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1944
Manchester High School for Girls, 121 Barlow Moor Road, Manchester 20
Governors
Chairman: Prof H J Fleure
Mrs C Bacon, Miss F Barlow JP, the Venerable A Selwyn Bean, Prof H B Charlton, C Clegg, J Coatman, S Fairfoull, Councillor Mrs K Fletcher, A Gibson, Alderman G Grindley, Councillor C F Howarth, Prof E Jacob, H L Joseland, Miss E F Knott, Mrs J Mather, Miss D L Pilkington, Miss Dorothy Porter, Alderman Wright Robinson, Canon W Rowe, A P Simon, Prof John Stopford, Prof T B Webster, Mrs T M Young, W H Zimmern
Treasurer: C Clegg
Auditors: Messrs Halliday, Pearson and Co Clerk to the Governors: Miss A E Kemlo
Medical Inspector and Referee: Miss C Chisholm
Report
It is not known how the new Education Act will affect Direct Grant schools.
Regret at the resignations from the governing body of Prof Fleure, Councillor Kershaw and Mrs T Young.
The speakers on Founders' Day and Speech Day were Dr Padmore and Mr L Behrens respectively.
The school is full. Thanks to Mr and Mrs L Behrens, the managers of St Aiden's Church, the authorities of Manchester university, the Moorland Road Tennis Club and the governors of Withington school for their help with accommodation.
Details given of the following staff: Miss Mellor, Miss Cashin, Miss Brassington, Miss Rattray, Miss Ruth Heald.
Student teachers have done teaching practice at the school.
Details given of academic successes.
Details give of school activities including guides under the leadership of Miss Pettigrew, a harvest camp led by Miss Avis, potato lifting and a youth hostel visit to the Lake District.
Talks [details given] were given by Mr P Wertheim and Dr Michael Balint.
Details given of fund raising and other community activities. The school has made a special aim the helping of children in liberated countries, eg Greece and France.
A parents' meeting was held.
There were an Old Girls' Federation meetings in honour of Miss Harrison and Miss Mellor.
Regret at the death of Madame Alice Lamb in December 1943.
Thanks to the following for their gifts [details given]: Miss Mabel Boon, Mrs Cooper, Mrs T Young, Cyril Knott, Mrs Howlett, Katherine [recte Katharine] Liebert, Mr Rogers, Jean Warburton, Miss Heald, Miss Cashin, Jose Standen [nee Mason], Marjorie Freeman [nee Pear], Rene Hayward [nee Leigh], Miss Callinan, Mrs Cockerell, Miss Brassington, Miss Brossa, Mr Holman, Miss Knight, Sarah Read, Mrs Seddon, Miss James, Miss Jones, Miss Moncur, Miss Robinson, R H Clayton, P Wertheim, Mrs Rutherston.
Staff
[The academic qualifications of the staff are given]
Head Mistress: Miss Clarke
Deputy Head Mistress, 1944 : Mrs A London
School Secretary: Miss A Kemlo
School Housekeeper: Miss I Huntington
Departmental Staff: Miss M F Abraham, Miss E Andrew, Miss S Avis, Miss G Bentley, Miss M Black, Miss M Brewer, Miss M Callinan, Miss M Cartwright, Miss M Dean, Miss A Ellis, Miss D Ellison, Miss M Hampson, Miss R Hazell, Miss E Herbert, Miss E Holman, Miss E Jamieson, Miss H Langton, Miss E Law, Miss J Leese, Miss M Leigh, Miss M Lever, Mrs London, Miss J McClymont, Miss B Norcott, Mrs Perry, Miss J Pettigrew, Miss H Ritchie, Miss D Saunders, Miss D Smith, Miss I Steel, Miss P Thomas, Miss S Turner, Miss I Watkins, Miss A Warburton, Miss E Webster, Miss D Whitely, Miss C Brossa, Miss K Forster, Miss M Hodgson, Miss G Holt, Miss C Huddart, Miss H Sargisson, Miss A Shaw, Miss S Spencer.
Former Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
University of Manchester: Margaret Barber, Nancy Penney, Barbara Stirrup, Ruth Hall, Kathleen Ball, Joan Greenhill, Kathleen Grosse, Muriel Wood, Kathleen Barnes, Sarah Davies, Hilda Elam, Joyce Seddon, June Kliman. London University: Joan Bridgen, Margaret Holmes.
Cambridge University: Jane Hodgson, Mildred Johnson, Mary Mason.
Reading University: Lesley Spencer.
State Registered Nurse: Irma Barber.
Prefects 1943 - 44
Head Prefect: Audrey Smith
Deputies: Mary Fernie, Hazel Simon, Jean Brocklehurst, Margaret Collinge, Jean Dunn, Marjorie Findlay, Margaret Milne, Joan Pennington, Jean Warburton.
Present Pupils
Details given of the successes of the following:
External Award: Marjorie Findlay.
Higher School Certificate: Jean Brocklehurst, Margaret Collinge, Jean Dunn, Sheila Edmondson, Marjorie Findlay, Margaret Lawrence, Margaret Milne, Glenys Roberts, Phyllis Roberts, Gene Robinson, June Roussak, Florence Rowlinson, Audrey Smith, Marjorie Southall, Hazel Symon, Jean Warburton, Alethea Webster.
School Certificate: Barbara Appleby, Anita Berlyne, Doreen Bibby, Edith Boote, Ann Bowden, Enid Carpenter, Joyce Cornish, Kathleen Cornish, Deirdre Davies, Jean Davies, June Day, Kathleen Fulton, Margaret Harrison, Margaret Holt, Margaret Jackson, Kathleen Anderson, Sheila Birkhead, Margaret Booth, Jean Bottomley, Patricia Bramhall, Joan Broadhead, Norma Crosby, Patricia Fitzmaurice, Shelagh Gordon, Celia Harrison, Wendy Kershaw, Freda Lee, Pauline Martin, Rachel Mendelson, Sybil Owen, Mary Podmore, Muriel Potts, Olga Poulter, Sheila Reavey, Mary Schoenfeld, Jean Stokes, Beryl Talbot, Meriel [sic] Whitehead, Jean Worswick, Mary Hunter, Nancy Jones, Rita McEwan, Mary Pepper, Jean Ralph, Helen Rayner, Ruth Stoneman, Mary Tweedale, May Whittaker, Margaret McIntyre.
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music: Doris Bootherstone, Deirdre Davies, Freda Lee, Doreen Bibby, Margaret Harrison, Sybil Owen, Diana Bridgford, Norma Crosby, Audrey Sipe, Eileen Bailey, Jean Hooper, Janet MacGregor, Daphne Radford, Rachel Mendelson.
Lady Whitworth Scholarship: Hazel Symon.
Marion Hewitt Scholarship: Phyllis Roberts.
Mary Bradford Exhibition: Marjorie Findlay.
MacNicol Scholarship: Margaret Collinge.
Chairman's Prize: Audrey Smith.
Prize for Art: Jean Higham.
Coignou Prize for Botany: Alethea [sic] Webster.
Margaret Hogg Prize for Geography: Marjorie Findlay.
Lena Peacock Prize for History: Florence Rowlinson.
Finburgh Prize for Chemistry: Hazel Symon.
Prize for Needlework: Margaret McIntyre, Elaine Douglass [sic].
Warburton Musicianship Trophy: Jean Warburton.
Secretarial Course Diplomas: Astrid Astbury, Mary Fernie.
Sixth Form General Course Diplomas: Dorothy Boardman, Barbara Booth, Lucy Dobbins, Joyce Fairbrother, Estelle Levaine, Sheila Ridgway, Vivienne Samuels, Heather Trotter.
Laski Cup for General Excellence in the Preparatory Department: Maureen Gosling, Joyce Odabashian.
First Class Gymnastic Certificates: Dorothy Boardman, Barbara Booth, Jean Brocklehurst, Jean Dunn, Margaret Lawrence, Margaret Milne, Audrey Smith, Hazel Symon.
Thring Memorial Cup: Jean Dunn.
Stevenson Cup awarded for Hockey: Jean Dunn.
Form Hockey Cups
Ashworth Cup, Upper School: Senior VI.
Lawson Cup, Middle School: V A.
Lower School Cup: IV A.
Threlkald Netball Cup: Jean Worswick.
Form Netball Cups
Upper School: Upper V A.
Middle School: Upper IV A.
Lower School: IV Alpha.
Fletcher Cricket Cup: Margaret Milne.
Form Cricket Cups
Senior VI 1927, Upper School: Upper V A.
Mellor Cup, Middle School: Upper IV A.
Form Tennis Doubles Cups
Senior VI 1925, Upper School: Upper V A.
Farrel Cup, Middle School: V A.
Tennis Singles Cups
Young Cup, Upper School: Margaret Harrison.
Young Cup, Middle School: Jean Goodfellow.
Form Rounders Cup: Upper IV A.
Hulme Trust Leaving Exhibitions: Jean Brocklehurst, Florence Rowlinson, Audrey Smith.
Hulme Trust Junior Scholarships: Berenice Amos, Wendy Brazier, Christine Dinnage, Bridget Gordon, Dorothy Hughes, Jean Walter.
Free Place Entrance Scholarships: Eleanor Ainscow, Nancy Barratt, Audrey Berry, Janet Beswick, Jean Blackburn, Jean Bradbury,. Maureen Casey, Sheila Child, Bronwen Cocker, Mary Greaves, Pamela Grundy, Audrey Harris, Margaret Henshall, Joan Higham, Betty Hill, Margaret Hollingworth, Aileen Lamb, Deirdre Lee, Valerie Mee, Hilary Midgley, Mary Mitchell, Phyllida [sic] Mitchell, Audrey Norcross, Dora Sykes, Jean Walker.
Income and Expenditure Account for the Year Ending 31 March 1944
Details of income and expenditure and schedule of investments
Building Fund Donations and Subscriptions to 31 August 1945
Details given of the amounts contributed by the following [the names appear in descending order of the amounts given]:
The Old Girls? Federation, Miss F Harrison, Miss A Varley, Mr and Mrs A Hall, Mrs T Young, Miss D Drought, J Paton, Mrs Mayo, Miss E Needham, Miss E Beard, H Joseland, Mrs Kessler, Miss H Willows, Mrs and Mrs J White, C West, Miss A Cooke, Miss M Cashin, Dr Chadwick, Miss M Callinan, Miss B Holme, Miss B Humphrey, Miss E McDougall, C Wilcox, Nathan Laski, Miss M Willoughby, H Sutcliffe, Mrs E Dymond, Prof Jacob, Mrs King, Mrs A Baird, Mrs Batterley, Miss Dodd, Miss A Ellis, Mrs H Harwood, Mrs E Herbert, Miss I Hiles, Dr Rodd, the Misses Geary, Miss A Knight, Miss R Rapaport, F Bentley, Miss M Dunkerley, Dr F Fulton, Miss D Dearden, Mr and Mrs Geary, Miss S Sopwith, T Dobbins, Miss J Leese, Mrs I Brown, Mr and Mrs Lee, A Whitehill, W Cooke, Miss A Berlyne, Miss E Cohen, Miss R Mendelson, Nora Page, Mrs Woollard, Miss R Carson, S Done, Miss J Hall, Mrs Martyn, Mrs Nowell, the Misses Sumner Smith, Miss H Wilson.
Alphabetical Class Lists for the Year 1943-1944 Senior VI, Junior VI, Upper V A, Upper V Alpha, Upper V B, V A, V Alpha, Upper IV A, Upper IV Alpha, IV A, IV Alpha, IV Transitus, Upper III A, Upper III Alpha, Upper III Transitus, III Alpha, Upper II, II, Transition, Upper Primary, Lower Primary
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