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1937

SPEECH DAY

 

Pr 1937 S D 1

22 July 1937

Speech Day programme

Guest speaker: the Bishop of Middleton

 

Prize winners:

Margaret Adams, Ruth Appleby, Muriel Appleby, Joan Ashworth, Marjorie Adams

Elizabeth Bridgen, Sylvia Bailey, Sylvia Bernard, Joan Bridgen, Celia Barker, Wera Burawoy, Kathleen Burgess, Jean Burt, Felicity Bridgen, Margaret Barber, Audrey Bayfield, Barbara Bowmer, Joyce Bamber, Dorothea Bennett, Barbara Bailey, Lilian Buttery, Margaret Berry, Margaret Brabbs, Kate Brett, Thelma Briggs, Christine Bailey, Sheila Berry, Ruth Bardsley, Margaret Burgess, Asna Boltiansky, Nora Binns

Mary Cooke, Marjorie Cleland, Jean Coleman, Barbara Cope, Ann Coates, Joan Caldwell

Enid Dobson, Sarah Davies, Elsa Davies, Barbara Dean, Hilda Daniels, Margaret Dowler, Pamela Duckworth

Mary Elding, Mollie Edgerton, Vera Easson

Margaret Fine, Joyce Finniecome, Mary France, Virginia Field, Jean Fletcher, Eileen Ferguson, Waltraud Feibelmann, Mary Fleure 

Marjorie Geary, Eleanor Gray, Joan Greenhill, Jean Geary, Enid Garstang, Patricia Goldsbrough, Maud Gregory, Rita Goldstone, Josephine Greaves, Betty Garner, Phyllis Goldstone, Marjorie Grey

Joyce Horner, Alice Heap, Margaret Haigh, Dorothy Holmes, Winifred Hobson, Betty Hill, Barbara Hall, Yvonne Hayes, Sheila Huss, Kathleen Harrington, Kathleen Hicks, Florence Hindle, Dorothy Hobbs, Kathleen Hall, Margot Hayes, Audrey Hibbert, Julia Higginbottom, Barbara Hill, Joan Hocking, Joan Haydock, Phyllis Hardman, Jean Heywood, Joan Halliwell

Janifred Justham, Mary Jackson, Winifred Johnson, Betty Jones, Monica Job, Margaret Johnson

Jean Kershaw, Heather Kenward

Louise Lawrence, Gwynnedd Lewis, Susanne Lammle, Patricia Lord, Kathleen Liddell, Ena Lord, Vera Louden, Margaret Lyon, Katharine Liebert

Christine Mason, Jessie Million, Brenda Mills, Elizabeth Macgregor, Gladys Murray, Margaret Manby, Queenie Massel, Irene Moss, Irene Messenger, Edith Mason, Margaret Morecroft, Helen Marshall

Elinor [sic] Newton, Marian Nicholson, Beryl Nash, Margaret Norbury

Marjorie Owen, Josephine O'Neill, Ruth Owen, Louisa Owen, Margaret Oliver, Kathleen Owen

Cristine [sic] Parish, Marge Pursglove, Betty Pennington, Margaret Parker, Doreen Peake

Dorothy Quick

Lorraine Richards, Veronica Ross, Mary Ravenhill, Myra Robinson, Ursula Rodd, Barbara Roberts, Sheila Riddell, Edith Renwick, Florence Rigg, Betty Redfern

Hazel Symon, Jean Smith, Joan Sumner - Smith, Margery Sephton, Joan Shatwell, Betty Sidebottom, Mary Shawcross, Vivien Snow

Flora Thomason, Barbara Thompson, Mary Timperley, Sheila Talbot, Jessie Thompson, Joan Tierney

Daphne Wilde, Emily White, Nora Warhurst, Mary Williamson, Annie Wilson, Olive Woods, Judith Walton, Winifred Whiting, Irene Whitworth, margaret Walton, Jessie Wilkes, Annie Wilson, Muriel Wood, Joan Wilkinson

Adrine Yegwart

 

Proceeding to Universities and Training Colleges

Details given of the leaving destinations of the following:

Sylvia Bailey, Margaret Barber, Margery Briggs, Mary Cooke, Marjorie Crookes, Enid Dobson, Dorothy Elkin, Margaret Haigh, Joan Heywood, Kathleen Hilton, Joyce Horner, Gwynnedd Lewis, Betty McKie, Gladys Murray, Marjorie Owen, Edith Renwick, Lorraine Richards, Merle Robinson, Dorothy Stappleton, Daphne Wilde, Joan Wilkinson

 

Some Recent Appointments

Details given of the appointments of the following:

Cecil [sic] Callender, Doris Coulthard, Philippa Esdaile, Jean Halstead, Ellen Hampson, Nesta Herbert, Margaret Johnston, Joan Schofield, Molly Shaw, Erica Smith, Phyllis Spafford, Constance Spurr

 

Business and Secretarial Posts

Eileen Airne, Ruth Almond, Winifred Earnshaw, Rita Ennor, Margaret Green, Dorothy Harrison, Joan Haydock, Doris Herdman, Edith Holdsworth, Bessie Hulme, Margaret Langford, Marjorie Leech, Vera Louden, Margaret Louden, Edith Mason, Betty Pennington, Pamela Robinson, Margery Sephton, Sona Setna, Margaret Walton, Winifred Whiting, Irene Whitworth, Alice Worthington        

    

 

 

DRAMA

 

Pr 1937 D 1

1936

Cast lists of The Land of Heart's Desire, Fat King Melon, Wayside War, Birds of a Feather, The Six of Calais and The Reluctant Dragon.

Named participants: Marjorie Lewtas, Nancy Penny, Helen Neeson, Joan Heywood, Dorothy Dinsdale, Kathleen Hall, Joan Shatwell, Nanette Gregg, Sheila McCormack, Freda Lunt, June Copper, Mary Livesey, Bessie Hulme, Barbara Worsley, Prudence Alderson, Edith Saxon, Desiree Mitcheson, Metta Hulme, Maureen Consterdine, Mary Seddon, Doris Herdman [sic], Edith Garstang, Joan Salthouse, Jean Smith, Joan Mackay, Margaret Yates, Enid Withers, Vera Louden, Betty Balderstone, Margaret Haworth, Myra Leonard, Eileen Airne, Dorothy Dinsdale, Iva Mather, Marjorie Leach, Alice Heap, Ruth Grundy, P Pointon, Betty Pollard, Shirley Gregson, Sheila Butterworth, Peggy Ward, Jane Alexander, Betty Worsley.       

 

Pr 1937 D 2

20 July 1937

Cast lists of Don Quixote, El Greco and a scene from Nicholas Nickleby.

Named participants: Joan Heywood, Joan Shatwell, Kathleen Hall, Noreen Clayton, Barbara Worsley, Kathleen Burgess, Nancy Penney, June Copper, Dorothy MacDonald, Maureen Consterdine, Vera Lamb, Freda Lunt, Peggy Ward, Bernice Steakle, Lary [sic] Livesey, Betty Pollard, Phyllis Harry, Kathleen Hall, Joan Salthouse, Margaret Haigh.

 

 

 

MUSIC   

 

Pr 1937 M 1

8 February 1937

Programme of an Entertainment by Forms II and III

Details given of pieces performed and performers.

Named participants: Hazel Symon, Helen Wells, Sheila Talbot, Marion Leonard, Irene Leonard, H Dean, Marjorie Widdop, H Gore, Jacqueline Waring, G Chadwick, F Bridgen, Iona MacInnes, Renee Gottlieb, Astrid Astbury, Madge Taylor, Audrey Lewin, Audrey Marks, Mary MacInnes, M Heald, Sheila Butterworth, Joan McLean.

 

Pr 1937 M 2

19 February 1937

Words of a song entitled A Day in School performed at the Upper V's Arts Concert

Refers to the following prefects: Joyce Horner, Enid Dobson, Helen Marshall, Edith Renwick, Marjorie Owen, Alice Heap, Daphne Wilde.

 

Pr 1937 M 3

1 May 1937

Programme of the Manchester and District Girls' Schools Music Festival

Details given of pieces performed and performers.

The Manchester High School choir was conducted by Miss R Brownson.

Among the adjudicators was Dr Annie Warburton.

The accompanist was Miss Webster.

 

Pr 1937 M 4

1937

Programme of a Concert

Only the programme for the second part of the Concert has survived.

Details given of pieces performed and performers.

Named participants: Katharine Coupe, Barbara Moor, Kathleen Holt, Barbara Melling, Joyce Greenwood, Eileen Walker, Ruth Appleby, Margaret Norbury, Joan Shatwell, Noreen Clayton, Maureen Consterdine, Phyllis Harry.

 

 

 

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

 

Pr 1937 R S 1

6 May 1937

The Challenge of the Coronation. Programme for a Service for Secondary Schools

Held at Manchester Cathedral.

 

Pr 1937 R S 2

20 October 1937

Programme for the Memorial Service for Margaret Ashton

Held at Manchester Cathedral.

 

 

 

SPORT

 

Pr 1937 Sp 1

27 and 28 April 1937

Manchester High School for Girls

Programme for the Drill and Gymnastic Display

Includes a list of events.

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Pr 1937 Misc 1

28 October 1937

Programme of the Speech Day of the Grange High School for Girls

The speaker was Miss Clarke.

 

 

 

   
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