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Database : School Reports, 1874 - 1952

1923

Governors

Chairman: F A Padmore

Miss G B Ayre, Miss E M Barlow JP,  F W Bates JP, Councillor E B Beesley, Lady Broadhurst, G F Burditt, Prof H B Dixon, Sir Edward Donner, Mrs G Eckhard, Miss Caroline Herford JP, Prof F J Hickson, Councillor Kingsmill Jones JP, Miss F Knott, Herbert Leach, Miss Primrose McNicol, J Moodie, Rev R G Parsons, Prof F M Powicke, Alderman Lane-Scott, Mrs E D Simon,  A E Steinthal, Councillor E F Sutton JP, 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: Mrs M Monton

 

Report

The most important event of the year has been Miss Burstall's announcement that she will retire at Easter 1924.

Details given of the foundation of the school when Miss Day was the Head Mistress and 52 girls were present on the opening day, 19 January 1874 and the present when there are 700 girls.

Details given of Miss Burstall's career. The resolution passed by the governors paying tribute to her is quoted.

 

Details given of the following staff: Miss A M Clark, Miss Duncan.

 

Staff

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

Head Mistress: Miss S A Burstall

Deputy Head Mistress, 1923 : Miss Marten

School Secretary:  Miss Berta [sic] Humphrey

Medical and School Clerk:  Miss Elizabeth Simpson

Departmental Mistresses, September 1923:

Miss Hannah Lister, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Ruth Bennett, Miss Mary Ewing, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Winifred Ayres, Mrs Elsie Dymond, Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Constance Treloar, Miss Sophia Weitzman, Miss Phyllis Sharp, Miss Margaret Adams, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Elizabeth Tait, Miss A H Bannerman, Miss Millicent Ashworth, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Ruth Ashworth, Miss Mary Rickards, Miss Muriel Goodwin, Miss Maude Clarke, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Marion Mitchell, Miss Eileen Threlkeld, Miss Violet Ellis, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Edith Brighouse, Miss Winifred Ayres, Miss Frances Harrison, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss Evelyn Hardy, Miss Barbara Niven, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Norrie [sic] Miles, 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 Arnold, Mary Atkinson, Doris Bailey, Dorothy Chester, Phyllis Clarke, Eileen Erskine, Joan Ferguson, Olive Freshney, Hilda Gee, Ellen Hart, Marion Hewitt, Beatrice Holme, Elsie McGill, Flora Marples, Doris Mielziner, Joyce Murray, Ruth Niven, Winifred Pratt, Megan Roberts, Annie Somerford, Ruth Taylor, Nora Walker, Esmay Whitson, Marion Williams, Kathleen Appleton, Bessie Buner, Evelyne [sic] Hartley, Annie Hynd, Margery Kay, Kathleen McMorran, Winifred Roper, Irene Rowbotham, Connie Scholefield, Elsie Strange, Ethel Weaver, Christina Yates.

 

Former Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

University of Manchester:  Georgina Duthie, Kate Simmonds, Marjorie Grant, Evelyn Holmes, Doris Bentham, Hilda Pratt, Annie Somerford, Rachel Graham, Mary Winstanley, Jeanie Adam, Mary Jackson, Eira Roberts, Muriel Sutcliffe, Phyllis Whitehead, Annie Martin, Mary Stewart, Beatrice Hallard, Rachel Smith, Dorothy Fleming, Joyce Procter, Ethel Berry, Doris Hindson.

 

University of Oxford:  Kathleen Chrimes, Joyce Smith, Lettice Webster.

 

University of Cambridge:  Eleanor Hollingworth, Doris Mielziner.

 

McGill University, Montreal: Phyllis Clarke.

 

University College, Reading: Eileen Erskine.

 

Royal Manchester College of Music: Phyllis Cobley.

 

Present Pupils

Details given of the successes of the following:

 

Open Exhibitions and Scholarships

Irene Carter, Florence Kletz, Christabel Dean, Muriel Brocklebank, Kathleen Nicholas.

 

Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1923:  details given of subjects passed by the following:  Lucy Brew, Alice Byway, Christabel Dean, Dorothy Geiler, Enid Hartt, Ella Jacobs, Florence Kletz, Esmee Lane, Mary Miller, Kathleen Nicholas, Beatrice Whatmough,  Taube Yaffey [sic], Cecily Hagarty, Grace Lees, Constance Millar, Frances Hardman, Violet Scholefield, Margaret Marsden, Kathleen Wilson.

 

School Certificate, July 1923:  Kathleen Barlow, Eileen Tuer, Louie [sic] Seddon, Sybil Susman, Gladys Brice, Evelyn Eastwood, Louisa Fothergill, Una Haxby, Edith Malley, Janet Moorhouse, Dora Paterson, Nellie Pickstone, Elizabeth Ryding, Helen Smith, Muriel Strange, Catherine Whitson, Helen Willows, Margaret Bradbury, Joyce Cobley, Margaret Collier, Dorothy Cowtan, Ena Drapkin, Eileen Fowden, Minnie Freeman, Joan Garside, Eileen Harper, Bessie Harthan, Dorothy Holland, Anna Levy, Jessie Lund, Olga Marcus, Beryl Morgan, Mary Rowland, Janie Shuttleworth, Grace Spann, Esta Weiss, Olive Young, Dora Andrews, Frances Begg, Kathleen Bentley, Muriel Brocklebank, Nancy Carter, Doris Chakirian, Jessie Craig, Ethel Eastwood, Enid Fletcher, May Goodwin, Mary Hadfield, Marie Hampson, Naomi Haring, Ruth Haring, Asdghig Kamberian, Dorothy Kay, Margaret Marshall, Phyllis Nanney, Elsie Parkes, Gretchen Tydeman, Jean Watson, Madeline White, Sybil Wildman, Norah Willoughby, Alice Byway, Marjorie Powell, Irene Sutcliffe.

 

Matriculation Examination, June 1923:  Ena Eldridge.

 

National Shorthand Association Speed Certificates: statistics given of successes including those of the following:  Martha Hargreaves, Winifred Roper, Irene Rowbottom, Christina Yates, Doreen Bayfield, Ethel Clark, Annie Hynd, Flora Marples, Dorothy Paton, Clara Williams, Constance Bagshaw, Tilly Dembowsky, Olive Freshney, Hilda Gee, Margery Kay, Jeanie McMeekin, Winifred Pratt, Elsie Strange, Clara Williams.

 

Manchester Municipal School of Art Examinations:  Eileen Tydeman, Dora Taylor, Joyce Cobley, Bessie Harthan, Alison Milburn, Helen Willows, Kitty Cramer, Muriel Hargreaves, Dorothy Hindshaw, Muriel Rickards.

 

Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges:  Alice Briggs, Vera Kershaw, Hilda Mennell, Nellie Walker.

 

Book Presents:  Elsie Geiler, Frances Hardman, Irene Sutcliffe, Margery Willoughby, Una Haxby, Catherine Whitson, Eileen Fowden, Dora Andrews,  Muriel Brocklebank, Nancy Carter, Marie Hampson, Madeline White, Sybil Wildman, Olive Freshney, Winifred Roper, Clara Williams, Muriel Arnold, Mildred Yates, Winifred Leach, Lily Chapman, Margaret Champness, Margaret Fowden, Mabel Gleave, Ellen Hampson, Elsie Boyars, Joan Hinchliffe, Averil Stephens, Muriel Walker, Constance Hodgkinson, Evelyn Addis, Kathleen Champness, Lily Daniels, Kathleen Pursglove, Hilda Steiner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kathleen Forshaw,  Mary Gradwell, Eluned Jones, Edna Berry, Rita Herring, Molly Owen, Marion Duckworth, Marjorie Anderson, Maureen Binns, Elaine Clarke, Dorothy Ellison, Denise Hagan, Rosita Hodges, Isabel Murgatroyd, Betty Mason, Nancie Scholes, Elizabeth Riddall, Lucy Ryle, Amy Unsworth, Kathleen Allpass, Ruth Altaras, Nancy Holmes, Marion Lewin, Barbara Rigby, Kathleen Skidmore, Phyllis Kenworthy.

 

Art Prizes:  Nancy Sutcliffe, Iris Chakirian, Dora Taylor, Eileen Tydeman, Helen Willows, Muriel Hargreaves, Lena Gemmell, Margaret Barber, Kitty Cramer, Joyce Bratherton [sic], Dorothy Hindshaw, Lily Daniels, Marian Duckworth, Vera Richardson.

         

Adamson Memorial Prize for French:  Hilda Altaras.

 

Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes:  Edith Bentley, Ellen Hampson, Doris Williams, Constance Cooper, Joan Goodwin, Dorothy Ellison.

         

Dixon Gymnasium Cup: Irene Carter.

 

Gymnastic Eight [sic]:  Hilda Grindrod, Sheila McNicol, Rhona Barlow, Irene Carter, Nancy Ashworth.

The following names are bracketed together:  Elsie Emmott, Kathleen Wilson.

The following names are bracketed together:  Janet Moorhouse, Isa Morrison.

 

Middle School Gymnasium Cup:  Edna Mansfield.

 

Parry Junior Gymnasium Cup:  Dorothy Ellison, Margaret Keeling.

 

Senior Drill Competition Shield:  Senior VI.

 

Elizabeth Day Memorial Shield:  IV A.

 

Swimming Cups:  Frances Hardman, Annie Lowry, Elizabeth Riddall.

 

Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Rhona Barlow, Nora Willoughby.

 

Form Net Ball Cups:  Junior VI, IV A, III Upper Transitus, IV Remove, IV Parallel.

 

Tennis Singles Cup:  Rhona Barlow

 

Fletcher Cricket Cup:  Lilian Henderson

 

School Tennis Champions:  Rhona Barlow, Freda Holden.

 

Thring Memorial Cup for Hockey:  Hilda Grindrod

 

Chairman's Prize for the Head Girl:  Irene Carter

 

Success in Games

The school teams have been successful in the following:

Northern Schools Net Ball Association, Junior Challenge Shield

Manchester and District Schools Hockey League, Challenge Shield

SE Lancashire Girls? Schools Lawn Tennis League, Challenge Shield

 

Prefects, 1922 - 1923

Head Prefect:  Irene Carter

Deputy Prefect:  Kathleen Wilson

Nancy Ashworth, Aileen Bamford, Rhona Barlow, Dorothy Geiler, Hilda Grindrod, Enid Hartt, Ella Jacobs, Grace Lees, Sheila McNicol, Isa Morrison, Gwendoline Taylor.

 

Exhibitioners

Irene Carter, Christabel Dean, Christine Gulbenkian, Cecily Hagarty, Grace Lees, Isa Morrison, Dora Taylor, Eileen Tydeman, Kathleen Wilson.

 

Lady Whitworth Exhibitioner

Dorothy Geiler

 

Adamson Memorial Travelling Scholarship

Doris Byway

 

Hulme Scholars

Joyce Barlow, Mary Clarke,  Mary Higginbottom, Sheila Lomax, Magdalen Newland-Smith, Winifred Fowler, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Herring, Kathleen Robinson, Denise Hagan, Dorothy Ellison, Margery Willoughby.

 

Old Girls' Association Scholarship

Ida Wraith

 

Entrance Scholarships

Isabel Aberdein [sic], Dora Beardwell, Marjorie Burrows, Eunice Butterworth, Marjorie Cartwell, Dorothy Clear, Beryl Collingwood, Margaret Cowan, Mary Eaton, Violet Fairbank, Sybil Gould, Vergin [sic] Gulbenkian, Norah Haythornthwaite, Ruth Hindshaw, Edith Hurst, Constance Jarvis, Ethel Kirkham, Hilda Lofthouse, Nora Mattinson, Edith Middleton, Annie Mullineaux, Nancy Newton, Hilda Rayner, Hilda Ridler, Sybil Roebuck, Gwendolen Snow, Ethel Walker, Margaret Ward, Phyllis Wildman, Patricia Wright.

 

John Moodie

Statement of Accounts for the Year Ending 31 August 1923

Details of income and expenditure.

 

Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1923

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

 

           

 

                                               

           

 

 

 

 

   
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