Governors
Chairman: F A Padmore
Miss Margaret Ashton, Miss G B Ayre JP, Miss F Barlow JP, Mrs Bromley Davenport, C Clegg, 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, Prof T B Webster, Mrs J Wilde, 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
The City Council has loaned the school money to buy the 11 acre estate of Grangethorpe in Rusholme as the future home of the school.
Regret at the death of Alderman Sutton and the resignation from the governing body of Alderman Bates. Welcome to Mrs Wilde and Mrs Bromley Davenport as new governors. Prof Stopford and Prof Stocks have been appointed Vice Chancellors of Manchester and Liverpool universities respectively.
Regret at the death of Edna Bassnett aged 15 who died of heart failure during an operation. Some library steps have been bought in her memory.
The guest speakers on Founders' Day and Speech Day respectively were the Vice Chancellor of Manchester University and Sir Arnold Wilson. Brief summary of the themes of their speeches.
Details of the following staff: Miss M A Goodwin, Miss Marie Joseph, Miss Rica [sic] Jones, Miss Weiste, Miss Lever.
General comments on academic and sporting successes.
Percentages given of school attendance.
Details given of guide and cadet activities including their camp which was led by Miss Mary Fisher, an ex-member of staff.
Details given of visits abroad including a visit to Bavaria with Miss Weiste.
Details given of school activities including those of the school societies.
Two parents? meetings were held.
Details given of gifts to the school including those from the following: Miss A Chisholm, Miss Ritchie, Mrs Bailey, Leah Goodman, Dr Burstall, Mr Lawrence Haward [sic], Mrs Hope Hogg, Miss Rica [sic] Jones, Eunice Openshaw, Mary Ravenhill, Mrs Sills, Miss Walter, Miss Weiste, Mrs T M Young, Lady Simon.
Joan Hardman has given a swimming cup
A branch of the Old Girls' Federation has been set up in S Africa.
Miss Clarke visited schools in Sweden.
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff and the subjects they taught are included]
Head Mistress: Miss M G Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1936 : Miss Annie Watson
School Secretary: Miss A E Kemlo
Departmental Mistresses, September 1936:
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 [Mrs Herbert], Miss Alice Chisholm, Miss Simone Avis, Miss Elizabeth Malloch, Miss Katharine MacKean, Miss Annie Watson, Miss Beryl Collingwood, Miss Theodora Mellor, Miss Joan Roberton, Miss Ella Holman, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss Winifred Feber [Mrs Seddon], Miss Dorothy Scott, Miss Mary McNicol, Miss Annie Cox, 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: Eileen Airne, Marjorie Davenport, Rita Ennor, Margaret Green, Dorothy Harrison, Joan Haydock, Nesta Herbert, Edith Holdsworth, Joan Honeyburne, Dorothy Hudson, Bessie Hulme , Betty Mawrey, Margaret Noble, Winifred Ogden, Eunice Openshaw, Jean Pettigrew, Margaret Rowbottom, Margaret Seddon, Doris Seddon, Marian Thorpe, Gabrielle Watts, Elsie Wyneken, Constance Cowtan, Gladys Curtis, Winifred Earnshaw, Margaret Loudon, Sona Setna, Alice Worthington.
Admission to Universities and Training Colleges
Details given of the universities and training colleges at which the following are studying: Joyce Bamber, Dorothea Bennett, Jean Coleman, Elsa Davies, Barbara Dean, Dorothy Dinsdale, Beryl Evans, Mary France, Patricia Goldsbrough, Leila Goller, Maud Gregory, Margaret Haworth, Sheila Huss, Mary Knowles, Margaret Manby, Queenie Massel, Margaret Parker, Alberta Ramsden, Florence Rigg, Joan Sumner Smith, Betty Strange, Jessie Thompson, Margaret Wade.
Staff
Details given of the success of the following:
Miss I L Dimmock
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Doris Coulthard, Barbara Honeyburne, Jean Halstead, Annie Lofthouse, Kathleen Owen, Margaret Johnson, Phyllis Kenworthy, Hilda Bristow, Eileen Perkins, Mary Somerville, Nesta Herbert, Elvina Riding, Ellen Field.
University of St Andrews: Dorothy Hudson.
University of Edinburgh: Winifred Turner.
University of Cambridge: Kathleen Atkinson.
University of Oxford: Janet Powicke, Margaret Noble.
Manchester College of Technology: Dilys Adams.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
Exhibitions and Scholarships: Queenie Massel, Sheila Huss, Margaret Manby, Joyce Bamber, Dorothea Bennett, Joan Sumner Smith, Rita Goldstone, Dorothy Stappleton [sic], Dora Leather, Marjorie Owen, Irene Moss.
Alliance Francaise: Gweynnedd Lewis, Judith Walton.
Lady Whitworth Exhibitions: Sheila Huss, Queenie Massel.
Hulme Trust Scholarships and Exhibitions for Higher Education: Dorothea Bennett, Jean Coleman, Patricia Goldsbrough, Margaret Parker, Joyce Bamber, Maud Gregory, Helen Neeson, Margaret Manby, Jean Smith, Joan Sumner Smith.
Senior Scholarships, 1935 - 1937: Phyllis Harry, Joan Heywood, Loraine Richards.
Junior Scholarships: Kathleen Ball, Jean Drylie, Sheila Graty, Freda Lunt.
Junior Exhibitions
1934: Beryl Briggs
1936: Frances Simon
Free Place Entrance Scholarships: Beryl Attwood, Evelyn Blain, Beatrice Bridge, Sheila Garden, Jean Geary, Phyllis Goldstone, Dorothy Howe, Dorothy Hutchings, Gwendolen Jones, Dulcie Joule, Jean Kershaw, Margaret Musk, Patricia Nicholson, Betty Quinn, Mary Shawcross, Gladys Sutcliffe, Norma Urbani, Olive Woods, Rachel Wrigley.
Form Prizes: Margaret Barber, Elsie Bradbury, Phyllis Harry, Alice Heap, Joyce Horner, Dora Leather, Marjorie Owen, Loraine Richards, Helen Neeson, Enid Withers, Margaret Loudon, Margaret Brabbs, Rita Goldstone, Flora Thomason, Nora Warhurst, Margaret Walton, Kathleen Barnes, Sylvia Bernard, Kathleen Gill, Gwendolyn Harper, Winifred Hobson, Mary Jackson, Joan Rigby, Myra Robinson, Joan Smith, Marjorie Hirst, Margaret Shrewsbury, Sarah Davies, Marjorie Geary, Louisa Hawthorn, Jessie Million, Eva Saunders, Nancy Varley, Eleanor Gray, Joan Greenhill, Jane Hodgson, Margaret Holmes, Patricia Lord, Roberta Stewart, Barbara Stirrup, Jeanne Brassington, Celia Barker, Mary Mason, Betty Ruscoe, Jessamine Sherratt, Nora Cutter, Sheila Graty, Margaret Pilling, Elizabeth Bridgen, Joyce Hall, Elizabeth MacGregor, Hazel Symon.
Chairman's Prize: Enid Dobson.
Lena Peacock Prize for History: Flora Thomason, Nora Warhurst.
Hadfield Prize for Classics: Sheila Huss.
Coignou Prize for Botany: Margaret Brabbs.
Art Prizes: Alice Heap, Mary Cooke, Dorothy Dinsdale, Margaret Morecroft, Una Radcliffe, Enid Withers, Joan Sumner Smith, Dorothy Stappleton [sic], Barbara Thompson, Patricia Lord, Stephanie Richardson.
Needlework Prizes: Jean Coleman, Enid Withers, Stella Fields.
Musicianship Trophy: Mary Ravenhill.
Harrison Music Trophies: Upper IV A, III [sic].
Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities Higher Certificate, 1936: details given of subjects passed by the following: Joyce Bamber, Dorothea Bennett, Jean Coleman, Elsa Davies, Eveline Dean, Enid Dobson, Mary France, Enid Garstang, Agnes Goldsbrough, Maud Gregory, Eileen Huss, Gwynnedd Lewis, Margaret Manby, Queenie Massel, Joan Moss, Gladys Murray, Marain [sic] Nicholson, Margaret Parker, Edith Renwick, Florence Rigg, Jean Smith, Joan Sumner Smith, Jessie Thompson, Judith Walton, Daphne Wilde.
School Certificate, July 1936: Muriel Appleby, Barbara Bailey, Lilian Buttery, Virginia Field, Irene Messenger, Joan Ashworth, Margaret Berry, Margaret Brabbs, Kate Brett, Thelma Briggs, Hilda Daniels, Margaret Dowler, Mollie Edgerton, Rita Goldstone, Josephine Greaves, Kathleen Harrington, Florence Hindle, Dorothy Hobbs, Winifred Johnson, Kathleen Liddell, Christine Mason, Edith Mason, Louisa Owen, Doreen Peake, Margery Sephton, Flora Thomason, Nora Warhurst, Winifred Whiting, Irene Whitworth, Margaret Adams, Ruth Appleby, Christine Bailey, Audrey Bayfield, Barbara Cope, Pamela Duckworth, Betty Garner, Kathleen Hall, Margaret Hayes, Audrey Hibbert, Julia Higginbottom, Barbara Hill, Joan Hocking, Heather Kenward, Ena Lord, Vera Louden, Beryl Nash, Margaret Norbury, Margaret Oliver, Dorothy Quick, Joan Shatwell, Betty Sidebottom, Margaret Walton, Jessie Wilkes, Annie Wilson, Gertrude Wood, Joan Haydock, Bettie Jones, Adrine Yegwart [sic], Barbara Bailey, Christine Bailey, Barbara Cope, Jean Fletcher, Kathleen Liddell, Louise Owen.
Faculty of Teachers of Commerce: statistics given of successes including those of the following: Winifred Earnshaw, Doris Herdman [sic], Alice Worthington, Margaret Loudon.
Kamberian Speech Cup: Upper V Alpha.
Dixon Gymnastic Cup: Ruth Grundy.
Conway Gymnastic Cup: Vera Goldstone, Helen Marshall.
Senior VI [1920] Cup, Middle School: Mary Elding.
Parry Junior Cup: Ethel Gregory, Patricia Lord.
Gymnastic Eight: Ruth Grundy.
The following names are bracketed together: Margaret Brydon, Alberta Ramsden, Daphne Wilde.
The following names are bracketed together: Helen Marshall, Mary France.
The following names are bracketed together: Elsa Davies, Enid Garstang.
Trophy for Deportment [presented by Miss Bourne]: Senior VI Arts and Science.
Mrs Clarke's Form Cup for General Order and Neatness: V Arts.
Swimming Cups:
Upper School Presented by Nora Hardman: Joan Bardsley,
Middle School: Joan McKay,
Lower School Presented by Theo Pearson: Jessamine Sherratt.
Senior Team Swimming Cup Presented by Joan Hardman: Upper V A.
Junior Team Swimming Cup Presented by the Senior VI 1926: IV Transitus.
Royal Humane Society Life Saving Badges 1935 [sic]: Marjorie Hardman, Christine Mason.
Thring Memorial Cup and Medal for Games: Elsa Davies.
Form Hockey Cups: Senior VI Arts and Science, V Arts, IV A.
Threlkald Net Ball Cup: Joan Hardman, Margaret Manby
Form Netball Cups: Senior VI Arts and Science, V Science, IV A.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Margaret Brydon, Daphne Wilde.
Form Cricket Cups: Senior VI Arts and Science, V Science, IV A.
Form Tennis Doubles Cup [Presented by the Senior VI, 1925]: Senior VI Arts and Science.
Tennis Singles Cups: Joyce Horner, Joan Smith, Jean Farrell.
Other Successes: Rusholme District Swimming Shield [School Guide Company], Rusholme District Sports Cup [School Guide Company], Manchester and District Schools? Hockey Shield, Manchester and District Cricket Cup.
Prefects, 1935 - 1936
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 1936
Details of income and expenditure
Alphabetical Class Lists, July 1936
Senior VI Arts and Science, Junior VI Arts and Science, Senior and Junior VI General, VI Transitus [sic], Senior and Junior VI Secretarial, Upper V A, Upper V Alpha, Upper V Beta, V Arts, V Science, V A, Upper IV A, Upper IV Alpha, IV A, IV Alpha, IV Transitus, Upper III A, Upper III Alpha, III, II