Governors
Chairman: F A Padmore
Miss M Ashton, Miss G B Ayre JP, Miss E M Barlow JP, F W Bates JP, Councillor C Brierley, G F Burditt CBE JP, Miss P E Crump, Prof H B Dixon, Sir Edward Donner, Councillor S Fairfoull, 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, Prof J Stopford, Councillor E F Sutton JP, Councillor Mary Smith, 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 Prof Tout. Details given of his contribution to the school and that of his wife, Mrs Tout.
A portraits of Miss Day painted by Mrs Pickstone was presented to the school by Philippa Esdaile and a portrait of Miss Burstall by Gretchen Tydeman was given to the school.
The guest on Speech Day was the Mayor of Manchester, Mr Noton [sic] Barclay. His wife presented the prizes. The Founders' Day guest was P M Oliver. Brief reference to his speech.
Details given of the following staff: Miss M Mitchell, Miss C Treloar, Madame Alice Lamb, Miss Bennett, Miss Chell, Miss Powicke.
After an interval of 10 years, the school was inspected by the Board of Education. General comments on the report.
General comments on academic successes.
Details of school activities including sports successes, a performance of Much Ado About Nothing and school societies. Prof Gilbert Murray gave a talk on the League of Nations.
Details of activities of the Old Girls' Association including their celebration of Miss Burstall's 70th birthday.
Thanks to the following for gifts [details given]: Mr Hodgson, Mr Cramer, Miss Hutchinson, Miss Powicke, Miss Bennett, Miss Chell, Miss Matheson, Miss Treloar, Eileen Wood, Alderman Sutton, Dr Philippa Esdaile, Gretchen Tydeman, Mrs Pickstone
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1930 : Miss Annie Ellis
School Secretary: Miss Susan Fry
Departmental Mistresses, September 1930:
Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss Mabel Barker, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Mary Fisher, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Mabel Hurford, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Barbara McDonald, Miss Dorothy Farr, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss R Denison, Miss Ethel Gilby, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Eleanore Tiano, Miss Hannah Lister, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Marion Jarrett,Miss Annie Watson, Miss Edith Willis, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Muriel Goodwin, Miss Ella Holman, Miss Janet Work, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Margaret Lever, Miss Dorothy Scott, Miss E M Tuke, Miss Nora Turner, Miss A K Knight, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Helen Langton, Miss Hannah Ritchie, Miss Dorothy Saunders,Miss Annie Warburton, Miss E Arthan, Miss Edith Webster, Mrs Margaret Proudlock [nee Clark], Mrs Kathleen Fogg [nee Moorhouse], Miss Mabel Shaw.
Recent Appointments
Details given of the appointments held by the following: Dora Bentley, Rhona Barlow, Evelyn Betesh, Edna Bond, Ena Buckley, Effie Carter, Beatrice Chadwick, Barbara Colling, Kathleen Dawson, Muriel Edwards, Ivy Elkin, Dorothy Goddard, Muriel Golightly, Dorothea Hardisty, Jeannie Higham, Dorothy Hindshaw, Mary Hunter, Nina Marshall, Mary Middleton, Ina Milroy, Doreen Moss, Jane Mutch, Winifred Race, Mary Robins, Howie Smith, Enid Whitfield, Lucy Battrum, Annie Dalgleish, Isabel Murgatroyd, Molly Powell, Joyce Stubbs.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Diplomas: Elspeth Kerr, Alice Nicholls.
University of Manchester: Constance Hodgkinson, Eluned Jones, Edith Hardman, Phyllis Nanney, Kathleen Dawson, Caecilia [sic] Pugh, Mona Bates, Averil Stephens, Katharine de H Birtwell, Ida Wraith, Winifred Race, Grace Spann, Gladys Champness, Edith Walker, Sheila McKay, Muriel Walker, Ellen Hampson, Grace Brewis, Freda Cooke, Dorothy Hindshaw, Dora Paterson.
University of Cambridge: Dorothy Broughton, Eileen Fowden.
University of Oxford: Pauline Kirkby.
University of London: Dorothy Bailey, Winifred Forth.
University of Durham: Kathleen Wood.
University of St Andrews: Agnes Collier, Margaret Fowden, Erica Smith.
London Royal Academy of Music: Zelda Bock.
Glasgow School of Art: Joan Lodge.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Exhibitions and Scholarships: Lilias [sic] Appleton, Hilda Lofthouse, Mary Cohen, Joan Schofield, Christine Schofield, Eunice Openshaw.
Civil Service Commission: Marion Holmes.
Alliance Francaise: Hilda Lofthouse, Araxie Mikaelian.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1930: details given of subjects passed by the following: Kathleen Allpass, Edith Appleton, Emilie Armstrong, Maureen Binns, Mary Cohen, Beryl Collingwood, Marjorie Davenport, Mary Faulkner, Rose Hagan, Ruth Isaacs, Hilda Lofthouse, Eunice Openshaw, Alice Paterson, Margaret Seddon, Magdalen Smith, Mary Strange, Nora Thompson, Mary Warrington, Marjorie Allen, Marjorie Brocklehurst, Evelyn Daniels, Beatrice Gardner, Nesta Herbert, Marian Rhodes, Georgina Smith.
School Certificate, July 1930: Estelle Atkinson, Mary Barlow, Ruth Bridge, Marjorie Frank, Kathleen Gamble, Dorothy Gradwell, Clara Griffiths, Barbara Hadfield, Louise Higgitt, Agnes Holmes, Mary Hunter, Phyllis Kenworthy, Brenda Lincoln, Eunice Mercer, Barbara Needham, Edith Pratchett, Lucy Riley, Alice Smith, Nellie Taylor, Dorothy Travis, Joyce Webster, Sylvia Weinberg, Jean Winstanley, Kathleen Atkinson, Norah Binns, Margery Brayn, Beatrice Chadwick, Eleanor Faulkner, Joan Halliwell, Eugenia Hershberg, Barbara Honeyburne, Vivienne Hughes, Margaret Lewtas, Madge Peacock, Marjorie Pear, Edith Spurgin, Dora Taylor, Mary Taylor, Beryl Trickett, Sheila Wilding, Florence Cass, Rhona Dibnah, Margaret Eadie, Marjorie Fish, Freda Hargreaves, Edith Holmes, Dorothy Lowe, Jane Michell [sic], Betty Nash, Evelyn Neill, Kathleen Owen, Nora Pearn, Margaret Popper, Edna Ratcliffe, Hetty Rieck, Marjorie Simpson, Ethel Walker, Margaret Armitt, Ellen Field, Mary Haycock, Gudrun Langford, Rene Leigh, Annie Paton, Enid Taylor, Mary Walker, Joyce Weinberg, Hilda Betesh, Kathleen Lyall, Gladys Moffat, Mary Ratcliffe.
Faculty of Teachers in Commerce: statistics of successes including those of the following: Marjorie McRae, Isabel Murgatroyd, Olga Hellfritsch, Margaret Woolfenden, Elizabeth Salter, Marjorie Dunworth, Miriam Susman, Mary Kelly, Kathleen Doke, Noreen Dobbs, Marjorie Anderson, Helen Dawson, Gwen Snow, Dorothy Westwell, Frances Pennington, Dorothy Goddard.
Book Prizes: Dorothy Demaine, Clare Ellison, Joan Honeyburne, Janet Powicke, Margaret Reekie, Alice Blezard, Florence Flockton, Kathleen Atkinson, Vivienne Hughes, Kathleen Owen, Elizabeth Salter, Julia Cohen, Ruth Hardwick, Margaret Johnson, Mary Lyons, Dennet [sic] Wise, Irene Hyde, Mary Knott, Edith Sandiford, Barbara Smith, Vivien Snow, Joan Nixon, Stella Fildes, Patricia Goldsbrough, Florence Rigg, Irene Salter, Enid Dobson, Helen Marshall, Daphne Wilde, Jessie Thompson, Margaret Hayes, Helen Neeson.
Chairman's Prize for the Head Girl: Beryl Collingwood.
Art Prizes: Ruth Altaras, Margaret Anderson, Magdalen Newland-Smith, Ruth Hindshaw, Norah Thompson, Mary Lyons, Joan Nixon, Dorothy Grice, Joan Smith.
Form Cup for General Order and Neatness: Upper V Alpha.
Sewing Prizes: Marjorie Allen, Kathleen Allpass, Maureen Armstrong, Beryl Collingwood, Beryl Cooke, Doris Coulthard, Margaret Faulkner, Norah Haythornthwaite, Annie Lofthouse, Alice Pattison, Marian Rhodes, Eleanor Riley, Sybil Trickett, Elsie Whitworth, Enid Dobson.
National Council for Domestic Studies: Vera Anzurat, Enid Erbrich, Mary Swain.
Harrison Music Trophies: Upper IV A, IV A.
Kamberian Speech Cup: Upper III A.
Dixon Gymnastic Cup: Alice Blezard, Agnes Currie.
Conway Gymnastic Cup: Gwen Jackson.
Middle School Gymnastic Cup: Christina Hindshaw.
Parry Junior Cup: Ann Kirkpatrick.
Gymnastic Champions: Gwen Jackson,
the following names are bracketed together: Agnes Currie, Alice Blezard,
the following names are bracketed together: Jean Winstanley, Margaret Faulkener,
the following names are bracketed together: Dora Lomas, Joan Hunt, Maureen Armstrong.
Drill Competition Shields: Senior VI, V A.
Junior Drill Cup: IV Transitus, Upper III A.
Swimming Cups: Nancy Holmes, Joan Jung, Marjorie Hovell.
Team Swimming Cup: Secretarial Forms.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges, 1930: Margaret Anderson, Margery Brayn, Madge Peacock, Marjorie Pear.
Form Net Ball Cups: Junior VI, V A, IV A, Senior VI, IV General.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Agnes Currie.
Ashworth [Hockey] Cup for the Senior School: Senior VI.
Lawson [Hockey] Cup for the Middle School: V A.
Junior Cup: IV A.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Margaret Faulkner.
Form Cricket Cup: Senior VI.
Junior School Cricket Cup Presented by T R Hodgson and awarded for the first time: IV A.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup: Upper V General.
School Tennis Champions: Betty Mercer, Gwen Jackson.
Young Tennis Singles Cups: Gwen Jackson, Matilda Lisberg.
Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Hilda Brice.
Other Successes
Northern Schools? Junior Netball Shield,
Manchester and District Schools Cricket Cup,
Junior Cricket Cup competed for annually against Ladybarn House School,
Manchester and District Secondary Schools? Choir Competition Rose Bowl.
Prefects, 1929 - 1930
Head Prefect: Beryl Collingwood
Deputy Head Prefect : Maureen Armstrong
Hilda Brice, Margaret Faulkner, Mary Faulkner, Katharine Liebert, Eunice Openshaw, Nancy Porter, Eleanor Riley, Joan Schofield, Magdalen Smith, Mary Strange.
Sub Prefects
Alice Blezard, Joan Honeyburne, Monica Job, Janet Powicke.
List of Exhibitioners and Scholars
Maureen Armstrong, Beryl Collingwood, Denise Hagan, Hilda Lofthouse, Magdalen Newland-Smith, Eunice Openshaw, Joan Schofield.
Lady Whitworth Exhibitions
Mary Faulkner
Hulme Scholars
Joan Heywood, Winifred Richards, Joan Woodcock, Elsa Davies, Mary France, Helen Marshall, Muriel Spurgin, Ethel Walker.
MacNicol Scholarship
Ruth Isaacs, Kathleen Owen.
Old Girls' Association Scholarship
Winifred Turner, Marjorie Pear.
Entrance Scholarships [this heading has been omitted]
Elsie Bradbury, Mary Cooke, Marjorie Crookes, Nita [sic] Dean, Nancy Edge, Dorothy Elkin, Joan Gray, Audrey Hayes, Alice Heap, Kathleen Hilton, Joyce Horner, Dora Leather, Margaret Loudon, Betty McKie, Rita Meyer, Doreen Neate, Marjorie Owen, Catherine Pennington, Barbara Roberts, Merle Robinson, Dorothy Stappleton [sic], Joan Wilkinson.
Revenue Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1930
Details of income and expenditure
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1930
Senior VI, Junior VI, VI General, VI Secretarial, Student Teachers, Upper V Transitus, Upper V Alpha, Upper V Arts, Upper V Science, Upper V General, Upper V Secretarial, V A, V Alpha, V Transitus, V Secretarial, Upper IV A, Upper IV Alpha, Upper IV Arts, Upper IV Transitus, IV A, IV Transitus, IV General, Upper III A, Upper III Transitus, III A, III B