Manchester High School For Girls
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Database : School Reports, 1874 - 1952

1913

Frontispiece 

A drawing of the school at Dover St.

 

Governors

Chairman:  Prof T F Tout

Councillor Margaret Ashton, Miss G B Ayre, Prof S Alexander, Mrs E T Broadhurst, W Burton, Prof H B Dixon, Edward Donner, Mrs G Eckhard, Miss E M Greg, Prof S J Hickson, Prof Horace Lamb, the Dean of Manchester, J Moodie, F A Padmore,  Sir T Thornhill Shann, Mrs C J Spence, A E Steinthal, Sir William Stephens, Mrs T F Tout, Alderman Turnbull

Treasurer:  Mr J Moodie

 

Auditors:  Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co

Clerk to the Governors:  Hubert Teague

Medical Referee:  John Scott

Medical Inspector:  Miss C Chisholm

 

The Manchester High School for Girls

Staff

[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]

Head Mistress:  Miss S A Burstall

School Secretary:  Miss Florence Pollard

Assistant School Secretary:  Miss Elizabeth Simpson

Departmental Mistresses, 1913 ? 1914:

Miss S Louisa Dendy, Miss Winifred Biggs, Miss Eleanor Rhodes, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Beatrice Leach, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Gladwys Evan, Miss Florence Lunn, Miss Margaret Deansley, Miss Annie Adamson, Miss Florence Pollard, Miss Jessie Sprunt, MissGertrude Powicke, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Emily Greenwood, Miss Edith Burras, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Amy Freeman, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Jane Mutch, Miss Ida Pyper, Miss Mary Taylor, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss N Caress, Miss Gladys Cliffe, Miss Kiero Moakes, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Grace Bradshaw, Miss K Violet Moore, Miss Awdry [sic] Simeon, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Carmen Buchanan, Miss Hilda Sheasby, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Vanda Scott, Miss Marie Jones, Miss Hannah Ritchie

Visiting Teachers:

Miss Byron Cooper, Madame Alice Lamb, Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Alice Dill, Miss Ellen Moakes, Mr Isidor Cohn, Miss Edith Webster, Miss E Arthan           

 

General Information

The school is for girls aged 8 - 19.

Information given about the school hours, fees, curriculum, religious instruction, morning prayers, homework, examinations, inspections, physical training, absence, reports to parents, the library, school dinners, uniform, holidays, boarding, medical inspections, the withdrawal of pupils, visits to Manchester Museum, the school garden, scholarships and exhibitions.  

 

Honours List, 1912 - 1913

 

Some Recent Appointments

Details given of the appointments of the following: Hilda Johnstone, Annie Nuttall, Mabel Huxley.

 

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Gladys Cliffe, Theodora Pitt, Gladys Prydderch, Doris Bailey, Hilda Hancock, Frances Lodge, Blanche Strachan, Lucy Wormell, Mary Dymond, Ethel Thompson, Mary Parkin, Olive Hartley, Janie Learmouth, Mary Watson, Honor Scholfield, Ada Stephens, Jessie Davis, Dorothy Crosland, Catherine Carter, Constance Grant, Constance Lightbrown, Dorothea Hoffert.

 

University of Cambridge:  Dorothy Fox, Dorothea Hoffert.

 

University of London:  Dorothy Barker.

 

University of Oxford:  Dorothy Dymond.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Open Exhibitions and Scholarships:  Hilda Broadbent, Doris Walker, Gertrude Cocks, Dorothy Spencer.

 

Joint Matriculation of the Northern Universities, 1913:  Alice Aldous, Annie Ashley, Grace Barlow, Irene Challenor, Norah Flynn, Elaine de Ste. C Fogg [sic], Olive Gibbins [sic], Doris Hancock, Henriette Klein, Dorothy McInnes, Irene Pike, Veronica Richman, Frances Rohleder, Doris Tompkins, Norah Turner, Ethel Watts, Evelyn Wells, Hilda Whittenbury, Gladys Uhland, Dorothy Willis.  

Preliminary Examination for the Certificate of the Board of Education:  Marion Isgrove, Gladys Milne, Dorothy Morgan.

 

Oxford Senior Local Examination, 1913:  Alison Crabtree.

 

The Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music:  Lilian Brocklehurst.

 

Staff Notation and Tonic Sol - Fa College:  Edith Wright.

 

National Shorthand Association Speed Certificates:  Dorothy McAdam, Amy Beech, May Blakey, Florence Partridge, Lilian Poole, Kathleen Allen, Winifred Lafond, Kathleen Pledge, Dorothy Holligan, Nora Rogers, Rachel Rosenthal, Alice Whitaker.

 

Housecraft Certificate:  Florence Lemberger, Doris Stanley, Marjorie Tunstall, Gladys Holden, Helene Kandel, Edith Baguley, Ailsa Cowper, Doris Sussum.

 

Entrance Examinations for Bursars:  Lillie Alcock, Edith Berry, Dorothy Chester, Mary Eccles, Clara Hornby, Rose Shaer, Dora Tyson, Lois Yeadon, Ida Airey, Dorothy Bunn, Kate Grime, Margaret Montgomery, Annie Patterson, Florence Wells, Nellie Williamson.

 

Entrance Examination to Somerville College, Oxford:  Leonora Moodie, Ellen Hart.

 

Previous Examination, University of Cambridge:  Elsie Brown, Norah Whittle.

 

Leaving Presents:  Alice Aldous, Elsie Hancock, Helen Henderson, Dorothy McAdam, Gladys Uhland, Ellen Walton, Mary White.

 

Book Presents:  Mary  Barnes, Lucy Beard, Annie Sommerhalder, Jeanne de Picciotto, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Dorothy Chester, Alison Crabtree, Helen Birtwell, Irene Whitehouse, Doris Cliffe, Olive Gill, Ailsa Cowper, Gladys Holden, Florence Lemberger, Doris Davies, Marion Lewtas, Doris Smith, Emily Suffield, Muriel Yorke-Jones, Annie McIntyre, Margaret Mumford, Edith Newell, Hilda Pratt, Elsie Simminds, Margaret Single, Norah Walker, Dorothy Welland, Margaret Whiteley, Edith Woodall, Phyllis Hunter, Elsie Shaw, Lily Boltiansky, Louisa Cole, Kate Grime, Annie Patterson, Gertrude Simpson, Joyce Wilcock, Alice Bayley, Nellie Williamson, Mary Atack, Mary Atkinson, Madeleine Bahin, Susan Brookes, Sallie Edmondson, Margaret Derbyshire, Violet Ellis, Jenny Franks, Kathleen Garnett, Nancie Harker, Evelyn Holmes, Clara Levin, Dorothy Mackay, Margaret Wood, Nora Mills, Kate Scott, Muriel Booth, Marjorie Derbyshire, Marjorie Almond, Muriel Barnes, Dorothy Fleming, Rachel Graham, Freda Pritchard, Lizzie Riley, Hilda Petford, Margaret Atkinson, Madge Edwards, Doris Mielziner, Norah Rowney, Mary Watson, Paula Wilcock, Enid Batchan, Hilda Bowker, Hilda Garside, Hilda Whipp, Marjorie Wright.

 

Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes:  Elsie Burton, Dora Tyson, Hilda Bowker.

 

Dixon Gymnasium Cup:  Doris Walker

 

Parry Junior Gymnasium Cup:  Annie Barr

 

Fletcher Cricket Cup:  Eileen Gibson, Katherine Lowe

 

Swimming Cups: Freda Demel, Helen Robinson

 

Form Basket Ball:  VI Senior, IV A

 

Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games:  Ruth Bailey, Irene Challenor

 

Exhibitioners

Sybil Bailey, Hilda Broadbent, Ethel Hudleston [sic], Leonora Moodie, Doris Walker.

 

Mary Bradford Exhibitioners

Emma Manton

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners

Gertrude Cocks, Constance Parish.

 

Scholars

Barbara Abensur, Margaret Atkinson, Mary Barnes, Janet Brown, Irene Challenor, Madge Edwards, Doris Mielziner, Muriel Purdy, Nora Rowney, Eileen Threlkeld, Louise Webber.

 

Old Girls' Association Scholarship

Edith Newell, Hilda Pratt.

 

Entrance Scholarships at Manchester School

Enid Allen, Irene Armstrong, Rosalind Ball, Licita Benoliel, Alfreda Booth, Agnes Craig, Alice Gratrix, Doris Grundy, Muriel Hancock, Emily Jackson, Rebecca Lobel, Alice Lowe, Edna Moorfield, Winifred Parker, Dorothy Parkinson, Minnie Rushton, Kate Simmonds, Edith Smith, Phyllis Whitehead, Dorothy Wykes.

 

John Moodie

Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1912 to 31 August 1913

Details of income and expenditure.

 

Regulations for Exhibitions

Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance.

 

Regulations for the Lady Whitworth and Mary Bradford Exhibitions

Details of regulations for the award of the Lady Whitworth and Mary Bradford Exhibitions.

 

Regulations for Scholarships

Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance.

 

Junior Scholarships

Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance.

 

Form of Bequest to the School

 

Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1913

Seniors, Student Teachers, VI Transitus, V Upper A, V Upper Remove, V Upper Alpha, Secretarial Advanced Second Year, Secretarial First Year, Housewifery II, Housewifery I, V A, V Alpha, IV Upper A, IV Upper Remove, IV Upper Secretarial, IV Upper Alpha, IV Upper B, IV A, IV Alpha, IV Middle, III A, III Remove, III Alpha, II Upper A, II Upper B, II Middle, II Lower, Intermediate, I Upper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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