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, Mrs E T Broadhurst, G F Burditt, Prof H B Dixon, Sir Edward Donner, Mrs G Eckhard, Miss E M Greg, Prof S J Hickson, Prof Horace Lamb, Sir Henry Miers, J Moodie, Mrs A A Mumford, F A Padmore, Sir Alexander Porter, Councillor Lane Scott, Sir T Thornhill Shann, A E Steinthal, Sir William Stephens, Mrs T F Tout, Alderman Turnbull, Mrs T M Young
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
School Secretary: Miss A Doris Bankhead
Report
Current trends especially the increasing demand for education, the larger numbers of pupils coming to the school and the later age at which they leave have continued. The Governors are looking for a house in the Didsbury / Withington areas to accommodate younger pupils. There will be 725 pupils in September 1918. A large number fail the entrance exam.
Details given of exam results which were affected by the flu epidemic. Details of the success of the following: Margaret Atkinson, Mary Atack, Margaret Forrester.
The debt has been paid off and there is a substantial balance.
The Board of Education provides grants [details given] for the advanced courses the school teaches. There are more girls specialising in science than in classics and Modern Studies combined. The Secretarial Dept has enough pupils to do advanced work. The standards of Spanish and Russian are now higher than School Certificate.
General comments on the good health of pupils. Too many pupils are missing school to take external music exams.
The Mather Training College in Whalley Range trains kindergarten and nursery teachers. Students do teaching practice at the school.
Details given about the following staff: Miss Ethel Kemp, Miss Hannah Lister, Miss Dorothy Lodge, Miss Phyllis Pritchard, Miss Goates, Miss Eira Jupe, Miss D Tudor Owen, Miss E H Henderson, Miss Elizabeth Tait, Miss Catherine Lambley, Signor Toledano, Mrs Emily Dowler [nee Greenwood], Miss Bentwich, Miss K K Moakes, Mrs Lockett, Miss Kathleen Clarke.
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss S A Burstall
School Secretary: Miss Berta [sic] Humphrey
Medical and School Clerk: Miss Elizabeth Simpson
Departmental Mistresses September, 1918:
Miss S Louisa Dendy , Miss Ethel Kemp, Miss Hannah Lister, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Margaret Goodall, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Winifred Ayres, Mrs Elsie Dymond, Miss Dorothea Thompson, Miss Constance Treloar, Miss Margery Goates, Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Catherine Henderson, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Jessie Sprunt, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss D Callinan, Mr A S Mindel, Miss Gladys Cooper, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Ethel Scott, Miss Elizabeth Tait, Miss Kathleen Lambley, Signor C A Toledano, Miss Margaret Moir, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Jeannie Thompson, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Dorothy Stewart, Miss Marion Mitchell, Miss Mary Lockett, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Grace Bradshaw, Miss Ada Withington, Miss K Violet Moore, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Muriel Goodwin, Miss Dorothy Hooper, Miss Hilda Clarke, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Kathleen Clarke, Miss Hannah Ritchie, Miss Dorothy Saunders, Madame Alice Lamb, Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Alice Dill, Mr Isidor Cohn, Miss Edith Webster, Miss E Arthan
War Honours
Details given of honours awarded to the following as a result of their work during World War I: Councillor Margaret Ashton, Prof H Dixon, Mabel Wainwright.
Some Recent Appointments
Details given of the appointments held by the following: Ruth Bailey, Sybil Bailey, Mary Burton, Doris Burstall, Louise Chaffers, Stella Davidson, Elaine de St. Croix Fogg, Vera Haigh, Kathleen Hale, Gladys Hoffert, Gladys Hobdey, Berta Humphrey, Eva Lloyd Jones, Edith Latimer, Madeline Lees, Dorothy Lowndes, Effie McNicol, Mary McNicol, Doris Mottershall, Hilda Moxon, Margaret Parkin, Lisa Pearce, Hilda Pearson, Phyllis Pritchard, Nora Rogers, Bessie Sedgley, Elsie Shaw, Emily Snowdon, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Doris Walker, Edith Wignall.
Assistant Mistresses
Details given of schools at which the following teach: Katherine Barlow, Ethel Benn, Mary Blackledge, Kathleen Clarke, Marguerite Clayton, Annie Ellis, Dorothy Firth, Elsie Foster, Molly Fulton, Doris Hancock, Elsie Hancock, Catherine Henderson, Kathleen Housden, Judith Jacobs, Audrey Lodge, Elsie Snowdon, Alice Wilkinson, Dorothy Wilkinson.
Secretarial Posts at the University, in Banks, Public Offices etc
Details given of the appointments held by the following: Enid Allen, Irene Armstrong, Hilda Barnett, Barbara Bolton, Alfreda Booth, Amelia Brandt, Margarita [sic] Brewis, Elsie Bridge, Gladys Butler, Dorothy Charles, Dorothy Cox, Lilian Dewhurst, Margery Downes, Kathleen Gregory, Dorothy Lea, Nora Lea, Bertha Newberry, Dorothea Osborne, Eirwen Roberts, Phyllis Rylands, Gladys Sawyer, Leah Timmis, Freda Waller, Gladys Ward, Margaret Wilson, Freda Wood.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Frances Lodge, Madeleine Lees, Eleanor Lees, Hilda Woodall, Phyllis Pritchard, Margaret Tout, Mary Ferguson, Margaret Whiteley, Amelia Willson [sic], Edith Berry, Dorothy Chester, Doris Rohleder, Dorothy Wilkinson, Norah Whittle, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Mary Barnes, Clara Hornby, Vera Wilson, Sybil Bailey, Gertrude Cocks, Madeleine Levy, Hilda Pratt, Hilda Broadbent.
University of Cambridge: Margaret Mumford.
Manchester Scholarship: Leah Goodman.
Manchester Municipal School of Art, Lady Whitworth Scholarship: Christina Myers.
Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses: Helen Barker.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Open Exhibitions and Scholarships: Margaret Atkinson, Bessie Cadness, Mary Atack, Margaret Forrester, Dorothy Mackay, Mabel Clough, Mary Stewart, Eileen Threlkeld, Muriel Sadler.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities, 1918: details given of subjects passed by the following: Mary Atack, Margaret Atkinson, Bessie Cadness, Violet Ellis, Gipsy Levin, Jeanie Adam, Marjorie Almond, Mary Ashton, Jessie Barclay, Doris Bardsley, Eleanora Bernstein, Ann Bishop, Marjorie Broome, Doris Btesh, Melita Btesh, Annie Cardwell, Kathleen Chrimes, Jenny Craig, Madge Edwards, Enid Garnett, Hilda Garside, Muriel Goodall, Alice Gratrix, Doris Gunner, Mary Harburn, Eleanor Hollingworth, Jessie Hutchinson, Mary Jackson, Barbara Knight, Amy Latimer, Eileen Ledsham, Elaine Marks, Coreen Marsh, Dorothy Marsh, Annie Martin, Nellie McMeel, Marjorie Miller, Joyce Proctor, Helen Robinson, Joan Robinson, Mary Stewart, Edith Taylor, Elsie Thom, Alice Wallwork, Hilda Whipp, Edith Williamson, Cecily Wilson, Mary Winstanley, Marjorie Wood, Dorothy Wykes, Margaret Bell, Edith Brighouse, Annie Hadfield, Rhoda Howl, Gladys Maguire, Violet Michelson, Annette Sharp, Elizabeth Wilson, Dorothy Yarwood, Mabel Stanley, Kathleen Whitworth, Doris Bardsley, Maude Wilson, Nancy Bishop, Madge Edwards, Margaret Forrester.
National Shorthand Association Speed Certificates: statistics given of successes including those of the following: Elsie Bridge, Nellie McMeel, Margery Downes, Nora Lea, Dorothy Cox, Gladys Butler, Freda Waller, Elsie Evans, Amelia Brandt, Barbara Abensur, Dorothy Banks.
Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music: Mary Harburn, Laura Betley.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badge, 1918: Barbara Abensur, Enid Almond, Winifred Almond, Winifred Riley.
Certificates in Lieu of Usual Book Prizes: Alice Gratrix, Edith Brighouse, Elizabeth Wilson, Amelia Brandt, Araksie Gulbenkian, Kathleen Chrimes, Joan Robinson, Enid Garnett, Hilda Garside, Eira Davis, Hilda Higginbottom, Marie Breakey, Doris Whitworth, Isabel Young, Frieda [sic] Setzer, Joan Buckley, Irene Carter, Helen Gray, Barbara Hannaford, Maisie Marsh, Mary Throup, Marjorie Wellard, Nora Hardman, Marie Lloyd, Marjorie Butterworth, Ruth Beeley, Margaret Martin, Ena Eldridge, Una Haxby, Jessie Higginbottom, Margaret Whatmough, Kathleen Hall, Esmee Lane, Joyce Lord, Muriel Roe, Ethel Eastwood, Gretchen Tydeman, Kathleen Betley, Nellie Tune, Madge Barlow.
Adamson Memorial Prize IV Upper: Doris Chiha [sic], Molly Shaw.
Sir William Mather's Prize for Russian: Mabel Clough, Margery Downes.
Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes: Jessie Hutchinson, Elizabeth Platt, Muriel Roe, Doris Whitworth, Jessie Higginbottom, Phyllis Cohen.
Dixon Gymnasium Cup: Leah Timmis.
Parry Junior Gymnasium Cup: Evelyn Atkinson.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Eileen Threlkeld.
Swimming Cups: Enid Almond, Marjorie Lilley.
Form Basket Ball Cups: Seniors, IV Upper A, III Upper Alpha.
Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Margaret Atkinson.
Exhibitioners
Marjorie Derbyshire, Mary Atack, Clara Levin, Freda Pritchard, Margaret Forrester, Doris Burns, Violet Ellis.
Lady Whitworth Exhibitions
Margaret Atkinson, Edith Cadness.
Hulme Foundation Scholars
Caroline Lyall, Eleanor Redfern, Elizabeth Buner, Margaret Willoughby, Esmee Lane, Kathleen Hall.
Old Girls' Association Scholarship
Marie Breakey, Annie Melling.
Entrance Scholarships at Manchester School
Constance Bagshaw, Sarah Bradbury, Muriel Brocklebank, Ethel Clark, Winifred Clegg, Dorothy Cowtan, Tilly Dembowsky, Enid Fletcher, Hilda Gee, Ettie [sic] Helman, Annie Hynd, Ada Livesey, Constance Pearce, Elaine Peeling, Marjorie Powell, Margaret Roberts, Louie [sic] Seddon, Dorothy May Smith, Lilian Spiro, Nelly Tosh, Esta [sic] Weiss, Clara Williams, Joan Wright.
John Moodie
Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 August 1918
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 Entrance Scholarships
Details of regulations for the award of financial assistance.
Form of Bequest to the School
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1918
VI Seniors, Higher Certificate, Matriculation, V Upper A, V Upper Alpha, Upper V Housecraft, V Arts, V Science, V Alpha, Secretarial III, Secretarial II, Secretarial I, IV Upper A, IV Upper Parallel, IV Upper Remove, IV Upper Alpha, IV A, IV Parallel, IV Alpha, IV Middle, III Upper A, III Upper Alpha, III Middle, III A, III Remove, II Upper A, II Upper Alpha, II A, II Middle, I Upper, I Lower