrasse 48, 8610 Uster, Switzerland.

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Staff Bott (Gray), Mrs., 2 Queen's Terrace, St. Andrew's, Fife.

Chapoulou, Mile. M., Oatlands Park Hotel, Oatlands Drive, Weybridge, Surrey.

Fursdon (Dickens), Mrs. Diana, c/o Unwersitv College, P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya.

Walls (Henderson), Mrs. Margaret, 1 Apex Court, Sutherland Road, Baling, W.I3.

Wood, Miss C., 2 Chalfont Court, Beaumont Rise, Marlow, Bucks.

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Into Group 29 Susan R. Henniker-Major, Morriswood, Holbrook, Horsham, Sussex.

Into Group 32 Ruth Ashcroft, College House, Cheltenham, Gloucester.

Elizabeth Jane Aubrey Beardsmore, Heath Lodge, Parkgate Lane, Knutsford, Cheshire.

Sarah Margaret Brodhurst, Kingsgate House, Kingsgate Street, Winchester, Hants.

Julia Clare Buckingham, Park Wall, Cranham, Gloucester.

Fenella Anne Casswell, Frogmoor Cottage, Burley, Nr. Ringwood, Hants.

Penelope Anne Coles, The White Cottage, Thurlaston, Nr. Rugby, Warwicks.

Nicola Jane Dancy, The Master's Lodge, Marlborough College, Wilts.

Ruth Anne Fprder, Cherhill Rectory, Calne Wilts.

Josephine Julia Guillaume, The Park School, Weston Lane, Bath, Somerset.

Susan Elizabeth Ham, Morley Hall, Morley, Nr. Derby.

Elizabeth Frances Harker, Fairmount, Harleigh Road, Bodmin, Cornwall.

Bronwen Eileen Howell, Foxbury, Sherbourne, Marlborough, Wilts.

Anna Randle Kay, Huntingdon Hall, Dutton, Nr. Longridge, Lanes., PR3 2ZT. Sarah Adeline Grace Leather, Eden Park, Batheaston, Bath, Somerset.

Mariel Jane Maccormac, 33 Sweetcroft Lane, Hillingdon, Middlesex.

Sarah Louise Maitland, Cumstoun, Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

Rachel Margaret Miller, 7 Horton Crescent, Rugby, Warwicks.

Deborah Ann McQueen, Gotten House, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset.

Amiel Mary Ellinor Osmaston, Regil Farm, Ridgehill, Winford, Bristol.

Frances Nichola Petty, The Manor House, Welwyn, Herts.

Susan Mary Porter, Rhue Cottage, Hollow Lane, Hayling Island, Hants.

Victoria Jane Richardson, Long House, Cowfold, Nr. Horsham, Sussex.

Yda Hermione Richardson, Southrop Manor, Cirencester, Gloucester.

Jane Other Ritchie, Four Gables, Boston Spa, Vorks.

Jane Elisabeth Sybil Roskill, Heatherfield, Newtown, Newbury, Berks.

Harriet Elisabeth Somerville, 11 St. Ann's Terrace, London, N.W.8.

Philippa Daphne Stevens, 66 Horndean Road, Emsworth, Hants.

Celia Mary Taylor, North Aston Manor, Oxford.

Margaret Rose Thuillier, Maryburgh Cottage, Conon Bridge, Ross-shire, Scotland.

Jane Edith Patricia Tyndall, Woodlands, Cedar Road, Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey.

Julia Jane Wells, Mere House, Mereworth, Maidstone, Kent.

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Into Group 33 Susan Lorna Agnew, Bilbrough Manor, Bilbrough, York.

Joanna Margaret Brown, Rockbrook House, Rathfarnham, Dublin, 14, Eire.

Tessa Jane Dinnis, The Vicarage, Bosham, Nr. Chichester, Sussex.

Victoria Gillian Evans, Cockroost, Broad Hinton, Swindon, Wilts.

Jane Crichton Ferrar, Marycot, Ingatestone, Essex.

Jenny Margaret French, The Old Rectory, Stoke Abbott, Beaminster, Dorset.

Victoria Anne Rosa Harrison-Cripps, The Hermitage, Witham Friary, Nr. Frorne, Somerset.

Christina R. Heath, Oldbury House, Cherhill, Calne, Wilts.

Gillian Mary Hunt, 18 Wilton Place, London, S.W.I. Diana Willett Moir, Hunters Green, Bagshot Road, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey.

Ruth Jennifer Moore, The Vicarage, Steeple Ashton, Nr. Trowbridge, Wilts.

Karen Jane Phillips, Home Covert, Roundway, Devizes, Wilts.

Audrey Jane Smith, St. Teresa, Amersham Road, Chesham Bois, Bucks.

Marjorie Ann Smith, St. Teresa, Amersham Road, Chesham Bois, Bucks.

Sharon Jane Woodley, 8 Maudlin Drive, Teignmouth, Devon.

Into Staff Group III Mrs. M. L. Hamlin (Jefferies), 28 Tutbury Avenue, Cannon Hill, Coventry, Warwicks.

Mrs. E. M. Sykes, 8 Moreton Road, Old Bosham, Nr. Chichester, Sussex.

LOST MEMBERS—JULY 1968 If you know a recent address for any of the undermentioned, or the address of a relative who might know their whereabouts, please send it to the O.G.A. Secretary.

Adams (Beloe), Margaret 8 Arden-Close, Lucy 27 Ball (Maitland), Diana 8 Balme (Rice), Beatrice 6 Binney (Mallock), Diana 5 Chappel, Cecilia 24 Cherry, Susan 23 Cockerill (Tuckwell), Mary 8 Coney (Davy), Ruth 3 Davidson (Naumann), Audrey 11 Duffin (Pinckney). Angela 12 Ecclestone (Holbrow), Maureen 1" Evelyn (Robertson), Violet . 4 Fardon (Rutherford), Jean Audrey 12 Fleming (Griggs), Ellen 9 Foster, Joan 6 Gibson, Philippa 12 Gillingham, Violet 9 Goodhart, Juliet 26 Gordon Johnson (Mallock), Joan 8 Graham (Joscelyn), Joan 4 Grant, Pamela 13 Griffith (Prevost), Katherine 3 Gunning, Anne 19 Harrington-Harvard (Dillon-Trenchard), Dorothy 5 56

Hicks (Bartlett), Edna Hill, Yvonne Holbrow, Marcia Hugh (Patmore), Ann Jeffreys (Marjoribanks), Joan Koch (Jenkins), Myfanwy Lewis (Brakenridge), Clare Mandeville, Ann Marks (Tanner), Lucy Martin (Johnson), Carol McKillop (Good), Daphne Mends (Marshall), Dawn Metherell (McRae), Sheila Morgan (Cobb), Cicely Morgan (Hurst), Mary Murray (Watkins), Joy Neel (Murrell), Winifred Page (Morment), Megan Palmer Jones (Benson), Nancy Pedro (Jefferis), Susan Phillips (Hillyard), Angela Pountney (Fry), Mary Powell, Mary Robb (Roe), Pamela Russell (Newton), Joanna Simpson (Chitty), Georgina Sinclair (Long), Bettina Slade (Thompson). Barbara Strong (Olive), Mary Thesiger (Witworth), Ursula Thomas (Barton-Wright), Madelaine Verity (Mobbs), Diana Webb, Sally Williams (Marsden), Betty Woodmass, Barbara (?Mrs. Reyntiens) Wyman (Beighton), Joan

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LOST STAFF MEMBERS Llewellen, Miss Rapoport (Waller), Mrs. Tudor-Jones, Miss Tyler (Chapman), Mrs.

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