Governors
Chairman: F A Padmore
Miss M Ashton, Miss G B Ayre JP, Miss E M Barlow JP, F W Bates JP, G F Burditt CBE JP, Prof H B Dixon, Sir Edward Donner, Councillor G S Grindley, Councillor Kingsmill Jones JP, H L Joseland, Miss F Knott, Herbert Leach, the Bishop of Middleton, Mrs Primrose Mather [nee McNicol], Mrs W Moberly, Prof F M Powicke, Councillor Shena D Simon, Prof J L Stocks DSO, Councillor E F Sutton JP, Councillor Dora Taylor, Alderman Turnbull CBE JP, Councillor J M Watson, Mrs T M Young
Treasurer: H M Leach
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co
Clerk to the Governors: Cedric Johnson
Medical Inspector and Referee: Miss C Chisholm
Report
Regret at the deaths of the following: Mr Moodie [governor], Gladys Cooke [pupil],
Winifred Chadwick [pupil]. The parents of Winifred Chadwick have given a bookcase to the school for use by the girl guide company.
Welcome to the following as governors: Mr Leach, Mr Joseland, Mrs Moberly, Councillor Dora Taylor.
Details given about the following staff: Miss M F Adams, Miss B S Humphrey, Miss Ruth Bennett, Miss Phyllis Sharp.
Great improvements have been made to the playing fields. The sports pavilion was opened on 30 March 1927 by Mrs Dixon. From money raised by a "dramatic entertainment" given by the staff improvements [details given] have been made to the stage and other equipment [details given] has been bought.
The guest on Speech Day was Miss Ashton. The guest on Founders' Day was Canon Peter Green. A gym display was held at the Whitworth Hall on Founders' Day. Details given of other entertainments during the year.
General comments on academic success.
The school's financial position is sound. Thanks to Mr Burditt as Chairman of the House and Finance Committee.
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1927 : Miss Lister
School Secretary: Miss Susan Fry
Medical Clerk: Miss Nancy Powicke
Departmental Mistresses, September 1927:
Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss Mary Bennett, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Catherine Chell, Miss Mary Fisher, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Mabel Hurford, Miss Winifred Hutchinson, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Frida Sorensen, Miss Constance Treloar, Miss Elizabeth Tait, Miss A H Bannerman, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Mary Oliver, Miss Eleanore Tiano, Miss Hannah Lister, Miss Katharine Matheson, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Annie Watson, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Ruth Ashworth, Miss Mary Gillespie, Miss Muriel Goodwin, Miss Marjorie Illington, Miss Mary Rickards, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss M E Mitchell, Miss Dorothy Scott, Miss Joyce Yeoman, Miss Edith Brighouse, Miss Lily Myers, Miss Mary Bennett, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Helen Langton, Miss Gwendoline Lloyd, Miss Hannah Ritchie, Miss Dorothy Saunders, Miss Frida Sorensen, Miss Barbara Niven, Miss Annie Warburton, Miss E Arthan, Miss Edith Webster, Miss Margaret Clark, Madame Alice Lamb
Recent Appointments
Details given of the appointments of the following: Muriel Sutcliffe, Ann Bishop, Lois Lodge, Elaine Fogg, Agnes Gerrard, Doris Arnold, Annie Martin, Leah Goodman, Gertrude Clement, Mary Winstanley, Margery Willoughby, Mary Shaw, Kathleen Bridge, Alice Ashcroft, Kathleen Chrimes, Rhona Barlow, Ruth Danziger, Helen Drew, Nancy Harris, Dilys Warrington, Freda Warnes, Isabel Young, Betty Gray, Nancy Helliwell, Winifred Mitchell, Christine Gulbenkian, Florence Bloor, Dorothy Bourne, Bessie Broadsmith, Doris Butler, Dorothy Clear, Constance Colling, Ida Collens [sic], Mary Dugdale, Violet Fairbank, Edith Hurst,Eva Lamb, Muriel Martin, Vera Mowbray, Marjorie Smith, Muriel Swann, Ivy Walmsley, Nora Yarker.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Agnes Whitson, Margery Hoyle, Edith Malley, Elaine Peeling, Elsie Geiler, Dorothy Bradley, Lillie Burton, Muriel Edwards, Frances Hardman, Jessie Lund, Margaret Roberts, Louie [sic] Seddon, Kathleen Allison, Elsie Emmott, Dorothy Geiler, Muriel Rickards, Ruth Haring, Alice Ashcroft, Kathleen Bridge, Joan Buckley, Hilda Grindrod, Mary Miller, Ellen Morrison, Marjorie Wright, Taube Yaffey, Nina Marshall,
University of Cambridge: Hilda Ball, Margery Willoughby, Irene Sutcliffe.
University of Edinburgh: Marjorie Morris.
University of St Andrews: Mary Lyall.
Manchester City Council: Erica Smith, Eileen Tydeman, Dora Andrews.
The Physical Training College, Silkeborg, Denmark: Hilda Mennell, Ruth Turner, Eileen Boardman.
Royal Manchester College of Music: Eileen Rigby, Edith Wright.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Open Exhibitions and Scholarships: Muriel Walker, Dorothy Bowden, Janet Smith.
Alliance Francaise: Vergin Gulbenkian, Hilda Steiner.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1927: details given of subjects passed by the following: Dorothy Broughton, Jean Cole, Ellen Hampson, Sheila McKay, Freda Sussman, Edith Walker, Muriel Walker.
School Certificate, July 1927: Isabel Aberdein [sic], Marjorie Atkinson, Joyce Barlow, Joan Barratt, Mary Bradshaw, Joyce Bratherton [sic], Eunice Butterworth, Margaret Carruthers, Dorothy Clucas, Beryl Collingwood, Norah Edlin, Mary Faulkner, Dora Fothergill, Nancy Gibb, Eileen Green, Ethel Griffiths, Marian Higham, Kathleen Hoy, Constance Jarvis, Dorothy Jones, Edith Owen, Molly Owen, Magdalen Smith, Mary Somerville, Eleanor Wilson, Patricia Wright, Mary Aitkenhead, Hilda Barrett, Evelyn Betesh, Katharine de H Birtwell, Dorothy Bourne, Edith Bray, Evelyn Caldwell, Kathleen Clayton, Constance Cooper, Eileen Cowan, Edith Fowler, Catherine Hardy, Ethel Johnson, Elspeth Kerr, Jessie Lomas, Mary Martin, May Parkinson, Hilda Ridler, Margaret Rippon, Gwendoline Roberts, Kathleen Robinson, Hilda Saxon, Marjorie Swain, Nora Thompson, Edna Ward, Zelda Bock, Dorothy Parlow, Stella Popper, Dorothy Wyneken.
National Shorthand Association Speed Certificates: Muriel Swann, Florence Bloor, Eva Lamb, Constance Colling, Marjorie Smith.
Book Prizes: Evelyn Addis, Thelma Gordon, Mary Gradwell, Connie Hodgkinson, Eluned Jones, Mary Morrison, Kathleen Pursglove, Eileen Wood, Enid Whitfield, Marjorie Challiner, Nora Yarker, Marjorie Atkinson, Beryl Collingwood, Mary Aitkenhead, Muriel Johnson, Mary Martin, Joy Waddington, Hilda Lofthouse, Eunice Openshaw, Sybil Roebuck, Marjorie Allen, Kathleen Allpass, Doris Coulthard, Marjorie Davenport, Ruth Isaacs, Gwen Jackson, Marjorie Brocklehurst, Annie Lofthouse, Janet Powicke, Lorna Robinson, Kathleen Atkinson, Kathleen Owen, Madge Peacock, Margaret Clayton, Ruth Hardwick, Winifred Hilton, Christina Hindshaw, Olive Smith, Mary Brennand, Doris Raffles, Gwen Taylor.
Art Prizes: Frances Disley, Kathleen Atkinson, Betty Heathcote, Vera Richardson, Frances Disley, Marian Duckworth.
Adamson Memorial Prize for French: Doris Coulthard, Ruth Isaacs.
Adamson Memorial Travelling Scholarship: Kathleen Pursglove.
Mrs Buller?s Prizes: Emily Hollings, Rose Sussman, Enid Taylor, Janet Prime, Minnnie Bennett, Nancy Kerr.
Harrison Music Trophies: IV A, Upper III Transitus.
Dixon Gymnasium Cup: Ellen Hampson, Eileen Wood.
Conway Cup: Eileen Wood.
Middle School Gymnastic Cup: Barbara Colling, Barbara Wilcock.
Parry Junior Gymnastic Cup: Mary Flint.
Gymnastic Champions: Ellen Hampson, Eileen Wood, Margaret Champness, Hilda Heywood, Enid Whitfield, Dorothy Bailey, Edith Walker, Hilda Wilson.
Drill Competition Shields: Senior VI, Upper IV A, Upper III A.
Swimming Cups: Ethel Lowry, Barbara Colling, Joan Hopkins.
Team Swimming Cup: Junior VI.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges, 1927: Lucy Andrews, Olga Hellfritsch, Betty Lowry, Ethel Lowry.
Form Net Ball Cups: Senior VI, Upper IV General, III A, Upper V Science, Upper III Transitus.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Margaret Champness, Vera Kershaw.
Ashworth [Hockey] Cup for the Senior School: V Arts.
Lawson [Hockey] Cup for the Middle School: Upper IV A.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Eileen Green.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup: Senior VI.
School Tennis Champions: Margaret Champness, Pauline Kirkby.
Young Tennis Singles Cups: Margaret Champness, Phillis [sic] Potter.
Thring Memorial Cup: Pauline Kirkby.
Chairman's Prize: Ellen Hampson.
South East Manchester Guide Cup: Manchester High School Company, 1st Chorlton - on - Medlock.
Prefects, 1926 - 27
Head Prefect: Ellen Hampson
Deputy Head Prefect: Edith Walker
Dorothy Bailey, Molly Brewis, Margaret Champness, Jean Cole, Molly Coppock, Margaret Fowden, Mabel Gleave, Adrine Kamberian, Pauline Kirkby, Vera Mowbray.
Exhibitioners
Dorothy Broughton, Margaret Champness, Agnes Collier, Frances Disley, Ellen Hampson, Marjorie Stevenson, Edith Walker, Muriel Walker.
Lady Whitworth Exhibitioners
Jean Cole, Pauline Kirkby.
Hulme Scholars
Joyce Addis, Mary Brennand, Margaret Cayton [sic], Betty Crampton, Mary Garner, Margaret Hardman, Doris Raffles, Constance Ratcliffe, Barbara Smith, Dennet [sic] Wise, Magdalen Newland-Smith.
MacNicol Scholarship, 1927 - 1929
Marjorie Atkinson
Old Girls' Association Scholarship
Madge Garner, Dorothy Spencer.
Entrance Scholarships
Marjorie Adams, Blanche Anderson, Dorothy Birch, Edna Biscomb, Ermyn [sic] Brown, Mary Burgess, Ethel Collinge, Elsie Fishwick, Edith Gratton, Irene Hill, Margaret Howard, Irene Hyde, Mary Knott, Phyllis Lee , Vivien Lumb, Renee Manch [sic], Margaret Moss, Joan Nixon, Ethel Rogerson, Edith Sandiford, Doris Seddon, Vivien Snow, Claire Watkinson, Edith Woodhouse, Vera Worthington.
Revenue Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1927
Details of income and expenditure
Alphabetical Class List - July 1927
Senior VI, Junior VI, Student Teachers, VI General, VI Secretarial, Upper V Arts, Upper V Science, Upper V General and Housecraft, Upper V Secretarial, V Alpha, V Arts, V General and Housecraft, V Secretarial, V Science, Upper IV A, Upper IV Arts and Science, Upper IV Parallel, IV A, IV Transitus, IV Alpha, IV General, IV Parallel, Upper III A, Upper III Transitus, Upper III General, III A, III B.