Governors
Chairman: F A Padmore
Miss Margaret Ashton, Miss G B Ayre JP, Miss F W [sic] Barlow JP [previously Miss E M Barlow], F W Bates JP, Councillor S Fairfoull, Prof H Fleure, Councillor G Grindley, Mrs Hope Hogg, Mrs A M Iliff, Prof E Jacob, H L Joseland, Miss E F Knott, Mrs J Mather, M C McGrath, Dr R Pickard, Miss D L Pilkington, Miss Dorothy Porter, Lady Simon, Councillor A P Simon, Prof J L Stocks DSO, Prof J Stopford, Alderman E F Sutton JP, Prof T B Webster, 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 death of Sir Edward Donner and details of his contribution to the school. Regret at the death of Sir Horace Lamb, another former governor and at the retirement from the governing body of Lady Moberly. Welcome to Miss E W Barlow, Mr C Clegg and Miss D L Pilkington.
Congratulations to Dr Catherine Chisholm on being awarded the CBE.
The guest on Founders' Day was Prof Dodd and on Speech Day was Lady Moberly. Brief details about the themes of their speeches which included reference to the jubilee of Pendleton High School for Girls.
Details about the following staff: Miss Ludlum, Miss Fisher, Miss Maddocks, Miss Warburton, Miss Barker, Miss Langton, Mrs Kennedy, Miss Kathleen Moorhouse, Mrs Proudlock, Miss Dyson, Miss Goodwin.
Statistics given of academic successes.
The new "heating installation system" and canteen in the sports pavilion have been a "boon."
General comments on the range of school activities which included a subscription of £14 for the Gresford Colliery disaster.
Lectures [details given] were given by Prof Webster and Mr Padmore. There was a concert in aid of the Eira Jupe fund.
Several forms presented the school with some "beautifully executed needlework."
The new school uniform was established by the wearing of the summer dress on Speech Day.
Thanks to the following for their gifts [details given] to the school: Miss Fisher, Mr Earle Hesketh, Miss Langton, Miss Ludlum, Miss Ritchie, Miss Barker, Dr Sara Burstall, Stella Gough, Mrs Hocking, Miss Maddocks, Mrs T M Young.
Miss Warburton gave a silver trophy for musicianship.
Sir Edward Donner left the school ?1,000.
The Old Girls' Federation held a reunion [details given].
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1935 : Miss Annie Watson
School Secretary: Miss A E Kemlo
Departmental Mistresses, September 1935:
Miss Marion Hawcridge, Miss Gladys Marten, Miss Evelyn Andrew, Miss M Dorothea Callinan, Miss Annie Taylor, Miss Dorothy Whiteley, Miss Jean McClymont, Miss Joan Roberton, Miss Jessie Leese, Miss Eleanore Tiano, Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Rica [sic] Jones, Miss Elizabeth Malloch, Miss Eva Weiste, Miss Annie Watson, Miss Beryl Collingwood, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Joan Roberton, Miss Ella Holman, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Winifred Feber, Miss Marie Joseph, Miss Dorothy Scott, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Margaret Lever, Miss Jessie Leese, Miss Norah Turner, Miss Alice K Knight, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Irene Dimmock, Miss Hannah Ritchie, Miss Dorothy Saunders, Miss Ruth Brownson, Miss Annie Warburton, Miss E Arthan, Miss Edith Webster, Miss Hilda Sargisson, Miss A M Shaw, Miss Evelyne Sands, Mr H Wilson.
Recent Appointments
Details given of the appointments held by the following: Joan Bates, Lady Cook, Margaret Brierley, Margaret Cayton, Mabel Clough, Phyllis Darrah, Marian Dickenson, Molly Faulkner, Caroline Field, Molly Greenhalgh, Marie Hampson, Ruth Hardwick, Ruth Jephson [sic], Gudren Langford, Phyllis Nanney, Marjorie Reddiford, Joan Schofield, Elaine Shaw, Magdalen Newland-Smith, Dorothy Spencer, Eileen Tydeman, Sybil Trickett, Margaret Ward, Ida Whitehill, Edith Woodhouse, Esmay Whitson [Mrs Butterfield], Isabel Young, Kathleen Allman, Sadie Bodek, Kathleen Brierley, Ermyn Brown, Nita Dean, Isobel Ferguson, Peggy Lupton, Audrey Smith, Joyce Sulston.
Admission to Universities and Training Colleges
Details given of the universities and training colleges at which the following are studying: Prudence Benington, Elsie Boardman, Marjorie Burgess, Christine Edlin, Stella Fildes, Elizabeth Fleure, Margaret Gaff, Stella Gough, Margery Hampson, Margaret Hodgson, Hazel Honeyburne, Marjorie Hovell, Gwen Jones, Ann Kirkpatrick, Barbara Longbottom, Marjorie Morton, Joan Moss, Sylvia Palmer, Muriel Roch, Irene Salter, Margaret Senior, Constance Spurr.
Staff
Details given of the successes of the following: Miss Catherine Chisholm, Miss M France, Miss A M Shaw.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Diploma for Secondary Teachers: Marjorie Davenport, Marian Dickenson,, Mollie Faulkner, Dorothy Spencer.
University of Manchester: Eleanor Clarke, Marjorie Swain, Hilda Lofthouse, Muriel Spurgin, Araxie Mikaelian, Mary Fleure, Eleanor Faulkner, Clare Ellison, Barbara Honeyburne, Betty Mercer, Margaret Lewtas, Betty Redfern, Nesta Herbert, Kathleen Owen.
University of Birmingham: Gwen Jackson.
University of Cambridge: Molly Strange.
University of Liverpool: Peggy Craig.
Manchester College of Domestic Economy: Sybil Trickett.
Institute of Chartered Accountants: Dorothy Vaughan.
Incorporated Society of Chiropodists: Annie Casson.
Civil Service: Phyllis Darrah, Julia Cohen.
Examination for Inspectors of Factories: Ida Wraith.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Exhibitions and Scholarships: Pauline Brand, Margaret Gaff.
Alliance Francaise: Margaret Walton.
Mary Bradford Exhibition: Margery Hampson.
Lady Whitworth Exhibition: Irene Salter.
Lena Peacock Scholarship, 1934 [sic]: Margaret Manby , Joan Smith.
Sarah Bradshaw Scholarships: Mary France, Irene Moss.
MacNicol Scholarships, 1933 - 36: Patricia Goldsbrough.
Old Girls' Association [sic] Scholarship, 1934 ? 36: Daphne Wilde, Denise Nuttall.
Hulme Trust Scholarships and Exhibitions for Higher Education: Prudence Benington, Stella Fildes, Margaret Gaff, Stella Gough, Marjorie Hovell, Barbara Longbottom, Joan Moss, Constance Spurr.
Senior Scholarships, 1935 - 37: Phyllis Harry, Joan Heywood, Loraine Richards, Gwyneth Lewis [1935 ? 1936].
Junior Scholarships: Ellen Burgess, June Copper, Joyce Finniecome, Ethel Gregory, Margaret Holmes, Mary Livesey, Mary Mason, Bernice Steakle, Marianne Pilkington
Free Place Entrance Scholarships: Janet Andrews, Celia Barker, Dorothy Bennett, Isobel Draughn [sic], Stella Fields, Mary Gent, Nanette Gregg, Barbara Harper, Enid Jones, Sheila Lees, Sheila McCormick, Dorothy Meyhew, Heloise Norwell, Margaret Pilling, Monica Phillipson, Eunice Pointer, Freda Roberts, Renda [sic] Robson, Betty Roscoe, Jessamine Sherratt, Betty Smith, Gertrude Tinker, Ruth Whittaker, Mary Wood.
Form Prizes: Enid Dobson, Gwyneth Lewis, Margaret Manby, Helen Marshall, Edith Renwick, Jean Smith, Daphne Wilde, Margaret Barber, Marjorie Crookes, Alice Heap, Joyce Horner, Dora Leather, Margaret Loudon, Marjorie Owen, Loraine Richards, Elsie Bradbury, Jennette Halpern, Betty McKie, Margaret Brabbs, Margaret Dowler, Josephine Greaves, Flora Thomason, Nora Warhurst, Joan Shatwell, Margaret Walton, Annie Wilson, Kathleen Barnes, Sylvia Bernard, Kathleen Gill, Marjorie Hirst, Winifred Dobson, Joan Rigby, Myra Robinson, Joan Smith, Eileen Walker, Vivienne Wallis, Sarah Davies, Marjorie Geary, Louisa Hawthorn, Jessie Million, Eva Saunders, Eleanor Gray, Joan Hodgson, Thelma Hoyle, Marjorie Hulme, Patricia Lord, Barbara Stirrup, Mary Livesey, Margaret Holmes, June Copper, Jean Drylie [sic], Jean McIntosh, Betty Marriott, Elizabeth Bridgen, Sylvia Winstanley.
Chairman's Prize: Elizabeth Fleure.
Lena Peacock Prize for History: Joan Sumner Smith.
Hadfield Prize for Classics: Patricia Goldsbrough.
Hadfield Prize for Secretarial Work: Kathleen Allman.
Coignou Prize for Botany: Virginia Field, Helen Neeson.
Art Prizes: Beryl Evans, Marjorie Hovell, Dorothy Dinsdale, Enid Withers, Christine Bailey, Audrey Bayfield, Elsie Boardman, Sylvia Palmer, Alice Heap, Ellen Burgess, Patricia Lord.
Needlework Prizes: Jean Coleman, Constance Spurr, Vera Louden, Joan Greenhill, Marjorie Hume.
Musicianship Trophy [Presented by Miss Warburton and awarded for the first time]: Pauline Brand, Elizabeth Fleure.
Harrison Music Trophies: Upper IV A, Upper III A.
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1935: details given of subjects passed by the following: Joyce Bamber, Prudence Benington, Dorothea Bennett, Pauline Brand, Marjorie Burgess, Jean Coleman, Christine Edlin, Jane Feingold, Stella Fildes, Elizabeth Fleure, Margaret Gaff, Patricia Goldsbrough, Leila Goller, Stella Gough, Margery Hampson, Marjorie Hovell, Sheila Huss, Gwen Jones, Barbara Longbottom, Queenie Massel, Sylvia Palmer, Irene Salter.
School Certificate, July 1935: Betty Balderstone, Margaret Burgess, Dorothy Dinsdale, Sybil Hamilton, Iva Mather, Sona Setna [sic], Enid Withers, Margaret Barber, Mary Cooke, Marjorie Crookes, Dorothy Elkin, Phyllis Harry, Audrey Hayes, Alice Heap, Joan Heywood, Olive Hindley, Joyce Horner, Nellie Lambert, Dora Leather, Margaret Loudon, Rita Meyer, Doreen Neate, Helen Neeson, Marjorie Owen, Betty Pennington Loraine Richards, Eleanor Riley, Barbara Roberts, Merle Robinson, Dorothy Stappleton, Joan Wilkinson, Sylvia Bailey, Elsie Bradbury, Ann Coates, Virginia Field, Joan Goldstone, Jeannette Halpern, Joan Hardman, Kathleen Hilton, Celia Lewis, Margery Lyon, Betty McKie, Leslie Oldfield, Una Radcliffe, Joan Woodcock.
Kamberian Speech Cup: Form III [after this the name Jean McIntosh is written].
Dixon Gymnastic Cup: Helen Marshall.
Conway Gymnastic Cup: Vera Goldstone, Helen Marshall.
Senior VI [1920] Cup, Middle School: Ruth Grundy.
Parry Junior Cup: Nora Warhurst.
Gymnastic Eight: Helen Marshall.
The following names are bracketed together: Daphne Wilde, Alberta Ramsden, Ann Kirkpatrick.
The following names are bracketed together: Patricia Goldsbrough, Vera Goldstone, Margaret Hodgson, Marjorie Hovell.
Bourne Challenge Shield, Upper School: Upper V Alpha.
Elizabeth Day Challenge Shield, Middle School: V Alpha.
Lodge Cup, Lower School: IV A.
Trophy for Deportment [Presented by Miss Bourne]: Senior VI.
Mrs Clarke?s Form Cup for General Order and Neatness: Upper V A.
Swimming Cups: Joan Hardman, Beatrice Lowry, Ruth Bardsley.
Team Swimming Cup [Presented by the Senior VI, 1926]: Junior VI.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges 1934 [sic]: Winifred Hobson, Doris Titterington.
Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Marjorie Hovell.
Form Net Ball Cups: Junior VI, V A, IV A.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Hazel Honeyburne.
Form Netball Cups: Upper V Alpha, Upper IV Parallel, IV A.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Margaret Hodgson, Hazel Honeyburne.
Form Cricket Cups: Junior VI, Upper IV A, IV Transitus.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup [Presented by the Senior VI, 1925]: Upper V A.
Tennis Singles Cups: Joyce Horner, Marjorie Lewtas, Dorothy Croasdell.
Other Successes: Manchester and District Schools' Hockey Shield, Music Festival for Girls' Secondary Schools ? Rose Bowl, Rusholme District Swimming Shield won by the School Cadet Company, Junior Cricket Cup competed for annually against Ladybarn House School.
Prefects, 1934 - 1935
Head Prefect: Enid Dobson
Deputy Head Prefect: Patricia Goldsbrough
Joyce Bamber, Dorothea Bennett, Elsa Davies, Enid Dobson, Enid Garstang, Patricia Goldsbrough, Maud Gregory, Margaret Manby, Helen Marshall, Edith Renwick, Betty Strange, Daphne Wilde.
Sub Prefects
Joan Hardman, Joyce Horner, Margery Lyon, Helen Neeson, Barbara Roberts.
Revenue Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1935
Details of income and expenditure
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1935
Senior VI, Junior VI, VI General and Transitus, VI Secretarial, Upper V A , Upper V Alpha, Upper V General, V A, V Alpha, V Beta, Upper IV A, Upper IV Alpha, Upper IV Parallel, IV A, IV Transitus, Upper III A, Upper III Alpha, Upper III Transitus,
III, II