Frontispiece
A certificate of official recognition from the War Office of the work for the war done by the school.
Editorial
The school continues to do a lot for the war effort, it has had official recognition for this and "our work has been brought into the new County Association under Lord Shuttleworth.....Many old girls are working in banks, having filled the places of men who have gone to the front."
Kathleen Gordon [V Upper]
"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name"
Scandinavian legend of Odin.
No Author
A Valiant Attempt
Story about the author's upbringing by two aunts and an uncle.
Laura Betley [aged 11 years]
Autumn
Description of autumn in Anglesey.
Erin [VI Transitus]
Poem
Poem about the return of Spring.
Letter from an Officer
Letter received by one of the staff from an officer of a torpedo boat destroyer. Thanks for the gifts which have been sent. Describes life on the ship including a timetable of the "middle watch."
M Mumford and J Addyman
The Fear
Story about a storm.
Daisy Atkinson [V A]
Nymphidia
Poem about seeing fairies at night.
Gertrude Niven [V A]
"When My Ship Came In"- A Dream
Story about Death coming to claim its victims.
Adelaide and Charlotte
Questionable Quicksands or A Muddy Mess
Sea story written in verse and prose.
The British Association
The annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held in Manchester and the meetings of the Educational and Agricultural branches were held at the school. Among the visitors were Mrs Sidgwick, Prof Dixon and Miss Coignou.
Speech Day
The guest speaker was Mrs Scharlieb "a most eminent lady doctor." She recommended medicine as a career for women not least because a doctor can earn £500 pa.
Prof Tout said that he hoped some girls would become teachers.
Miss Burstall's Birthday
£5 10s was collected for the East Lancashire branch of the British Red Cross Society.
Staff News
Leaver: Mlle de Proft
New staff: Miss Theodora Evans, Mrs Mather [nee Miss Annie Lawton], Miss Agnes Sandys, Miss Winifred Ayres, Miss Elsie Finlayson, Miss Herford, Miss Muriel Goodwin, Miss Billington, Miss Dorothy Stewart
Miss Alice Chisholm is working in various military hospitals in Manchester.
Miss Powicke is working in France.
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Store Room
Description of the thousands of items which have been collected and distributed to local relief societies in Hulme and Ancoats, the Mulberry Street Boys� School, �to Mrs Scharlieb for her son and his men at the front� and to Miss Powicke in France.
News of Old Girls
Details given about the following: Norah Whittle, Elsie Windsor, Doris Hancock, Phyllis Pritchard, Dorothy Wellard, Mary Barnes, Vera Haigh, Miss Edith Lang, Dorothy Dearden, Nora Evans, Cecily Fox Smith, Marie Crockwell, Phyllis Brown, Constance Gill, Olga Schneider, Connie Dale, Lilian Poole
Destinations of School Leavers
Details given of the destinations of the following: Margaret Whiteley, Mary Woodall, Phyllis Pritchard, Lilian Tunnicliffe, Mary Turner, Annie Sommerhalder, Hilda Wilson, Vera Wilson, Lucy Higginbottom, Marjorie Ferguson, Doris Rohleder, Margaret de la Wyche, Eileen Rowney, Doris Hancock, Hilda Haigh, Phyllis Hunter
The Auxiliary Military Hospital, Chorlton-cum-Hardy
The following are working in the Auxiliary Military Hospital: Lillian Norquoy, Doris Brown, Eleanor Moorhouse, Mabel Brown, Gertrude Grime, Mabel Grime, Amy Stroud, Nellie Gronno, Maggie Lockwood, Mary Dewhirst, Constance Parish, Edith Pilling, Mrs Ledward Brown [nee Ada Peacock]
Willow Bank Hospital, Moss Lane East
The following are nursing at the Willow Bank Hospital: Ethel Thompson, Winifred Bennett, Fanny Aronsberg, Gladys Neild, Mary Bradley, Marjorie Crewe, Nora Rogers
The Manchester College of Music
The following have been students or have gained honours [details given]: Annie Mills, Constance Parr, Annie Neild Cade, Frances Crockwell, Rosina Fulton, Enid Grundy, Katherine Turner, Annie Worsley, Jeannette Horkheimer, Mary Till, Beatrice Welch, Mary White, Lilian Brocklehurst, Mefanwy Lloyd, Dora Cumberlidge, Harriet Coppock
Births
Births to the following have been announced:
Mrs Tomkins-Russell [nee Miss Morgan]
Mrs Kershaw [nee A Hallam]
Marriages
The marriages of the following have been announced: Margaret McGregor, Lottie Rosenblum, Eleanor Rhodes, Gertrude Reynolds, Ethel Magnus, Irene Hunt, Phyllis Bradbury, Dorothy Axon, Miss Evans, May Jones
Engagements
The engagements of the following have been announced: Alice Stott, Dorothy Blackledge
News of Governors
Information given about Prof Alexander and Prof Tout.
In Memoriam
Notice of the death of Wilfred Gordon Barrow [pupil 1902-1906] of the 6th Batallion of the King�s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Killed in action in the Dardanelles, August 10.
Nancy Conway and Elsie Polak
Golden Rule Society
Money has been collected and a large amount of wool has been knitted into socks for �the men of the New Zealand contingent.�
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Scientific Society
President: Miss Burstall
Vice President: Miss Marten
Secretary: Joyce Addyman
Treasurer: Margaret Single
Committee: Miss McNicol, Miss Mutch, Elsie MacGill, Mary Atkinson.
A lecture was given by Dr Tattersall.
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French Society
President: Miss Burstall
Vice President: Miss Adamson
Secretary and Treasurer: Annie Patterson
Committee: Miss Greenwood, Miss Pollard, Miss Sprunt, Mary Atkinson, Lily Boltiansky, Phyllis Mills, Nora Rowney, Eileen Threlkeld.
A meeting was held at which Mlle Teissier gave a recitation. Pupils from Hulme Grammar and Whalley Range High Schools were present. It is planned to hold a meeting at which a party of Belgian children will be present.
P Mottershall
Missionary Guild
President: Miss Burstall
Secretary: Phyllis Mottershall
Treasurer: Miss F Harrison
Committee: Miss Bourne, Miss Callinan, Miss Dendy, Miss Finlayson, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Hawcridge, Miss Mellor, Miss Willis.
Form representatives [details given]: Norah Rowney, Frances Finlayson, Helen Robinson, Margery Ingham, Dorothy Wykes, Paula Wilcock, Joan Robinson, Hilda Morris, Carrie Downes, Eira Davis, Alice Buckley, Annie Melling, Ailsa Craig, Eileen Simcock, Clara Fray, Vera Wait, Beartrice Castle, Mary Mumford, Jessie Castle, Lilian Shorrock, Molly Jackson, Jean Harrison, Margaret Mumford, Doris Purdy, Margaret Single, Mary Atkinson, Marie Halstead, Lydia Pilkington, Florence Blades, M Hewitt, Gwladys [sic] Parry-Jones, Margaret Atkinson, Dorothy Ineson, Ruth Brighouse.
An exhibition of "foreign curios" was held at which Rev J Cole gave a speech [details given]. Money has been raised for Khukie, "the High School Bengali baby." Miss Day sent money for the support of the baby.
Hilda Pratt
Classical Society
Treasurer: Phyllis Mills
Secretary: Hilda Pratt
Committee: Phyllis Lowe, Annie Patterson, Margaret Single
A lecture was given by Prof Anderson. There are a large number of members but attendance at the meeting was disappointing.
Nancy Conway [Captain]
Hockey
The cost of railway fares has limited the number of matches to one against Withington which the school lost.
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Net Ball
Result of match played.