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, Mrs Mather, M C McGrath, Mrs W Moberly, Dr R Pickard, Lady Simon, Councillor A P Simon, Mrs Mary Smith, Prof J L Stocks DSO, Prof J Stopford, Alderman E F Sutton JP, Mrs T M Young
Treasurer: W C McGrath
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co
Clerk to the Governors: Cedric Johnson
Medical Inspector and Referee: Miss C Chisholm
Report
Regret at the resignation from the governing body of H M Leach. Welcome to W C McGrath as the new Treasurer.
Miss Burstall received an honorary degree at Manchester university to mark the jubilee of the admission of women.
A former pupil, Doris Walker [now Mrs J Davidson Peattie] has become the Lady Mayoress of Manchester. She was the guest on Speech Day. The guest on Founders' Day was Mr Meadon, Director of Education for Lancashire.
Details given of the following staff: Miss Hurford, Miss Tuke, Miss Gilby, Miss Hughes.
The school has employed a French Assistante through the English and French Boards of Education and two unpaid newly qualified teachers.
A student from the Manchester College of Domestic Economy has been working at the school under the direction of Mrs Monton.
Miss Coignou has given her botanical collection to the school.
General comments on academic successes.
Descriptions of school activities including winning the choir class at the Annual Music Festival for Girls? Secondary Schools, a debate with Manchester Grammar School, exhibitions, music and speech competitions, plays and a school concert.
Lectures have been given by C H Marten and Lady Flinders Petrie.
Guide camps were held at Hawkshead and there was an International Camp at Ipswich.
There was a parents? meeting for the junior school and a parents? meeting for the senior school. The latter included discussion of the adoption of a school uniform.
There was ?spirited discussion? of adopting a house system but the plan was rejected.
There have been improvements to the playing fields. Percentages given of those girls who participate in sport. Details given of sports successes. Fencing was introduced.
A "considerable sum" was spent re-cataloguing the library. This was done by Miss Joyce Young with advice by the City Librarian. Pupils are being trained to help a Committee of Mistresses in running the library.
The Old Girls' Federation held a reunion.
Thanks to the following for gifts [details given]: Miss Beatrice Holme, Miss Leach, Miss Hurford, Mrs Albert Goldstone, Miss Tuke, Dorothy Langford, Miss Hawcridge, Mrs Pyne, Lady Simon.
Miss May Peacock has endowed a history prize [details given].
There are branches of the Old Girls? Federation in Scotland and Wessex [sic].
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1933: Miss E Tiano
School Secretary: Miss Reita [sic] Maddocks
Departmental Mistresses,September 1933:
Miss Eira Jupe, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss M D Callinan, Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Dorothy Farr, Miss Mary Fisher, Miss Mabel Barker, Miss Beatrice Ludlam, Miss Eleanore Tiano, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Rica [sic] Jones, 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 Jessie Leese, Miss Dorothy Scott, 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: Evelyn Buck, Betty Carter, Marjorie Challinor, Jean Cole, Margaret Faulkner, Carline [sic] Finigan, Kathleen Gamble, Beatrice Gardner, Vergin [sic] Gulbenkian, Amy Herbert, Elaine Jordan, Lady Cook, Marjorie Jordan, Adrine Kamberian, Elspeth Kerr, Vera Kershaw, Sheila McKay, Nina Marshall, Mary Morrison, Hilda Saxon, Elaine Shaw, May Smith, Mary Taylor, Eleanor Wilson, Doreen Caldwell, Julia Cohen, Phyllis Darrah, Elfrida Farrington, Ruth Farrington, Norah Graham, Edith Gratton, Elsie Hobbs, Mary Knott, Gudrun Langford, Jill McNab, Nancie Stott, Joyce Weinberg, Barbara Whiteley, Winifred Whittaker.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Miss Sara Burstall [sic], Nora Mills, Muriel Strange, Marie Paterson, Margaret Roberts, Margaret Wrigley, Beryl Collingwood, Hilda Lofthouse, Lilias [sic] Appleton, Denise Hagan, Mary Faulkner, Ethel Johnson, Maureen Binns, Beatrice Brentnall, Mary Cohen, Dorothy Jones, Mary Warrington, Marjorie Atkinson, Mary Bradshaw, Hilda Steiner, Doris Coulthard, Katharine Liebert.
University of London: Eunice Openshaw.
University of Edinburgh: Mary Gradwell.
University of Birmingham: Gwen Jackson.
University of Bristol: Hilda Barratt.
Swanley College, Kent: Joan Schofield.
Board of Education Teachers? Certificate: Ena Addis, Marjorie Allen, Marion Etherington, Kathleen Gamble, Beatrice Gardner, May Smith, Nellie Taylor.
Civil Service: Aileen Barr.
Member of the Advisory Committee on Education at the Colonial Office: Philippa Esdaile.
Gipsy Hill Training College: Margaret Bennett.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Exhibitions and Scholarships: Kathleen Atkinson, Marjorie Pear, Vivienne Hughes, Mary Burgess, Beryl Trickett.
Admission to the Training Department, Manchester University: Jean Halstead, Margaret Johnson.
Admission to Girton College, Cambridge: Kathleen Atkinson.
Admission to St Hugh's College, Oxford: Phyllis Corner.
Alliance Francaise: Asna Boltiansky, Margaret Stansfield.
Form Prizes: Marjorie Adams, Asna Boltiansky, Jean Heywood, Gwen Jones, Barbara Longbottom, Margaret Senior, Vivien Snow, Mary Knott, Ruth Struthers, Betty Green, Patricia Goldsbrough, Margery Hampson, Sheila Huss, Queenie Massel, Jean Rutter, Irene Salter, Joyce Bamber, Enid Dobson, Mary France, Mary Knowles, Margaret Manby, Gladys Murray, Joan Smith, Jessie Thompson, Daphne Wilde, Frances Hepburn, Margaret Barber, Mary Cooke, Marjorie Crookes, Audrey Hayes, Alice Heap, Joyce Horner, Dora Leather, Margaret Loudon, Doreen Neate, Helen Neeson, Marjorie Owen, Loraine Richards, Lorna Riley, Barbara Roberts, Dorothy Stappleton [sic], Elsie Bradbury, Jeannette Halpern, Joan Hardman, Betty McKie, Nita Dean, Thelma Briggs, Kate Brett, Rita Goldstone, Josephine Greaves, Kathleen Hicks, Florence Hindle, Doreen Peake, Kathleen Seabridge, Nora Warhurst, Annie Wilson, Flora Thomason, Margaret Norbury, Kathleen Barnes, Sylvia Bernard, Gwen Harper, Marjorie Hirst, Winifred Hobson, Margaret Shrewsbury, Kathleen Gill, Myra Robinson, Louise Hawthorn, Jane Hodgson, Barbara Melling.
Chairman's Prize: Vivienne Hughes.
Adamson Memorial Travelling Scholarship: Mervyn Lewis.
Lena Peacock Prize for History: Patricia Goldsbrough, Margery Hampson.
Art Prizes: Josephine Christopherson, Dorothy Grice, Sylvia Palmer, Joan Smith, Helen Greenwood, Lilian Scott, Christina Hindshaw, Enid Withers, Jeannette Halpern, Audrey Bayfield, Marjorie Wood.
Sewing Prizes: Margaret Howarth Barbara Moor.
Harrison Music Trophies: Upper IV Transitus, III.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1933: details given of subjects passed by the following: Kathleen Atkinson, Hilda Bristow, Mary Burgess, Margaret Cayton, Nellie Field, Marjorie Grey, Jean Halstead, Phyllis Hardman, Ruth Hardwick, Margaret Johnson, Mervyn Lewis, Marjorie Pear, Beryl Trickett.
School Certificate, July 1933: Kathleen Allman, Ermyn [sic] Brown, Ethel Collinge, Phyllis Collins, Marjorie Cross, Dilys Dew-Jones, Katie Dreyfus, Christine Edlin, Molly Graham, Betty Green, Pamela Marsden, Joan Paterson, Mary Percival, Muriel Roch, Margaret Rowbottom, Constance Spurr, Doreen Stevenson, Dorothea Bennett, Daisy Clarke, Jessie Edge, Jane Feingold, Stella Fildes, Elizabeth Fleure, Patricia Goldsbrough, Leila Goller, Margery Hampson, Jean Harrison, Margaret Haworth, Vera Hesketh, Margaret Hodgson, Hazel Honeyburne, Marjorie Hovell, Sheila Huss, May Jones, Queenie Massell, Joan Moss, Margaret Parker, Florence Rigg, Margaret Rutter, Dorothy Saunders, Barbara Simpson, Jean Smith, Audrey Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Joyce Bamber, Prudence Benington [sic], Marie Challinor, Beryl Evans, Helen Fearnley, Amy Garstang, Stella Gough, Dorothy Grice, Margaret Kinder, Grace Leask, Lucy McKillop, Jean McLean, Marjorie Morton, Constance Salter, Kathleen Sharples, Barbara Baddiley.
Faculty of Teachers of Commerce: Peggy Lupton, Nancie Stott, Mary Knott, Ruth Struthers, Elsie Hobbs, Margaret Bower, Molly Graham, Barbara Whitley, Carline [sic] Finigan, Jill Macnab, Claire Wilkinson, Winifred Whittaker, Elfrida Farrington, Isabel Ferguson, Marjorie Forrest, Marjorie Nelson, Margaret Saunderson.
Kamberian Speech Cup: Senior VI..
Dixon Gymnastic Cup: Pamela Marsden.
Conway Gymnastic Cup: Christine Hindshaw.
Middle School Gymnastic Cup: Daphne Wilde.
Parry Junior Cup: Audrey Longhurst.
Gymnastic Champions: Pamela Marsden, Vivien Snow.
The following names are bracketed together: Phyllis Hardman, Christina Hindshaw.
The following names are bracketed together: Doris Seddon, Molly Graham.
The following names are bracketed together: Kathleen Atkinson, Margaret Bennett, Margaret Johnson.
Drill Competition Shields: Senior VI, V A.
Junior Drill Cup: Upper III A.
Mrs Clarke's Form Cup for General Order and Neatness: Senior VI.
Swimming Cups: Joan Paterson, Enid Garstang, Beatrice Lowry.
Team Swimming Cup: Upper V A.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges, 1932: Joyce Adams, Dorothea Bennett, Frances Hepburn, Jean Rutter.
Form Net Ball Cups: VI Secretarial and General, V A, IV Transitus.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Phyllis Hardman.
Ashworth [Hockey] Cup for the Senior School: Senior VI.
Lawson [Hockey] Cup for the Middle School: V A.
Junior School Cup: IV Transitus.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Margaret Johnson.
Form Cricket Cups: V A, IV A.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup: Senior VI.
Young Tennis Singles Cups: Jean Halstead, Marjorie Lewtas.
Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Jean Halstead.
Other Successes: Rusholme District Girl Guides? Sports Cup, Manchester and District Schools? Junior Netball Shield [Division A], Manchester and District Schools? Cricket Cup, Music Festival for Girls? Secondary Schools ? Rose Bowl.
Prefects, 1932 - 1933
Head Prefect: Vivienne Hughes
Deputy Head Prefect: Margaret Johnson
Kathleen Atkinson, Hilda Bristow, Phyllis Darrah, Ruth Farrington, Nellie Field, Jean Halstead, Ruth Hardwick, Phyllis Hardman, Christina Hindshaw, Elsie Hobbs, Vivienne Hughes, Margaret Johnson, Marjorie Pear, Nancie Scott.
Sub Prefects
Margaret Hardman, Nancy Kerr, Doris Seddon, Gwen Strange.
Hulme Trust Scholarships
Kathleen Atkinson, Phyllis Corner, Marjorie Pear, Ellen Field, Christina Hindshaw, Margaret Johnson, Elvina [sic] Riding.
Lady Whitworth Exhibitions
Vivienne Hughes.
Lena Peacock Scholarship, 1933 - 1934
Josephine Christopherson
Senior Hulme Scholarships
Mervyn Lewis, Sheila Huss, Florence Rigg.
MacNicol Scholarships
Patricia Goldsbrough, Prudence Bennington.
Entrance Scholarships
Muriel Baker, Margaret Barker, Eileen Bowman, Barbara Bowmer, Sybil Cochrane, Norah Cross, Sarah Davies, Hilda Elam, Mary Elding, Barbara Fawcett, Marjorie Geary, Christine Jollans, Jessie Million, Brenda Mills, Eva Saunders, Barbara Seddon, Mary Seddon, Barbara Thompson, Eileen Walker.
Revenue Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1933
Details of income and expenditure.
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1933
Senior VI, Junior VI, VI General, VI Secretarial, Upper V Transitus, Upper V A, Upper V Alpha, Upper V Beta, V A, V Beta, V Parallel, Upper IV A, Upper IV Transitus, Upper IV General, IV A, IV Transitus, IV Parallel, Upper III A, Upper III Transitus, Upper III General, III, II