Governors
Chairman: F A Padmore
Miss Margaret Ashton, Miss G B Ayre JP, Miss E M Barlow JP, F W Bates JP, Sir Edward Donner, Councillor S Fairfoull, Prof H Fleure, Councillor G Grindley, Mrs Hope Hogg, Prof E Jacob, Councillor Kingsmill Jones JP, H L Joseland, Miss F Knott, Herbert Leach, Mrs Mather, Mrs W Moberly, Dr R Pickard, Councillor Lady Simon, Councillor A P Simon, Councillor Mary Smith, Prof J L Stocks DSO, Prof J Stopford, Alderman E F Sutton JP, 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 resignation of Mr Burditt and the Bishop of Middleton as governors.
The Bishop of Middleton was the guest on Founders' Day. Philippa Esdaile was the speaker on Speech Day and Miss Burstall was present.
The tercentenary of William Hulme was celebrated with a service at Manchester Cathedral.
Details of changes concerning the following staff: Miss Rapaport, Miss Reita [sic] Maddocks, Miss Enid Fletcher, Miss Margaret Fenwick Smith.
General comments on academic successes.
Descriptions of school events included a gym display and exhibitions of art and "domestic subjects."
The school concert was combined with a "parents' meeting."
A Model Assembly of the League of Nations was held at which Mr Poole, University Secretary of the League of Nations Union presided.
There was a guide camp at Malvern, a week's visit to Stratford-upon-Avon and some girls attended an International Camp at Kiel.
A new school hymn book has been introduced.
Under a new groundsman improvements have been made to the playing fields. Details given of the percentages of girls who participate in sport.
"On account of the trade depression the usual subscriptions in respect of charities from girls were not invited." The staff organised a "dramatic entertainment" to raise money.
Gifts [details given] were made by the following: Lady Simon, Mr Brayn, Miss M Bennett, Mr Kawamura, Mrs Langford, Mr and Mrs Nutter.
Centres of the Old Girls' Federation have been set up in the Midlands and Yorkshire and it is hoped to set up another in Wessex [sic]. Thanks to Miss Burstall for her contribution to this.
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1932: Miss Mary Fisher
School Secretary: Miss Reita [sic] Maddocks
Departmental Mistresses, September 1932:
Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Mabel Hurford, Miss Dorothy Farr, Miss Mary Fisher, Miss Mabel Barker, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Eleanore Tiano, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Ethel Gilby, Miss Elsa Sinclair, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Annie Watson, Miss Marion Jarrett, Miss Emily Mason, 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 Norah Turner, Miss Alice 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: Kathleen Chrimes [Mrs Atkinson], Dorothy Bailey, Joyce Barlow, Edna Biscomb, Marjorie Bridge, Dorothy Bristol, Freda Cooke, Gladys Curtis, Dorothy Dymond, Ivy Elkin, Eileen Evans [nee Threlkeld], Dorothy Geiler, Thelma Gordon, Mary Hardfield, Enid Hart, Dorothy Hindshaw, Ethel Jakeman, Lelia Lloyd, Mary Morrison, Mary Parkes, Gwenllian Ransome, Ruth Rapaport, Howie Smith, Mary Stewart, Mary Taylor, Marjorie Welland, Madeleine White, Hilda Wilson, Dorothy Wood, Doris Adams, Andree Anzurat, Dorothy Birch, Kitty Birtwell, Betty Haggart, Mary Hunt, Dorothy Gradwell, Edith Gratton, Rene Leigh, Mary Lincoln, Dorothy Lowe, Hilda Proctor, Ethel Rogerson, Edith Sandiford, Winifred Sinclair, Margaret Stenton, Mary Walker, Elsie Wyneken, Vera Worthington.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Ann Bishop, Eluned Jones, Constance Hodgkinson, Margaret Roberts, Marjorie Atkinson, Hilda Steiner, Joan Attenborough, Hilda Saxon, Kathleen Hall, Mary Bradshaw, Elaine Clarke, Adrine Kamberian, Vera Kershaw, Marjorie Bridge, Marjorie Challiner, Kathleen Champness, Thelma Gordon, Constance Haxby, Carette [sic] Leeming, Marjorie Davenport.
University of Cambridge: Mary Strange.
University of Oxford: Mary Aitkenhead.
University of Glasgow: Eleanor Wilson.
University of Edinburgh: Lily Daniels, Hilda Wilson, Winifred Turner.
University of Liverpool: Barbara Warrington, Eleanor Wilson.
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Diploma: Marjorie Jordan.
Royal Schools of Music: Zelda Bock.
Passed Agregation: Madeleine White.
Gipsy Hill Training College: Dorothy White.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Exhibitions and Scholarships: Vivienne Hughes, Margaret Reekie, K Atkinson, K Owen, Barbara Longbottom.
Lord Mayor?s Prize, 1931: Doreen Peake.
Alliance Francaise: Annie Lofthouse, Mervyn Lewis.
Form Prizes: Ellen Field, Margaret Johnson, Mervyn Lewis, Beryl Trickett, Julia Cohen, Phyllis Darrah, Ruth Farrington, Nancie Stott, Asna Boltiansky, Vera Easson, Irene Hyde, Gwen Jones, Mary Knott, Edith Sandiford, Barbara Smith, Vivien Snow, Renee Manch, Doris Seddon, Annie Somerville, Dorothea Bennett, Jessie Edge, Jane Feingold, Stella Fyldes, Patricia Goldsbrough, Margery Hampson, Sheila Huss, Dorothy Joseph, Queenie Massel, Prudence Benington, Irene Salter, Kathleen Sharples, Kathleen Brierley, Nancy Deeks, Enid Dobson, Mary Knowles, Margaret Manby, Helen Marshall, Jessie Thompson, Daphne Wilde, Audrey Hayes, Joyce Horner, Doreen Neate, Marjorie Owen, Winifred Richards, Margaret Barber, Elsie Bradbury, Marjorie Crookes, Margaret Louden, Kate Brett, Rita Goldstone, Josephine Greaves, Florence Hindle, Doreen Peake, Nora Warhurst, Joan Shatwell, Flora Thomason, Margaret Brabbs, Beatrix Charlton, Evelyn MacLachlan.
Chairman's Prize: Margaret Reekie.
Lena Peacock Prize for History: Asna Boltiansky.
Art Prizes: Josephine Christopherson, Christine Hindshaw, Ruth Struthers, Beryl Trickett, Ruth Chard, Joyce Bamber, Enid Withers, Alice Heap, Christine Bailey.
Sewing Prizes: Margaret Neeson, Rita Goldstone.
Harrison Music Trophies: Upper IV A, Upper III A.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1932: details given of subjects passed by the following: Mildred Ashton, Kathleen Atkinson, Ethel Corner, Eleanor Faulkner, Mary Haycock, Barbara Honeyburne, Vivienne Hughes, Margaret Noble, Kathleen Owen, Marjorie Pear, Margaret Reekie, Edith Spurgin
School Certificate, July 1932: Bessie Cleworth, Constance Gibson, Dorothy Jones, Marjorie Jones, Joan Lomax, Eileen Perkins, Jean Pettigrew, Doris Raffles, Margaret Stansfield, Gwen Strange, Vera Upton, Claire Wilkinson, Elsie Wyneken, Jean Archer, Dorothy Birch, Edna Biscomb, Asna Boltiansky, Margaret Bower, Mabel Brand, Marjorie Burgess, Annie Chadderton, Betty Crampton [sic], Marjorie Cross, Delia Doke, Vera Easson, Nellie Edlin, Mary Garner, Mary Greenhalgh, Margaret Hardman, Florence Hill, Irene Hyde, Dorothy Jones, Mary Knott, Jill Macnab [sic], Edith Sandiford, Barbara Smith, Vivien Snow, Doreen Stevenson, Joan Stevenson, Ruth Struthers, Annie Ward, Barbara Whiteley, Marjorie Adams, Blanche Anderson, Dorothy Beavan, Ermyn Brown, Ethel Collinge, Dilys Dew-Jones, Olive Elkin, Elfrida Farrington, Jean Heywood, Barbara Longbottom, Constance Lyth, Jean McAdam, Renee Manch, Margaret Moss, Margaret Needham, Joan Nixon, Bertha Palmer, Dorothy Rose, Doris Seddon, Winifred Whittaker, Vera Worthington, Ester [sic] Castel, Phyllis Collins, Carline Finigan [sic], Mary Green, Kathleen Kiernan, Marjorie Nelson, Winifred Ogden, Helen Percival, Muriel Roch, Emma Somerfield, Elizabeth Steiger, Mary Taylor, Vivienne Weil, Grace Wilkinson, Edith Woodhouse, Kathleen Chapman, Sylvia Manson, Jessie Paterson.
Faculty of Teachers of Commerce: statistics given of successes including those of the following: Dorothy Gradwell, Barbara Hadfield, Joyce Weinberg, Doris Adams, Mary Hunt, Rene Leigh, Dorothy Lowe, Mary Walker, Joan Barrett, Peggy Lupton, Kathleen Mellor.
Kamberian Speech Cup: Senior VI.
Dixon Gymnastic Cup: Jean Halstead.
Conway Gymnastic Cup: Margaret Johnson.
Middle School Gymnastic Cup: Blanche Muller.
Parry Junior Cup: Hilda Daniels, Ruth Grundy.
Gymnastic Champions: Jean Halstead, Margaret Reekie, Edith Spurgin,
the following names are bracketed together: Ellen Field, Constance Lyth.
The following names are bracketed together: Bessie Cleworth, Barbara Honeyburne, Madge Peacock.
Drill Competition Shields: Junior VI, Upper IV A.
Junior Drill Cup: IV A.
Mrs Clarke's Form Cup for General Order and Neatness: Upper III A.
Swimming Cups: Joan Paterson, Amy Garstang, Marjorie Hovell, Joan Bardsley, Joan Hardman.
Team Swimming Cup: V A.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges, 1931: Carline [sic] Finigan, Mmaud [sic] Gregory, Dorothy Shingler, Betty Strange.
Form Net Ball Cups: Senior VI, V A, IV Transitus.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Barbara Honeyburne.
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: Jean Halstead.
Form Cricket Cups: Senior VI, IV A.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup: VI General.
Young Tennis Singles Cups: Pamela Marsden, Mildred Fawbert.
Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Eleanor Faulkner.
Other Successes: Manchester and District Schools' Cricket Cup, Manchester and District Schools? Hockey Shield.
Junior Cricket Cup competed for against Ladybarn School: Manchester High School.
Prefects, 1931 - 32
Head Prefect: Margaret Reekie
Deputy Head Prefect: Barbara Honeyburne
Peggy Craig, Eleanor Faulkner, Jean Halstead, Barbara Jessel, Gudrun Langford, Joyce Weinberg, Madge Peacock, Marjorie Pear, Marjorie Simpson, Muriel Spurgin.
Sub Prefects
Phyllis Darrah, Ruth Farrington, Nellie Field, Christina Hindshaw.
Hulme Trust Scholarships
Muriel Spurgin, Margaret Noble, Eleanor Faulkner, Peggy Craig, Miriam Abrahamson, Madge Peacock, Phyllis Kenworthy.
Lady Whitworth Exhibitioner
Margaret Reekie.
Special Exhibition for One Year
Eluned Jones
Hulme Foundation Scholarships
Margaret Adams, Christine Bailey, Marjorie Hirst, Janifred Justham, Christine Mason, Barbara Moor, Sylvia Reisler.
Senior Hulme Scholarships
Jean Archer, Vera Easson, Jean Heywood.
MacNicol Scholarship
Asna Boltiansky
Old Girls' Association Scholarship
Margaret Cayton
Entrance Scholarships
Eleanor Abbott, Kathleen Barnes, Joan Beattie, Sylvia Bernard, Emily Boardman, Dorothy Edge, Kathleen Gill, Gwendolyn Harper, Edith Holdsworth, Mary Jackson, Mary Mellor, Joan Rigby, Myra Robinson, Kathleen Seabridge, Eleanor Shrewsbury, Joan Smith, Doris Titterington, Vivienne Wallis, Mary Williamson, Marjorie Wood.
Revenue Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1932
Details of income and expenditure.
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1932
Senior VI, Junior VI, VI General, VI Secretarial, Student Teachers, Upper V Transitus, Upper V A, Upper V Alpha, Upper V Arts, Upper V Beta, V A, V Alpha, V Arts, Upper IV A, Upper IV Transitus, IV A, IV Transitus, IV General, Upper III A, Upper III Transitus, Upper III General, III, II