County High School for' Girls ·SHAFfESBURY j: f . ," ; , -t~\ ~', ' .. ,-I , ,'1 ,I; ~! i.' , Volume 14 "f i' '~ I I r , . . County lligh School Jor Girls Shaftesbury MAGAZINE VOL,14 DECEMBER, 'i951 CONTENTS EditOlial Staff Notes Gifts to tho School • Leaving Girls, 195O-Gl New Girls, 195()-51 Prefects, 1951 SCJt?OL AO~IvITn:s 'School Council-Report Social Service Committe~ Report Games Report Houso RePO!ts Boarders' Report Musical "Report 'nra,matic Society Dramatic Perform8nccsatD~rtoD Hill 1~ EXI'EDITION_S. AND Co;nPETITIONS Tho Art Exhibition , t..' The Sixth's Visit to an Art Exhibition " -'" at Blandford ' Dorsot Choral Association Fcs~ival Tho Ohildren's Concert at Daurno. mouth U Hamlet If at SaJisbury -, .' A Sixth Form Courso at Lymo Regis RED LETTER DAYS Chr~stmas, 1950 An Expedition to-Southampton " Dido H OncAREN'l'S' ASSOOIATION SEOTION • , The needlework looked most attractive. It was a shame . mother could-not control her curiosity as to the finish of the articles. The unfinished seams .and two' somewhat. carelessly finiShcd ones in the lower forms rather'spoilt the. effect. j)lay we suggest if an unfinished article is put on 'show, it is labelled and so causes no y'a very cross ·fatber ",tbe lov~ly -creamy mUk 'bad'run down,the·drain. Tbe 6,ther'eoIVs,were upset.]jy tbe din and as cantankerous as possible. Tbe' milk was 'not reaay -for 'tbe lorry and tbe' driver was cross' at 'baving to 'wait. Dad 'swore :be '\vo,l.ld 'not bave me in ,tbe cow 'Pen again, ibut I gbt oack :ill rigbt. 'Ifind ·that tbe cows are'mucb'better'off ·witbout :Milton, or even' Sbakespeare, tri~d'out on the"!. ' As·'! had ,put ,D~d'in.a very ba.d·'temper IT decided to .get away as soon as possible, so '[.took·my ,poetry ,up to.theeopse, where ,I could 'be 'alone to 'concentrate' for a whue. Bethlehem, BornJto vunquioh everY'foe. ·G. GOWEN, .Lower V.I. fA WINTER 'MORNING Ju, the cloudS went scurrying by, In the sky, . And the-leaves came tumbling down, TintedDrown, ' . I went brisk! y up the hill. The air ;ias·chill: . .As 1 went on,my:homeward way, I saw a robin gay. 'There was some·dew upon the grass Like sparkling glass, And rea:hlack berries shining bright, In·the,early light. . 'BRENDA 'PRICE, Lower IV. * , •. • WASHING -,UP Lhate washing up, Everydirty.plate and cup, The never·ending pile of.dishes, Smelling of ' burnt, boiled fishes.' Then we scrape the potato saucepan, Burnt\to a,colour.a:little off-tan . .The knives and forlip., completely lost, .AXe found, when all is washed, Down'in the'depthS'Cif the slimy water. 'Parents'always'say--''' Daughter, 'The'wasIiing'np'a'Waits you': 'Will you 'Wasb? -Please.do:"~ That is;what thenilways 'saY, :And, "TU wash'up'another day"':! SA'LLY'.CuLvimHOUSE, -Lower ilv.. OLD GIRLS' SECTION Cominittee, 1951-52 President i\Iiss Dunford Vice·President Mrs. Raad Seere/m'ies P. Holland . G.Woodrnan Treasurer G. Harding Staff Representative i\Iiss Drake Sports Representatives C; Evans (nee WilIiaIl1h) i\f. Hall (nee GibbS) Oo",,,,Wee Jllembers B. Cartel; (nee Mullins) V. Milverton ('ICe HaITis) * * * O.G.A. SUMMER MEETING July 7th, 1:951 THE Summer lIIeeting was held at School on Saturday, July 7th, 1951. There was a re'cord number of members present. The afternoon began with a ~hort business .meeting. i\Iiss Dunford gave an account of the developments at School, aud said that Old Girls could walk round the school buildings after the meeting. On the ringing of the School Bell, everyone returned to the Hall for tea. After tea, a teunis match against the School was played at the Recreatiou Grouud. The match was a draw, the score being 56-56. During the match parties of Old Girls were taken over Barton Hill. House. * * • 8th O.G.A. ANNUAL DINNER Nove,mbor 10th, 1951 fuRY Young, the Matron of the Westminster Hospital, London, waS the guest of honour at the annual O.G. Dinner, held on Saturday, November 10th, at the Royal Hotel, Shaftesbury. The dinner was preceded by the Annmil GJlneral Meeting which the Headmistress, lIIiss Dunford, opened by relating the latest developmimts at School, and particularly those concerning Barton Hill House which, she hoped, would be ready as tjIe second .boarding-house ,in January, The reports of the Secretaries, G. Woodman and P. Holland, and of the Treasurer, G. Harding, were then. read and accepted. . In proposing the toast to the Old Girls' AssQciat,ion, Hettie Young thanked the Committee for all the work that had gone into the preparation of the 'meeting, She then intrqduced lIIary YouI\g and recalled her great responsibility in choosing 28 ~, --.,....----....,..---,-,---~--,-------- and guiding the nurses whorended the King during his illness. Replying to the toast, Nary Young said that she owed· a great deal to the training she had received at School, ClIpecially that of ~. Raad, her headmistress. She reminded her con-· tcmporaries of several incidents of their. schooldays and after expressing her pleasure in b~ing at the Old Girls' .meeting, hoped that she would often have an opportunity of keeping in touch with the Old Girls and with the Sehool. The next speaker, )Irs. Raad, proposed the toast of the School., , She wondered whether one's schooldays really were "the happiest dayS of our lives," and reminded her old girls of some of thedifficlilties and depressions of their schooldays. Then she recalled some of the happier occasions, such as the operatic and dramatic efforts that they had all enjoyed. Miss ~oods, the second mistress, replied to the toaSt, and assured the Old Girls of their pan in the life of the School and of the pleasure they gave by sharing their successes and news with thejr fr!ends at School. She hoped that. the friendliness and' enthusiasm· evident at the meeting might be a,symbol of the spirit that would always exist between the Allsociatio,! and the School. * * * The History of the School ~L."vis Mitchell has sent us a photo of the Sixth Form in about 1890, We are grateful for this addition to our rccords. Please send me any reminiscences or photos of the old days, so tbat bit. by bit we can piece together the story of tbe School. )I. K. DUNFORD * * * Reminiscences of an.Old Boy Eric llIitehell, of Mere Park, came to the Grosvenor High Sehool as a boarder in 1890, when hO was 5! years old. His .isters, LiIianand Stella, and bis brothers, Leo and COlin, were also here at different times. One brother rode to school on a donkey and tbe other on Dapple, a grey pony. Sometimes they gave the mistresses and girls rides round the tennis court: The girls and boys of the School had drill once a week and bad to marehwith poles from the dining-room rODl!d the,garden to the music oLa piano. The boarders used to go for outings in a cqach drawn by a pair of horses. Larmer Tree, the home of General Pitt-Rivers, was a favourite outing. . Eric llIitchell can st.m remember Shrove Tuesday, when all 29 ,. the llOaril,ers went, ~o:t)le.kitcl1en iD th~ eveni.ng and;~acl).· ma~o. a.pancakj) and' had to ·toss jp and aftepv;trds eat. it. TI!~.I\l.st to finish. was.l.ocked'io a'cullbo!,rd, bun most of t)lem did·not worry abo,ut.tha11 so, they made largl' p~ncakcs.. , • • * O~G~ NEWS, Eng!,geJ;lle",ts: l'ameL"t Broomfiel »Iary Gatehou,se (1951) is working in the offioo of Jefferys, the , auctioneers, at Don,head. Mary Gillingg (1950) is a shorthand typist in the Display Depv. of Elizabeth '.Arden. One advantage of her joj>. is that she has a free beauty t~eatment and can buy the E.A.'s preparation at a red.uced price. Ma-vis Goodfellow (1950). On leaving Sehool in December, Mavis enter~d the office of Clark & Lonnen in Salisbury, but in a few months movcd to a better post with the Southern Electrjcivy Board there. Dorothy Gray is no'" a Major in the W.R.A.C. at,the W.R.A.C. School of Instruction. Margaret Harding (1949) went to London for her se.cond term ,at college this swumer. Graoo Cowdry was with her and they both enjoyed the opportunity of sharing in the Festival in London. They are back again at the Beatrix Nmsery at Easv Knoyle n9w. Rita Holloway (1950) is now' working at the Westminster Hospital in Shaftersbury. Thelma Hull (1950) is working as a laboratory assistant at Nestles' depot in Salisbury . .Hilary Hunt (1951) is traiuing at the Legat School of Ballet Dancing av Tunbridge Wells. ' . Rita Jacob (1951) is helping on her father's farm. Dorothy Lee (1950) is finding her two years at Salisbury Training College slipping by very quickly. She was a member of the college choir 'at the great servioo in thC' Cathedral in May on the occasion of the opening of t,he new residential block. She has a very pleasanv study·bedroom in this new part of the college. Mary Lockyer (1951) is 'ivorking at the National l'rovincial Bank in Shaftesbury. Heather Miles (1950) has enjoyed her first year at Coventry Training College and was-impressed by her first visit to the Stratford »Iemorial Theatre. Jean Nathan (1951) is enjoying a year in London and hopes to go to Reading·University. next year. . »Iary l'erry '(1950) has begun her training at the Westminster Hospital in ShafteSbury. Daphne Pickford (1950) is enjoying her Institutional Man~ge. ment Course at Berridge Honse. She is in touch with several Old Girls in London. She gave up the last ,veek of her Summer holiday this year to become our temporary P.T. Mistress while Miss Handford was away on a eourse. Daphne seemed to eni~y the experience and we were very glad to have her. 33 Doreen Pike (1951) is helping on her father's·farm. Rachel Pike (1950) is working at the Shaftesbury 'branch of Boots. At present she.is on the dr)lg counter but hopes that one day she may be employed in a branch where ·there is a library. . Moniea Porter (1951) will begin ,her nursing training at the Royal Victoria and West Hants. Hospital at Bournemouth on Boxing Day. .. Prill)ela Read (1946) has passed Part I and IT of the State Preliminary Examination. She is traini~g at the ~oyal Free Hospital. .Sheila Read (1951) is training as a nurse at Weymouth and Dist.· . Hospital. • . Jane Rushforth. (1951) is working at the National Provincial Bank at Wareham. . Margaret Samson (1951) has joined her mother in Canada. She has been accepted for Winnipeg l)"niversity next year.. Diana Sidford (191$0) is going to University College Hospitalin London in January to'begin her nursing training; Sonia Sidford .(1951) is lielping at home at present and hopes to begin somelorm of training later. .Diana Stainer (1948) is teaching in a village near J\fahnesbury. Xathleen Stone (1951) has ·begnn her training at the Weot miuster Hospital in Shaftesbury. Nancy Talbot (1951) is helping ,on ·her f~ther'S farm. J'amela Talbot (1950) has joined the growing group of our girls who now work at the Wincombe RaQ,io Station. .Anne Tidey (1948) is .rainingas a nUrSe at the Middlesex Hospital Irene Walby (1946) is continuing'to study music in Salisbury and is also doing some teaching. . Edna Wat.ts is now a major in the W.R.A.C., and'is working at the War Office. Helen'Watts (1951) is working in Rine & Parsons. Valerie Wheeler (1950) is now working in the new Post Office in Shaftcsbury. Andrey Winskill (1948) is now working witJ.1 theMinistry of Snpply at. the, Chemical Defence Experimental EstabliShment at Porton. She began'work there in the Biochemistry Sect,ion on the same day as Pamela Chm'bury, and they found themselves in the same rooni at the Y.W.C.A. Hostel in Salisbury. Mary Woodman (1947) is now State RegiStered Nurse.and after acting'as a Staff nurse for one year at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.hopes to go on to another hospital to dO.her·midwifery. . . /. Brenda Yeatm!,n (1951) has gone to Australia'with her family. 34 lIIary Young took up the appointment of lIIatron of the Westminster Hospital, l!ondon, on .September 1l!t. She has charge of three subsidiary hospitals in London, and, three large convalescent homes in the country. Her hospital'has been described as the most modem in Europe. Former Members of Staff lIIiss Hall is helping at her home near Clevedon and working for her L.R.A.lIL lIIrs. Jessiman (Mrs. Blaekhall) has a son, Philip Forbes Jessiman" born on lIIay 20th, 1951. lIIrs. Lawson (nee Newton) was married to the Rev. Denis Lawson at Weymouth on December 30th. He was then CongregatioI1alllIinister, at GlasfonbUry. He was'inducted as lIIinister of three Congregational Churches, Lyme Regis, Charmouth and Raymonds Hill on November 15th, and they hope soon to be'moving into their now home at Wf!.ytown. l\Irs. Rombulow·Pearse joined the Staff.of the Royal SChool, Bath, in September as House·mistress and l\Iaths. lIIistress. l\frs. White (nee Rhodes) was married, to the Rev. J. White'on June 16th, 1951. He has a euracy at Worthing.• lIIrs. Eaborn (nee ThOmas) went to America ,in l\Iay to join her hUsband at Los Angeles and Teturn with him to England in June. * • • THE BLOOD GROUP ~EFERENCE.LABORATORY LISTER INSTITUTE I HAVE been asked to do' some 'prep.' in the Shape of a d~eription of the work 1 do to eaIn my bread and ,butter. Just as it is difficult to know'how and where to start an essay Oil 'lily Holidays,"because there are So many ,things to say,it is so with my SUbject, which deals with blood groups. . For instance, take the historical aspect of blood groups. About a hundred years ago, a number of people had sheep ,blood transfused into them, and the results were far from llappy. Little was known about blood then, and'l suppose they took it for granted that all blood was the same because it did not look differellt. 35 '. '. To·day, 'we loiow ·that there are' many blood groups, the chief ones being the four groups belonging to the' .ABO ' system. Everybody falls 'into one of these four, and is either A, B, 0, or .AB group. Belonging to .anY' one ,?f these groups means no more than having.blue 01' brown eyes, or straight or curly hair; blood groups are just factors-little chemical molccules stuck on the surface of our red cOl]luscles. Th~re are many other groups which are less well known, such as the Rhesus group, so called because they were first 'yorked out through observations on Rhesus monkeys. Furth~r new groups are still being found. There are manysides to my work; very often we have scnt into the laboratory batches of blood samples from all over the .world-from India, South America, Italy, and even Central :Africa. These samples are fully examined for al\ their groups, for statistical purposes, to enable us to get some idea of places from which tribes and communities may have originated. Even in the British 1&les there is qnite' a variation in the occurrence of certain groups" fOr instanee, in the South of England there tend to be more.A people than in the North, whereas in Scotland and Ireland there arc a gre"ter number of Group 0 people. Group B people are, not SO very frequent ill Britain; . their numbers are greater in Eastern Eurolle and the Slavonic countries. I have also to examine blood serum which has acqUired unusual antibodies against some blood group. It blood of a differing group is transfused into a patient, then .trouble can ensue, because the paticnt may have a naturally occmTing antibody against this .group, depending on wbich system of .groups is involved, and this would causc his red eorpuscles to clump together, with serious results. Some people develop antibodies against other blood grQuPS for a variety ,of reasons, too many to go into in 'detail now, and all this 1198 to be sorted -out. There is much that is intereSting in 'this work, although a great deal of rou~ine investigation has to be sandwiched in between the more exciting episodes. We also have visitors from many countries, who come for a '/ few days or weeks to study new ;methods here. at the Li&ter Institute in London, and we also prod,uee many of the rarcr kinds of blood group antisera ,to be sent out overseas. ·Our ;visitors are sometimes, a problem. ~ave you ever tried teaching antiserum titrations to someone wllo can only speak Turkish or Serbo·Croat. 1 .It is not so bad, however, when, as it happenedthe other day, the laboratory is compensated for its pantomimc· like effortg by an enormous box of real,. sticky Turkish Delight. JEAN WALBY. 36 AN ACTRESS IN THE M'AKING 1: IIAD a' lllost interesting time at Salisbury IMt season: an(l I feel it is an experience which might be apprcciated if sharcd with others .• Indeed, it was yery hard work, and we worked extremely 'Iong hours, but with our hearts· in the aim, time flew only too quickly. Salisbury was a three-weeldy repertory company. That is to say, each play ran for thrce 1veeks and during that time' the next play was' bcing rehearSed in the day-times. We JlCrformed each play in Salisbury for a week, and for the l'emaining fortnight we toured fairly large. towns ,.meh 'were without a IiYe theatre, Until the last few monthS of the sca.on, when I . graduatcd to phiy.parts, I "as in the stage management depart.lllent; tha~ is to say, I helped with the' running' of the show backStage, such as putting the set up, prompting, 'forking,the panatrope (a complicated type of gramophone) and effcet, .. and attending to 'props'> and costumes among yarious other taskS. Work started at ten-thirty. That is to say" rehcarsals startcd then, but thc· scenic designers, carpenters, wardrolle staff and many other necessary people-started about an hour bef"rehand. 'Ve seldom had any frce tinle as we were rehearsing in the mornings and afternoons and playing 'in tile evenings, and when we were on tour it was even more tiring as wc used·to return to Salisbury each night ill Gur private 'bUS, and by the time the show was oyer, the set had been "struek' and loaded into the lorry, make-up removed and a thirty mile journey made back to Sali.,bury, very often we did not see the home Iight hills .I've' ever seen. Before coming to it, though, We had to cro~s a stick bridge over a mo~t delightful rivcr withlarge stones causing little waterfalls in the fast-flowing current. These stick bridges really are horrible, especially if you have the misfortune to look down. Some are just two tree trunks lain from bank to ban~, and nearly always one ls about a foot higher than the other so that. you'are walking up and down in a most p,reearious manner" often "'ith a 15-foot drop into very rocky looking rive~. Then there are the, bridges which are just long ereepe~ along the edge filJed in with thin branches, which jolt and sway and make me long to be on It stable Englillh bridge. Mter aU th~ party-chief, village headmen, chiefdom arid court messengcrs and us (aU going together over this awful bridge)reached the otllCr side, ~Iummy'dnd I were so exhausted after our, walk that' we had to be pUShed in a more than undignified manner up the hill. Whilst we were at Ngelihun a native dancer came up to entertain us. He was dressed in a very elaborate rainbowcoloUlcd blouse, knitted in wbat I eaU cabbage·stitch, with a very wide band of tiny, multicoloured beads round the neck. Round hls waist he had a red leather belt with four large parts, sticking out, on each side, each of which had a fur border ·with tiny shells' made into f1o'Yer patterns. .All round the middle of. the belt there were smaU mirrors which glittered in the SIll, and on his legs he had puttees with metal shakers in the .hape of pea-pods with ·a thin ring on ea,eh end, which .he jangled at a furious rate. Hc had a chorus ,of cllief's wives who sang the same four or five notes aU the time and who shuffled roun'd in a mixture ,of a conga, ~humba arid snmba, but much simpler to look at and much harder to do. The next morning we started off on what we thought would . be"a 7-mile walk but which turned out to be 15. When we arraived at Njala Rumboya we ''Yere taken to a ve,y nice Rest House with, as well as the usmil hand-woven" country cloths," a most elaboratll silk ~Iohall\medan cloth and one hard leather cushien. This chief is one 'of the educated ones and I was reading some lettcrs that he had wlitten to the D.C. about a gorilla which bad been causing a gre:>t deal of trouble in the neighbourhood, and as well as giving the 'full Latin name he said that it was one of a spccies thought .to' be extinct in the S.W. Province and probably in all Sierra Leone. His final letter I thought very amusing. He said, "I hope' that one day We shall be able to get hold of one-of these beasts alive. I think it would prove very fnnpmvoking." ! . Whilst we were at Njala we met two Irish Roman Catholic 40 . .:..'i •• FathCl'S, who canie to tca with us aml showed us the church, which they themselves had built. It was very,. very nice, with alternate red and green large slab. of cement, all of "~hi~h theyhad mad~., The last place that we went to-Baoma-we only stopped at for one day, because Daddy had ,no work there. 'Ve reached it after a 7-mile walk where we had to cross the river in a canoetrue" Sanders of the River" svyle. They were very cross about us crossing because the river 'vas very, yery swollen as a result of the rain, but they eventually rowed uS across. They paddled right down the river and, making use of the current, turned and came back'to the opposite bank, so ,,'0 had quite a long time in the canoe. ' ' At, Baoma wc had a Syrian loiTy to take us back to BJama, where we were to catch the train back to Bo . .A."N RUBY * • O.G.A. ·Life' Subscriptions since December, 1950 Jucob, ltita., Lower Lodge Farm, Uotcomoo, Dorset. Knapton, Beryl, Spicketts l"arm, ~Iilton, Gillinghnm, Dorset. Pickford, Daphno, Coldcott Farm, Stourton, nc~r Warminstcr, Wilts. Riches, Janet, North Lodge, Kowtown, Tisbury, Wilts. Smales, Darbam, 28, Salisbury Street, Shaftesbury. Stono, Kathleen, Drones Lane, Compton Abba.s;ncnr Shaftesbury. Sta-iner, Mary, 4, Barton Hill, Shaftesbury. Ta.lbot, Na.ncy, Ycatman's }'arm, Stour How, near ShaftcsburY' Topp, ~IiJdrcd, Tho Knapp, Alvediston, near Salisbury. Walby, Jcan,'Upton Farm, Berwick St. John, Shaftcsbury. 'Vatts, Helen, Water Street, Berwick St. John, Shaftc!lbury. Young, }'Iary, Westminster Hospital, lIorscfeny Road, Londoll, S.W.l . * • * O.G.A. Annual Subscriptions, 1951/52 Aubcrt, Doreen (nu Pa.rsons), 6, I\-y Cross, Shaftcsbury. BartIett, Edith, Ambcrley, Christy's Lane. Shaftcsbury. DowJand, June, Ash Tree Cottage, Cann Compton, near Shaftcsbury. Galliver, Patricia, The Pharmacy, Tisbury. Gmy, }.rargarot, 20, Gold HilI, Shaftcsbury. Rarding, Margarot, Bcatrix Nursery, Clouds, East Knoyle. Jackson, Bctty (tlU Wheeler), CoJinbcams, French )liIJ Lane, Shaftesbury. Lo(lkycr, ~Iaty, 9, Old Boundary "Road, Shaftesbury. Nathan, Jean, Tho Vicarage, GilIingham, Dorset. Pike, Doreon, New Lano }'arm, l\Iotcombo, Dorset. Pull, Aliee, 22, Bell Street, Sbaftcsbury. Tucker, Yvonne, HiUcote, Manor Road, Salisbury. White, Diana, Winterton, Layton Lane, Shaftcsbury. 'Vright, Barbara, 78, Wyndham Road, Salisbury. Yorko, Katbleen, (flU Hopkins) New Road, Shaftesbury. Ji Change of Address It will be a,grcat jlelp in the efficient running of the O.G.A. if mcmbers will kindly report changes of address to the Secretaries. * The Magaz~ne Owing to the greatly. increased cost of printing the magazine We can no longer send copies to members of the O.G.A. who have not renewed thcir Annual Subscriptions. * • • , PARENTS' ASSOCIATION SECTION, Committee-1951-52 'Ohairman MWs Dunford Secretary Mrs. Drew T"easurer Mr. Hutley Staff Representatives . lIIiss Woods lIIiss Handford lIIiss Logg Parents' Representatives ... Mrs. Hopldns , Mr. Whitmarsh Mr. Edmondson lIIrs. Drew Representative on the Governing Body Rev. H. D. Peel The three meetinll,S of ti,e Parents' Assoc!ation since our last magazine were arranged according to the lil>ual plan. The Spring meeting gave parents a chance to meet the ForIllmistresses of" their girls to discnss preparation and the' General Knowledge papers. They were alSo able to see the new Laboratory and the Upper Fifth form-room. In the Summer term, Mr. Taylor, the County Education Psychologi;t, gave a most interesting talk on various problems and answered questions. This term, the General Business Meeting ,,:'as attended by a large number of parents. lIIiss Dunford's address was followed by elections for the Committ-ee and also for representation on the Governing Body. There was time, too, for a little tea' lrinking and' chat when parents could meet the new Formmistresses of their girlS. 'Ve should like to thank the writers of tbe articles eonttibuted to 'this section. May we hope that more parents will " 'be able,to write something for thc next magazine! * * Our First Secretary At the inauguml meeting of the P.A. on December 1st, 1948, Mrs. M. O. 'Y. J ohuson was elected as Secret!lfY. It was no eaSy task that she undertook. We had no experience to guidc us but had to experiment as we ,vent along. Mrs. Johnson proved herself the ideal person to help launch the Association. She has been prepared to take any amount of trouble; and it 'was her concern for the Association as a whole, and her interest 43 _in and friendly.,attitude to every ·member of it that has helped to make our P,A. what it is to-day. Now that she is retiriug after three years service we do thank her most warmly for aU that she has done for us, and we hope that she will keep in touch "ith us sWI. M. K. DUNFORD. * * * Our First Governor On h~h"l( of the rarents' Association, I should like to express our appreciation and helutfelt thanks to :t. 47