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Database : School Reports, 1874 - 1952

1922

Governors

Chairman:  F A Padmore

Miss G B Ayre, Miss E M Barlow, F W Bates, Lady Broadhurst, G F Burditt, Prof H B Dixon, Sir Edward Donner, Mrs G Eckhard, Councillor Caroline Herford JP, Prof F J Hickson, Councillor Kingsmill Jones JP, Miss F Knott, Herbert Leach, the Dean of Manchester, J Moodie, Rev R G Parsons, Prof F M Powicke, Alderman Lane-Scott, Sir T Thornhill Shann, Mrs E D Simon, A E Steinthal, Councillor E F Sutton, Prof T F Tout, 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 Inspector and Referee: Miss C Chisholm

Medical and School Clerk: Miss Elizabeth Simpson

School Secretary:  Miss B Humphrey

Institutional Housekeeper:  Miss Katharine Duncan

 

Report

The school is no longer in debt due to the increases in fees and grants.

 

Miss Grace Bradshaw has been appointed Organising Inspector of Domestic Arts under the Liverpool Education Authority.

 

Seven acres of land for playing fields has been bought in South  Manchester in the area between Old Hall Lane and Birchfields Rd. ?The debt occasioned by the purchase must be defrayed as soon as the condition of trade improves.?

 

Staff

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

Head Mistress:  Miss S A Burstall

Deputy Head Mistress, 1922 :  Mrs Elsie Dymond

School Secretary:  Miss Berta [sic] Humphrey

Medical and School Clerk: Miss Elizabeth Simpson

Departmental Mistresses, September 1922:

Miss Hannah Lister, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Ruth Bennett, Miss Joan Biggs, Miss Annie Clark, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Winifred Ayres, Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Constance Treloar, Miss Sophia Weitzman, Miss Margaret Adams, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Elizabeth Tait, Miss Cecile Davies, Miss A H Bannerman, Miss Adele Ogier, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Ruth [sic] Ashworth, Miss Mary Rickards, Miss Muriel Goodwin, Miss Eleanor Holmes, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Marion Mitchell, Miss Eileen Threlkeld, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Grace Bradshaw, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Winifred Ayres, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Phyllis Anderson, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss Barbara Niven, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Norah Wyatt, Miss Hannah Ritchie, Miss Dorothy Saunders, Madame Alice Lamb, Miss Margaret Clark, Miss Edith Webster, Miss E Arthan

 

Some Recent Appointments

Details given of the appointments held by the following:

Doris Bailey, Beatrice Bamford, Doris Bardsley, Ethel Benn, Ann Bishop, Edith Brighouse, Caroline Coignou, Georgina Duthie, Sarah Ellis, Violet Ellis, Maisie Hobbins, Esther Lewin, Dorothy Lodge, Carrie Morrison, Mary Ormerod [nee Burton], Annie Patterson, Olive Pearson, Hilda Pratt, Marjorie Thomson, Eileen Threlkeld, Mary Turner

 

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Amy Winder, Margaret Atkinson, Ann Bishop, Bessie Cadness, Freda Pritchard, Flora Susman, Marjorie Derbyshire, Dorothy Hindson, Phyllis Lamb, Florence Roscoe, Kate Simmonds, Muriel Hancock, Mary Ashton, Nora Garnett   , Kathleen Taylor, Edith Hesling, Janet Single, Doris Burns, Doris Thomas, Eileen Threlkeld, Eileen Holder, Elsie Thom,  Doris Bardsley, Violet Ellis, Olga Payne, Doris Bentham, Margaret Derbyshire, Hilda Pratt, Sarah Ellis, Kate Bahin.

 

University of Oxford:  Esmay Whitson, May Hewitt.

 

University of Cambridge:  Amy Lattimer [sic].

 

Calder Training College of Domestic Science, Liverpool: Kathleen Hollingworth.

 

University of London Matriculation Certificate:  Ailsa Craig.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Open Exhibitions and Scholarships:  Dilys Warrington, Elsie Miller, Joan Bell, Doris Whitworth, Helen Gray, Doris Whitworth.

 

Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1922: details given of subjects passed by the following:  Laura Bell, Kathleen Bridge, Joan Buckley, Helen Gray, Christine Gulbenkian, Winifred Hardisty, Mary Hollings, Marjorie Morris, Marjorie Wellard, Doris Whitworth, Laura Betley, Serena Bowden, Edith Hardman, Mary Riddall, Kathleen Simpson, Winifred Story [sic], Mary Throup [sic].

 

School Certificate, July 1922:  Winifred Williams, Dorothy Wood, Aileen Bamford, Kathleen Barlow, Vera Barrow, Alice Eaton, Ena Eldridge, Mary Firth, Jean Foreman, Alice Halliday, Amy Herbert, Constance Millar, Gwendoline Taylor, Doris Tomkinson, Joan Anderson, Sarah Bradbury, Ethel Clark, Tilly Dembowsky, Evelyn Eastwood, Louisa Fothergill, Hilda Gee, Cecily Hagarty, Muriel Kaufman, Caroline Lyall, Edith Malley, Margaret Martin, Elaine Peeling, Hilda Shaffer, Muriel Strange, Kathleen Sullivan, Ruth Beeley, Winifred Clegg, Barbara Dean, Joan Ferguson, Olive Garner, Annie Harris, Una Haxby, Dorothy Hesketh, Margery Hoyle, Haigouhi Kamberian, Muriel Rickards, Dora Taylor, Violet Taylor, Rhona Barlow, Elizabeth Platt, Catherine Whitson, Kathleen Allison [sic], Constance Bagshaw, Mary Barker, Mona Bates, Elsie Emmott, Elsie Geiler, Kathleen Hall, Frances Hardman, Myra Hershberg, Winifred Lea, Ada Livesey, Margaret Marsden, Constance Pearce, Nora Pilling, Marjorie Powell, Eleanor Redfern, Margaret Roberts, Elizabeth Ryding, Irene Sutcliffe, Marion Tomlinson, Margery Willoughby.

 

Student Teacher:  Kathleen Dawson.

 

Supplementary Certificate:  Isabella Morrison.

 

Matriculation Examination, September 1922:  Effie Carter.

 

Manchester City Council Scholarships:  Margery Willoughby, Olive Pilkington.

 

National Shorthand Association Speed Certificates:  statistics given of successes including those of the following: Dorothy Wood, Nora Crossley, Phyllis Sibary, Mabel Parkin, Joyce Baskerville, Edith Dean, Jean Laycock,  Maisie Marsh, Mabel Paikin [sic], Joyce Pike, Mollie Thomas, Christina Yates.

 

Manchester Municipal School of Art Examinations:  Mary Riddall, Olive Waterhouse, Nance [sic] Lees, Muriel Rickards, Helen Willows, Iris Chakirian, Barbara Dean, Dora Taylor.                 

 

Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges, 1922: Joyce Bratherton, Ella Jacobs, Muriel Richmond, Janet Smith.

 

Book Presents:  Doris Byway, Christabel Dean, Ella Jacobs, Esmee Lane, Ena Eldridge, Amy Herbert, Dorothy Paton, Annie Ramsbottom, Irene Rowbottom, Christina Yates, Mary Lyall, Elaine Peeling, Joan Ferguson, Kathleen Hall, Frances Hardman, Irene Sutcliffe, Margery Willoughby, Grace Betesh, Jessie Lund, Olive Freshney, Winifred Pratt, Winifred Roper, Dora Andrews, Kathleen Bentley, Muriel Brocklebank, Marie Hampson, Gretchen Tydeman, Sybil Wildman, Margaret Colles, Muriel Atterton, Winifred Leach, Winifred Race, Kathleen Wood, Ellaine [sic] Woolley, Margaret Champness, Margaret Fowden, Mabel Gleave, Ellen Hampson, Constance Haxby, Adrine Kamberian, Joan Liles, Joan Hinchliffe [sic], Averil [sic] Stephens, Kathleen Champness,  Constance Cooper, Norah Edlin, Lily Daniels, Winifred Fowler, Mary Somerville, Hilda Steiner, Elizabeth Taylor, Edna Ward, Marjorie Winship, Kathleen Clayton, Agnes MacDonald, Elaine Clarke, Dorothy Ellison, Denise Hagan, Isabel Murgatroyd, Mary Strange, Ruth Altaras, Kathleen Skidmore.

 

Drawing Prizes:  Nance [sic] Lees, Gretchen Tydeman, Muriel Hargreaves, Margaret Barber.

 

Adamson Memorial Prize for French:  Madeline White.

 

Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes:  Alice Halliday, Marjorie Rowbotham, Alice Thomas, Margaret Wallington, Doris Williams, Edna Ward.

         

Dixon Gymnasium Cup:  Diana Conway.

 

Middle School Gymnasium Cup:  Sarah Gleicher.

 

Parry Junior Gymnasium Cup:  Constance Cooper.

 

Senior Drill Competition Shield: Senior VI.

 

Elizabeth Day Memorial Shield: IV A.

 

Junior Drill Cup Presented by the Misses Lodge: III A.

 

Swimming Cups [sic]:  Muriel Richmond.

 

Form Basket Ball Cups: Senior VI, IV Upper A, III Upper Remove, IV Upper A, IV Parallel.

 

Tennis Singles Cup presented by Mrs T M Young: Rhona Barlow.

 

Fletcher Cricket Cup:  Helen Barnes.

 

School Tennis Champions:  Rhona Barlow, Joan Buckley.

 

Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games:  Mary Throup.

 

1922 Gymnasium Cup presented by Sir Edward Donner and Lady Donner in Commemoration of the Opening of the Day Memorial Gymnasium:  Diana Conway.

 

Chairman?s Prize:  Nora Hardman.

 

Prefects, 1921 - 1922

Head Prefect: Nora Hardman

Deputy Prefect:  Irene Carter

Helen Barnes, Laura Betley, Diana Conway, Edna Dean, Winifred Hardisty, Madge Jackson, Sheila McNicol, Isabella Morrison, Mary Throup, Marjorie Wellard, Marjorie Wright.

 

Exhibitioners

Dilys Warrington, Marjorie Wellard, Helen Gray, Mary Riddall, Winifred Hardisty, Marjorie Morris, Kathleen Bridge.

 

Mary Bradford Exhibitioner

Doris Byway

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioner

Laura Bell

 

Adamson Memorial Travelling Scholarship

Marie Breakie

 

Hulme Scholars

Muriel Turner, Evelyn Addis, Ruth Pursglove, Evelyn Caldwell, Mary Aitkenhead, Kathleen Champness, Norah Edlin, Mary Gleave, Adrine Kamberian, Joan Liles, Hilda Steiner, Doris Byway, Marjorie Willoughby.

 

Old Girls' Association Scholarship

Sybil Wildman

 

Entrance Scholarships

Marjorie Anderson, Joan Barratt, Dorothy Bourne, Dorothy Bowden, Edith Bray, Hilda Brazier, Hilda Cooper, Ida Collens [sic], Edith Fenton, Kathleen Forshaw, Mary Gradwell, Helen Hindson, Constance Hodgkinson, Dorothy Jones, Kathleen Jones, Mair Jones, Alice Knight, Clarice Leeming, Hilda Lewis, Sophie Mipos, Molly Owen, Clara Rieck, Dorothy Richardson, Vera Richardson, Louisa Riley, Sybil Schofield, Elizabeth Scott, Nora Thompson, Edith Walker, Muriel Walker.

 

John Moodie

Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 August 1922

Details of income and expenditure.

 

Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1922

Senior VI, Junior VI, VI Transitus, VI Secretarial, Secretarial V Upper, V Upper Parallel, V Upper Classical, V Upper Housecraft, V A, V Parallel, V Secretarial, V Science, V Housecraft, IV Upper A, IV Upper Parallel, IV Upper Housecraft, IV Upper Science, IV A, IV Transitus, IV Parallel, IV Alpha, III Upper A, III Upper Transitus, III Upper Parallel, III Upper Remove, III A, II Upper, II A Remove, II A, I

  

 

 

           

 

 

 

                       

             

                       

 

 

   
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