Database : School Magazines, 1883 -1952

1930 March

Magazine Representatives

General Editor:   Miss Clarke

Sub Editor:  Peggy Reekie

Literary Editor :  Miss Jupe

Secretary:  Miss Hawcridge

Treasurer:  Miss Andrew

Committee:  Miss Callinan, Miss Lister, Miss McClymont, Miss Ritchie, Magdalen Newland-Smith, Dorothy Spencer, Evelyn Daniels, Peggy Cartmell, Dorothy Travis, Kathleen Atkinson, Rhona Dibnah, Gudrun Langford, Christina Ratcliffe, Miriam Sussman, Julia Cohen, Gwen Strange, Barbara Davies, Margery Headon, Edith Sandiford, Constance Spurr, Sophie Shammah, Kathleen Chapman, Stella Fildes, Stella Gough, Iris Hall, Nancy Deeks, Roma Cronshaw, Margaret Hays

Frontispiece

Picture of Gretchen Tydeman painting Miss Burstall

Tribute to the work of Prof Tout who has recently died. Includes the resolution of thanks by the governors. He was a governor for 30 years and for half that time was chairman of the governors.

Philippa Esdaile and her sister Mrs Pickstone have presented the school with a portrait of Miss Day. Gretchen Tydeman has presented her portrait of Miss Burstall. They will be hung in the library.

The draining and levelling of the playing fields are finished. The Old Girls made a contribution to the cost through their Cake and Candy Stall in July. A party of girls from the hockey and netball teams of the States' Intermediate School in Guernsey visited the school and were the guest of pupils for a week

A new old girls organisation has been set up in the Midlands. It is hoped that the different organisations will be linked "in an organic way" in the future.

Margaret Roberts

Margaret Roberts has been awarded a state scholarship on the basis of her Higher National Certificate result.

Leavers:  ten staff left including the following: Miss Ashworth, Miss Bannerman, Miss Hutchinson, Miss Mathieson, Miss Tait, Miss Rickard

New Staff:  Miss Mabel Barker, Miss R Denison, Miss Ethel Gilby, Miss E Holman, Miss K Ingold, Miss J Thompson, Miss J Work            

Speech Day

At Speech Day Miss Clarke spoke of the pioneering work which girls are doing and urged parents to allow them to take up work which is not usually done by women. The guest speaker, Dr Guy Warman, spoke of the new openings for women and hoped for co-operation between men and women.

Mr P Oliver MP for Blackley whose mother was a former pupil was the guest speaker.

There were visits to an Efficiency Exhibition, a biscuit factory, an art exhibition, and a play [details given]. Girls from the netball and hockey teams of the school at which Rhona Barlow teaches visited the school.

Girls attended a lecture of early keyboard music and various concerts [details given]. Details given of the programmes at lunchtime concerts. The performers were the following: Mrs Proudlock, Miss Davies, Miss Moorhouse, Miss Webster, Mme Lamb.

The Kamberian Speech Cup was won by VI General.

Gifts [details given] have been received from the following: Alderman Sutton, Miss Hutchinson, Mrs Tout, Mrs Pickstone, Philippa Esdaile, Gretchen Tydeman, Gudrun Langford, the Old Girls' Association

Evelyn Betesh and Senior Secretarials

Report of Founders' Day Speech 

Mr P Oliver MP for Blackley and son of a former pupil, was the guest speaker. He spoke of the vision of the school's founders and of the importance of pioneering work and of the need to be grateful for it. He compared education to a group of ships each with a different cargo.

A C [Upper V Transitus] and H B [Senior VI]

Our Guernsey Visitors

Three years ago Miss Bourne took a party of gymnasts to the Ecole Intermediare in Guernsey. This year a group of girls from the netball and hockey teams accompanied by Miss Naftel and Miss Barlow returned the visit. They were the guests of Miss Clarke, Miss Mellor and Miss Bourne. Description of the activities during the visit.

Description of a visit to London to see the sights and an exhibition of Italian art with Miss Ritchie. They met Miss Humphrey, Miss Wilkinson, Janet Stewart and Doris Mielziner. 

H L

April in the Aegean

Description of a sea trip in the Aegean

N Walsh [Junior VI]

Extracts from a Diary of 1950

Diary set in the future, includes references to robots, aircraft, "wireless," space travel for a holiday and immediate travel to Calcutta and Shanghai.

Peggy Reekie [Junior VI]

Visitors to the Zoo as seen by an Inmate

Story about the animals seeing the people who come to visit them. Illustrated by Janet Powicke.

E M T [VA]

A Devonshire Cub Hunt

Description of a hunt by the Dulverton pack of fox cubs.

P H [VA]

A Shakespearian Reunion

Story in which various Shakespearian characters meet each other.

Peggy Reekie [Junior VI]

A Sonnet: A Tragedy of Quarantine

Poem about regret at missing school.  

Dorothy Hudson [Senior VI]

A Song

Poem about the guiding light of a star.

R Denise Hagan [Senior VI]

Poem about seeing a fairy in a garden.

A C. I. E. Holiday Abroad

Detailed description of the camp in Hungary of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants and a visit to Budapest.

E M Middleton

Estate Management as a Career for Girls

Description of the work of an estate manager and the qualities which are needed for the job.

H R

Art Competition

Comments made on the entries of the following: Dorothy Grice, Janet Powicke, Francoise Haward, Hettie Rieck, Beatrice Gardner.

H L and J A McC

Photographic Competition

Comments of the entries of the following: Nancy Porter, Florence Rigg, Doreen Stevenson, Barbara Davies, Rhona Dibnan, Marjorie Jones, Dorothy Spencer.

E G J

Prose Competitions

Comments made on the entries of the following: Nora Walsh, Winifred Turner, Marjory Reddiford, Peggy Reekie.

H L

Verse Competitions

Comments made on the entries of the following: Kitty Liebert, Magdalen Smith.

E G J

Verse Competitions

Comments made on the entries of the following: Dorothy Hudson, Denise Hagan, Peggy Reekie, Joan Schofield, Jean Rutter.            

Births 1929

Births to the following have been announced

Nora Hardwick [nee Evans]           

Violet Teubal [nee Mansour]

Iris Doudian [nee Chakirian] 

Daisy Brady [nee Atkinson]

Edith Bradbury [nee Hesling]

Sadie Hewitt [nee Budenberg]

Marie Mitchell [nee Bagnall]

Ragna Harrison-Trowbridge [nee Salter]

Marriages 1929

The marriages of the following have been announced: Clara Bolchover, Christabel Dean, Ena Ross, Flora Marples, Winifred Riley.

Marriages 1930

The marriages of the following have been announced: Kathleen Appleton, Molly Raddin.

Deaths

The deaths of the following have been announced: Professor Thomas Frederick Tout, Elizabeth Boss.

T M and J A McClymont

Professor T F Tout

Appreciation of the work of Prof Tout.

The Old Girls' Association

Hon President:  Miss Clarke

Acting President:  Annie Ellis

Hon Treasurer:  Ellen Hampson

Hon Secretary:  Nancy Powicke

Hon Life Member:  Miss Burstall

The Old Girls' Association took over the tea room for the Cake and Candy Sale and served over 900 customers. The main event of the year was the dinner given at the Reform Club in honour of Miss Burstall's 70^th birthday.

There is now one regular and another occasional team. It is planned to run two teams each Saturday. Details of subscriptions.

The London MHSG Society

President:  Miss Burstall

Vice Presidents:  Miss Clarke, Philippa Esdaile, Cicely Fox Smith, Gertrude Clement, Mrs Heather, Hilda Johnstone, Miss Macklin, Lady Russell, the President of the OGA,

Committee:  L Baynes, A M Clarke, R Danziger, M Hewitt, Mrs Dixon [nee Higginbottom], Mrs Ormerod [nee Burton], Mrs Roberts [nee Meadows]

Treasurer:  Jane Mutch

Secretary:  P Sharp

The Society has over 160 members. Lady Russell presented Miss Burstall with a silver ink stand for her 70^th birthday. Philippa Esdaile and Miss Clarke made speeches [details given].

The Liverpool MHSG Society

Hon Presidents:  Miss Burstall, Miss Clarke

Acting Presidents:  Eva Hollings

Vice Presidents:  Eleanor Redfern [nee Rhodes]

Treasurer: Katherine Hothersall

Secretary:  Mary Ormerod

No report given.

The Midland MHSG Society

President:  Miss Burstall

Vice President:  Miss Caress

Treasurer:  Margery Willoughby

Secretary:  Doris Burstall

The Midland MHSG Society was formed in October 1929 and it now has over 30 members. The first meeting was held at Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School at the invitation of Miss Caress, Miss Burstall spoke of her activities. The second meeting was held at Birmingham University and it was attended by the following: Miss Willis, Miss Bourne, Miss Goodwin, Doris Mielziner, Freda Pritchard, Miss Tait, Miss Burstall.

Sara A Burstall

Miss Burstall�s Letter

Description and address of Miss Burstall's new house in Derby. Thanks for the 70^th birthday party and to Kathleen Lawson and her father J L Lawson for allowing the Reform Club as the venue.  Appreciation for the OGA meetings she has attended. Concern that the OGA loan fund is not being used. The Midland Society loan fund was begun with a sum lent by Lady Broadhurst and the first recipient is a graduate to pay for her teacher�s training course.

Pauline Kirkby

St Hugh's, Oxford 

Pauline Kirkby is the only former pupil at St Hugh's. Description of life at the college.

Dorothy Broughton

Girton College

Information about the following: Dora Andrews, Hilda Ball, Dorothy Broughton.

Miss Burstall visited the college, she has begun to learn Swahili as part of her work on education in the Empire.

Mary Gradwell

Edinburgh University

Information about the following: Evelyn Buck, Jean Cole, Lily Daniels, Hilda Wilson, Mary Gradwell.

Description of life in the university hostel.

Connie Hodgkinson

Manchester University

Information about the following: Ida Wraith, Vera Kershaw, Joyce Wrigley

Description of life at Ashburne Hall.

Miss Burstall's Dinner

Detailed description of the dinner given in honour of Miss Burstall's 70^th birthday. Among the guests were the following: Mr Padmore, Miss Clarke, Mr H Burstall, Prof Dixon, Mr Leach, Annie Ellis.

Appointments

Information given about appointments held by the following:  Zelda Bock, Ruth Danziger, Kathleen Dawson, Helen Dugdale, Madge Edwards, Philippa Esdaile, Ruth Haring, Dorothy Lever, Takouhi Kamberian, Joan Lodge, Mary Middleton, Christina Myers, Gertrude Niven, Gertrude Tydeman, Ruth Grundy [nee Kerr], Miss Weitzman, Ena Buckley, Mary Lee [nee Robins], Nora Willoughby, Hilda Bowker, Margery Poyser, Jane Mutch, Clara Hornby, Lelia Lloyd, Joyce Pearson, Vivian Pearson, Helen Smith, Dorothea Hardisty, Hilda Heywood, Winifred Mckellen, Muriel Stanion, Ina Milroy              

University Results

Information given about the results of the following: Edith Malley, Kathleen Hall, Dora Paterson, Enid Fletcher, Barbara Begg, Margaret Marsden, Joan Hinchcliffe, Nina Marshall, Marie Hampson, Winifred Leach, Dorothea Hindshaw, Bessie Cadness, Dorothy Geiler, May Goodwin, Hilda Ball, Ethel Eastwood, Mary Parkes, Sybil Wildman, Kathleen Hall, Margery Hoyle, Dorothy Bailey, Kathleen Wood

Babies' Hospital Auxiliary Society

President:  Miss Clarke

Chairman: Miss Marten

Treasurers:  Miss Treloar, Madge Peacock

Secretaries:  Eunice Openshaw, Muriel Brayshaw

Committee:  Miss Barker, Miss Chisholm, Miss McClymont, Miss Powicke, May Smith, Iris Parry, Dorothy Goddard, Ruth Farrington

Garments [details given] and silver paper have been taken to the hospital.

Marjorie Frank [Secretary]

Cadets

Company Leader:  Eunice Openshaw

Treasurer:  Nesta Herbert

Secretary:  Marjorie Frank

Hockey Captain:  Mollie Strange

Netball Captain:  Agnes Currie

Badge Secretary:  Kathleen Allpass

Patrol Leaders:  M Strange, K Allpass, H Patchett, K Liebert

Many recruits joined the cadets from the Guide Company this year. Welcome to Miss Oates. Two members represented the Cadets at the Civic Reception in the Town Hall. Members are helping another Guide Company. Thanks to Miss Powicke for help in preparing for badge tests.

B Honeyburne [Secretary]

Guides

Lieutenant:  Miss Atkinson

Treasurer:  Madge Peacock

Secretary:  Barbara Honeyburne

Librarian:  Marjorie Simpson

Hockey Captain:  Eleanor Faulkner

Patrol Leaders:  Madge Peacock, Marjorie Pear, Gwen Strange,   Eleanor Faulkner, Muriel Spurgin, Ida Whitehill, Marjorie Simpson, Nora Pearn, Margaret Popper, Marjorie Burgess, Barbara Honeyburne, Christina Hindshaw

Poppy Patrol won the Patrol Shield. Two Leaders will be going to the Guide Reception. There has been a record entry of girls and the Company is now full.

M Strange [Secretary]

Debating Society

President: Miss Clarke

Chairman:  Miss Lister

Vice Chairman:  Miss Hurford

Secretaries:  Mollie Strange, Kitty Liebert

Committee:  Miss Jupe, M Job, N Herbert, R Walter, N Holmes, E Hobbs, G Langford, E Johnson, R Cohen, P Darrah, D Raffles, K Rose

Debate held,"One should do in Rome what Rome does," proposed by Magdalen Newland-Smith and Phyllis Darrah, opposed by Kitty Liebert and Peggy Reekie.

Motion defeated.

Debate held, "A United States of Europe is desirable," proposed by Jean Winstanley and Monica Job, opposed by Janet Powicke and Elsie Hobbs. Motion defeated.

Manchester Grammar School has invited the Society to a debate on the motion, "Literature is more instructive than life."

Dramatic Society

President:  Miss Clarke

Vice President:  Miss Andrew

Treasurer:  Joan Schofield

Secretary:  Magdalen Newland-Smith

Committee:  Miss Hawcridge, Miss Jupe, Miss Lister, Miss McClymont, Miss Saunders, Miss Tiano, Miss Knight, J Schofield, P Reekie, M Smith, P Cartmell, C North, C Hindshaw, K Rose

The Society is rehearsing �Much Ado About Nothing.�

League of Nations Union

Study Circle Leaders:  Mary Burgess, Alice Byrom, Phyllis Darrah, Ruth Farrington, Marjory Jones, Molly Kirk, Mary Lyons, Doris Raffles, Dennet Wise

A talk was given by Alec Wilson and Prof Gilbert Murray briefly visited the school. There are now about 350 members. Form representatives should encourage girls to read the monthly newsletter. The Manchester head office has supplied posters which caused great interest. Thanks to Miss Hurford.

H Bourne

The Golden Rule

Gifts of woollies, toys and other things have been sent to Mr Paterson the Missioner [sic] of the Heyrod Street Mission and the District Nurses.

Lecture Club

President: Miss Clarke

Treasurers:  Miss Holman, Kitty Liebert

Secretaries:  Miss Marten, Denise Hagan

Committee:  Miss Callinan, Miss Hawcridge, Miss Jupe, Miss Lister, Miss McNicol, Beryl Collingwood, Margaret Seddon

This Society has arisen from �The idea of combining the school societies in one large club, thereby giving more scope for lectures.� Details of member societies given. Talks were given by Miss Deneke, Miss Lister and Miss Treloar. A lecture recital was given by Miss Warburton and Miss Webster.  

Lest We Forget - Broughton House Society

President:  Miss Clarke

Vice President:  Miss Mellor

Treasurer:  Miss Ellis

Secretary:  Miriam Abrahamson

Committee:  Miss Scott, Miss Holman, Miss Hawcridge, M Ashforth, P Hamilton, R Walter, B Needham, P Lewtas, K Owen, J Fawbert, M Metcalfe, D Goddard, N Kerr, E Gibson, H Proctor, B Eckersley

Gifts are regularly sent to the men in Broughton House.

President:  Miss Clarke

Vice President:  Miss Warburton

Committee: Miss Arthan, Miss Bennett, Mrs Proudlock, Miss Webster, R Isaacs, B Cooke, M Brocklehurst, M Digby, D Ellison, B Lincoln, M Pear, M Popper, E Taylor, K Lyall, M Woolfenden, M Meadon, D Raffles, B Davies, M Bennett, N Chadderton, V Worthington, K Dreyfus, M Etchells, P Goldsbrough, M Morton, I Sulston

At lunchtime concerts [details given] the performers were the following: Zelda Bock, A McDonald, K Doke, Mrs Proudlock, B Cooke, D Demaine, A Mikaelian, R Isaacs, M Pear, L Higgit.

Mary Eaton [Captain]

Cricket

The team retained the Challenge Shield. Thanks to Miss Mellor, Miss Langton and Miss Richards. Comments made on the standard of play of the following: Kathleen Robinson, Molly Faulkner, Dora Lomas, Eleanor Riley, Joan Todd, Nora Thompson, Grace Banks, Mary Eaton, Joan Honeyburne, Barbara Colling, Muriel Spurgin, Agnes Currie, Margaret Faulkner

H Brice [Captain]

Hockey Club

The team won the League trophy, Results of matches played.

Netball

Results of matches played.

Tennis

Results of matches played. The members of the tennis teams [details given] are:  G Jackson, B Mercer, D Pollock, M Taylor, H Brice, M Strange.

The winners of cup [details given] are Margaret Johnson, Doris Hughes.

Thanks to Miss Langton and Miss Willis.