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 Mather, Mrs W Moberly, Councillor Shena D Simon, Prof J L Stocks DSO, Councillor E F Sutton JP, Councillor Mary Smith, 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 death of governors, Leonard Tatham and the retirement of Prof Powicke and Alderman Turnball [details given of their contribution to the school]. Welcome to Prof J S B Stopford and Councillor Mary Smith as new governors.
Miss Burstall was the speaker on Founders' Day and Dr Warman was the guest on Speech Day.
Details given about the following staff: Miss Ashworth, Miss Bannerman, Miss Hutchinson, Miss Matheson, Miss Tait, Miss Rickards.
Regret at the death of Miss F W Pollard [Mrs Hirst].
Statistics of academic successes.
During the year there were fund raising activities including a Cake and Candy Sale and a Swimming Gala. There was also a Model General Election and Girl Guide Camp in Normandy.
There has been an attendance of 94% and a "seasonal influenza epidemic."
It has been decided to admit pupils from the age of 8 and there are discussions of opening a boarding house again.
Thanks to gifts [details given] from the following: Mrs Armitage, Alderman Sutton, Miss F Harrison, Mrs Charles Day, Mrs Smith.
Miss Mellor and Miss Willis have donated a junior hockey cup.
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1929: Miss Hawcridge
School Secretary: Miss Susan Fry
Medical Clerk: Miss Nancy Powicke
Departmental Mistresses, September 1929:
Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss Mabel Barker, Miss Mary Bennett, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Catherine Chell, Miss Mary Fisher, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Mabel Hurford, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Constance Treloar, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss R Denison, Miss Ethel Gilby, Miss Kathleen Ingold, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Eleanore Tiano, Miss Hannah Lister, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Jessie Thompson, Miss Annie Watson, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Muriel Goodwin, Miss Ella Holman, Miss Janet Work, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss M E Mitchell, Miss Dorothy Scott, Miss E M Tuke, Miss Nora Turner, 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, Madame Alice Lamb, Mrs Margaret Proudlock [nee Clark].
Recent Appointments
Details given of the appointments held by the following: Dora Andrews, Hilda Ball, Hilda Bowker, Dorothy Bradley, Peggy Brewis, Catherine Hardy, Rosie Hewitt, Mattie Bryce, May Higginbottom, Phyllis Wildman, Haighouhi Kamberian, Lelia Lloyd, Gertrude Niven, Nellie Pickstone, Isobel Aberdein [sic], Jessie Bull, Edna Mansfield,Marjorie Mills, Winifred Mosley, Gwen Roberts.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Ann Bishop, Ruth Haring, Dorothy Lever, Edith Malley, Kathleen Hall, Dora Paterson, Enid Fletcher, Barbara Begg, Margaret Marsden, Bessie Cadness, Dorothy Geiler, Edith Winstanley, Audrey Yates, Joan Hinchcliffe, Nina Marshall, Freda Cooke, Marie Hampson, Winifred Leach, Dorothy Hindshaw, May Goodwin, Hilda Ball, Ethel Eastwood , Mary Parkes, Sybil Wildman, Kathleen Hall, Margery Hoyle.
University of Cambridge: Dora Andrews, Dorothy Broughton.
University of St Andrews: Mary Hadfield, Erica Smith.
University of London: Dorothy Bailey.
University of Durham: Kathleen Wood.
Scholarships: Dorothy Bailey, Zelda Bock, Joan Lodge.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Exhibitions and Scholarships: Marjorie Atkinson.
Alliance Francaise: Margaret Roberts, Magdalen Newland-Smith.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1929: details given of subjects passed by the following: Marjorie Atkinson, Beryl Collingwood, Mary Faulkner, Dora Fothergill, Mary Gradwell, Marian Higham, Constance Hodgkinson, Ethel Johnson, Dorothy Jones, Mair Jones, Margaret Roberts, Hilda Saxon, Eleanor Wilson, Mary Bradshaw, Dorothy Ellison, Constance Jarvis
School Certificate, July 1929: Andree Anzurat, Joan Attenborough, Alice Blezard, Muriel Brayshay, Dorothy Bristol, Camille Cohen, Agnes Currie, Mary Eaton, Norah Haythornthwaite, Nesta Herbert, Ruth Hindshaw, Edith Middleton, Araxie Mikaelian, Marion Rhodes, Joan Todd, Elsie Whitworth, Miriam Abrahamson, Enid Berry, Mary Blake, Mary Bolas, Ruth Bridge, Gladys Curtis, Elizabeth Duff, Marian Etherington, Eunice Fallows, Caroline Field, Beatrice Gardner, Clara Griffiths, Enid Hales, Louise Higgitt, Nancy Holmes, Doris Hudes, Esme Jackson, Brenda Lincoln, Eunice Mercer, Edith Pratchett, Lucy Riley, Nora Spedding, Norah Walsh, Margaret Bowden, Barbara Rigby, Nora Adams, Ena Addis, Estelle Atkinson, Lucy Battrum, Marjorie Brocklehurst, Margaret Cartmell, Ermerlinda [sic] Cook, Peggy Craig, Dorothy Demaine, Beatrice Dickinson, Marjorie Digby, Clare Ellison, Florence Flockton, Dorothy Gradwell, Joan Honeyburne, Monica Job, Phyllis Kenworthy, Annie Lofthouse, Dora Lomas, Janet Powicke, Margaret Reekie, Lorna Robinson, Georgina Smith, Dorothy Spencer, Sibyl Trickett, Winifred Turner, Hilda Brazier, Eleanor Clarke, Annie Dalgleish, Kathleen Doke [sic], Ivy Elkin, Constance Jarvis, Norah Mattinson, Constance Seltzer, Gwendolen Snow.
Faculty of Teachers of Commerce Speed Shorthand Certificates: statistics given of successes including those of the following: Evelyn Betesh, Winifred Mosley, Isobel Aberdein [sic], Martha Beswick, Patricia Wright, Kathleen Barratt, Molly Powell, Dorothy Lees, Daisy Walmsley.
Book Prizes: Marjorie Davenport, Denise Hagan, Magdalen Newland-Smith, Eunice Openshaw, Margaret Ward, Annie Dalgleish, Gwen Snow, Dorothy Demaine, Monica Job, Janet Powicke, Dorothy Spencer, Winifred Turner, Kathleen Atkinson, Madge Peacock, Muriel Spurgin, Hilda Berry, Kathleen Owen, Margaret Cayton, Phyllis Darrah, Ruth Hardwick, Mary Lyons, Nancie Stott, Dennet [sic] Wise, Margaret Hardman, Irene Hyde, Mary Knott, Edith Sandiford, Barbara Smith, Ruth Struthers, Margaret Moss, Joan Nixon, Doris Seddon, Patricia Goldsbrough, Elsie Mulroy, Florence Rigg, Jean Rutter, Helen Marshall.
Chairman's Prize for the Head Girl: Eleanor Wilson.
Adamson Memorial Travelling Scholarship: Marjorie Atkinson.
Adamson Memorial Prize for French: Joyce Weinberg.
Art Prizes: Magdalen Newland-Smith, Margaret Anderson, Mary Blake, Betty Mawrey, Joan Nixon, Dorothy Grice.
Form Cup for General Order and Neatness: V Alpha, V Arts.
Gold Thimble Presented by Miss Myers for the Best Sewing Pupil in the School: Hilda Lofthouse.
Mrs Buller's Sewing Prizes: Marjorie Allen, Elsie Wyneken, Sybil Hamilton.
Harrison Music Trophies: IV Alpha, Upper III A.
Kamberian Speech Cup: VI General.
Dixon Gymnastic Cup: Eleanor Wilson.
Conway Gymnastic Cup: Eleanor Wilson, Dorothy Westwell.
Middle School Gymnastic Cup: Janet Powicke.
Parry Junior Cup: Doreen Stevenson.
Gymnastic Champions: Eleanor Wilson, Sadie Simcock, Agnes Currie, Jean Winstanley, Margaret Faulkner, Dorothy Westwell, Gwen Jackson, Barbara Colling.
Drill Competition Shields: Junior VI, V A.
Junior Drill Cup: IV A.
Swimming Cups: Eleanor Wilson, Elsie Bell, Marjorie Hovell.
Team Swimming Cup: Senior VI.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges, 1929: Vera Goldstone, Marjorie Hovell, Margaret Hardman, Peggy Reekie.
Form Net Ball Cups: Upper V Transitus, V A, IV A, Upper V Arts, Upper IV Alpha.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Marjorie Atkinson.
Ashworth [Hockey] Cup for the Senior School: Junior VI.
Lawson [Hockey] Cup for the Middle School: V A.
Junior Cup [presented by Miss Mellor and Miss Willis and awarded for the first time]: IV A.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Mary Eaton.
Form Cricket Cup: Upper V Transitus.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup: Upper V Arts and Science.
School Tennis Champions: Betty Mercer, Gwen Jackson.
Young Tennis Singles Cups: Margaret Johnson, Doris Hughes.
Thring Memorial Cup: Margaret Faulkner.
Sports Successes
Northern Schools Net-Ball Shield
Manchester and District Schools Cricket Cup
Prefects, 1928 - 1929
Head Prefect: Eleanor Wilson
Deputy Head Prefect: Mary Gradwell
Marjorie Atkinson, Hilda Barratt, Beryl Collingwood, Molly Faulkner, Marian Higham, Connie Hodgkinson, Eluned Jones, Kathleen Robinson, Hilda Saxon, Patricia Wright.
Exhibitioners and Scholars
Beryl Collingwood, Constance Hodgkinson, Margaret Roberts, Marjorie Atkinson, Hilda Barratt, Dora Fothergill, Muriel Johnson, Hilda Saxon, Eleanor Wilson.
Mary Bradford Exhibition
Eluned Jones
Hulme Scholars
Patricia Goldsbrough, Florence Rigg, Lorraine Samwell, Kathleen Sharples, Jean Smith, Lillian Smith, Daphne Wild.
MacNicol Scholarship
Magdalen Newland-Smith
Old Girls' Association Scholarship
Ruth Isaacs, Winifred Turner.
Entrance Scholarships
Joyce Bamber, Margaret Bond, Vera Borthwick, Nancy Deeks, Enid Dobson, Beryl Evans, Maud Gregory, Margery Hampson, Margaret Haworth, Gwyneth Jones, Dorothy Joseph, Mary Knowles, Kathleen Leahy, Joan Marsh, Gladys Murray, Margaret Noble, Alberta Ramsden, Olive Saunders, Jessie Thompson, Margaret Wade.
Revenue Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1929
Details of income and expenditure.
Alphabetical Class List - July 1929
Senior VI, Junior VI, VI General, VI Secretarial, Student Teachers, Upper V Transitus, Upper V Arts and Science, Upper V General and Housecraft, Upper V Secretarial, V A, V Alpha, V Arts, V Science, V General and Housecraft, V Secretarial, Upper IV A, Upper IV Alpha, Upper IV Transitus, IV A, IV Alpha, IV Transitus, Upper III A, Upper III Transitus, Upper III General, III A