Frontispiece
A drawing of the school at Dover St.
Governors
Chairman: Prof T F Tout
Rev Harold Anson, 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, J Moodie, Mrs A A Mumford, F A Padmore, Sir Alexander Porter, Sir T Thornhill Shann, Mrs C J Spence, A E Steinthal, Sir William Stephens, Mrs T F Tout, Alderman Turnbull, the Dean of Manchester
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
Report
There are 600 pupils, the maximum the school can accommodate. The "occupation of the house, 42 Dover St " makes this possible.
The school is in debt [details given] because of the cost of improvements [details given]. Details of funding from organisations,
There are 41 assistant mistresses and one teacher per 15 pupils. There are also visiting teachers [details given]. Miss Beatrice Leach and Miss M Ellis Jones have retired and have taken advantage of the pension scheme.
Details of some examination results. Details given of the success of the following: Margaret Hogg, Henriette Klein, Elsie Blackburn-Brown, Irene Pike.
The housewifery and secretarial departments continue to flourish.
Miss Adamson has begun to teach Portuguese and Russian.
General comments on inspections carried out in 1913. The last full inspection was carried out in 1910.
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, 1914 ? 1915:
Miss S Louisa Dendy, Miss Winifred Biggs, Miss Eleanor Rhodes, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Gladwys Evan, Miss Florence Lunn, Miss Margaret Deanesley [sic], Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Annie Adamson, Miss Florence Pollard, Miss Jessie Sprunt, Miss Gertrude Powicke, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Emily Greenwood, Miss Edith Burras, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Amy Freeman, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Jane Mutch, Miss Margaret Moir, Miss Mary Taylor, Miss Doris Bailey, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss N Caress, Miss Gladys Cliffe, Miss Kiero Moakes, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Grace Bradshaw, Miss Ellen Moakes, Miss K Violet Moore, Miss Jeanie McClymont, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Sybil Patterson, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Mollie Fulton, Miss Hannah Ritchie, Miss Dorothy Saunders
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 9 - 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.
Some Recent Appointments
Details given of the following: Philippa Esdaile, Amy Mullock, Eleanor Harvey, Bertha Varley, Emma Titterington, Constance Moakes, Elizabeth Pearce, Eleanor McDougall, Mildred Cadness, Gertrude Hickling, Catherine Corbett, Marion Hargreaves, Amy Harvey.
Assistant Mistresses
Details given of the schools at which the following teach: Eleanor Rhodes, Doris Bailey, Marion Hawcridge, Molly Fulton, Janie Learmouth, Margaret Langley, Theodora Pitt, Mary Parkin, Lucy Wormell, Dorothea Hoffert, Muriel Clay, Beatrice Clay, Audrey Lodge, Edith Sugden, Hilda Hancock, Ethel Thompson.
Secretarial Appointments in Civil Service, Public Offices, Manchester Museum. Banks etc
Details given of the following: Amy Beech, Doris Brown, Klarli Brunnschweiler, Doris Cliffe, Gertrude Entwistle, Olive Gill, Amy Goodall, Bertha Humphrey, Kate Jacques, Lilian Ormerod
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Manchester University: Mary Dymond, Ethel Thompson, Mary Watson, Lucy Wormell, Olga Payne, Dorothy Stewart, Jessie Davis, Ada Stephens, Maud Willis, Primrose McNicol.
Teachers' Diplomas: Hilda Hancock, Dorothea Hoffert, Janie Learmouth, Elsie Cartwright, Audrey Lodge, Mary Parkin, Ethel Thompson.
Shuttleworth Scholarship: Mary Dymond.
Graduate Bursaries in Education: Jessie Davies, Dorothy Stewart, Margaret Bowman, Annie Ellis.
Dalton Natural History Prize: Constance Lightbrowne.
Cambridge University Mathematical Tripos: Annie Ellis, Margaret Bowman.
Birmingham University Secondary Teachers? Diploma: Josephine Peaty.
Liverpool University, BA Hons History: Winifred Riley.
Manchester Municipal School of Art: Mildred Cadness.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Open Exhibitions and Scholarships
Newnham College: Margaret Hogg.
Bredford College, London: Elsie Blackburn Brown.
Lancashire County Council University Scholarship, 1913: Hilda Broadbent.
Cheshire County Council University Scholarship, 1913: Gertrude Cocks, Dorothy Spencer
Manchester Education Committee: Margaret Hogg, Henriette Klein, Irene Pike, Olive Gibbons, Gladys Milne, Susan Brooks, Phyllis Mills.
Joint Matriculation of the Northern Universities, 1914: Joyce Addyman, Gwendoline Bailey, Mary Barnes, Edith Berry, Dorothy Chester, Georgiana Duthie, Clara Hornby, Ida Jackson, Madeline Lees, Phyllis Lowe, Annie McIntyre, Margaret Mumford, Phyllis Pritchard, Doris Purdy, Jeanne de Picciotto, Eileen Rowney, Rose Shaer, Elsie Simmonds, Margaret Tout, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Annie Sommerhalder, Dorothy Wellard, Hilda Woodall, Dorothy Wilkinson.
Matriculation [September]: Kathleen Doyle, Olive Gimson.
Oxford Senior Local Examinations: Phyllis Clarke, Mary Eccles, Maisie Hobbins, Mary Malan, Dora Tyson, Dorothy Parkinson, Edith Wright, Minnie Yablonsky.
Staff Notation and Tonic Sol-Fa College: Dorothy Bunn, Annie Patterson.
German Language Association: Margaret Hogg, Christine Anson, Doris Hancock, Lily Boltiansky.
Royal Society of Arts Commercial German: Christine Anson, Grace Barlow, Laura Diggle.
Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music: Annie Ashley, Doris Davies, Lydia Pilkington, Mabel Poyser, Phyllis Rylands, Ella Prescott.
National Shorthand Association: Statistics given of successes including those of the following: Grace Barlow, Edith Henson, Doris Aves, Alice Bayley, Jennie Franks, Irene Vivante, Olive Gill, Doris Brown, Amy Goodall.
Housecraft Certificate: Kathleen Davey, Mary Platt, Nellie Isherwood, Doris Davis, Emily Machin, Elizabeth Whitworth, Ethel Shaw, Muriel Yorke Jones.
Manchester Education Committee Admitted as Bursars: Elsie Burton, Minnie Egli, Maisie Hobbins, May Wright , Minnie Yablonsky.
Entrance Examination for Intending Bursars: Marion Griffiths, Muriel Lomas, Winifred Morgan, Joyce Ramsell, Dorothy Smith, Freda Wood.
University of London, Matriculation Examination: Kathleen Doyle, Norah Flynn.
University of Oxford, Responsions: Dorothy Spencer.
University of Cambridge Previous Examination: Marjorie Duthie.
Entrance Examination, Girton College: Marjorie Duthie.
Leaving Presents: Annie Ashley, Ruth Bailey, Elsie Blackburn-Brown, Phyllis Clarke, Doris Cliffe, Elsie Evans, Norah Flynn, Ethel Gamble, Jeanne de Picciotto, Annie McIntyre, Irene Pike, Margaret Tout.
Old Girls' Scholarship: Mary Atkinson
Book Prizes: Sallie Ellis, Annie Evans, Essie [sic] Levin, Phyllis Mills, Hilda Pratt, Elsie Shaw, Margaret Single, Norah Walker, Margaret Whiteley, Bessie Whitworth, Muriel Yorke-Jones, Lily Boltiansky, Doris Bridge, Hilda Cann, Kate Grime, Annie Patterson, Gertrude Simpson, Mary Hunson, Mary Atack, Mary Atkinson, Marjorie Derbyshire, Sallie Edmondson, Violet Ellis, Nancie Harker, Evelyn Holmes, Gipsy Levin, Dorothy Mackay, Margaret Wood, Ethel Oppenheimer, Molly Affleck, Jenny Franks, Dorothy Fleming, Muriel Hancock, Rebecca Lobel, Freda Pritchard, Lizzie Riley, Eileen Threlkeld, Blanche Kayley, Madge Shaw, Margaret Atkinson, Edith Cadness, Madge Edwards, Louise Webber, Doris Mielziner, Norah Rowney, Mary Watson, Doris Bardsley, Alfreda Booth, Winifred Parker, Agnes Wilson, Annie Barr, Hilda Bowker, Eira Davis, Hilda Garside, Elaine Marks, Ailsa Craig, Mary Downes, Edith Pilkington, Diana Conway, Edna Dean, Loan Lodge, Sheila McNicol, Marjorie Wellard, Marjorie Wright.
Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes: Dora Tyson, Agnes Wilson, Hilda Garside.
Dixon Gymnasium Cup: Olive Gimson.
Parry Junior Gymnasium Cup: Annie Barr.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Nancy Conway.
Swimming Cups: Elsie Blackwell, Enid Almond.
Form Basket Ball Cups: VI Transitus, IV Alpha, III Middle.
Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Irene Challenor.
Northern Schools Net Ball League [sic]: Junior Shield, Senior Shield.
Exhibitioners
Margaret Hogg, Dorothy Spencer, Marjorie Duthie, Florence Evans, Elaine Fogg, Henriette Klein, Doris Hancock, Nora Whittle, Doris Tompkin, Irene Challenor.
Scholars
Joan Robinson, Annie Barr, Elaine Marks, Eira Davis, Hilda Garside, Helena Blott.
Old Girls' Association Scholarship
Mary Atkinson
Entrance Scholarships at Manchester School
Amelia Brant, Phyllis Clare, Doris Hindson, Muriel Jackson, Nora Lea, Julie Lichtenstein, Nellie McMeel, Annie Martin, Hilda Morris, Florence Peart, Ida Richardson, Elsie Ricketts, Janet Single, Freda Waller, Alice Wallwork.
John Moodie
Statement of Accounts from 1 September 1913 to 31 August 1914
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 [recte 1914]
VI Seniors, VI Seniors [Students], VI Transitus, VI Remove, V Upper, Housewifery II, Secretarial Third Year, Secretarial Second Year, Secretarial First Year, V A, V Alpha, Housewifery I A, Housewifery I Alpha, IV Upper A, IV Upper Alpha, IV Upper Secretarial, IV Upper Housewifery, IV A, IV Alpha, IV Middle, III A, III Alpha, III Middle, II Upper A, II Upper B, II A, II Alpha, II B, II Lower, I.