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, Miss P E Crump, Prof H B Dixon, Sir Edward Donner, Councillor G S Grindley, Mrs Hope Hogg, 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
Mrs Hogg and Miss Crump have joined the governing body.
Mrs Hogg gave the Founders' Day address at a few hours' notice when the Bishop of Middleton became ill.
Regret at the resignation from the governing body of Mrs Temple.
The Speech Day guest was the Vice Chancellor of Manchester University. His wife, Mrs Moberley presented the prizes.
Details given about the following staff: Miss Myers, Mrs Frances Clarke.
Two members of staff [unnamed] have taken sabbatical terms [details given].
Due to the fall in the number of pupils there have been staff cuts [details given].
Regret at the death of Mr Fairclough who was the Clerk of Works under the Manchester Education Authority.
General comments on the success of the school.
Leavers have been helped by the newly established Manchester, Salford and Stretford Secondary Schools for Girls? Employment Committee.
The school held a model assembly of the League of Nations.
The school's financial position is sound.
Thanks to Miss Burstall for her gift of a tapestry fire screen which she made.
Thanks to an anonymous donor who has given an "impressionistic picture of Dover St" by Mr Valette
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1928: Miss M Mitchell
School Secretary: Miss Susan Fry
Medical Clerk: Miss Nancy Powicke
Departmental Mistresses, September 1928:
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 Constance Treloar, Miss Elizabeth Tait, Miss A H Bannerman, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, 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 Muriel Goodwin, Miss Marjorie Illington, Miss Mary Rickards, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss M E Mitchell, Miss Dorothy Scott, Miss E M Tuke, Miss V Fielden, Miss A K Knight,Miss Mary Bennett, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Helen Langton, Miss Barbara Richards, Miss Hannah Ritchie, Miss Dorothy Saunders, Miss Annie Warburton, Miss E Arthan, Miss Edith Webster, Miss Margaret Clark, Madame Alice Lamb.
Recent Appointments
Details given of the appointments held by the following: Marjorie Morris, Gwenllian Ransome, Enid Almond, Theo Pitt, Muriel Edwards, Dorothy Bradley, Amy Herbert, Diana Conway, Olive Gimson, Dorothy Holmes, Jessie Hutchinson, Nesta Wells [nee Perry], Julia Wilson, Helen Robinson, Molly Fulton, Peggy Fulton, Eileen Tydeman, Dorothy Kay, Molly Riddall, Elsie Simmonds, Joan Buckley, Clara Hornby, Audrey Lodge, Elia Marrison[sic], Doris Pearson, Joyce Pearson, Vivian Pearson, Helen Smith, Muriel Stanion, Dilys Warrington, Doris Bardsley, Madge Jackson, Ethel Morris, Joan Anderson, Florence Blades, Doris Bernard, Penelope Lloyd, Carrie Morrison, Barbra [sic] Mumford, Freda Lempert, Kate Simmonds, Dorothy Simpson, Margaret Whatmough, Nora Edlin, Nancy Newton, Lilian Panter [sic], Betty Shaw, Kathleen Walker, Esther Freeman, Joan Gibson, Eileen Jeens, Edna Johnson, Dorothy Lightollers, Margaret Owen, Hilda Pitty, Elizabeth Shaw, Elizabeth Taylor.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Margery Hoyle, Kathleen Dawson, Doris Bernard, Amy Herbert, Kathleen Hall, Hilda Shaffer, Evelyn Atkinson, Sybil Wildman, Phyllis Nanney, Ethel Eastwood, Lelia Lloyd, Elsie Parkes, Mary Goodwin, Louisa Fothergill, Jessie Lund, Margaret Roberts, Louie [sic] Seddon, Irene Pike, Nina Marshall, Caecilia [sic] Pugh.
University of Cambridge: Dora Andrews, Irene Sutcliffe.
University of Oxford: Kathleen Chrimes, Agnes Whitson.
Slade School: Gretchen Tydeman.
Royal College of Art: Nancy Sutcliffe.
University of Durham: Kathleen Wood.
University of Reading: Ruth Docker.
Manchester City Council: Howie Smith.
Royal Manchester College of Music: Phyllis Cohen.
British Optical Society: Lily Ryding.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Open Exhibitions and Scholarships: Dorothy Bailey, Louisa Riley, Evelyn Addis, Mary Morrison, Kathleen Pursglove.
Alliance Francaise: Marjorie Atkinson, Eleanor Wilson.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1928: details given of subjects passed by the following: Evelyn Addis, Dorothy Bailey, Edna Berry, Elsie Boyars, Marjorie Bridge, Kathleen Champness, Thelma Gordon, Mary Gradwell, Virginia Gulbenkian, Constance Hodgkinson, Mair [sic] Jones, Edith Lincoln, Mary Morrison, Kathleen Pursglove, Louisa Riley, Hilda Steiner, Edith Pickering, Barbara Warrington, Marjorie Challinor, Sheila Lomax, Barbara Warrington.
School Certificate, July 1928: Marjorie Anderson, Edith Appleton, Maureen Binns, Mary Bradshaw, Hilda Brice, Elaine Clarke, Eleanor Clarke, Mary Cohen, Dorothy Ellison, Rose Hagan, Joan Hassall, Rosie Hewitt, Constance Jarvis, Hilda Lofthouse, Eunice Openshaw, Sybil Roebuck, Sybil Schofield, Mary Strange, Ethel Walker, Margaret Ward, Mary Warrington, Elsie Whitworth, Hannah Abdela, Emilie Armstrong, Hilda Brazier, Beatrice Brentnall, Alice Coates, Margaret Collins, Ivy Elkin, Edith Faulkner, Nesta Herbert, Norah Mattinson, Edith Middleton, Hilda Penfold, Marian Rhodes, Eleanor Riley, Constance Seltzer, Gwendolen Snow, Joy Waddington, Hylda Balshaw, Martha Bryce, Kathleen Cheetham, Kathleen Clayton, Camille Cohen, Elspeth Kerr, Margaret Murray, Gwendoline Roberts, Christine Schofield, Nora Thompson, Dorothy Wyneken, Mona Bell, Helen Dawson, Marjorie Allen, Kathleen Allpass, Ruth Altaras, Andree Anzarut, Gertrude Ashforth, Alice Blezard, Muriel Brayshaw, Doris Coulthard, Annie Dalgleish, Marjorie Davenport, Kathleen Doke, Ruth Hindshaw, Hilda Hopley, Dorothy Hudson, Ruth Isaacs, Monica Job, Katharine Liebert, Alice Pattison, Phillis [sic] Potter, Lucy Riley, Adrine Shahbenderian, Dorothy Spencer.
National Shorthand Association Speed Certificates: Adrine Shahbenderian, Elizabeth Shaw, Mary Eaton.
Book Prizes: Beryl Collingwood, Mary Faulkner, Muriel Johnson, Margaret Roberts, Mary Bradshaw, Denise Hagan, Hilda Lofthouse, Eunice Openshaw, Joan Schofield, Sybil Roebuck, Margaret Ward, Maureen Armstrong, Kathleen Allpass, Marjorie Davenport, Ruth Isaacs, Katherine [recte Katharine] Leibert, Enid Berry, Mary Bolas, Dorothy Demaine, Janet Powicke, Margaret Reekie, Lorna Robinson, Margery Smith, Winifred Turner, Kathleen Atkinson, Kathleen Owen, Madge Peacock, Muriel Spurgin, Margaret Cayton, Phyllis Darrah, Ruth Hardwick, Margaret Johnson, Mary Lyons, Nancie Scott, Irene Hyde, Edith Sandiford, Vivien Snow, Annie Ward, Joan Nixon, Margaret Needham, Vera Worthington, Hazel Honeyburne.
Adamson Memorial Prize for French: Dorothy Demaine, Kathleen Owen.
Art Prizes: Marian Duckworth, Barbara Marsden, Mary Blake, Kathleen Atkinson, Phyllis Darrah, Joan Nixon.
Form Cup for Order and Neatness [Presented by Mrs Franks Clarke and awarded for the first time]: V Secretarial, Upper III A.
Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes: Lesley Ratcliffe, Helen Butterworth, Ann Kirkpatrick.
Harrison Music Trophies: Upper IV Alpha, Upper III A.
Kamberian Speech Cup [Awarded for the first time]: Senior VI.
Dixon Gymnastic Cup: Hilda Wilson, Eileen Wood.
Conway Cup: Hilda Wilson.
Middle School Gymnastic Cup: Janet Powicke.
Parry Junior Cup: Christina Hindshaw.
Gymnastic Champions: Eileen Wood, Hilda Wilson, Dorothy Bailey, Eleanor Wilson, Sadie Simcock, Kathleen Champness, Lily Daniels, Connie Cooper.
Drill Competition Shields: V A, Upper IV A.
Junior Drill Cup: IV A.
Swimming Cups: Eleanor Wilson, Betty Lowry, Margaret Hardman.
Team Swimming Cup: V General.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges, 1928: Joan Cromack [sic] Constance Mainwaring, Barbara Rigby, Gwen Strange.
Form Net Ball Cups: Senior VI, Upper IV A, Upper III General, V General, Upper III A.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Hilda Wilson.
Ashworth [Hockey] Cup for the Senior School: Upper V Science.
Lawson [Hockey] Cup for the Middle School: Upper IV A.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Joan Humphries
Form Cricket Cup: Upper V Arts.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup: Senior VI.
School Tennis Champions: Lily Daniels, Barbara Marsden.
Young Tennis Singles Cups: Nora Adams, Barbara Marsden.
Thring Memorial Cup: Sadie Simcock.
Chairman?s Prize for the Head Girl: Eileen Wood.
Rusholme District Girl Guides' Shield: Manchester High School Company, 1st Cholton -? on - Medlock.
Sport Successes
Northern Schools Senior Net-Ball [sic] Shield
Manchester and District Girls? Schools Hockey League Shield
Lancashire Girls? Schools Lawn Tennis League Shield
Manchester and District Schools Cricket Cup
Prefects, 1927 - 1928
Head Prefect: Eileen Wood
Deputy Head Prefect: Mary Morrison
Dorothy Bailey, Marjorie Bridge, Kathleen Champness, Lily Daniels, Vergin Gulbenkian, Eluned Jones, Mary Lincoln, Kathleen Pursglove, Sadie Simcock.
Hilda Wilson
List of Exhibitioners and Scholars
Dorothy Bailey, Marjorie Bridge, Eileen Wood, Elsie Boyars, Vergin Gulbenkian, Mary Morrison, Louisa Riley
Mary Bradford Exhibitioner
Evelyn Addis
Lady Whitworth Exhibitioner
Kathleen Pursglove
Hulme Scholars
Dorothy Rose , Annie Ward, Margaret Henstock, Sheila Huss, Margaret Parker, Jean Rutter, Freda Jessel, Kathleen Allpass, Hilda Brice.
MacNicol Scholarship
Eunice Openshaw
Old Girls' Association Scholarship
Ruth Isaacs
Entrance Scholarships
Dorothy Beavan, Daisy Clarke, Marjorie Cross, Marian Dickinson, Jessie Edge, Dorothy Evans, Jane Feingold, Stella Fildes, Kathleen Gledhill, Leila Goller, Jean Harrison, Queenie Massel, Joan Moss, Constance Mottram, Elsie Mulroy, Marjorie Reddiford, Irene Salter, Ruth Struthers, Margaret Taylor, Winifred Whittaker.
Revenue Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1928
Details of income and expenditure.
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1928
Senior VI, Junior VI, VI General, VI Secretarial, Student Teachers, Upper V A, Upper V Arts, Upper V Science, Upper V General and Housecraft, Upper V Secretarial, V A, V Arts and Science, V General, V Crafts, V Secretarial, Upper IV A, Upper IV Alpha, Upper IV Arts, Upper IV Science, Upper IV General, Upper IV Parallel, IV A, IV Transitus, IV General, Upper III A, Upper III Transitus, Upper III General, III A.