County High School for Girls 
.Shaftesbury 

lV\.AGAZINE 


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VOI~. 21 DECEMBER, 1958 

CONTENTS 

Editorial 

i\[agazillo Committee 

Staff Notes 
Gifts to the School 
" Red Letter" days 
Speech Day 
School Expedition 

-Parents' Day 

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES A:\n REroRTs 

School Council 
Social Service 
Games Report 
House Report 
Boarders' Report 
Flower Guiltl 
Dramatic Society 
" As You Like It " 
:Musical Actillitics 


IiECTuREs 
" Dadgc~ and Hedgehogs n 
Church of England Children's 
Society 

Lecture on tho Trails-Arctic 
Expedition 


Three Speakers on other Countries 

CO!fFERESCES A~D ExrEDITIONs 

A Sixth·Form Course at Dinton 

Stratford-on-Avon 

The Youth Hostel 
Our Visit to Warwick and 

Kcnilworth 
Our Visit to Coventry 
'fho Pla.ys 


Salisbury Oathedral CelebratioM 

Youth Pilgrimage 
Schools' Servico 
Commonwealth Youth Sunday 
Service 
Upper VI's Visit to London 
In Praise of Fine Poetry Reading 
Chrlstopher Hassel's Recital 
"A .i'Iidsummer Night's Dream" 
A Visit to the Royal ~cademy 
A Pilgrimage from Canwrbury to 
Winchester . 
A Holiday Course at tho Dorset 
Farm Institute 
" Two Go off to Work" 
Impressions of a Hundred-milo.anhour 
Holiday 
Our First Days at School 
A Ballerina's Dressing Room 
POETRY 

PARENTS' AssOCIATION SECTION 
OLD GmLS' SECTION 


EDi'TORIAL 

In this agc of automation, when life inevery spherc is facilitated 
by labonr saving devices, so many adults emulated by their 
c11iIdren are only too fond of easy entertainment snch as thc 
cinema, radio 01' telcvision. Each of these amusements may havc 
some merits but thc question arises as to whether the majority of 
English peoplc arc losing the ability to think fol· themselves 01' to 
provide their own constructive hobbies. 

This year in School the kcynote has been in Cowper's words 
" Variety's thc very spice of life". We haye had a great number 
of interests, in fact something to suit the taste of everyone, 
encouraging individual enterprise. 

Our choir continues to give pleasure to others, joining with 
the Grammar School choir for thc annual Carol Service and for 
the rendering of Stamford's " Songs of the Fleet". The choir also 
gave a selection of songs on Speech Day. 

The highligllt of the Dramatic Society's work was in the 
Spring term· when they produced ".As You Like It" in the 
newly opened .AJ.·ts theatre. 

The Flower Guild l·emains an enthusiastic body, making 
school look beautiful on special occasions. 

There have been many expeditions this year, notably the 
School outing to Glastonbury, WeIls, Cheddar and 'Vookey, thc 
biennial expedition to Stratford, thc Upper VI visit to London 
and .the weekcnd confcrcnce'at·Dhlton.· ·Many·individuals in 
school llavc been on intcrcsting holidays, which they have 
written about in thc section of original contribution, in this 
magazine. . 

Life at Shaftesbury High School gives each of its members 
a chance to develop a loye of culture and industry, thus preparing 
them to go out into the world to be energetic citizens. 'Ye 
are grateful to ~Iiss Dunford and staff for making this possible. 

EDITRESS• 

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MAGAZINE COMMITTEE 

Edit,.e88 : 
ROSE)[ARY LAWRENCE 

S1Ib·Eclitre88: 
M.illY NORRlS 

Oommittee : 
KAT» COLE~ 
SARAI! JOltDAN 
ROSE~IARY '"AGNER 
JENNIFEIt PltIDDLE 

BARDARA SKEW' 

JOAN ~[EARNS 

STAFF NOTES 

'Ve shall long remember lIIiss Tofield's efficient organisation 
of our Sports days and we hope that she will by now be just as 
efficiently whipping up wonderful cake mixtures and planning 
appetising sehool dinners. In her Illace we welcome Miss A. 
Matthews, from the Lady lIIabel Physical Training College, .aud 
hope tlmtshe will never lose her cheerful, enthusiastic demeanour. 

In timcs when Science teachers are worth their weight in 
uranium, we thought it very unlikely that we could find anyone 
to replace "Iiss Tllstone who did so much for the School not only 
in her teaching but in her interest in sueh activities as the Flower 
Guild aud in School Expeditions. We shall remember her skill ill 
conversing with Danish V.LP.'S. Very fortunately, we are able 
to welcome to our labs., :>\[rs. Davison who has already begun a 
new tradition by including boys in her classes. A difference has 
also bcpn felt by A.A."I. members who have excceded their 
usual zeal by sending members to two A.A.M. meetings. 

We were very sorry that "Iiss Sharpe could not continue to 
teach violin lessons, but, of course, delighted to have Mrs. Riekard 
with us for a little while. She vcry kiildly came to us for a few 
days this term as well to introduce :Miss Fortnum. Miss Walker, 

, who lms taken :>\11'. Clarke'S place in teaching the 'cello, has only 

one pnpil at the moment but we feel sure that after her 'cello 

recital the other diuner hom' that her class will grow. 

Once more we are fortunate in having a " nfam'sellc " for a 

year aud We hope that lime. Giallard really. feels at home with 
us. 

We have missed lIIiss Langton very much this term and 
hope that she will be with us again soon. In the meanwhile, We 
have been grateful for all the work done for us by Mrs. J ones and 
lIIrs. Austin. 

lII.E.W. 

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GIFTS TO THE SCHOOL, 1958 


Of money: l\fiss Beer 

Pictures: 

Library Books: 

Garden Scat: 

Head Girl 
Deputy Hend Girl 
Prefects ..." 

Sub·Prefects 

l\fiss Robson 
Philippa Potter 


P. 
& J. Edmonds (Sisley, cc Canal du 
Loing ") 
S. Henderson & S. BIoomfield (H. C. Fox, 
" Sussex Downs ") 

Anonymons (Sisley, cc Le Loing, EnvirOl,ls 
. de Moret") 
Ruth Phillips (Vernieer, cc Gentleman with 

Glass ") 
Ruth Phillips 
Celia·Layzell (CC Faber Book of "Iodern 

Verse ") 
"Iiss Tilstone (CC Bird Life in Britian ") 
Aslaugh Godeseth (" Guide to Stars ", Wid· 

mann & Schu:tte ; 

"Wild Encounters", SOpCl' ; 

cc The World of Small Ani· 
mals", Savory) 
'Shirley Gray (CC Years of Endurance", 
Bryant) 
Franees Pollard 

SCHOOL OFFICIALS, 1958-59 

JcnnyStagg 
Rose Nappcr 
Claro Harria, Janct .tUner, Shirloy )Iitchcll, 
Christillc Harrison 
Rosemary Lawrence, )Iary Norris, .Ann )fiIroy, 
ChristinoCrouch, Rosemary Brayford, Penny Wells 

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RED LETTER 
DAY 

Ths lirst entry in our School Log Book is d;tt~d Jan. 10th, 
1946, bllt itwas not untill\Iay 7th, 1951 that the first Red Letter 
day appears. ~'hat does not mean that in those five years we did 
not have any special days but that perhaps 110 event was so 
outstanding that we felt it merited rccording in the Log Book in 
red. Since then ilOt a year has gone by without one red letter day. 
Some years record several. 

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V cry often Old Girls end their letters" I hope alUhe great 
days this term will be RED LETTER DAYS in capitals". 
Or, " I 11OpO all the Red I,etter Days this term will be special.oneS ". ' 

What do they mean ~ Jlist that some days have so rare a 
quality that even to record them as a Red Lette,· Day is not 
sufficient but they are entered up in the Log Book in large red 
,capital letters. 

It is hard'to (lefine a Red I,etter Day. It certainly does not 
<Jwe its quality to weather or any outward circumstance but to 
something much more important because it is of the spirit. It 
.can only be achieved by a corporate effort, by a realisation by 
cvery single member of the School that what she does on that day 
matters, that however unimportant she may seem to be ordinarily, 
whatshe does may make or mar that day for the whole community. 

This surely is a vital part of education; this sense of belong


ing', of being caught up ill something greater than oneself, of 

giving of one's best not for the sake of any immediate reward but 
f01· the common good. This is an unforgettable unity, achieved 
<Jnly wheu every single member lives up to our School motto, 
"Non Sibi sed Omnibus." 

;11. K. DUNFoRD. 

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SPEECH DAY, 1958 

Difficulties so often prove to be blessings and so it was with 
the new arrangements for Speech Day. We had w6ndered how 

-we should manage without the Cinema "Stage " but the dais, 

skilfnlly made for uS by Mr. Teasdale, in front of the seats, 
proved to be much more suitable and comfortable than the high 
platform. Certainly;lUss Dunford, "fiss .Mann, the Uayor and 
;lfayoress and "fr. 'Yoo(iman were much more part of the gather· 

ing than usual. 
'Ye arc fortunate in having such a Chairman as nus. Brad~ 

iord, who so whole-heartedly identifies herself with the School, 

_and this year, as always, hel' quiet guiding of the proceedings was 

much appreciated. 

The girlS in the 'rhir(i Form are our {reshest critics of such 
occasions, so here is Speech Day as seen through their eyes. 

" One of the things I enjoyed most on Speech Day was )fiss 
Dunford's speecll, which was very interesting. She told us about 
the different jobs the old girls had taken up and she said that 


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nearly all the Hospitals in Londo!, had one_ or more of our girls 
training to be nurses. )Iiss !)nnford also told us which girls had 
passed the G.O.R. and WIIO had Oounty Major Scholarships. 

Something thatinterested me very much was Miss Dunford's 
iaee when she was given the bouquet presented by Rose Napper." 

" The part of Speech Day that I enjoyed most was the singing. 
The Ohoir sang several songs, mainly in parts. Their first 
song was "Follow me down to Oarlow." Then came "~rhe 
Shepherdess", a tlu'_ce-part song. There was also" Alleluia", 
a canon by lIlozart. I also enjoycd )fiss Dunford's specch and 
sight of the Staff in their degrce hoods." 

" The part! enjoycd most about Spcech Day,was )fissMann's 
speech and the flowers. These were beautifnl and had been "r.
ranged by )fiss Drake that morning. They were of all colonrs but, 
red, yellow, orange, and pink chrysanthemums made up most 
of the arrangement. Behind them was the coppery-gold of 
beech lcaves." 

PARENTS' DAY 

Parents' Day was on June 11th and fortunately it was" fine 
day although in the afternoon a dark cloud came oyer the sk~r 
so that I thought it wonld rain. 

In the morning, we put the desks all round the classroom and 
placl'cd on them tUe books which were to be shown to our parents. 
We also bronght to school many flowers, and when we had 
finished decorating the room, it looked very gay. While some of 
us were decorating the room, others went out into the garden to 
pick up pieces of paper. In the afternoon the people who had 
entered for the sports, changed and went up to the Games Field 
first, while the I'est of the school followed; first Barncs, thcn 
Hardy and WI'en last. 

Whcn we reachcd the field, tlIC people who were not in the 
sports, sat in the cllairs along one side of the track. Slowlyparents began to arrive, then we began ! I was only in the relay 
race, which was at the cnd. 

After the races, ~rr. Orowther, the Headmaster of Shaftesbury 
Grammar School, made a speech; then the cups were presented. 
The House that won the sl>orts was 'VI'en, so I was very pleased 
because I am in Wren House. 

We had Our tea at-Barton Hill, and after tllat, I showe(l my 
parents l"Ound the garden and took them to the Art room. Thell 

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we went down to the School to sec the Third Form room; to 

inspect the books and skirts that we had made and we also went 

to the Sixth Form to see the flower arrangem~ntS,and to the Hall 

for the exhibition about the Denmark Expedition. ;rust before we 

went home, 'vc weut into the Laboratory to see the experiments. 

On the way home it began to rain so I felt how fortunate we had 

beim that day. 

ANN READ, Lower IV. 

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THE SCHOOL EXPEDITION, 1958 

This year we deeided to go to Glastonbury, Wells, Cheddar 
and Wookey Hole. So on the morning of the 27th ;rune we all 
piled into the waiting coaches for our first port of eall-Glastonbury. 
There we walked around the ruins of the famous Abbey. 
The things that interested me were the Monks' Kitchcn with its 
huge chimney in the centre and the legendary Glastonbury 
Thorn, but perhaps the most remarkable thiug was the arch that 
once divided the chancel from the nave. Though this was not 
complete at the top it must have stood 150 ft. and was still 
standing. 

From Glastonbury we motored to Wells and went into the 
cathcdral. The Dean gave us an address from the pulpit, telling 
us about the history and architecture of the cathcdral. We then 
movcd over to the famous clock and watched the clock strike 
noon and the figures on horseback fight. After thiS, we walke~ 
around the cathedral looking at the things the Dcan had spoken 
of. before going out to have our lunch beside the moat, whem 
the swans still ring a bcll for their food. For about half an hour 
. the green lawn was covcred by a sea of blue dresses. After lunch 
we walked round the city of Wells, to see the Vicru."'s Close and 
other interesting places and to shop before returning to the coach. 

We then journeyed to Cheddar and drove down the gorge. 
For about Illllf a mile we gazed at the rocks on either side which 
in some places rose straight np from the road. 

Then wc drove back to Wookey Hole and split into two 
parties. One half swam in the outdoor pool and then had tea in 
the cafe, which was painted with underwater creatures, while 
the other was being shown round the caves. The caves consisted 
of three chambers and two grottos but when the lights were 
switched off in the third chamber an' opening could be seen, 
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next chamber. The guide told us that twelve mOre chambers had 
been discovered by divm·s, tIle last about ten miles away. " 
After this we climbed into the coaches for Shaftesbury 
tired after the thorougllly enjoyable day's outing. 
PATRICIA RmoUT, Lower YI. 

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SCHOOL COUNCIL ACTIVITIES 

This year we bought a gramophone to replace the radio· 
gram. It was purchased just beforc the Dramatic Soeiety's 
produetion of ".As You Like It " "and was m"eatly appreciated by 
all who heard it during the play. " 

Our school Christmas card appears to have been considered 
attractive by all who rcceivcd it. . 
The girls were very I,'l'ateful for the grant given by Council 
towards the Sehool Expedition in the summer . 

. Couneil continues to be a Source of help to the whole school, 
for it is a mecting where matters can be discusscd freely by both 
girls and staff. 

CllUrSTINE HARRISON, Upper YI. 

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SOCIAL SERVICE REPORT 

During the past year we have supportcd four appeals 
through collections, namely the Oxford Committee for Famine 
Relief, the Save the Children Fund, Cancer Research and the 
Penhalonga Appeal. The latter causc is one which wc have not 
supported before. ;lIoney waS scnt to ltelp to extend a secondary 
school for Afrieans in Rhodesia, so that advanced level work can 
be done. 

'Ve have had thme collections for Cynthia Palmer, a Jamai· 
can girl who needs money so that she may continue her secondary 
school education. Last Christmas we sold, as we usually do, 
seals for Spastics, Tuberculosis Researeh and Diabetic Rcseareh. 
'Vc intend to do the samc this year. 

CURJSTJNE CROUCH, Secretary, 1957-58• 

GAMES REPORT 

Hockey 

It was unfortunatc that the team which had started the 

senson was new and inexperienced. However, under JlIiss 

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show its capabilities. Although most of the results were not 
outstanding, the team gained a lot of experience. 

lIIalches 1957-58 

Opponents ShaJlesbury IIigh S. Place Re<3ult 

Dorchestcr 1st Xl •.... Away Lost 8-1\ L'\ Rctraitc 1st XI Away Lost )-0 

Old Girls' 1st XI Homo Lost 6-3 

Lord Dighy's, Shcrborno 1st XI Homo Lost 3-0 

Gillingbam Grammar 1st XI Homo Drew 2-2 

St. ~lonica's 1st XI ,Homo Cancelled 

1...'\ Rctraitc 1st XI :..Honlo Drew 1-1 

St. Monica's ..". )stIX 'Away Cancelled 

Quccn Elizabeth's 2nd &. 1st ...,. i.Homo Ist'Von 6-0 

2nd Lost O-G 

Lord Dighy's 1st XI Lost 1-7 

Gillingham 1st XI Won 3-2 

Inler School Malches 
Boarders 6. Daygirls 2. 
Team 1957-58 


GonlkC<.'pcr V. Pitcher 
Right Back C. Hams· 
Left Back S. ~litchcn 
Centre Half C. Caso 
Left Half E. Harding* 
Right Half A. Parham (Secretary) 
Centre Forwnrd A.l\Iilroy 
Right Inner P. Barfoot 
Left. Inner S. Hcmlcrson* (Oaptain) 
Right Wing P. Ritlout 
Left Wing J. Baigcnt and :\f. Norris 

*Denote.t Colours pret';oU81y au'Orded 
Colours at('Orded to : .S. )litchell, C. Case nut! V. Pitcher 
Athletics Report, 1958 
Athletics last term improved very much with thc aid of Jlfiss 
Toficld. Jlfany more pcople took an interest in athletics and there 
was great cnthnsiasm in all parts of the school. 
Om' own School Sports were much better this year because 
the standard was higher, giving more competition. 
The individual eups and Champion Sports Cup were presente,
l bylIIr: Crowther, the headmaster of Shaftesbnry Grammar 
School. 
Results 
Senior OImmpions Anna Lnznridcs 
Pamcla Collis 
Chcrry Case 
Intermediate Olmmpion ..... Jackio l\Iarsdcn 
Runner.up Coral Hutebings 
'[tmior Ohampion Pcnny Cornish 
Runncr-up Susan Harcourt-Brooks 

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.As usual many girls entered for the North Dorset and 
County Sports. However, our achievements were not as good as 
those of the previous year . .At the North Dorset Sports' meeting 
held on the ShaftesbID'Y }Iodern School ground, the following 
results were obtained :-

Junior: 100 yds. P. Cornish 1st 
S. Harcourt-Brooks 3rd 
150 yds. .,," J. Li1lia 3nI 
Hurdles ..... '..... S. TippoUs 2nd 
ReJay-J. LilIio,S. Bloomficld, P. Cornish, S. Horcourt-Brooks, 1st 
Seamdary: 100 yds. 
100 yds.
Hurdles 
J. Upton 
·R. Jackson 
P. Barfoot 
2nd 
4th 
1st 
High Jump 
Discus ..." .,," 
n. nush 
V. Pitcher 
4th 
2nd 

Relay-P. Barfoot, A, :l\Iilroy. J. Uptoll, C. Hutchings, 1st 

Intermediate: 100 yds. P. Ridout 3rd 
150 yds. P. Collis 2nd 

C. Case 3rd 
Hurdles 
J. Marsdcll 1st 
:i\I. Moroy 2nd 

High Jump 
E. Harding 3rd 

C. Crouch 4th 
Long Jump l\f. Breeds 2nd 
Javelin B. Burnctt 3rt! 

A. Ccllis 4th 
Relay-P. Collis, P. Ridout, M. Drccds,'C. Case 1st 

.At the County Sports held on Poole Grammar School 
ground the following results were obtained :-

Junior : 
100 yds. P. Cornish 5th 

8wmdary: 
100 yds. J. UptOIl 5th 
Hurdles P. Barfoot 1st 

Intermediate: 100 yds. P. Ridout 6th 
Hurdles ){. ){oroy 4th 
High Jump E. Harding 4th 
Javelin A. Collis 5th 
150 yds. C. Caso 4th 

P. Collis 5th 
Senior: 
100 yds. J. naigont .3rd 

Hurdles A. Lnzarides 2nd 
Long Jump A. Parham 1st 
Discus ..... S. liIitehcH 2nd 
Relay-A. Lnzaridcs. S. )Iitchcll, J. Baigcnt and onc girl from 

Blandford Gram. Sch. 2nd 

The Grosvenor Cup was ,von by the Senior Girls. 

We congratulate P; Barfoot on her achievement of 4th 
place in hurdllilg at the Southern Counties Athletics l\Ieeting 
held at Swindon on SatID'day, June 28th. 

SnmLEY l\II1'CIIELL (Captain). 

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SWimming Report, 1958 

.L\s,last year's Swimming Captain hoped, the standard and 
enthnsiasm of s"imming.improved eonsiderably during the term, 
Ths school was able to have the use of the Baths on Monday 
evenings for an hour and the boarders used it for an hour on 
Saturday mornings.

During these times much coaching was done by )Iiss Tofield 
an,l as a result--better swimming. 

~rhe swimming gala tllis year had double thc amount of 
entries than in other years, and so for the first time ever we had 
to have heats before the aetual Gala Day. 

'.rhe 'afternoon went smoothly and ended in a victory for 
Wren House with a total of 118 points. 
Ths individual Champion Cups were won by :


Lowel' Sellool 

Winners-Susan Lloyd mul Eileen Woo,ls. 

Hunner \tp-Jennifer Powel!. 
"JEWllle Sellool 

Winner-Vicki Pitcher. 

Hunner up-Heather Colyer. 
UPJlel'Sellool 


'Vinner-Anna Lazarides. 

Hunner up-Cherry Case. 

'Ve congra tula te Vicki Pitcher on obt.~ining the maximum of 
30 l)t~. SmULEY ~lITCHEr,T, (DeJlllty Cal'tain). 

Tennis Report, 1958 

It waS hard to judge thi~ year's tennis ·team fairly, as only 
a smal!number of matches were played o"ing to the bad weather. 
But it has been most marked that over the last two years the 
standard of the tennis in school has dropped considerably. 
We think tlmt this was mainly due to the fact that Athleticli took 
a larger part in school games, but it is I\oped that we shal! concentrate 
a great deal more on tennis this year. 

The team very mueh enjoyed playing the Old Girls, as you 
will remember that last year the match had to be cancelled. 

School Tournament Results 
1Iouso tennis cup: 1st Hardy, 2nd Dames, ard 'Vrcu. 
Boarders t·, Da.y gi.rls, ,resulted in a win for tho Boarders. 

Doubles tournaments :JUnI'ors: 
'Vinllcrs-
R. Stufm811 
...lIirldle: Willncrs-Upper:
P.llarfoot 
WinllcrsC. 
Caso 
)1. )Ioody 
Runners·upA. 
Staincr 
A. Ucad 
A. )Iilroy . 
Runners·upH. 
Cclycr 
_J. Crouch 
A. Wclford 
Runners.upR. 
Brayfof(l 
E. Hurding 
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Matches 

Opponent8 
Dlandfonl 
S.lI.S. 
1st VI 
Place 
Homo Won 
llesult 
53-28 
St. Monica's 
Lord Digby'. 
O.G.A•..... 
1st YI 
1st VI 
1st VI 
Away 
Away 
Homo 
Cancc1lcd 
I.ost 
Won 
27-72 
52-27 
Hall School 
GiUinghnm 
1st VI 
1st YI 
Away 
Away 
Cancelled 
WOIl 45-33 
lsl VI • 
1st Couplo : C. Caso· (Capt.), A. Wclfonl 
2nd Couplo: R. nrayfonl. E. Harding 
3rd Couple: P. narfoot~ A. Milroy . 

* denotes Colour" 
Colours won by R. Drayford, E. Harding, A. Wolfon! . 

BARNES HOUSE REPORT, 1957-58 

For the third time ill succcssioll Barnes has gained the 
position of Top House. I shoul<llike to congratulate all members 
who worked hard in both games and work during the past year, 
and 80 made this possible. Our very warm thanks go to 0111' 
former House Captain, Christine Bm·ton, who gaye much of her 
time to Barnes, and her Deputy, .Annc Parham, who was all 
invaluable support. 'Vc wish them eyery success and happiness 
in their future careers. 

We··also welcome new membets into Barncs, and hope they 
will all give us their best, 80 that we may " from strength to 
strength,-go on," and lnaintain OlU' position next year. 

ROSE NAPPER (Housc Gaptain). 

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HARDY HOUSE REPORT, 1957-58 

H ousc jJ[istress ...... Miss .Brcwington 
House Gaptains ...... CathCline Richmond (Sept.-Dec.) 


Ann Hall (J"anuary-July) 
Yiee-Housc Gaptain Clare Hartis 
Housc Games Gaptain Cherry Case 

Last year the standard of the House rose It little in the 
Spring Term, but it dropped back again in the Summer Term. 
There is It general feeling of enthusiasm in the house, but tl", 

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members do not seem to be llrepared to work for it. Hardy is 
still It very young House, which should be an'advantage, as it is 
easier for the juniors to obtain credits. Hardy must realize'that 
it will never rise from being bottom House, unless every member 
makes up her min(l to work llard' a11(1 so raise our standard. 

The House said good-bye to Catherine Richmond a t Ch,istmas. 
We were very sorry to sec her go, she 'did .. great deaHor Hardy. 
We also thank .Ann Hall for all the work she put into the House. 
'Ye are very pleased to have Clare Harris back at school with us, . 
.as she is a person who can give us some advice from 11ast ex


]lerience. 

Last year we luanagcd to overcome Bfll'llCS and gain from 
them botkthe Tennis and the Hockey cups. Wc remained sccond 
in the nctball and fell to bottom house in Sports, Swimming and 
most important of all, 'Work. , . . 

I sincerely hope that the coming year "ill bc .. more successful 
one for Hardy, ilJld that we raise our standards in both 'York 

.and Games. 
CIIEIUtY CASE (House Gaptain). 
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WREN HOUSE REPORT, 1957-58 
Eouse :Jlistress ...... ,\[iss Matthews 
Eouse Gaptain ...... 
17ice-Eo use Gaptain 
Jenny BUl'ridge 
Jill Baigcnt 
Eouse Games Gaptain .Allua IJflzfll'idcs 

.Although Wren maintained her previous position of second 
1lOuse, there was not as much response to appeals this year as 
,there has been in past years. The athletes and the smmmers are 

to be congratulated on winning the cups for us, but couldn't we 
set the same thing lmppening this year with tennis, hockey, 
'netball and work as well' 'Ye so nearly won the house cup'last 
y'ear. J,et's put that little extra bit of effort into this year .. nd 
pull ourselves out of Olll' mediocre rut. 

I should like on behalf of Wren to thank "nss Matthews, the 
house mistress, Jenny Bunidge, the house captain, her deputy 
,Jill Baigent and .Anna Lazaridcs, the games captain, for all they 
did in the house last year. 

'We extend a Warm welcome to all newcomers to 'Yren and 
"wish the leavers the best of luck in the future . 

.Al'(l'(E WELI'ORD (House Gaptain). 

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THE BOARDERS' REPORT, 1957-58 

The change which was mcntioned in last year's magazine 
has proved fairly snccessful as far as the separate houses are 
concerned. It is espccially advantagcous to the Scnior Hollse. 

Last year we lleld our Boarders' Party in tIle School Han 
instead of the Stalbridge hut as in previous years and found that 
it was much more homely, although it was a little crowded whClt 
everybody was dancing. 

As in more recenfyears, the boarders beat the day girls ill 
both hockey (3-0) and tennis (61-7). 

This year we all spent our outing at Sandbanks, but unfortunately 
the Senior House had to leave early because somc 
were in the performance of''' The Songs of the Fleet" at the 
Grammar School Speech Day. 

Every 2nd Sunday iu the montIl wc ltaye a SC11001s' Sel'vic!} 
with the Grammar School and now a boy and a girl }'ead the 
lessons instead of a member of staff from each school. 

Having experienced the new arrangement of the separate 
boarding houses for one year, wc hope that the feeling betweel1 
the Junior and Scnior Houses will be a· united onc. 

SIITRLEY MITCIlELL (Sell;OI' Head Boarder) . 

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FLOWER GUILD ACTIVITIES, 1957-58 

Last year was au eventful onc for the Flower GUild. It was. 
also, apart from a·temporary waning of enthusiasm during the 
Spring term, a very ltappy one, Christine BIIl'ton was a keen and 
able Secretary, and Miss Dmke continues, as always, to be the 
greatest possible encouragement and inspiration to us, 

Great enjoyment was derive!l from painting and constructing 
Christmas decorations during the Autumn term. Some· 
members of the Shaftesbury Floral Group who were invited to a J 
small e."hibition of the arrangements which wc hcld in school 
kindly offered ns a table on which to display our best exhibits' 
at their Christmas Show in the Guildhall, Wc arl'anged it with 
great care, aud it would be false modesty on our part not to say 
that the result was extremely effectiYe! 

Mrs. Guy came to both our January and our February 
mootings, the first time to lecture and demonstrate, and the 
second time to give constructive criticism of our arrangements_ 

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Eut tlle renl highlights of the year both took place iu the, 
Summer term. One was our annual exhibition on Parents' Day. 
A new and successful venture was made iu the choosing of black, 
paper anqlamplight as a setting for the flowers and the arrangements 
(of Wllich there was a large number) showed great imagina


tion in colour and design. 

On the other great occasion of the term, a small group, 
accompanied }liss Drake to ~Iilton Abbey, where we found some 
interesting and original ideas at an Exliibition of flowers arranged, 
on a wide variety of subjects. The Abbey Church itself was filled 
with flowers and beauty and light, and wc attended a shOrt 
service devoted to flowers. 

Wc hope that, with all last year's experience and inspiration 

behind us, the coming year will be even happier and more 

exciting. 

MAnY NORRIS, Upper 1'1. 

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THE DRAMATIC SOCIETY REPORT 

Last March, undCl' the expert guidance of ~ss Moore and 
~Iiss Woods, we produced Shakespeare's" As You Like It ", in 
The Old Market Playhouse. None of us had had any previous 
acting experience, but thanks to the kindness of the Shaftesbury 
and District Arts Club in allowing us to use their Theatre, wc 
were able, to'produce our play under excellent conditions, far 
removed from the difficult ones of former membcrs of our society 
when using the Stalbridge Hut. 

During the current Autumn term we have decided to changeour weekly meetingfrom Thursday evening to Wednesday, but 
no meetings were held until the second half of the term. 

J ANET E. AL)~;ER (Seerelam) • 

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"AS YOU LIKE IT" 

An attractively staged and very well acted production of 
".As Y 01' Like It " was given by the Shaftesbury High School 
Dramatic Society on ~[arch 26th, 27th & 28th, at the Old, 
~[arket Playhouse (by nITangement with the Shaftesb~I'Y and 
District Arts Club). The production was by Miss Edna Moore, 
assisted by ~ss Mary Woods. The setting was admirable and 

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gave a welcome effect of spaeiousncss to the forcst scenes. The 
grouping was skilful and the players' movements .and gestures 
were confident and unhurried, and had purpose as well as grace. 
Make-up w'as excellent, and the girls wore their attractive and 
colourful stage clothcs "ith complete assurance." 

Jenny Bm'ridge played Rosalinil ,dth an nnaffccted and 
delightful gaicty. Hers was acting of a very high quality indeed: 
it was a beautifully controlled, well sustained and unselfish 
performance which drew out the best from those with whom she 
played. Orlando (Ann Parham) was most cffective in the forest 
of Arden: in the em'lier scenes the character was established 
vigorously and well. J aqucs was amusingly and most capably 
played by Anna Lazmides, whose charactcrisation, though in • 
some ways a sllperficial one, was consistent, original and shrewdly 
observed. Janet .A1ner's Touchstonc was agreeably sophisticated; 
She never overplayed and she showed excellent stage sense 
throughout her scenes. 

Penny Wells as Oclia, and ~Iargaret Brccds as Oliver gave 
useful and conscientious ]lerformances; although the former did 
not always find the lightness of touch that the' part demands, 
and the latter tended to be over-melodramatic, they gave 
invaluable sup]lort to the principals. ~'he two Dukcs were wellcontrasted. 
Rosemary Lawrence eleverly caught the restless 
suspiciousncss of the usurping Frcderiek, and Ann NilrQY used 
her pleasant voice to good effect as an urbane and elegant Duke 
Senior. 

Phoebe and Si/vills (played by Jackie ~Iarsden and Pat Barfoot 
respectively) brought the sub·plot vividly to life. Oorin 
(Gillian Ral]lh) was tidily philosophic behind an excellent makeup; 
while the parts of Adam (Shirley lIfitchell), William (ilIia 
Morey), Le Real' (Frances Pollard), Amiens (Jill Baigent) and 
Charles (Cherry Case) were all competently playe~. Special 
mention must be made of Elizabeth Harding's outstandingly 
good Al.drey, whose timing and invention invested the ]lart with 
genuine and refreshing .comedy. Rosemary Brayford, Gillian 
Fookes, Jennifer Cobley, Barrie Sergean, Audrey Horloek·Jones, 
Hazel and Heather Reid filled their slllall parts most creditably, 
and thc Lords attending the two Dukes (Vicki Pitcher; Patricia 
Ridout, Carole Sergean and Celia J,ayzell) carried thelllselves 
with distinction. The Mllsician (Cherry Plinge) and the two 
Pages (Elizabeth Cole and Lorraine Mitchell), together with • Amiens, were directly or indirectly res]lonsible for the charming 
singing and accompaniments that, under tile direction of ilIiss 
Rathleen""Drake, graced the ]lroduction. 

STEPllEN WARE. 

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MUSICAL ACTIVITIES 


Orchestral Report 

We were very sorry to have to say goodbye to ~liss Sharpe, 
who had to leave us during the year, owing to ill-health, but we 
were delighted to welcome Mrs_ Riekard back for a term. We 
appreeiate the kind interest she takes in the sehool and we are 
always delighted to see her when she eomes back. Now we 
welcome ~ssJanet Fortnum as our new violin teacher, and hope 
she will be very happy with us. . 

Once again the orchestra entered for the local ~rusieFestival, 
and was very successful. We are very grateful to ~Iiss Naney 
'Villiams, who kindly stepped into the breach at the last moment 
and conducted for us. 

'Vhen the Fcsti'ml was over, we began practising hard for 
a D.n.M.S. concert, organiscd by ~Iiss Williams at Blandford 
Secondary Modern School. The orchestra was made up of about 
seventy young players from all over Dorset, and Miss Williams 
honoured us by choosing the leader of the orchestra, the leader of 
the second violins, and the leader of the 'cellos from our number. 
Wc all thoroughly enjoyed playing in the concert, ,'vhieh was 
very successful and found it a great experience working under so 
distinguished and understanding pel'son as Miss Gertrnde 
Collins. 

Choir 

Last autnmn we again joined with the Grammar School in 
Holy Trinity Church, for our annual Carol Service. The whole 
service was recorded by ~Ir. J olmstone, and was later heard by an 
official from the B.B.C., so we hope that parts of this year's 
service may bc recorded for broadcasting on the programme 
" Adeste Fideles." 

The ,two choirs combined to sing the S.A.T,B. Carols" The 
Angel Gabriel from Heaven came ", "Ye Shepherds leave your 
flocks" and" Up good christian folk and listen". The High School 
choir sang" Past Three O'clock" and" The Infant King,""all{l 
the schools ~lmg a very rollicking carol" ilIasror's in this Hall ". 
Our thanks are due to Miss Drake and Mr. J ohnstone who 
worked so hard to make the afternoon a success. 

The Choir's activities were eurtailed in the Spring term as 
the seniors were concentrating all their energies on onr school 
play. In the Summer term we were invited to perform in the 
concert whieh tlw Grammar School always hold on their Speech 
Day. We joined with their choir in singing" The Songs of ,the 

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Fleet", by Stanford. Onr choir also sang a thrce part song, 
" Follow me down to Carlow," and a madrigal" The Shepherdess 
". A small group of girls and boys picIi:cd from the two 
choirs sang the unaccompanied madrigals, " Diaphenia ", " Come 
again· sweet love" and" Now is the month of maying". The 
concert was enjoyed by all and wc appreciated the invitation, 
as it showed that the new headmaster, Mr. Crowther, intends to 
continue our musical activitics with the Grammar School. 

The choir once again entcrtaincd the visitors on Spcech 
Day. We sang the same songs which wc sang at the Grammar 
School concert, and also soine rounds, and, as a tribute to 
Yaughan Williams, his beautiful" Dirge for Fidele". 

Although our choir is smallcr than ever befo;·c, we have not 
allowed our standard to fall, and we have" full programme 
ahead of us, including a rendering of "Stabat nlater" by 
Pergolesi. 

General 

Once again a large number of girls entered for the North 
Dorset Music Festival, and achieved a number of successes. 'Ve 
look forward to this event every year, and arc grateful to all the 
people who organise it. 

As always, wc have to thank Dr. Johnson very warmly for 
giVing us the opportunity to hear the world-famous people 
perform, whom he brings to the school. Dr. J ohnson is a very 
good friend of the school and wc cannot be too grateful {or the 
way in which he brings us-these unforgettable experiences, and 
for the many othcr things he does for the school. 

Earlicr in the ycar he brought to us Mr. Bernard Shore, who 
gave us a brilliant viola recital whieh I think must have given 
everyone ,musical or otherwise, the greatest enjoyment. 'Vc 
were impressed not only with nfr. Shore's playing but also with 
the amazing way in which he has overcome his difficulties; he 
lost three fiugers in the war;and as a rcsult suffers badly from a 
form of nem-itis, and through his determination aud courage, has 
become onc' of the finest viola players in the world. 

This term wc were delighted to welcome ou~ old friends, Mr. 
Carl Dolmetsch and lIlr. J oseph Saxby. We were treated to 
a delightful hour and a half of music varying from pieces of 
fifteenth century to twentieth century music and coming from 
many different countries. This music was played to us on a 
number of musical instruments, made in the Dolmetsch workshops. 
I am sure no·one will ever forget the thrill, not only of 
Jlearing such bcautiful music performed by gt·cat musicians, but 

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also of seeing their unassnming manner and the way in which ~[r. 
Dolmetseh, aCknowledged to be the world's greatest recorder 
player, and his gifted partner, ~Ir. Saxby, talked aJld played to 
us as personal friends, giving tIle concert a warm friendly 
atmosphere. 

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" BADGERS AND HEDGEHOGS" 

The Lower and ~Uddle School were seated in the hall, when 
:DUss Dnnford, accompanied by a tal1, tweed-dressed gentleman 
with a pleasant smile, entered_ Afte,' an introduction from ~[iss 
Dunford, ~[r. Evetts bagan to talk about hedgehogs. We soon 
lea1'lled a good deal of the life of this creatID'6-'-its habits, food 
and feelings. Instead of that dirty flea-covered, gl'l1bbing animal 
or the squashed creature iu the road, the hedgehog is rather to be 
petted than abhorred. The interesting talk was illustrated by 
some drawings of the hedgehog, curled up and eating. 

~Ir. Evetts then produced the skull and skin of a badger to 
help us to understand the second part of his leetID'e. He explained 
how badgers hunt-mostly at night-and how their keen sense of 
sight and smell serves to protect them. We were told what they 
eat---.lnd, in general, their habits. He told Us many very amusing 
stories about badgers in captivity, which were described with 
many peculiar noises! Badgers are never kept wholly snccessful1y 
as pets. They love roaming the wilds too much, and they 
are rather clumsy indoors, so there were sad talcs to relate, or how 
badgers had eventually escapcd from their loving owners. 
Badgers-are also immensely strong, as ~Ir.~Evetts soon told us. 
He had seen a door battered in by a badger and his powerful 
claws; also a hen-house with missing f1oor-boards--and a 
badger cosily asleep inside, unable to get out, after a good 

dinner! 

He has helped to destroy badgers which were a nuisance. 
Mr. Evetts was obviously very conscientious in tIle study of 
badgers. He described to us how to discover if :badgers still lived 
in setts that we might know of, and then how to -hide and watch 
them. He spoke solely of experience and first-hand information. 

'Vc wore indeed very fortunate to have such a plcasant 

lecturer on such interesting subjects. ...t\1tcl'wards we were a good 

dcal more knowledgeable on the subject of badgers and hedge


11OgS. 

'Ve asked·~Ir. Evetts a few questions which had arisen from 
llis talk; but all too soon it was the cnd of the afte11l00n. 'Ve 

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applauded loudly, and :iUiss Dunford expressed some wqrds of 
thanks. )Ir. Evetts bowed politelY'and left· soon after, to visit 
another school to interest other children as we had been interested. 

:ilIICIIELLE E~!ERY, LOICer IV. 

The Church of England Children's Society. Lecture 

On Tuesday, ;ruue 24th, Miss Flower came to school to give 
the Lower School a lccture on the work of the Church of England 
Children's Society. )Iiss Flower was previouslr ;lIatron of a 
Bristol Home and slle began by telling us of the work of the 
SOCiety which is l'un by voluntary aid onlr. There are one hundred 
and nine small Homes in England and Wales where children. 
of every race are cared for . 

. )fiss Flower then showed us many photog1"l1phs of the children 
and ,told us innumerable stories about the lives of the childreu 
in tbeir charge. The ehildrim are treated as normally as 
possible; they have good chances to make careers for themselves 
as they may be able to go to G1"l1mmar Schools and some go on to 
Universities and beeome doctors 01: teachers. They are given a 
fair chance to make fine professional people. 

Families are not split up and all the children go to an 
orilinary school and wear the usual school uniform, so that they 
may feel like the other children from lmppy homes, without the 
constant feeling tllat.theirs is a home with a capital" H". 

"At the end of the lecture, after many questions"had been put 
to ilIiss Flower, a vote of thanks was given by Rosemary Wag1lCr 
for, a very interesting lecture. 

STET,LA DDl!lEN, Upper 11' . 

The Lecture on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 

On Monday, October 6th a party from the Sb.:th and UPI1Cl' 
Fifth forms went to Sherbome to hear a lecture on the Commonwealth 
Trans-Antarctic Expedition. This lecture was given by 
il[r. David Pratt, who was the Engineer and Tl"llnspOlt Officer 
of the Expedition. 

The leetlU'e was given in the big sehoolroom of Shm'bome 
SCl1001 and began at two o'clock. It was for us a thrill to be 
addressed by one who had actually made the journey. 

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The lecturer was iutrodueed by Sir John Slessor, Marsbal of 
the Royal .Air Force, and Chairman of the Expedition, who read 
a short extract from Sir Vivian Fuchs' book on the Expedition, 
describing how vital the work of )fr. Pratt was. 

)fJ:. Pilitt began his lecture by showing a short colour film o~ 
the preliminary journey to Antarctica, made by the Advance 
Party. The film was e:"tremely interesting and showed the 
difficulties the party encountered in crossing the Weddell Sea in 
their ship, "Theron". It showed the establishment of Shackleton 
Base, which was only just completcd before winter set in, as they: 
had lost much precious time in the pack ice. The film then 
showed the voyage and arrival of the main party in the" Magga. 
Dan" which then took back the advance party, leaving the rest, 
as Mr. ~ Pratt modestly statcd, with only one way outr,-by 
crossing the Continent to the other side. . 

Hcre the film ended and )fr. Pratt continued his lecture, now 
with the aid of over one~hundred coloured slidcs. 

The slides too were very interesting and showed the journey 
across Antilrctica, led by Sir Vivian Fuehs. However, they had 
to wait until summer, when daylight would return and temperatures 
rise slightly, before they made this attempt. Meanwhile 
they employed themselves in building other bases, one of whica 
was South lee, and servicing the vehicles and other aircraft, 
which was Mr. Pratt's especial responsibility. 

The journey across Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the 
Ross Sea was in fact completed in ninety·nine days, one day less 
than originally planned. 

i\Ii'. Pratt concluded by saying that the work done by the 
crpssing party, and New Zealand survey team at Seott Base, has 
extended greatly man's knowledge of Antarctica. 

Our party returned to School feeling that we had had an 
extremely interesting and worthwhile afternoon and had been 
very fortunate in llaving this great opportunity to learn at first 
hand, of the valuable as well as heroic work done by the TransAntarctic 
Expedition. 

J. M. COBLEY; Upper V • 
Three Speakers on Other Countries 

It is very mrely that we have such an opportunity liS was 
OIll'S this week·end when we heard three excellent speakers .on· 
countries ab~oad. .Although they were of different ,professions, 

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one an architect, ono a Franciscan Friar and ono a :1\Iissional'Y, 

all had one outstanding characteristic: a . Christian' attitude 

towards people. 

lIIr. Andrew Rutte!" has just returned from Ghana, where lw 
llns been spending a year and a half at the invitation of 
UNESCO. JIe gave us a very penetrating account of tlle events 
leading up to the independence of that cOlll\try and of the 
present state of affairs. One of the most .important things he 
stressed was the need for sympathetic understanding instead of 
over-hasty miticism. Such .problems as the possibility of a 
dictatorship are made more intricate 'by the disapproval abroad 
of Ghana's ways of doing things (such as the clection of the 
enormous statue to Nkrumah). lib:. Rutter made us feel that we 
pass judgment too superficially and that this does harm. This 
is an attitude that we also take towards our own problems in 
England and·our immediate neighbourhood. 

On Sund:1Y, November 9th, at the service for the JIigh School 
and the Grammar School at JIoly Trinity, Father Geoffrey 

Pcarson, who is going out to Now Guinea in tho new y'ear to begin 

the work of a FranciscanllIission there, also spoke of this attitude 
when he mentioned the fierce tribes of New Guinea who had 
made such wonderful stretcher-bearers for wounded Australians 
soldiers during the war. JIe talked more specifically of the two 
kinds of life: that of thc Athcistic materialist and that of the 
Christian. 

Miss Chandler a missionary on furlough from .Japan, spoke 
about that country, and gave us vivid pictm'es o~ how a new 
.Japan is arising from the ruins of the old. A film strip and 
coloured transparencies showed both the beauty of .Japan and 
the attractiveness of some of its old way of lifc but also the needs 
of the present, the basic need of an adequate supply of food, but 
allove all the need for thc spread of Cliristianity. Their old 
l'eligion has failed them and only Christianity can overcome the 
materialism whicI1 is spreading fast . 

A SIXTH FORMERS' CONFERENCE AT DINTON 

Last March the VI Form had the privilege of an entirely new 
experience-a residential week-end spent primarily in discussion 

•

on vital i~sues with a representative group o~ other si;.:th formers 
from six North Dorset Sehools-8herborne Girls', Sherborne 
Public, Lord Digby's (Sherborne), Forster's (Sherborne), 
GiIlingham Grammar and Shaftesbury Grammar. It was hel<l 

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jn the beautiful setting of Phillips House, Dinton, a National 
Trust property. 

The general title of the t'ro-day course was "On being a 

Christian in Public and in Privafe life." each day being devoted to 
discussing onc of these two aspects. Canon Heaton, of Salisbury, 
acted as our chairman, and wc were very grateful to him for the 
valiant and most scholarly gliidance which .both controlled and 
provoked what was a series of very stimulating discussions. As 

]~e sai(l in his opening remarks, no-onc, himself included, was 

going to "plIll his punches." Certainly no·one did, and battle 
rage!l fast and fmions over the many vexed questions that 

inevit.ably arose. 

'Vo were divided into five gronps of eight, each being given 

a discussion question which had an immcdiate bcaring on the 
subject as a whole. These qucstions scrvc!l the purpose of 
starting the arguments, but most of the subsequent iliscllssion 
arose out of the endless" red herrings" which crossed our patl, 
at every turn. The groups first talked thc question over amongst 
themselves and then came together to report their conversation, 
to heal' other views on the same snbjeet, and finally to hold a 
general discussion on any topic that might arise during the 
course of the argument. Such was the enthusiasm of all concerned 
that wc usually exceeded the time allotted for each session. 

As well as tllis mental exercise there was plenty of opportu· 
nity for relaxation. Wc daneed and went for long walks through 
the very beautiful park surrounding the house. Many of us also 
attended an inter·denominational celebration of Holy Cam· 
lIlunion in Dinton Church. 

At the end of our two days we were qillte unanimous olf 
two things-first, that two days had not been really long 

enough, and second, that we lllust organise no " -Dinton Reunion" 

as soon as possihle. LargelY through the efforts of the Shcrborne 
schools, this latter took place at Lord Digby's School OIL Wednes· 
day, July 16th, and I klLOW tllUt wc were all most grateful to 
~Iiss Thompson and her girls for the way in which they organised 
the event. The Reverend Tiarks, Vicar of Lyme Regis, took 
Canon Heaton's place. Discussion was on the same question


"reel herring" plan as before, and was quite as diverse and 

enthusiastic as in March. Inevitably, although wc were so very 
glad at lu,ving the opportunity of seeing old friends and taking 
up old arguments again, wc once more felt chcated and frustrated 

whoil the conference came to all end long before our queries and 
.cnthusinSln were exhausted. ' 
CLARE Rmms, UllPCI" VI. 

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OUR ·EXPEDITION TO STRATFORD·ON·AVON 

The Youth Hostel 

Although not to be described as the" cream" of accommodation, 
it was an immensely worth·wl.ile and satisfyiugexperience that wc gained by staying at the Youth Hostel, 
especially for those to whom this was a new venture. 

Onc of the many in a network of similar havens for tlie 
weary traveller, needless to say most gratefully accepted in the 
appalling weather wc were then having, ours was situated about 
two miles·from Stratford. In mentioning weather, Onc unfortunate 
soul comes to mind as I saw her, the very picture of clejection, 
standing in a door\,.:ay, "'ringing out m.'ipping socks. 

We were not allowecl into the Hostel from ten o'clock to 
five o'clock, at which time the large house waS invaded bytravellers of varying ages and nationalities and the peace of the 
day was shattered by the music, voices and laughter of about 
fifty young people, intelmpted only for a moment by the 
cleafening shriek of an electric bell. This was a sign for the general 
scramble to join the qucue in front of the hatch where supper was 
collected and carried into the dining-room. Containing only the 
bare necessities, trcstle tables ancl chairs, thc room might well 
have been clescribed as austere hail it not been for the congenial 
atmosphere. There was a feeling of tremenclous fricndliness and 
enthusiasm of which therc,llllcl to be plenty, for morning and 
evening after tiring days, jobs had to be done as clecreecl by 
small tickets. Formiclable tasks such as washing up, and many 
other jobs were shared by all alikc, from the most sophistieated 
gU'1 with swathecl hair and elegant clothes, to the myriads of 
German schoolboys who streamed in ancl out of the ITostel. 

The bunks were an experience in the true sense of the word. 
Wc hirecl a sleeping·bag, "Tappecl ourselves in blankets, and 
probably suffered agonies the first night. ITowever, we soon 
became conditioned to them ancl being very weary all the rest 
of the time there, we were truly grateful for anything passing 
uncler the name of " bed". 

... 

It is, however, really impossible to cleseribe what we foull(l 
the Yonth Hostel to bc like,. because naturally, personal opinions 
differ. It 11lIs to be expericncecl; for me, it aclclecl spice to our 
Stratforcl visit. The nationalities ancl classes of those there were 
so mixed that it was a vcritablc psychol9gist's paradise. But 
perhaps the grcatest praise thc Hostel could be given is to say 
that the aims of the Unitecl Nations arc surely realised here mid 
in similar Youth Hostels. . 

.A,,(N l\Irr,1WY, Upper Y. 

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Our Visit to Warwick and Kenilworth 

On the Uonday morning of our excursion to Stratford, wee 
went to sce Kenilworth an(l "rm'wick castles. Kenilworth Castle 
was situated in pleasant grounds. It was in ruins but nevertheless, 
it gave us quite a thrill to walk up the spiral stairs (which 
wcre still standing), and out on to the parapets. There were 
several small ruins which were all being restored in some way or 
another. The ruins looked lovely in the sunshine, amongst the 
beech trees. 

Warwick, which was not such an old castle and was, ilL 
excellent condition, is the home of the Earl of Warwick. The 
grounds were again very beautiful and here there were many 
flowers altliough it ,,;as OctOber. 

Inside the castle, tlwre was an air of quietncss and calm. The 
first thing we saw was the chapel, which was small and dark. It 
was very decorative and one thing I remcmber clearly was the 
cnorl1lous alabaster vase, standing opposite the door, which epnld 
only be filled with flowers on very special occasions, the last 
being a visit from the Queen )Iother. 

The other rooms were very large, housing an unforgettable 
collection of portraits of the family's anccstors, and of earls, 
dukes and princcs.1There was also a fine collection of furniture. 
There sccmed to be something from caeh century. 

One 1'00111 we went into was filled with armour; one suit 

was made for a'lll'ince who coulclnot have been more than a few 
ycars old. 
We spent a few minutes ill "rm'wick Parish. Church, an 

jmlnensc, grey stone building. 

After spen(ling a day at these two places, we went back to 
the Youth Hostel to get ready for the evening performance of 
" lIamlet" in the theatre. 

AUDREY lIoltLocK-JoNEs, Lower VI. 

Our Visit to Coventry 

Upon our m~iyal at Coventry, ~{r. Donovan, who was 
deputising for the' City Public Relations Officer, introduced 
himself, and outlined OUr programme for tlH; day. We were to 
visit'the old and new Cathedrals, the City Centre, the Council 

House, and a new Honsing Estate, known iu Coventry as a 

Neighbourhood Unit. 
Fl'Om the ruins of the ,01<\ catliedral, with its lofty spire 
(which sWI contains bells) and sandstone walls, we had a very 

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good view of the new Cathedral which is to .be completed by 
1962. One of the main entrances to it is to be throngh the old. 
cathedral, whilc the other entranec faces the main road. Unlike 
most of om churches, the main altar faces northward, while the 

windows, arranged at angles, face South West and South East, 

to catch thc maximum amount of light all the day long. 
By peeping through one of the window gaps in the 01<1 

catllCdral, wc saw Incn, blacl{ and white, digging up bOIl~S, and 

removing them by the wheelbarrow full to new consecrated 
ground; a rather horrifying sight to some of us, 

Our visit to the town centre and the Precinct caused much 
excitement. The Precinct is an under,co"er shopping area on two 
levels, where no traffic is allowed. It is arranged in the shape of 
a letter T, at the bottom of which lies the new Retail Market, 
a circular building with a curved ramp leading from ground level 
to its roof. The ramp, which with the roof car park provides park· 

ing space, Ims a maximmn gradient of 1 in 10, iUl(l is electIically 

and mechanically heated, to prevent icy conditions in the "inter. 
This new system of hcating is one of the firstfitll·scale systems of 
its kind to be use,l in England, 

After a break of just over two hours, in which we were free 
to explore the shops, we pai,l a visit to the Council House, whCl'e 
Mr. Donovan told us a little about thc City Council meetings, 
past and present, and explained the system of lighting which 
marks the Icngth of thc spceehes made. Over thc doorway of the 
Council chamber was the shicld of Coventry, with the inscription 

et Camera PJ'incil)is."-

The last and perJmps most interesting part of our visit, was 
to the Tile Hill Neighbourhood Unit. Here we saw a fine example 
of modern town planning. The houses are compact and colourful, 
and arranged in such a way that each has an open space for the 
enjoyment of both young and old. Attractive bungalows provide 
homes !or old people, aud eleven storey flats accommodate up to 
forty·four families. Besides bungalows for the old people, thcre 
are old people's homes, built in such a position that .they can 
sham in thc activities of all generations, The est"te has its own 
shops and SCllOOI, and, the subject of much discussioll anll 

criticism, a very lnodern church. 

~he church is' grey on the outside, and completely rectangular. 
The walls on the inside are rough cast, with pillars inscrted 
at intervals along them, and clear windows from the roof to the 
floor, face in on the altar from the sides, and from the back of the 
building. Coloured tiles in'ranged alternately with grey ones 
form the inside of the flat 1'oof. An enormous tapestry, with I~ 

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king and a saint depioted in colours corresponding to the roof, 
hangs behind the simple but beautifully-carved altar, on whioh 
stands an ornamontal silver oross with the Lamb of God in its 
centre. The ehoir stalls, oommunion rail ~nd leotern are all of 
polished wood to match the altar, but ohairs provide seats for 
the congregation. On thc small font stands a symbol of the Holy 
Dove. The belfry, whioh as yet has no bell, is a ooloured tower 
separated from the ohureh, with a silver oross on its top. 

A figure of Christ 011 the outside of the church has been 
subjeot to muoh criticism. The figure, which was carved from 
metal by a negro, has enormous hands, held up as if in blessing, 
a square bearded face, a body in whioh all the ribs and bones 
stand out, and legs, seemingly out of proportion, gently' orossed. 
Its expression was desoribcd by members of our party as ugly, 
kind and gentle. 

For many of us Olll' visit to Coventl'y was the most enjoyable 
part of Our stay in Stratford, and r should like to take this 
opportunity to thank ;\[1'. Donovan, and all thc othcr people 
who helped to make this outing possible. 

ROSE NAPPER, Upper VI. 

" Pericles ", " Hamlet" and " Romeo and duliet " 
" Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is a play which is vcry rarely 
aoted, and when we saw a performance of this oomparatively 
unknown-drama in the lIfemorial Theatre at Stratford, the 
obstaoles whioh must face the produoer wei'e obvious. To begin 
with, it is a composite play, and Shakespeare is held to be the 
author of only part of it. This lack of continuity of oourse 
detracts from the spontaneity of the work :lS a whole, so that 
neithcr the ~itu:ltions nor the characters oan be fully developed. 
An example of t,llis is the introduction, into the first act only, of 
Antioohus and his danghter, who have no bearing on the plot and 
,vho oertajnly make no contribution to the aesthetic val)le of the 
play, This absenoe of oohesibn means that it is difficult to hold 
the audienoe's attention for longer thaIi a few SOenes, Whilewatching 
the Stratford production I was oonsoious that the 
producer was making valiant efforts to overoome the slowness 
of the play~s action by means of the many fine theatrical effeots 
available in the lIIemoHal Theatre. The trouble was -that I was 
oontinually aware that these were no more than theatrical 
devices, and this, I feel, indicatcd the most serious, though 
perhaps inevitable shortoomings of this produotion, In the oascs 
of "Hamlet" and "Romeo an(l Juliet" I found myself 
absorbed and swept along by the foroe of the drama, where the 
staging effeots were mCl'ely incidental. In that of " Perieles " 

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t~e dramatic power of the words and, situations had far less hold 
over me, and at times no hold at all,,~o' that I found myself 
viewing actors and scenery with a detachment \vhich I could not 
feel with regard to the other plays~ In" Pericles " the costumes, 
the permanent set and the scenic effects and changes were 
magnificent, but, oh, so un-Shakespedan! In the shipwreck 
Scenes we llUd tilting decks, billowing net?, swaying rigging and 
fearsome "noiscs-off"! Though these elaborate devices may 
have bcen the salvation of a play which has very little dramatic 
force of itself, there was a dangerons tendency for the incidcntal 
effects to assume first importance. Pcdcles Ilimsclf (Ricllard 
Johnson),was:'hampered bythc limitations of his part, bnt he 
was an adcqnate, if soq>etimes slightly indignified Prince of 
Tyre. ,I think'that the greatest disappointmcnt of the play was 
Geraliline )IacEwen's ~Im'ina, a passive, passionless, rather 
colonrless interpretation, in sad contrast to her vivacious 
Princess of France (" Love's Labow's Lost" 1956) which ,a few 
of nsllad seen_ Hers ,,'as a'meekinnocence, but not the dcilicatcd 
purit:{which' would have been callcd for if she was to escape 
from her dreadful predicament unscathed, Pm'lmps the outstanding 
character of the play was Gower, the story-teller, 
ma~ificently, sung and acted by' Ed~ic Connor_ 

" Hamlet ,; 'w~s a memorable, if' slightly inconsistent 
production. Its opemng waS unpromising, for the necessary 
atmosphere of nervons foreboding W3? notably lacking, the 
heavily-mumed ghost was a most solid and unconvincingapparition, and :;IIichael Redgravc, known as a temperamental 
actor, ,made a slow, over-acted beginning as Hamlet. By the 
end of Act 1 he had, howevcr, begun 'to identify himself more 
fully with his part, and soon vinilieated the truth of his more 
important l'eputation as a fine actor, Except f~r one slightlapse he never failed for the rest of the evem~g to dominate the 
stage, We ilid perllaps miss a sense of Hamlet's inability to 
frilfill his fatal mission, sinee for an irresolute man Redgrave was 
p&h,aps a little too dominating, Another notable interpretation 
in this play was Dorothy Tutin's Orphelia, which kept a'beantiful 
balance between pathos and madness. Polomins, Laester anil 
Noratio were all admirable supporting performan~es. Googie 
Withers, as Gertrude, was a disappointment. 

. The most obvious adjective, to apply to the Stratford 
production of " Romeo and 'Juliet" is " yontllful ". 'One could 
~lso term: it" cOlpincing;" " gay," "'passionate" oi' "moving," 
in each casQ with complete justification, but the operative word 
throughontwas "youthY The lovers themselves, beantifully 
played by Richard Johnson' and DOl'othy Tutin, were tragically 

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young. The inevitable cnd of th,eir " star· crossed ". love affair 
was all the more pitifnl because this Jnliet really was only 
fourteen, and the manifest resilience of their youth and of 
their passion made the nltimate fate of both seem aU the-more. 
crushing. Bcside their vibrant youth and hope the )IontagneCapnlet 
fend shrank to futility, and the tragedy of Romeo and 
JuJiet lay,. as Shakespeare jl).j;ended it shonld, in 'the fact that' 
. young love and life must be sacrificcd to this "'ancient grudge." 
In addition to the very fine acting of the twil principals, of which, 
Dorothy Tntin's was certainly the more rcmarkable, the other. 
highlights of a very ably cast play. were the interpretations of the: 
parts of Juliet's nurse and )iecutio. The rcst of the supporting 
parts were more than adequate, although perhaps the characters' 
of Pario, Tybalt and lliiar Lawrence, whjch usually provide 
plenty'of scope for good actors, were not made as full as was 
possible. If there was a weakness in this g~nerally 'very fine. 
production, it perhaps.Jay in the rather unimaginative permanent' 
set, which ma!le the stage seem smaller and rather over-crowded. 

CLARE HARRm, Upper VI.. 

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"THE YOUTH PILGRIMAGE TO SALISBURY CATHEDRAL 

On Saturday, 12th April, I woke up at five o'clock. Looking 
at my watch I decided that I needn't get up for another two-anda-
half-hours. So I ·turned over and was just about to go to ~leep" 

. agaiu when I suddenly realised. Of course I conldn't go to sleep, 
I had to be at Lower Berrycourt by seven' o'clock for it was the 
day of the pilgrimage-l--t-\vas just about ready when there was 
a soft lqlock at the door. It was Pat. "Are. you ready,Y" I got 
out my bicycle and together we cycled down to the farm. I can, 
assure you, that half past sb: in the morning, it is not only very 
quiet, but also very·cold. 

Wc /H"rived at the farm in good·time, put our bicycles in· the, 
shed and went into the farmhouse to find that Norman had 
arrived and was being entertained with tea while IDchael and 
Peter finished 'their breakfast. A few minutes later Adrienne 
anived and we were ready. Knapsacks and satchels on back wc 
set off. 

We were extremely gratefnl to Mr. Coward, who had' cut a 
hole in his hedge, for this saved us from having to .walk about 
a hundred and .fifty yards. Mter rambling across two or three 
fields we came to the main Salisbury road along which we walked. 
for a few yards. Then there came the climb up to tl~e top of 
Whiteshcet. 

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It is a wonderful feeling to know thatsou are walking along 
the skyline. It was a pity that, at seven o'clock iJl the morning, 
there were few people to see the seven small dots crawling along 
the top of the dO\VJIs. 

At Favant we met ;rane and Hazel. They had come by ear 
to Fovant and had climbed up the hill from thei·e. We walked 
along at an easy, fairly fast pace, now in twos, now in threes and 
fours. At five to ten we arrived at Compton Chamberlayne. Here 
we met .Anue, who with her father and a friend had brought us a 
gallon-thermos of hot, milk coffee. This was very welcome! 

For th_ough it was sunny and we werc warm from walking, the 

North-Easter was a biting one and we were in the face-Of-it. 

Having finished our coffee, Anne's friend prodnced a cine 
camera, and as there was a glOlionsly large puddle right across 
the road, he took advantage of it! We splashed our way through 
with " cheese" smiles on our faces, then we posed in a group 
while an ordinary photo was taken. Anne'sfathcr and friend then 
took the thermos and cameras back, but Anne continued on the 
journey with us. 

It was about half-past-twelve when, looking down from the 
hill wc saw what wc thought was Calder Hall, but which, we 
decided on second thoughts, was teally a new electricity station. 
"Te made our way down the hill (we had lost the Roman road 

we were seeking; it isn't there!) and 011 to a road . 

.We then had a very enjoyable walk along by the river till, 
llaving walked about two miles out of our way, we at last reached 
Old Sarum. We had hardly had time to cat our dinner before 
theproccssion-began to move off. :We were in the middle and 

we could see neither the beginning nor the end. 

The service iu the Cathedral was an impressive one. There 
was a tremendous atmosphere of fellowship and unity between 
everyone there. I must say though, that we felt rather odd, for all 
around uS were people who lmd come by coach, the girls in best 
coats, nylons and courts, the boys with knife creaseS in their best 
Sunday snits. .And there were we, the girls in OUl' woollen socks, 
stout walking shoes and blazers, the boys in their oldest trousers 
and farm boots, and all of us extremely dusty. But we did not 
mind for we knew that at least we looked like pilgrims! 

While the representative pilgrims were processing up the 
nave, we sang two Psalms antiphonally, then the gifts we had 
brought with us (half-crowns, '1958' ones if possible) were 
presented and we were welcomed. 

Next came the procession of representatives of the Parishes 
and DeanClies to the west door, the Shrine of St. Os!nund 

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(Founder of the Cathedral) mul to the Lady Chapel. At ench 
stationlll'ayers were offered and a hymn S\l1lg. 

Before the Bishop's address everyone joined heartily in the 
singing of" the Pilgrim's JIymn" (by JolmBunyan). After the 
Bishop's address came the most important part (for me) of the 
service-the act of re· dedication. Then there was one more 

.hymn and the blessing. . 
'Vc wondered, as we watched people pouring out of the 
Cathedral, how many had come for cmiosity, how many for shccr 
thankfulness and gratitll(le to God and whether the objects of 
Our pilgrimage had been attained. They were: first, to make an 
net of worship to God. Then to thank God for the Cathedral at 
Salisbury and all it has stood for through 700 ~·ears. Thirdly, to· 
take the Cathem'al a present from the young people of the 
Diocese to mark its 700th birthday, Lastly, by an act of 
advent\ll"e, to grow together in fellowship. 
I don't know, but I feel wc did attain om' objects, So after 

a long day's journey and an inspiring sel'Yice we made our way 

home, to use a conventional phrasc " tired but happy," 
N,B, Wc didn't walk! 
SAIIA JIENDERSON. 


The Schools' Service in Salisbury Cathedral 

)[any hundreds' of boys and girls anivcd in the Cathedral 
Close on )[ay 23rd, clutching hats likely to bc biOII'll away at any 
moment by the £I'esh brecze, Many scholars of all agcs, shapes, 
sizcs and of both scxes stood in crocoilile formation or in small, 
chattcring groups on the pleasant lawns, surrounding the 
Cathcdral. It was eyidcnt that the assembled young pcople wcre 
a cross section of the schools in the diocese, private schools, 
sccondary modern and grammar schools, public schools, onch 
dressed appropriately. 

It was unfortunate that this day could not be blcssed with 
sunshinc, but; although dull, it I!ad its own bcauty. Thc pale 
grey sky presented a back· cloth ,to the solid yct gracefullincs 
of the Cathedral with the slender tapering spire, pOinting like a 
finger up to the hea,vens, bearing a cross that has become a 

iamiliar sight in the snrrounding countryside. 

Everyonc filed into the qathedral and was eventually ushered 
to a seat, As we sat and waited for the service to begin, the shor,t 
time afforded us with the opportunity to meditate on the builders, 
masoils and carpenters, who labo\ll"ed with God's inspiration of 
lieauty to produce this edifice which was almost cntirely built 
in the thirteenth century. The lasthlg imprcssious of the place 

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which I carried away 'were thc small things; the light passing 
tllrough the stained glass windows, reflecting the eololll's on thc 
surrounding stonework in intricate mosaics; the spaciousness 'of 
tIle aisles; the lofty roof; ahove all, the inOlqlfessible feeling of 
the spirits of the past who worsllipped there in faith. 

The head boys and head girls proceeded up the central nave. 
After tIle fanfare on the organ, everybody joinecl in singing 
" Salve festa dies", wlrl1e the Bishop, followed by the Cathedral 
clergy, headmasters and headmistresses, made their way slowly 
to their places. The ehOlisters and choir followed bellind, singing 
tIle verses of the hymn wllile the congregation joined in tIle 
l·efrain. 

To say that every tIling was cmTied out perfcctlr would be 
untrue, for there was the usual l'eticence on the part of the 
congl'egation to join tllC choir in singing, in the first half of thc 
service. Whcn the desired llarmohy had been achieved, howevcr, 
the effect of the contrast between the sonorous voices of the. 
congregation and the clear, bell-like tone of the chOir, was quitc 
beautiful. I remember particularly the sound of "God be in 
my head" sung by thc clloh', ringing out over the kneeling 
boys and girls. 

The boy rcader from Sherbol'1le School, telling us how the 
Cathcdral had been founded, also had a pleasant VOice, and what 
he had to tell us was interesting, both from the historical view 
and because of the examples he gave us of men working with 
a single-minded dedication to show forth the glory of God. 

.As I heard of all those who ltad worshipped before us in the 
Cathedral, I felt at onc with past and present and was convinced 
tl}at the futlll'e would not change the sincerity of those who 
visited the Cathedral during the next seven hundrecl years. This 
was, as the Lord Bishop said, a wondcrful occasion for us, 
gathcrcd together to vow that we would not dim the light of 
Christianity either then or in the futlll'e. 

There was a tl~read of unity throughout the entire service 
which did not come solcly from the fact that we wcre all members 
in some way or other of a school, but existed because there was a 
sense of common purpose amI understanding. This is an insph'ing 
thought when one considers the size of the congregation. Indeed, 
I am Slll'e that we were all inspired by what we had both given 
and received, to " so learn truth as to bear its light along all om' 
ways and so leal'1l Christ as ever to be found in Him." 

ROSE)fAltY LAWRENCE &; JENNY STAGG, 

Upper YI. 

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THE COMMONWEALTH YOUTH. SUNDAY' SERVICE AT 

ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR CASTLE 

On May 18th, I was lucky enqugh to be iuvited, together 

with five other Dorset Guides, to attend the Commonwealth 

Youth Sunday Service in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. A 

contingent of forty Guides had been invited to worship with 

members of all the Youth Associations from aU over the Common· 

wealth. 

To enable us to start off from Parkstone, our meetinl} point, 

at 8.45 on Sunday morning, we stayed the night thcre, and were 

very hospitably reecived by fdends of the Girl Guides' Associa· 

tion. lily host took me aU over Bournemouth and Po.ole·to sce 

all the interesting places there. 

At 8.45 next morning we set off for iVindsor with Mrs. 

lIIorley, the County Commissioner, and Miss Godson, the E. 

Dorset Commissioner, and m~"ived in Windsor at 12.15. After a 

thorough inspection and drill, we marched through Windsor to 

the Castle. 

The service was schcduled to begin at 2.30, and at exactly 
that moment there was a fanfare of trumpets, and Her Majesty 
the Queen entered with the Duke of Endinburgh. They were 
received by the Dean and Canons of Windsor and the Archbishop 
of Canterbury, and conducted to their seats. It was a wonderful 
moment. After a hymn, which was led by the Choir of Christ's 
Hospital, the Dean read the .Queen's message and the National 
Anthem was sllng. The usual service foUowe!l with the Duke· 
reading the lesson all(l the Al"ehbishop preaching the.sermon. 

After the service the Queen and Dnke were escorted from 
tllC Chapel, and, on the way ont, the Queen was se(lII waving to 
Princess Anne, who had been watching from l" window. This 
little human touch thrille!l the thousands of boys and gids in 
the Chapel; 

After tea in Windsor, wc were !lriven back home. I arrived 
in Shaftesbury feeling rather tired, but extremely happy and 
very privileged to have attended tlie Commonwealth Youth 
Service. 

CELU LAYZELL, Upper Y. 

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UPPE;R VI's VISIT TO LONDON 

Just beforeiVhitsuntide last summer, Uppel' VI invited' 
their Form-mistress to go with them to London to see" Henry 
Vill " and to visit the Royal Academy. Her fear of falling far 

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below the elegance of her young ladies was justified as they met 
at Waterloo Station, but perhaps her usefulness in knowing the 
way made up a little for this. 

To look intelligently at pictures, old or new, requires a 
greater familiarity with Art Galleries and permanent exhibitions 
thanis possible for people who live so far from a large eity, and the 

remarks made must have caused some amusement 01' irritation 

to the more cultnrcd critics. We did gain much pleasure from 

various pictures, not always agreeing in OU1' appreciation, which 
made discussiqll morc interesting. One of common interest was 

a very pleasant water colour of Shaftesbury, a view painted from 
below St. James's. 

.. 

Lunch-time in tIu; Green Park made an intcresting change, 
with the strollcrs and pigeons and cheeky sparrows and we were 

glad to sit down in fresh, though not very warm ail', before going 

to the Old Vie to see" Henry VIII." 

Though not one of Shakespeare's finest plays (part of it was 
almost certainly not written by Shakespqa're)~this'play contains 
some noble poetry, which was beautiflilly spoken by John 
Gielgnd as Cardinal Wolsey, and material for a good character 
study in Queen Kathaline, which came alive through'Dame Edith 
Evans' sensitive interpretation. Harry Andrews' King Henry, 
too, seemed a really human historical figure. "re apprceiated 
very much the clear speech of the actors and the beautiful 
settiugs and costumes of the production. Perhaps our own 
experience through "As You Like It " has made us more aware 
of qualities that before we took too much for grantcd . 

.Altogether, it was a very enjoyable day, very largely because 
the Upper VI were what we always llOpe all VI FOrl!1 girls wiII 
become, gracious young women and not overgrown schoolgirls . 

IN PRAISE OF FINE POETRY READING 

How many of us ever stop to think how eternally grateful 
wc should be, strange though it may seem, for fine poetry readers, 
people ,vho make it part of their life'S vocation to bring to us in 
such an awesome field, the true beauties of poetry. We who only 
}'emember the lIasal tones of well-meaning individuals, that 
vainly tried to stir our primitive love for poetry, by manhandling 
those gems handed down to us by such geniuses as Rlake and 
Rupert Brooke: In our later years it is a wonder that as a resnlt, 
many of us do not completely ignore poetry's very existence, and 
So lack something beautiful in our lives. 

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Unfortuuately these potentional saviours of all our poetic 
feeling arc comparatively few aud far between. It is also their 
habit~ to broadcast when the general public are at workoor too 
tired to make the effort of listening ; or find little time themselves 
to make a more personal approaeh through small public performances, 
to their thirsting audienee. 

It so happened, however, that during the Summer holidays 
I was fortunate enough to hear aud sec iu person one sueh 
artist. (It may also be remembered by some, that Shaftesbury 
was, sometime last year, graced by the appearance of Christopher 
Hassal, who snrely comes well within the category of fine readers, 
inside the aetuarwalls of the new Arts Centre. We can only feel 
now on afterthought, that when performing "As You Like It,'' 
it was our duty to strive body and soul to reach great heights 
when acting on sueh hallowed ground.) 

To return to the memorable occasion; accompanied by 
sister, and father who had opened the refresher course for 
teaehers; my love for poetry was wonderfully stimulated by the 
last lecture of the course. It was given by,a ~Ir. Clinton Baddley, 
a great name in the world of. poetry recitation, aud everyone 
agreed it to have been a most delightful and refreshing climax 
to the week. Headed a lecture, it was more of an informal talk 
on rhythm, metre, and a hundred other small but vital pojnts, 
too often ovcrlookeel, that go to make up well recited poetry. 

Throughout it was punetnateel by examples eleverly ehosen, 
subtly interpreted, and feelingly l"ead as only one who has been 
in contact with the delights of poetry with his wholc' being, can 
read. The voiee, and focus of attention moved from one topie, 
oue poem to another, with ineomparable ease. Never raised 
above a certain pitch, a subtle inflection served to stir all 
emotions, and as the last liue lingered in the air you could feel 
the audienee sigh. After suel, an experience who now could be 
content with any forthcoming second bcst ? 

And so-if you should have happeneel to drop in on passing 
our house, ,pne evening last holidays, you would probably have 
fonnel the family gathered round a gramophone, listening enthralleel 
to the beauties of poetry on records, listening to 
poetry reeited beautifully by Clinton Baddley, Christopher 
Has~al, and even Dame Edith Sitwell reading her own obscure 
poetry; through all enthralled, because this is, and always will 
be, p'oetry presented at its best. 

ANN ~1ILROY, Upper Y. 

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GHRISTOPHER HASSAL'S RECITAL 

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On November 29th a party of girls, accompanied byMiss Tilstone and various other members of staff, visited the Old 
~farket Playhouse to hear Mr. Christopher Hassal recite some of 
his own poetry. He read extracts from two books-Cl The Red 
Leaf "-a book for adults, and" The Parcel "-which consists of 
many very amusing pieces and which would suit any age. 
Onc of the pocms which I likcd best was" For ~Iichclmas Day." 
Mr. Hassal wrote this for the centcnary of the collcge which he 
used to attend. He explained to us his me,thod of," cooking" it. 
He had taken the line" I remember, I remember" from Hardy's 
poem, and had flavoured his poem with this, just as one would 
flavour stew with garlic. He also added that he was telling us 
this so that we might not think he had pinchcd it! 

He explained how ha had come to write each lloem that he 
read, and what significance certain things had for him. This made ~ 
the mcaning clear and was also aidcd by the fact that Mr. Hassal 
.has an ability to " get across" the meaning by his actual rcading. 
This is something rather out of the ordinary. 

Mr. Hassal was grcatly encouraged by the applause given 
to some of his poems from" The Parcel." He Was so much so 
that he read some more from this book, after apologising for not 
having rchearsed them! 

Ho ended his lecture by reading a poem about a boy and a 
little creature under a flower.pot, which turns out to be a 
centipede. He told us, that, unlike most actors or opera·singers, 
who end on high, dramatic notes, he would end on a soft one. 
But even so it was a very good ending, and I am sure we all 
hope that we may have the pleasure of hearing him again in the 
future. 

SARA ilENDERON. 

HA MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S'DREAM" 

I have seen several performances of Shakespeare's "A 
Midsummer Night's Dream" by amateur companies, but never 
llave I enjoycd one more than when, together with the rest of 
the lowcr and middle schools, I saw it performcd by the Salisbury 
Arts Club last Autumn term. 

~ry words may seem belicd by my cxt~nsive criticising, but 
I believe that no play that is pcrfect in evcry detail is really 
enjoyable, and as I know "A Midsummer Night's Drcam ': 
fairly well, I fell qnite justified in pointing out what I considcred 
the bad, liS wcll as the good, points of the play. 

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The scenery was excellent. I was most delighted'with the 
woo<11and scenes, and thought that the lighting' was very 
effeetive in these, especially when intended to indieate the change 
from day into night 01' night to day. ;lIore, however, cO)lld have 
been done with spotlights, which were seldom, if ever, used .. 

The costumes were also without exeeption very g90d, 
although I thought it was a pity that Titania's attendants donned 
Jnasks part-way through the play, ior, as well as being rather 
ugly, they· muffled their speeeh eonsiderably. I have no eritieism 
at,all for anything else in that sphere, howeyer, for I enjoyed all 
the rest of the costumes undistw'bed by any notions that they 
:were not quite rigllt! 

As for the actual acting, I have two big criticisms to make. 
It was a pity "that Puck was portrayed by such an elderly man, 
as I pcrsonally always imagine that character as a sort of Peter 
Pan, forever young, and felt slightly disappointed in that 

]larticulal' casting. However, the power of his voice quite made 

up for his slight lack of agility, and although I knew his character 
inside out, I was constantly wondering what antics he would be 
IIp to next! 

;lfy second criticism is of Oberon, who, I felt, a!thougll he 
'Was extremely l'cgal, di<lnot make enough of·some of his wonderlully 
expressive speechcs. The famous onc beginning: "I know 
a bank, where on tlie wild thyme blows ...", I was especially 
disappointed in, as he scemcd to me to hlll"1'Y overit wlIIeeessarily. 
Otherwise he and Titania made an excellent cP!lple. ' 

The fairies were good-I loved the way they giggled when 
jn attendance on Bottom; so were King Theseus and his 
Amazon Queen, Hippolita; Hermi" and Lysander, and Helen" 
and Demetrius both made very nice couples, thongh I think that 
most people preferred the former. Of course, Hennia was meant 
to be the nicci' of the two women, and I certainly preferred her to 
]Joor Relena, although the latter was very well-played; but I was 
very mueh surprised when she tlll"ned so spiteful in her fight 
with Helena. That scene was one of the best acted in the whole 
play, and onc of tbe oneS that I enjoyed most. 

But the, erowning joy of the whole production, and the 
character that undoubtedly everyone liked the best, was Bottom. 
Re was marvellous. Full of self-admiration and importance, 
simple, eredulous and pompous, he was everything that he 
should have been. The play would have been incomplete without 
llifll' and his fellow alltors, Qninee, Snout, Starveling and the 
Test, and I certainly would not have enjoyed the whole production 
as much as I did without them. 

BARRIE SERGEAN, Upper Y. 

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A VISIT TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY; OF ARTS 

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One pleasant, sunny mOI;ning in lI!ay, during 01\1' I,alf-term, 
mother and I arose early and set off fOl' London. There we met afriend, who like both· of us, is very interested in art, and gaily 
found our way to the National Gallery.. We did not spend much 
time therc, however, but speedily glanced at a few of its great 
paintings. They were very similar to the type of picture reproduced 
in history books to illustrate the characters of kings and 
queens. 

I was impressed, and also amused, by the several pavements 
artists who were at work outside. Using the stones of the pavement 
for frames, these roughly-w.'essed, long-haired men had 
several pictll1'es and animal studies in chalk. The one I liked 
best was a charming landscape, of the type one sees on Christmas 
cards, but with pretty f10wcrs and grcen leaves instead of icicles 
and snowflakes. ji; 

.Alter luncl" we visited the Royal Academy of Arts, the 
main object of our visit to J,ondon, as we wanted to see the 
Summer ExI,ibition . .Although we spent a whole afternoon there, . 
we did not have time to see all the exhibits by any means. 

I was surprised at seeing the very large number of portraits.
Some, like one of ITer Majesty the Queen, another of the_Du~e of 
Edinburgh, and a charming portrait of two little sisters, have 
firmly impressed themselves upon my memory because of thei!' 
warmth and life-likeness. One could almost see them breathingand 
hear them speak and the detail and eolonr of the Queen's 
dress was very beautiful and realistic. Others, 'however, although 
they mnst Imve sO.me artistic quality to merit" hanging" at all, 
reminded me somewhat of the pictures one sees pinned on the 
walls of primary school class-rooms. I am afraid I did not. 
appreciate these at all, and if they were portraits of myself,_ 
I shouldfeel very indignant, and not at aUflattered. "The WintClof 
Woman ", depicting an elderly female with black wrinkles OIL 
a greenish face, was, I think, the most unpleasant of these 
pictures. . 

The "picture of the year", that of "The Countess of (~ 
Dalkeith " by Johnll[erton, is well worthy of that title, and the 
delicate pinks, blues and greys which dominate the portrait 
(or'rather composition, as there is far more to-this picture than 
jnst a figure) made it a very pleasant picture. ,/, 

The landscapes varied in style as much-as the portraitssome 
were plcasant representations of ,the sccne before the 
m·tist, while others were just vague brush·strokes, so placcd as 
to .make an attractive whole, or not, according to taste. There 

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were three or four landscapes by Algernon Newton, of the former 
kind, all of which are very similar. They each consisted of a field 
with two 01' ~hree trees, pale sky and deep shadows. Althonghthey were attractive pictures, if you had see!, one, you had really 
seen them all. Sir Wins ton Churchill, who has provcd himself 
to be an artist, had several paintings in this Exhibition, but they 
did not seem to me to be his best ones. 

One must mention the still lifes, several of which had 
particular artistic qualities. For example, I should have loved to 
~vipe the coat of dust off a collection of ·wine·bottles with my 
finger; it looked so real. Another still·life, which included some 
white china, was also excellently done. The shadows of this 
china were not just a mauvish-grey, but a ,variety of pinks, blues, 
greens and other colours. 

I glanced at the exhibits in the section labelled " Drawings, 
Engravings, Etchings, ete. ". One of the first I noticed was a 
good likeness of Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton, a pencil drawing 
by his father. Finally we examined the plans, drawings and 
'models of various large and important buildings, in the Architec· 
tural room. The models were quite fascinating, with green trees 
growing here and there, and miniature cars parked on the 
highways. 

So ended a most enjoyable aud enlightening visit to the 
Royal.Aeademy and we felt that we had not wasted our holiday. 

GILLL\N RALPH, Upper V. 

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A PILGRIMAGE FROM CANTERBURY' TO. WINCHESTER 

, Our original aim was to follow the ancient Pilgrim's Way, 
but we found that this was impossible as all the Youth Hostels 
but one were too far from its winding course, espeeially as we 
were walkiDg and lmd to eeonomise in mileage. 

I met my friend, Christine, in London and we tra"elled to 
Canterbury by train . .At first we felt very conspicuous in shorts, 
carrying heavy rucksacks on our backs, but we soon became used 
to this. To see Canterbury at its best in the early morning'we 
climbed to the top of the West Gate (the only City gate which has. 
survived). The atmospher!l was damp, wreaths of mist curled 
over the city, the old-world air was preserved by the gabled 
tenements, the half-timbered houses with their attractive reddishbrown 
tiles, crumbling city walls, the streets which have retained 
their medieval character, refusing to be straightened ont in the 

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modm;n age and rising above the houses, the ~three towers of the 
Cathedral, the eentralBeUHarry Tower being amasterPiece 6fthe 
Perpendicular Style. The nearest buildings seem to have been 
designed to harmonise with the old and the result is pleasing 
to the eye. 

The West Gate has been used as a prison; the cells have 
terrifically thick walls with only very small gratings to allow air 
and light to enter. Leg irons and chains remaincd a memory of a 
bygonQ age. There was also a fine collection of armour and 
weapons of war. 

"The 'Veavers", old houses overlooking the -river Stour, 
were at one time occupied by the Walloons and Protestant 
refngees, who came to England in the sixteenth century and 
played such a great part in the growth of the weaving industry. 
In these houses wc watched the old craft of hand weaving on 
looms, ,which takes an unbelievably long time as three days 
to prepare the threads on the loom before any aetnal weaving 

cn,n begin. 

The city was once called Duroverum. We saw the mosaic 
floor of a Roman dwelling house and the walls of other buildings. 
These were ten feet below· the level of the modern city, in the 
cellar of a house. 

The glory of Canterbmy is, of course, its Cathedral, built in 
nelltral·eoloured stone ..The interior is spacious with a wide nave 
and side aisles and many Iiehly decorated chapels dedicated to 
particular saints. The place of Thomas a'Becket's martyrdom 
was disappointing. I was fascinated by two really contemporary 

stained glass windows designed by Edwin Bassanyi. Christ was 

depicted so grotesquely that I was I'epelled by tile mis-shapcn 
limbs with theenormons hands held out to bless; but gradually, 
as I examined the windows with their Yivid colours, the artist's 
pmpose became e1earm' and I began to feel the spirit of them. 
In the crypt, King Henry IV often meditated, This was the 
oldest }lart of the Cathedral and felt the heart of the building, 
,with an inexpressible atmosphere of holiness, Perhaps it was 
because many pilgrims had knelt in the true spirit of worship 
for over six eentUlies. 

Our next hostel was a very small one at Doddington, a 
twenty-six mile walk from Canterbury. On the way, we passed 
through typical Kentish countryside, characterised by the taU 
rows of hops in the sheltered valleys and the enormous orchards 
wllere apple· pickcrs were bnsily at work. At one such fruit 
farm, the workers presented each of us with a bag of apples, 

declaring, " You are in friendly country." 

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Next !lay we walked from Doddington to Kensing, twentytwo 
miles, and by the cnd of the day our feet were beginning to 
get quite tired .of 'our shoes, so wc took them off and walked 
barefooted. The ,""et road was lovely and cool to our hot feot. 
However, onr pride would not let ns go into the hostel without 
shoes. 

Next day wc discovered the name" »Iarden Castle" on the 
map, near Caterham. 'Ye asked the direction from a group of 
men working in a quarry and a red-faced, jovial fellow told us 
to follow a narrow pathway up the side of the quarry but not to 
be disappointed if we only found ruins. At this all his e!>mpanions 
laughted heartily. The· muddy upward path was so slippery 
and so steep that we were forced to crawl on our hands and 
Imees. Scratcheel and not a little dispirited, we reached the top 
of the steep incline only to find ourselves confronted by a sea 
of stingi]!g'nettles. Aftet· about ha!f·an,hourj we found the field 
where'the castle might have been, covered with small stones 
which might have been part of the walls-yet no visible ruins. 
Such was our castle. Once fooled, we were only to be fooled 
again. After leaving Caterham, Christine found in italic printing 
the words "Remains of" Roman Bath House" which she was 
determined to sce'; again we found the exact site but·there was 
nothing there, the remains probably having been taken to 
a local museum. 

The Youth Hostel at Chaldon was a charming fifteenth 
century farmhouse, but I am afraid the beds matched the oldworld 
aiI'. We met some very interesting hikers here "Who told Ug 
of their travels abroad. One Danish boy with whom we made 
friends could speak little English, so we had to communicate by 

,signs. After he had shared our cooked supper, he was proud to 
show us photographs of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and of 
his own family. It was evident at all thc hostels that they were 
usecl far more by boys than by girls. The girls we met were all 
cyclists or hikers; none of them was a walker. One warden told 
us girls were too lazy. Surely this presents a challenge t9 the 
. modern girl, for it is only by walking that onc can sce the 
countryside at its best. 

After s~veralmemorable'days .we came to Guildford where 
wc were most interested' by the 'new Cathedral. Personally 
I think that its exterior is ugly for it is a squat building, perched 
on the top of" an incline, approached by a flight of concrete 
steps. The interior made me change my mind about modern 
architecture. The bricks used are a pleasant yellow; the windows 
plain glass ones to give plenty, of light. The plainncss of the 
building gives it its beauty. The carpets used have been made 

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by many church workers as hav.c the hassocks. In the vestry, 
the Bishop's mitre, cloaks and other vestments were on show 
and we admired the exquisite embroidery. )Ioney is being raised 
to finish the building of the nave by the selling of brickS upon 
which the giver writes his name. . 

The next Cathedral, Winchester, seemed very dark compared 
with the others, perhaps because it is of Norman ·architecture 
with the small' windows. 'The exterior gives the impression that 
the length of the building calls for a larger central tower. I shall 
remember the reredos, a fourteenth century work said to be the 
finest speqimen of tabernacle work in the world. 

Next day, before turning homewards, we visited the 
Hospital of St. Cross. Here an old man housed by the order, 
proudly showed us round the well-proportioned'clmrch (unusnal 
becaUSe of its ancient wall paints) and told us the history of the 
·place. In the past it was a custom that here any weary traveller 
could apply for and be given free of charge, a wayfarer's dole 
consisting of bread and a horn of ale. 

When we were walking between Winchester and Salisbury, 
a large black limousine pulled up and the driver asked ifhe could 
be.,of any assistance in taking us on our way. After llaving 
driven a few miles, the.well-built, dark-haired man turned to me 
saying, in a cultured voice, that I should recognise him as he had 
been on television programmes. Slowly he removed his dark 
glasses and immediatlily I knew' him as Fabian' of Scotland Y.~rd. 
He was interested to know what we had been doing on our 
holiday'but we were far more interested in knowing about him. 
Crime, he told us was not'as'glamorous as it is made to be on the 
films, and he took examples of tough characters he had met on 
his cases. His favourite 'case had, been during, the war, chasing 
men who were buying and selling without permits. Inspector 
Fabian took us to a hotel for lemonade before he left us at 
Shaftesbury. This encounter'made a fitting end to an eventf~l 
holiday. 

ROSEMARY LAWRENOE; Upper VI. 

A HOLIDAY COURSE AT THE DORSET FARM INS~ITUTE 

I arrived at the Farm Institute, which is a large manor house, 
standing in extensive grounds, on a wet afternoon in early Augnst, 
iIithe compa)ly of a boy ~homI discovered to be Stafford Cripps' 
grandson, but with the rain dripping down the back of my neck 
and a walk up the long tarmac drive carrying.a suitcase ahead of 
me; I was in no mood to apprcciate the distinguished company! 

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I was met at ,the door by a charming" receptionist" and 
after:signing the visitors' book I was shown to a very comfortable 
room by an imposing man in uniform. I almost felt I had 
come ,to stay'in a luxUl'Y'hotel. However here the comparison 
<lndcd. Soon a ,bell summoned me to suppcr, and, after getting 
lost in a maze of corridors, I at last discovered the dining room 
where wc ate. I soon discovered that the imposing hall-porter 
was also cook, Waiter, caretakcr, and odd job man (with clothes 
to match each job I) Mtm: supper the Principal, ;\Ir. Kenny, 
bricfcd us on the programme for the next five days, after which 
'wc spent about an hoUl' getting to know each other, and thcn 
went to bed. 

Wc were divided into five groups and in theory we rose 
<lvery morning at 5.30 a.m., although my group nearly disgraced 
itself over tbis. 'Ve were expected by some miraculous means to 
wake ourselves up at this unearthly hour, but on the second 
morning I was woken by somcone shaking me frantically and' 
yelling that it waS six o'clock. We reached the dairy, nearly 
a quarter of a mile away by just after 6.5 a.m., a feat of which 
we were very proud. Of course, we never heard the last of it 
from the boys, who had a very superior alarm clock, and I,ad 
lined up witb smug smiles to eheer us in. They spent the rest of 
the week making derisive comments abollt "women farmers," 
in ti,e tone of all men when they are talking about women drivers. 
Till eight o'clock we worked on the two farms, each group on a 
different section, pigs, poultry, the two dairies and gelleraJ work, 
changing every day, so that by tbe end of the week wc had seen 
a little of all the aspects of farming. From 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. wc 
]lad lectllres, then wc worked again on thc farms from 2 till,5, 
amI then after a brcak for supper lectures again from 7 till 8.30, 
aftcr that, till 10 o'clock, our time ,was, our. own. 

This routine may sound rather dull, but I have never spent 
such a busy weck, nor done so many different things il). so short 
a time. In five short days I milked about t\yO hundred CO\VS, )vith 
the help of't)VO other people, helped to deliver a litter of pigs, 
treated a flock of sheep for footrot, " eaponize,l " about a hundred 
cockerels, did a Iiundred and 'one other jobS about the farm, 
and guined a fascinating,glimpse int<) the theory behind modern 
agriculture. On top of this I had the chance to meet many 
completely new lleoplJ): a thing wl!icli. I always love doing, 
a!l'] madc several new 'fi;iends, sonic of whom I hope I shall 
never 10sJ) touch witli. . 

I thoroughly enjoyed all these new experimcnts, although 
I ,mnst admit my, heart, fell to the bottom of my farm boots, 
when, after a brief lesson on its gears and working, I was told 

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to take an enormous firLy borse-})ower tractor and a tbree


.. 

furrow plougb, and to plough up part of a field. However, I was 
determined not to be beaten by tbe otbers, most of whom lived 
on fnrms, and so eoul<l already drive tractors, so I heave<lmyself 
intQ the seat of tbe puffing red monster, mumbling to myself 
tllQ. lesson of tbe niorning. To my amazemcnt sbe clmgge<l" off 
qu\Ce happily along tbe fiel,l, amI I was just congratulating 
myself on my new-found skill, wben my footslippe,l and shelcapt 
for,,:ard, all fifty horsjl-power of hcr, ncarly wrenched th~ wbeel 
from my bamls, and catapulte,l me from my seat. I gmgerly 
unWrapI)ed myself from tbe wheel, an,l t.ried again. Tbis time 
sbe behaved beailtifully, and I'spent a very satisfying balf-bolU' 
cburning the soil into long, tolerably straight furrows. 

Tbe Institute's aim in holding these courses is to. belp young 
people about to leave school to decide whether they would like 
to take up farming. Tbey tried to give us, as far as possible, aiL 

exact miniature of their full training course. 'Ye' werc very 

impressed with the friendliness and helpfulness of botb the sLaff 
an,l the men working on the farms, who dm their utm'ost to mal'" 

our stay a happy and interesting:(·~ne. They arc doing a useful 

job, and this course belped me, and I know several other people, 
to make a decision. After going to this course, I l"Calised that 

farming wasn't thc'right career for lne before I had wasted time 

and money on a training whieh wouldn't have satisfied me, 
Although my final decision was tbis, I wouldn't bltvo missc,l 
such a valuable and worthwhile course, 

ROSE~[ARY BRAYFORD, Lower YI 

"TWO GO OFF TO WORK" 

Two members of Shaftesbury Righ School set of[ for tbe 
Lake District, with the earnest intention of spending their holiday 
working as staf[ for the Holiday Fellowship, at ' Der\vent Bank,' 
near Keswiek. Tbis district was not new to M but for A it was & 
new experience! Tbey were clad in, uniform, tbeir financiai 
I'esources being ratber low. Eacb bad a large bnndle of food, aml 
M in addition had some borne-made wine, to add sparkle to 'the 
journey, In high spirit,s they waved goodbye, only to find thc~' 
were two bottles of wine and" bundlc of food short! Tbe miles 
mttled past and they arrived to hear that they were not needed 
for three days. Tbey began their holiday, climbing in earnest 
the next day, clothed in, what seemed to A, fancy dress costume: 
balaelavas, j1,lmpers, jeans, anoraeks, many· pairs of thiek socks 
and last, but most important (or was it!) -booi•. 1\['s feet were 

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well protected but Ns boots were far too large, and acted for 
both -ventilation and dl'!\inagesystems, having. long slits in the 
sides. Rain in Cnmberland took some getting use(l to (so A found) 
but after the first wettings, she, like ~r, became immune to it. 
A started:off with great zeal an(l was determined to reach every 
peak in sight! Alas, even the first slopes made her too weRry,t9(. 
cOlltinue, so gladly )If retul'lled with her. A discardcd her bo.Qt~ 
and lightly descended barefoot. Often they gazed upwards 'at 
the energctic ten-year.olds bounding 'over the peaks and felt 
conscious of their advancing years. Their appetites increased 
alarmingly-the ail' was so invigorating ... As the days passed, 
they occupiecl themselves with swimming, tennis and boating 
on Derwent \Vater iti U's small dinghy. )1 cU(l all the rowing as· 
Asaidslw could only manage a "sensible sized boat!" So,Alay 
hack in the boat luxuriously daugling her feet in the water and 
singing to herself. ~'heir three days' holiday lengthene(l to a week 
and then a fortnight. One fine day. they preparC(I for a picnic 

~ of ap unusual type. Tliis eJita.i1ed findi~g a "billycan ' for the 

tea and 'borrowing' eggs from the liens, tomatoes fron1 the 

greenhouse, sugar, 'tea, milk, fruit and butter. They decidcd to 
have it somewhere on an island, in MIC midcUe of the lakc. Out 
came the dingl!y, and a hilarious ,1ul,Ilr "followed until they 
dragged thc boat high on tlie neach of IIerbelt's island. The 
sticks were damp but they managed to light the fire after about 
t.hree tries. Soon it was crackling round some tree roots and the 
"an of lake water (it 100ke(I f"esh enough !) was put on to boil. 
Next the eggs were eraeke(, an(l (hopped on to a buttered. 
biscuit-tin lid, helel over the.f1ames. Tomatoes were added and 
this new concoction, together with charcoal and dirt, made a 
delicious first course, which was followed by burnt toast, apples 
and smoky-wood tea. Something was lacking. But soon the 
familiar sonnds came; first the tliunder rumbling in the hills and 
later the rain descending in stair-rods. So their day was 
complete. 

Their holiday had grown to three weeks, then four-work 
seemed very far ahead! 

Aftel' a few days passed in sleeping mid eating, they wanted 
to prove themselves eanable of something !lIore e!lerge,tic-so they 
decided to climb, Scarell Pike. They started off. carly. and ill 
professed she had been before and seemed very confident with a 
map and compass. Some guests promised to call the' lIIountain 
Rescue' if they hadn't returned by nightfall. The climb was 
easy enough to begin with; they passed" Sty Head' tarn and 
followed the cairns. Soon)lf ·became rather hesitant and looked 
about for familiar signs-A became suspicious! 

" Are you 'lire you know the way'Y" A asked. 

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"Oh yes, ,just up here j' the"top's not far off," was ~['s 
checrful reply. A was content, 'being i1, little short sighted. 
Soon A began to feel the need for sustenallce, so they devollred a 
pile of tasty sandwichcs and afterwards began, clambering lip 

,the rocks with vigour. Soon they came to a deep gully full of 
moving screc-A was'w'o this was not the way, but ~[wasattacking 
It with great gusto imd thoroughly enjoying the newly 
discovere(! route. It was a' case of two steps up and one down, 
but eventually they succeeded am! wcnt on battling against the 
newly blown nrlst which obstructed their view. Long, long after 
A was shown wlmt was meant to be "Vast 'Vater' and the 
fringes of Scotland but in l'eality was wavering mist. 

They desceilded quickly and reachcd the bottom devoid of 
encrgy and their' iron rations.' They longm! for their beds and 
thought of the' Ancient ~rarincr ' :


.. 

" Oh sleep, it is a gcntle thing:Beloved 
from pole to pole." 


Due to lack of employment, their financial resources were 
even lower, so they succnmbed to ' hitch hiking,' and were vcry 
lucky, as n, ' Jaguar' returned them to the door. 

~~hey were brought to their Senses with a jolt when they 
wcre requested to "show·willing" am! join 'the other staff. 
A was frantic, as serving scemed formidable-sm'ely she would 
spill something! ~[wasn't concerne(! at all but was worked up 
to snch a pitch that when breakfast came, it was she, balancing 
cornflakes, prunes, and pcmidge, who asked a guest nervously if 
]\0 woul<llike " cornflakes, flicks or flakes!" He replied with a 
smile" Flieks please!" 

They were completely exhausted after three days of work 
but managed to go daneing ou their' off' day. All too soon the 
last evening arrived so some guests joined them in a last, row. 
One boy, playml softly on a guitar whilst the sun slowly sank over 
the hills-the last rays of light were refleeted on the calm water 
and slowly" the stars climbed one by one." There was enough 

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light for some of them to 'have a final' mid-night' swim. The 
water was deliciously cool and refreshing and they could hear 
the ripples lapping again~t tile shore.' , ' 

Reluetantly they retired and had a few hours' sleep. The 
next morning their faithless :friend, the alarm, failed to ling at 
5 a.m. but at7 a.m. theywereawaken,ed. Gone were all their gOO(! 
1'esolution8 and in half-an-hour everything had to be done from 
making beds to packing, and finally catching the train. Thcir 
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long-awaited G_O_E_ resultl!. They h.ad come'to the ,cnd of a 
wonder~ul holiday. Their returil journey was long and their 
thoughts were mixed. School l!lomed in the near fliture-two 
more days to, go, they sighed-never mind" Roll on the 12th" 
and ~' Good Old School." 

AUDREY HORLoCK·JONES ancl ~L\"ItGARET BREEDS, 

LOlOer 1'1.

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IMPRESSIONS OF A HUNDRED·MILE-AN·HOUR HOLIDAY 

. Wildly exaggerated! Perhaps, bnt when I spent twelve 
days in Belginm lastA-ugust, it reallyfell like a hundred-miles·anhour. 
I have. certainly never spent a holiday crowded with so 
many varied activitics andintercsts as this one. I should 
oxplain that I was lucky to be chosen as pne of the two dclcgates 
from Dorset to go to an international camp for Girl Guides in 
Belgium, on the special occasion of thc Brnssels \Vorld l!'air. 
There were five hundred Guides at the Oamp, represeuting thc 
U.S.A., and most countries of 'Westcrn Enrope. Imagine five 
hundred girls of my own age all wanting to talk about othcr 
countries and exchangc views on any and every subject under 
the sun! To be surc, one didn't have to talk to them all at .once, 
but even groups of half-a-dozen became quite animatcd cnough! 

Whcn to all this linguistic cxercise 'ycrc added all the ordinary 
activities of a Girl Guide Oamp-morning prayers and flag 
ceremQnies, games, songs, dunces, camp fires and work-also 
excursions to BriIges and other pL~ccs, of interest, visits to the 
Brussels Exhibition and five days whiclr I ,spcnt at the home of 
It Belgian Guide at Antwerp; thc time was almost too ful1. 
Almost, but not quite, for there was not onc experience in the 
whole twelve days that I would not have rcgrettcd missing. 
Inevitably, there are things which stand out in my mcmory 
because they wcre specially amnsing or impressive, or had their 
own especial happiness. For in,s,tance, I have a clear picture of 
some of the Guides I tnlkcd to. There was 'Gunilla, It, Swedish 
Guide, who l,ad an awc-iI\spiring knowl~dge of English literature; 
:llIadeleine, a very yoiuig B,elgian Guide Oaptain, who 'was always 
laughing, and a crippled Guid~ from Holland who never laughed 
but in her quict way was onc of the gayest people I have evcr 

met. \., ' 

Of course, I have vivid rn~rnoi'ies of the Brussels Exhibition, 
1vhich I visited three timcs i!lall. The first thing I did was to 
see part of the Atomium from. the' inside. This' niagnifieent 
structure is not exactly beautiful, but its powerful size is very 

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impressive. Then I tried to' see as many other parts of the 
Exhihition as I conld, and very nnfairly at once placecl the British 
Pavilion first-in merit. I soon chnl)ged my mind and. gave first 
place to Czeehoslovakhi, which -1 thought by far the most 
interesting and attractive. Passing through a small pavilion 
devoted to French food and wines, we met an cxtremely pleasant 
American gcntlcman eating rhum babas who recommended to 
us a largc number of wines and cheeses, all of whiell he had 
apparently sampled. 1 thought the Exhibition was \vonderful


but so enormous. 

The only other event I sliall use time and space to describe 
is the grand Camp Fire on Saturday evening, two days before; 
the end of the Camp. J!'or us, as Guides, this was the climax of 
the whole holiday. Eyeryone spent the whole day preparing and 
rehearsing, alld in the evening all the Guides, many in national 
eostume, walked in procession through the village to the majestic 
XIIth century castle of· Beaussinnes. Here, in tJIC floodlit 
courtyard, the Belgian Guides, in beautiful historic costumes, 
acted a story as medieyal as its setting. By contr!lst, this was 
followed by·separate items from each delegation, everyone of 
which had a distinct .cJlUracte;': . The Swiss, Guidcs danced with 
a more delicate gaiety than the Americans, who performed their 
national square dances with boisterous enthusiasm. The Greek 
Guides were graceful and the Spailish very dashing with their 
liYely and amusing imitation of a bull fight. The perfect finish 
to the Camp Fire was provided by S,veden, who carried garlands 
of green leaves and sang "Santa Lncia' as the white-robe() 
figures of the' Saint of Light' and her two attendants crossed the 
stage. The lights faded until only the glow from hcr traditional 
crown of lighted candles remained. These are the sort of im· 
pressions that macle my holiday unforgettable. 

j\[AltY NonRIs, -Upper VI• 

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OUR FIRST DAYS AT SCHOOL 

All I ealll"emember about my fh'st q!lyat school is th_at it was 
February, and snowing. Mummy implored me to postpone the 
idea of school until the next day, bnt this· was greeted with such 
wails and protests that she decidcd to .take me to the Infants' 
School, which was over a mile away, in spite of t,he inclement 
weather. 

The Ileadmistress was a rather tcrrifying ,voman· callcd 
~[jss Grey, who nearly always wore black, although 1 can 

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remember a scarlet skirt, f1arcd at the baek. When I first came, 
I had little to'do with her. I vagUely remember. several other 
teaehers, who had no particular class. There was lIliss Stokcs, 
who rcad us stories aud amused those who, like me, had to wait 
for what sccmed like hours each afternoon for the school 'bus. 
On these .occasions'" we"sang songs, ,and my. two favourites were 
" Putanother nickel in " and" Down in the Glen." For a short 
time, we had a kind of secrctary, generally referrcd to as the 
Dinner Girl, as she dcalt with the dinner· money, and )\[iss Rogers, 
who taught the slightly older infants. 

, 

I was taught by )\[rs. 'Vagner for a year, and can quite 
clearly remember that she taught us to make paper balls for 
Clnistmas decorations, and gave us writing lessons each day. 

In the mornings, we all wcnt into onc large room with a 
partition in the middle, and sat around a firc in small chairs. We 
sang· " Gentle Jesns, meek and mild" which I could not understand, 
as I always thought tile line" Pity my simplicity" had 
something to do with prctty mice, and what" implicity " meant 
I never discoverecl. This was followcd by a few pr;tyers. 

Our days were spent doing such things as listening to stories, 
playing with plasticine and wooden toys, drawing and splashing 
paint on to paper. 

Wc also made milk-mats from paper, cut to make a pattern, 
and on thcse we placed our hottles of milk to avoid getting 
greasy marks on the tables. In the middle of each morning we 
chanted" Thank you, God, for our milk and lunch," and spent 

. the first part of " playtime" ddIiliing the milk and eating the 
sandwielICs which we Ilad brought from home. 

)\[iss Grey once entered some of the more graceful cliildren 
in a dancing display at the Gillingham Fete. Each morning for 
several weeks beforehand wc had to say a prayer wliich started 
like this: "Please God" (long pause) "Let the weather" 
(equally long pause) " Be fine" (another pause) " for our Fete." 
As far as I can remember, her request was not granted. 

On looking back, I can recall enough interesting and amusing 
incidentsto write It book on·this subject, but there is neither time 
nor space to tell any more now. 

GILLIAN RALPH, Upper V. 

~t \~as a brilliant summer-day,' August 8th, when I wentwith 
my mother to school. "I really didn't think too much of school, 
I was only longing to come back home to receive my big -at 
that time it seemed to me an enormous-school-bag which was 

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filled with presents.~ I thOUg~lt these presents would last for 

many many: years~_ 

. Arriving at school we were asked to go to the school hall, 
which was already full of little girls with their mothers. After 
a rather long and for me, a boring speech from the Headmaster, 
we girls 'yere sent into a classrom wpere we got our place and a 
time·table. This time· table was like a secret to me, bccause 
I didn't know what was written on it, but wc wcre told we would 
be soon able to read it. "That is all for today" said a very 
friendly mistress, "and now you c~n go and see your mothers 
again and tomorrow we shall start with our first lesson." 

All that time I was only thinking of the big school-bag full 
of presents and never before had I so longed to go homc.· My 
mother, noticing my excitement and hurry, thought I didn't like 
the school, and all the way 110me she tried to tell me how good 
school is and that there are only nicc persons who· will teach me ~ 
how to write and rcad and that I should be gratefnl for it. 

INES BRANDT. 

I did not go to school until I was sb: years old, and So I can 
remember quite clearly my first day at a school in Scotland, 
which was situated some miles away from the nearest village or 
town, and which consisted of about thirty pupils ranging from. 
five yearS to fifteen. 

Being rather timid at that time, I recollect with gratitude 
the way in which niy new tcacher, commonly known as Bet, 
took me by the hand and showed me how to tie bows with 
colom;ed ribbons by pretending that the ribbon was a train 
going through a tunnel! I think that was the only thing I did 
on my first day-j)lSt sat contentedly and tied bowS carefully, 
chuffing like a train as I did so. 

I remember my teacher as a small, grey woman, for everything 
about her seemed grey; her hair, her clothes, her eycs 
and even hcr face-'-who was alwayS.sketching people and things, 
including me after my bath ! She also had a temper, for I shall 
never forget my horrified and hurt feelings when she one day 
threw my "Beacon" reader at me becauSe I was being exceptionally 
stupid over a simple sentence. 


However, this is not what I remember most about her, 
it is as the person who introduced· me to the joy of reading that 
she remains foremost in my mind. 

B. SERGEAN, Upper. V_ 
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I alTiyed at Saint Dominics one Sunday night after It veryenjoyable holiday, and was thrilled to ~flml that I was no longer 
an infant, but a junior. And so, at the tender age of 'not quite 
four,' I thought I was really beginning to grow up at last. 

The following morning, Stella, the head girl, came to help' 
me dress (for I waS at a boarding school). Now that I was a 
junior I had to wear long black stockings which had to be 
fastened to my liberty-bodice-I found these stockings most 
inconvenient! I was horrified when my beautiful (so I thought 
at the time) ringlets were plaited-into two ridiculously small 
pigtails which stuek out at ninety degrees, 

After breakfast we were told'to don om' hats and coats and 
then made our way to the main school through the gardenS. 
Now that I was a ' big' girl, my peg in the cloakroom was much 
higher. In fact, it was so high that I could not rcach it. I 
immediately began to cry and stood by my peg wailing lmtil 

someone came to the reScue. 

My first real friend, at least, the first person who took any 
notice of me, was a rather fat little boy with red cheekS who 
pulled my hair and called me a baby. ThiS waS rathcr a blow to 
my pride because I had felt so grown-up. 

However, after theSe rather unfortunate incidents, I soon 
settled down amI beciune very happy at St, Dominies. 

JACKIE MARSDEN, Upper Y. 

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A BALLERINA'S DRESSING ROOl'rl 

The heavy velvet curtain fell down after the last dance of 
"Symphony for Fun." The lights came up and l)eople rubbed 
their eyes with sighs of " Wasn't that wonderful t" 

Slowly they all filed out and soon all that was left in the 
great Festival Hall were the cleaners, and a few autograph 
hunters. I was one of the "few" with my young cousin and 
aunt. 

Alicia Markova had danced "Giselle" with the Festival' 
Ballet, taking the leading role. I naturally wanted to· have her 
autograph, already having the signatures of several leading 
ballet dancerS. There was no sign of a stage door so we approach~d 
one of the stewards, and asked ifhe knew how wc could obtain the 

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autograph. He said he might be able..to get it for uB. He disappeared 
through a. door in the seemingly unbreakable i'ed 
leather quilting of the walls. Two minutes later'he returned and 
said, "Ifthe,two little girls would, like to go through they lllay be 
able to ~ee )Iadame Markova." 

I was a little disgruntled at being called "little girl" but 
it waS nothing, since there was a chance of meeting Madame 
"Iarkova. We walked round the usual backstage scenery, and 
then through a warm, softly-lit corridor where we waited on 
comfortable padded seats., On the left wall of the corridor 

there were doorS with famous nalnes; "Antoh Dolin," Olog

H 

Briansky " and "Corps de Ballet" written on them. 

"re were sitting facing a door proclaiming" Alicia ~rarkova H 

in large red letters . .A. small group of people was gathered aro\ll)(l 
the door and now and again a very formal woman in a chic 
mauve overall would come out and say to someone" Is "Iadam '. 
expecting you Y" 


If the answer was in the affirmative they were nshered into 
the room. The conductor of the orchestra went in to see thc 
great dancer. Her uiece seemed to be employed in carrying 
messages fmm Markova to various IJCople. At last, all the 
important people had taken their leave and a small queue of 
pei"haps half-a-dozen individuals filed slowly into the dressing 

room. 

The room itself was not very large but well-illuminated amI 
<lecorated with flowers. .A. half opened cupboard displayed the 
<lresseS worn by the ballerina herself. The bed was covered with 
a pink bedspread; next to it stood the make-up table in matching 
colours. 

At the dressing table sat Alicia Markova, a slightly-built 
fignre in a deep red dress whieh was a vivid eontrast to' her white 
skin and jet black hair. Graeiously she signed eaeh autograph 
book or programme as it was put before her. I thought her voiee 

,

rather husky (unusual for a celebrity) and she said" Thank you" 

1'>'

and smiled. sweetly. As I stood there it seemed impossible to 
me that I had spoken to a great ballerina. 'Vc were then shown 
out. 'In the corridor we met OIeg Briansky wandering about 
in hiS dressing gown. After a last glimpse of the famous dreSSing 
Toom doors, we left the Festival Hall to find a cafe and have tea. 

PENNY "TELLS, Lowe!" VI. 

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POETRY 

Sorrow 

SOlTO\'" is llly deal' companion; 

Sorrow lurks witjIin my lmart ; 
Sorrow's tears fall gently on me ; 
:ilIy soul cries out with Sorrow's smart. 

Sorrow stays beside me always; 

Sorrow never sets me free; 

Sorrow moans as if in torment-Sorrow's 
grief is part of me. 


Sorrow holds me in his power ;. 

Sorrow cries, and I do weep; 
SOlTOW never strays far from me 
But court-s.me even as I sleep. 


Why am I thu.s tormcnted , 

Why wails sorrow at my breath' 
Only God knows why I sufferWill 
suffer on, lmtil my death. 


BARRID SERGEAN, UppCl' V. 

Firelight Fantasy 

Red glow the coals; the blaze roars high; 
Smoke swirls up, reaching for the sky; 
Then, ~hrough the mist wc clearly sce 
FiYe men capering joyously; 
Clothed in red and yellow and gl'een, 


The lllcn as Ileve~' before wore seen; 
Ohattcrillg, showing ill_the light 


!tows of teeth all shining bright . 

. Then, .as the fire begins to di~, 
They too, fade now, and with a sigh, 
We sce that they have gone away. 
They will not come again, for they 
Have gone to sleep now, everyone 
Exhausted by their play and. fun; 

The glow lIns gone, the coals are bare; 

Tomorrow, shall we sce them there! 

RATE COLES, Upper Y. 

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Paradise and Earth 

o bird of Paradise, 
Your feathers are yery beautiful, 
Your tail is long and bright, 

But yet you arc dumb for ;>11 your beauty. 

o blackbird, blaekbird, 
You arc dull and small, 
But you are not dumb. 
You have the call that makes us see heaven 
round us. 
JOAN TRUSTRUM, Lower IV. 

An Aeroplane 

Soaring the sky like an eagle, 

Gliding through the fleecy white clouds, 
Through the mysterious moonlit heavens, 

On, on and on it goes, 
Over majestic lllOuntains, 

Over yellow 1)lains, 
Until at last it sights the bright lights 


Of the city, jostling and gay. 

Its mis.sion over, the journey's done . 
.At last, it's safe and sound, 
.At last. 


JEAN SQUIRE, Lower IV. 

At Christmas 

They, dim by the star, knelt'before 

Him. Angels sweet, sang Him song. 
Ranks of Heaven; God's son given; 


Horned moon, silver sphere, 
.As if in mirrored hall around her 
'Flected was, a thousand times 
In evcry silver star. 
Beauteous, Baby God; soft eyes 


Were watching. 

~[rCIIELT.E EMERY, Lower IV. 

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Living in a City 

" Who, who would in a city dwell !" 
Begins my mournful narrative; 
.And mournful is it not indeed 
When one has lcarned the Country Creed 
-The Way of Bird and Tree and Seed 

To live inside a eity! 

Then, then-O joy-I used to spy 
Those places where the snowdrops lie ; 
That spot whcre, every sunny day 
.A vixcn with her young ones lay. 
Who would not weep for hills and hay 

-Living in n city! 

"'ho would not dream of happy times! 
To listen to the liarcheIls' ·chimes, 
To play in tinkling country streams, 
'Yhere moonlit lovers spend their dreams, 
.And chil,1rcn splash with gUl'gling screams, 


-Living in a city 1 

Who woul,lnot mope and pine away, 
For ono more glimpse of the willow's sway, 


For one morc wnlk in country lanes 

.Away from· traffic, noisc all(1 trains, 
.Aud the cruel jaws of :i\Ian·made eranes, 
'-J,iving ill a city Y 

Who woul,\not fret for days gone hy Y 
For the eerie thrill of an otter's cry, 
'Yhen, hathed in moonlight, she calls her mate. 
Oh, how I sigh when I coutemplate 
The wem'y hurden of my fate, 


To live inside a city. 

How 01,1 I see.'n to grow, and grey: 
And I do to my Father pray 
That once, before I die, I may 
nave onc last glimpse of the Country Way; 
To see the young lamhs frolic and play, 
To see tlw scentcd, new-mown hay, 
To sce the sunset's flushed array, 
.An,1 the celandine's on Easter Day .•. 


.And then, to pass away and say, 

"I always loved the Country." 

HEATHER COLYER, Upper V. 


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The Willow 

-" '" 

'Willow, standing by the river, 
Lndy, liy'st thou on for ever ! 
Gently emerald leaves are falling 
To the river, softly calling. 

Past 'tis flowing, browIl in hue, 

Willow, does it call to you? 
Round your slender twigs 'tis swirling, 
O'er its back the greenlelwes hurling. 
Willow, tllrough these years of strife, 
You have led this peaceful life. 
\Vintcr makes you bare an(I bleak, 
In spring your buds begin to break, 


SUmlnCl' 'secs you dressed in green, 

A silent, lovely emerald green. 
Autumn whisks YOllr leaves away, 
Then you're clad in dull array. 

So it gocs~ frOln yeal'-to year, 

Always you','e my friend most deal'. 

SusA,,'TIl'l'ETTS, U1JjJcl'IV. 

Unfounded Fears 

I sat in the waiting-l'Oom, cold witll fear, 
Looking at m~gazines lying quite near; 
I picked one up "ith a trembling hand 
And gazed at a picture of ploughed lumpy land. 
I turned o'er the pages, my heart bumping loud 
At the thought of the holes that might be found 
When my teeth were the subject of long IJeering gaze, 
And I was being tortured by all his quecr ways. 


At last I was sent for, and white-faced I went, 
Into the l'oom where the dentist intent 
Was studying a chart of most gl1lesome white teeth; 
So I sat in the moveable chair undel'lleath 
The blue-painted ceiling of "'hite I'm not fond, 
And stared Oilt of the window to the fir-trees beyond. 
Re put down his chart and snid, "'Well, let's start." 
And began the horrible prodding part. 



lIe jabbed and he jogged and he proddecl, 

Until he withdrew his hook and nodded, 

"Not a single hole. Yon're perfectly clear, 

Au ]'eyoir for now; I'll see yonnext year." 

I skipped to the waiting·room with hastening feet, 

Pnt on my coat and ran into the street. 

Thanl, goodness my teeth from holes werc qnitc free, 

No more painful days at the dentist for me. 

ROSElfAltY W AGNER, Uppe>: IV. 

Games 

I.haye a hate for auy sort 
Of outdoor game or healthy sllort. 
I don't like tennis, how eould I ~ 
It seems, however hard I try, 
The ball will get eaught in the nct, 
Ard tlmt's' as far as it will get, 
I don't like swimming-that's no wonderI 
have a fear of going under; 
I move at slow reluctant pace, 
I have no speed or strength or grace. 
I can't ]llay netball-I'm not tall 
And so I rarely see the ball. 
Hockey's really not my style; 
I try to bear it with a smilc. 
And as for P.T., though I'm iearless 
The only comment made is " Careless." 
(It seems throughout my education 
I have acquired this reputation.) 
AncI I shall think when I am old 
I SllOUlcl have done as I was told, 
And gained the 'benefits sports give, 
But anyway it's niee to live, 
While those lily school comrades of yore 
'Were quito tired out by twenty-foul' ; . 
Careering along with hockey sticks, 
They all expired at twenty-sb:. 

SARAlf JORDili" Lower V • 

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PARENTS' ASSOCIATION SECTION 

Committee, 1958 

Chairman :Miss 'Dunford 
Secretary ...... Mrs. Rowbottom 
T,'casurer ",1r. Head 
Staff Representatives 1\!iss Woods 

"fiss Piggott 
1\!iss Tilstone 

Parent8' Rep"esent«tives 
1\fr. Harcourt-Brooks 
Mr. Smith 
1\fr. ;rackson 

1\Irs. N orris 

"uog. Bateman 
Representative on Governing BOlly Rev. H. Brayford 

As we went to press in 1957 before the P.A: Annual General 
illeeting we must include a short report on it before turning to 
this year's activities. The meeting was held on November 20th; 
and the Chairman, in her opening remarks, pointed out that the 
Parents' Association was now ten years old, and spoke of the 
Ilelpful part which the Association ha(1 played in fostering the 
link between school and 11Ome. ,\fiss Dunford also spoke about 
the closure of the SC11001, and the cancellation of Speech Day 
on account of the 'flu epidemic. 

The meeting then discussed how best to celebrate the 

Association's 10th Anniversary, and after various suggestions 

lm(1 been offered, it was decided to have a social evening, an(1 
to give the School a Tape Recorder to mark the occasion. After 
this the usual elections for the committee took place. 

On 1\larch 12th of this year the 10th Anniversary meeting 
was held. It took the form of It Dutch Supper, and parents 
brought a wealth of good food. ,Vc all had a· very pleasant 
evening. 1\Ir. Perkins demonstrated a Tape Recorder, though it 
was not in fact the one the Parents' Association finally bought. 
The School Film was also shown. ("I 

Our second meeting this year was held on ;ruly 11th. At 
the first part, the Rev_ G. K. 'Horlock ;rones llresented the 
School with the Tape Recorder on behalf of the P.A. and It 
l'ecorded " Thank you" from the Head Girl was played back to .~ 
the Parents' Association. 

Doctor Pearson then spoke to us on Adolescence. lIe gave It 
most interesting talk on this difficult stage in a child's development, 
and pointed out how much sympathy, tolerance and 

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understanding was necessary if the parents are to help their 
children to advance to a hap.py matnrity. Re stressed the need 
for an uncritical attitude on the part of the parents, and warned 
us that parental domination in adolescence was harmful to the 
child. 

Again this year the Magazine has to go to press before the 
Annual GEmeral ){ceting of the Association, but wc shall report 

on this in our next year's edition . 

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POGI<ET MONEY 

In some ways-"but by no means all-I wish that the School 
Magazine was published monthly. It would be so pleasant and 
llelpful to compare notes and problems with other parents in a 
fervid correspondence column. 

Onc of the subjects on which I should most like other 
parents' views would be the question of rewards and pocket 
money. Occa§ionally wc are told, a trifle sadly, of school friends 
'''ho l)ave a pound a week as poekct money, or some vast present 
for passing G.C.E. Of course, the amount of money each of us 
can give to our children must vary with each family's circumstances, 
but a nl1lnbcr of considerations arc involvcd bcfore it 
can be fixed. The variety of backgronnds of its pupils is onc of 
the strengths and riehnesses of a Grammar School. It seems to 
me that parents who are unrealistic and over-indulgent with 
their children's pocket money arc harming not only their own 
children, but showing a lack of responsibility towards the 
·school. But-what is a reasonable amount Y It woul,l bo so 
useful to be able to ask other parents what they find a suitablo 

average. 

'Vhen the children are small it is much easier. From thc 
time our children start school, they have fivepence a weekl'ising 
by a penny a week for each birthday. But this is IIOt 
adequate for very long, particularly if the children have hobbies 
to finance, or a large number of birthdays in tho family . 

.As the ehildl"en get older, we find that it is better for them 
to earn their pocket money, and not expect to have it doled out 
to them. So they arc paid for some specific job done faithfully 
every day, or for some larger task when they specially want to 
earn some extra money. .Any other help they givo is unpaid, and 
done for the good of the family. 

,Vhen the girls reach an age when they care about their 


appearanees, we try to give them an allowanee, paid qnarterly, 
to cover out-of-pocket expimses and clothes, other than school 
uniform and really big items. It is fairly easy to get girls to 
plan their money, and to·try to spend responsibly, but hOWVel'y 
glad I should be to ltave some advice on what to do about allowances 
for boys who abominate all new clothes and utterly 
scorn ll~il'cuts l 

Z.E.H. 
A COMPARISON OF SCHOOLING IN ENGLAND WITH 
T,HAT IN THE WEST INDIES 

T should like to point out that. information given in this 
artielc l'efers to condition,s as I knew them up·to 1954. I have no 
detailed information of changes which may be taking place since 
Federation, which took place earlier this year. 

I am sure readers will be surprised at the standard of 
edueation. We so often considei' that cverything outside onr 
own country must be a poor second compared with what we know 
here., This is far from _being true in the field of education, 
especially in the largcr West Indian Islands. 

I willbeginwith a description of theschool buildings and then 
say something about organisation, including. the training of 
teachers mid scholars. In gcncral white and coloure!! work 
togcth.er, there is one exccption in Barbados wherc one school 
reccivcd only white childien. In my opinion this was definitely 
a mistakcn and harmful policy. 

3Iany of tlie school bnildings af'e owned by churchcs of 
varying denominations, thongh they are now uscd by the 
Govcrumentfor educational purposcs. This is due to the fact that 
the churchcs took the .lead in educational matters and built 
denominational schools. . 

There arc other schools built and maintained entirely by the' 
Government. The Government makes grants towards new sehool' 
buildings erected by the churches and repairs and extensions to 
existing buildings. 

The Island Governmimts appoint a Director of Education, 
who is tlien responsible fOl' poJiey and the earrying out of it. 
Directors have, in the past, been qnalified people from this 
eountry. This is no longer always true as, not unnaturally, local' 
West Indians-who 1Ire qualified are being appointed. 

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The denominational ministers of the chill'ches~ which own 
buildings are corresponding miUlagers for th'eir rcspeetive 
schools. This entails a good deal of work. 

In addition these minister~ are expecte!l to visit their schools, 
at least monthly, to examine, check and sign all the registers. 
The duties just mentioned refei' to the Primary schools. 

:lIIembers of. the staff in the secondary schools are both 
English and West Indian and all have degrees, generally obtained 
at English universities. They are paid by the Government and 
in Barbados are Civil Servants. 

The West Indian Primary teaehers are trained at centres in 
different isL~nds, generally they receive a two-year course. The 
expense of this is born by thc Government and not by th<i 
teachers. 

There is quite a big difference between buildings used for 
Primary and Secondary education. In the Primary schools all 
th!\ different classes often mcet in one large room. Itis a mystery 
how the children learn at all amI how teachers make themselves 
heard. In the Secondary schools, however, there are separate 
class rooms and facilitics far exceed those in the Primary schools. 

The ability of the scholars varies grcatly. In Trinidad and 
Tobago there are College Exhibitions for places in the Sccondary 
schools. The number of these was a hundrG!1 and fifty per year 
for the two islllnds. This entitles the winners to free education, 
others can still go to Secondary schools if their parents pay the 
fees. This system, corresponding to the eleven-plus in this 
country, lends itself to it good deal of cramming. 

In Secondary schools scholars work for the General Certificate 
of Education to both Ordinary and Advanced~levels.The 
highest awards are Island Scholarships which entitle the winners 
to come to this country to continue their studies. 

REY. N. W. H,mumON. 

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GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE-HERE AND THERE 

1957_ South Africa 

" Have you heard" said the Professor's wife, " that they 
are closing all the Catholic mission schools, 01' refusing them any 
more grants, which will come to the same thing. They will all 

. go the way of l!'ather Huddleston's I suppose, and all the native 
and coloured cllildren have to go to Government 'Christian 

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National' ones. Aren't the Catholics Christians too? I want 
my children to go the the Church of England schools, the boys' 
is one of the bes~publie schools in South Africa,.butjt wilLbe,our 
turn next no doubt. Soon 'there will be no more private schools; 
and as fm' Govel'llment schools, what the parents wailt seems to 
be the last thing that is ever consiclered there. Look at that one 
up-country which was teaching both official languages, English 
,mdAfrikaans. The parents were very please,l to have it so, but 
altllOugh they h,we objected again and again it is all to be 
changed, and only Afrikaans taught. It seems as though the 
headmaster has no liberty at all, this one is to be dismissed, I hear. 
TIow can they hope to make up the teacher shortage and get 

good men and women in the profession! 

" How lucky you arc to be going back to England, you will 

be quite free to educate your children as you yourself think best." 

1958_ England 

"JIavc you heard" said ~!lC vicar's ,yife,,~' that tllCY do not 

want any more Grammar schools, but all co'educational 'Compre-, 
hcnsive schools instead. Great big institutions where it is 
probably no use going to see the headmaster because he won't 
even know your child by sight. What did Ncwman say about a 
University? 'An Ahna ~Iater knowing her children one·by one, 
not a factory, nor a mint, nor a treadmill.' Isn't the samc true 
of a school ¥ 

" Soon it will be no good begging 01' bOl'rowing enoug'l money 

for Ilrivate schools either, because they are probably to go as 
well. It Seems as though the llCadmastcr of a school will soon 
llOlve no liberty at all; look at the poor man who was forced to 
ruin his G.C.E. class by taking back into the school fourteen 
idle ignoramuses who had failed every single subject. How can 
they hopc to make up, the teacher shortage and .get good men 
and womcn in the profession! 

lIow lucky ;\[rs. W. is to be emigrating, 8110 will be free to 
educate her children as she thinks best." 

Well, the grass on the othcr side of the fence is always the 
greenest, but 1IIU8t we have all these fences anyway? 

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LIFE IN A THEATRICAL COSTUMIERS 

After It broadcast on ,Villie Clarkson in 1957 it occurred to 

IHO some aspects of life in his famous theatrical costumier's 

establishment would provide intercsting material for a 
magazine article. So I will try-as a Imiuble cmploycc-to 
describe some of my impressions. 

In those days Clarkson was the Theatrical Costumier and 
"'igmaker, pre'eminent, so it was with some trepidation I applicd 
for and accepted a job in his studio at a very early age. 

At the time I scarcely' understood whether I was to work 
j,here or not, due to the fact that ~lr. Clarkson, or " the Guv'nor " 
as he was usually known among his workfolk, had a very decided 
impediment in his speech, which affected his pronunciation in a 

singular way. 

However, rightly surmi~ing I was engage,l, I found myself 
lJart ot his extraor,linary ·establishment. 

He has been described as a grotesque, gnome· like man with 
a lisp and a ~rab·like walk. He progresse,l "along" in a unique 
manner. Wlien I saw',him flrst I thought iie wasau 'actor of the 
" old school," and I was frankly afraid of him! 

As I entered the door of his fmllous shop I felt transformed 
straight into pantomime. Dozens of masks and heads ',pon the 
walls glured, laughed, winke,l an,l ehuekle,l at me. In fact the 
street ,1001' closed on an unreal fantastic worl,l of make-believe. 

Our tasks were numerous and varied, from Uesigning stage 

and fancy costumes, and copying sketches, to painting props 

for the various stage shows ~nd other makc~belicvc requirements. 

Oh! the smell in our small studio of oil, varnish, methylated 
sllirits, t,urpentine, an,l most of all the size, whieh the unpainte,l 
props emitted. 

Itwas wonderful how we transformed shapes of uncertainty 
into the semblance of luscious food, birds and beasts. 

Every conceivable aspect of London's entertainment passed 
through our luinds, so to speak :-the 'Chelsea Arts' Ball, the 
Boat Race, "Hiawatlm" at the Albert Hall, the Royal Tournament, 
the Lord ~[ayor's Show an,l the Pantomime season, to 
mention It few. At the same time the usual stage shows were 
continually taking place. For these Clarkson's always made the 
wigs and frequently the costumes.' 

'Vc rose to the heights in our preparations for the Pantomime 
Season. Everything wc produee,l was of our glittering 

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best. There was no. end to t,he sparkling diamente ,md jewels 
whjeILfestooned the gorge~)Us·eostu!nes. 
'Life was one mad whirl in the rush to finish dressing the 
'da~zling shows at the Lyeeum Theatre. 

'Ve were "all in it," dressmakers, Inillincrs, wignmkers, 

propmakers, make·up people, artists and many others whose 
jobs I have forgotten throngh the years. And we worked very 
late sometimes, but I had better not say how late !-even after 
this span of time. And the Guv'nor, what of him ¥ Busily 
"progressing" around-his rambling, rickcty premises, supervising, 
admonishing :md encouraging. 

In our stUdio was a· mine of information, in the form of 
hundredS of pictures contained in dozens' of very large, t,hick 
scrapbooks. 

These cuttings pertained to life in general and theatre life il.l 
particular. "Te were constantly bcing askcd for pictures, and 
never knew what item of information would be. wantcd next. 
Everything, except the one thing asked for could u'su:~lIy he 
found; . 

. 
. 
I may say the indexing system had been in a heyanc.e for 
some time' before my arrival, which often threw us into a state 
of extrcme confusion when searching, for example, for pictures 
of Polly Peaclmm, or It naval uniforin <if the time Of Nelson. 

One had to save the most unlikely llicture in case it " came 
ill," which it invariably did. . 

This unique and fantastic establishment remit1(le,l one of 
a Dickensian canvas, "ith its thcatrical atmospbere, the diverse 
characters employcd, the Guv'nor himself, the whole array.of 
stock in tru,le of 40,000 wigs, 10,000 costumcs, and stage 
propertics of all kinds and not Icast the ever thronging customers 
including V.I.P. 'sof stage a",l screen who often came in from the 
wori,l outsi,]e to the unreal one on the inner side of the door. 

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CATERING PROBLEMS 

The following article appeared in an Indian ""'gazine in 
1~48. 'Ye think tl.lat parents will be intercsted amI amuse{l at 
the problems of catering for an institution under very {UCferent 
conditions from those which the High School enjoys . 

. There are certain wordS common to many of the languages of 
"In{Ua:, deprive<l of which life in this country. would COllle to a 

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dead stop. Of these the most important is," bandobast". Unlike 
some of the otherS, it is·as respeetable.as a suet pud(ling" and 
recurs in convers~tion as often as giggles in a girls' sehool. It 

ineans: nu arrangmnent, Ialtcment, plan, organisation, scheme, 

design, project, precaution, programme, llOliey, fb:ed'andlasting 

com}>act 01' agremnent, 01' even-a plot, and a few other things 

that I ean't remember at the moment. 
Rice is harveste(l towardS the cnd of the year, l3y December 
it is time for those responsible for the eommissariat of our 
mission hostels to take a dcei> breath and begin those protracted 
negotiations for the following twelve months' supply of rice, 
known to all as the" rice bandobast", The fraternity whom 
one has to cajole, bully, or bribe to supply the rice arc the 

" maltajans "-the great 'lucn-great at any I'ate ill: bl'ca(lth of 

stomach an(l depth 'of pocket. Before the war we spent days 
haggling over a fe,,-annas, Should wc let ourselves be cheated 
now of an anna or two, or l'isk losing a rupee when the price rose 
slowly from tlll'ee to foul' l'upees during the rains 1 Those indeed 
were the days, 

But then came the war. Some hostels were requisitionCll 
amI the children dispersed. The" mahajans " went after fairer 
and fatter game, During those fOlu' years the hostel superinten4ents 
went about with a song In their hearts, which, amid the 
ti'oubles and anxieties of otherS, they virtuonsly sought to 

conceal. They had no rice" bandobast " to lllakc. 

But of course peace had to break out sooner 01' later, In 

January, ~946, we -found ourselves again in possession-of our 

hostels, the rice godowns empty, and a dozen assorted merchants 
on the doorstep, somewhat inflated, like their prices, after their 
years of opportunity, surpriSingly enongh elamouriug for onr 
eustom, eaeh with his sample of perfect rice, 'cheap at twenty 
l'Ilpees a malllHl, jns,t begging to be bought. Just slip them a 
cheque and the godowns woul<l be full in a few hours, Who would 
llnve tUought the daily papers were full of ne,,;s of the fOOll 
shortage Y Amid the welter of eructations I cast my eyes over 
the unlikely mob in the hope of catching sight of a comparatively 
honest face. They paused thoughtfully on one man who hall 
politely pro(lueed an old cigarette tin to spit into-and passed 
on until they encountered at the back what seemed to be a 
cadeature of Winstoll Ohurchill. True, a Winston Ohurchill who 
looke(l as though Hitler had got at him, but still recognisable. 
A trustworthy face, anyhow. Let's give Winnie the job, With 
(liffieulty I shoved the others out, and Winnie and I settled down 
to signing contracts, I examine(l the exchequer, beat him (lown 
to 18 l'Ilpees a maund, gave thanks that our scholarship donors 

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had not failed uS during: these hectic years, and wrote out; .. 
cheque for an amoUIlt .whieh in-.pre·war days would have run 
the diocese for six months. Winnie secreted it with a happy 
smile and asked 1110 for my license. 

A chill silence. I c(Hm~ered that a tmstfnl' bishop h,,,1 

provided me with one or I hall a dog license for 1928; which 

would he like ,. Or would a birth certificate be of any usc! But 

'Vinnie was in no mood for banter, an(l explained that before 

he.could 'put the rice in my go(lown I had to have a license to 

store it. And he walked off with my cheque. 

Then followed a hectic couple of days at the court house. 
Tbere were apparently about thre.e hundred other anxious 
people all desiring ·to sce the releva)lt officiaL-In time I got to 
him-and it all seemed surprisingly easy. lIe waS quite ready 
to give me the license to store, if 1; would provide him with 
certain retUl'ns once a fortnight. The questions I had to answer 
once a fortnight were something like this.: weight of bags of 
rice; weight of rice without bags; weight of bags without rice; 
height of godown from floor to roof; depth of godown from 
roof to floor. (1 heard from a man who actually had some rice 
to store that a, discrepancy was discovered in his returns; on 
being aske(1 for an explanation he rcplie(l that his first assessment 
had been made nt hjgh t·idc. lIis license waS so heavily cndorse(1 
that it Came in two.) 

Anyway I returned triumphantly to 'Vinnie, who jubilantly 
departed, prolllising me rice in a matter of dayS. Inside two he 
returned crest·fallen, and explained tha.t he couldn't get me any 
l'iee unless I got a license to pureIiase. Whcn the I'ower of 
speech retu\'ned I protested he had said he'd alrea(1y got the 
l·iee..'Vell, everybo(ly else had said that, so he'd had to say it 
too. Yes, he said, cheering liP, he ha (I cashed my cheque. 

It wasn't So easy to get this license. I interviewe(1 all sorts 
of officialS, high, low and me(liulll. le few were sympathetic, 
many were rude, 1II0\'e were haughty. The trouble waS that the 

Government, fearing a serious shortage, were not issuing such 

licenses, but buying lip all the rice themSelves. le very praise· 
worthy precaution, but not very helpful to lIIe, with a hundre(1 • 
boys coming in .. week, and such rice as one could obtain in the 
bazaars already 251'upees a maund. 

Iretire(l defeated: only to be met with a once more cheerful 
Winnie flourishing a dirty piece of pal,er imd shouting that he 
had obtaine(l the license for me. I was then too desperate to 
ask him how he'd done it. Off he went, beaming goodwill an,l 
benevolence, to n place about 70 miles away. Soon after, two 
loads of rice arrived on two successive days, ahout a tenth of my 

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supply. I noticcd they arrived here about dawn, having travelle(! 
through.the night. 

And then silence. A week later, a tearful boy came along 
and said" mera bap jel khana menhai " (Poppa is in jug). Who 
might poppa be Y Poppa it seeme(l was none other than Winnic, 
and he was in jail 'in G-. I groancd. It seemed an eminently 
suitable place for him, but st.m, he had my money. Something 
must be done. 

I go to the Bishop and inform him I must proceed to G-. to 
get a .. mahajan " out of jail. The worthy man does not bat a 
whisker but hopes it will keep fine for me. I arrive at G-. aJl(! 
search out the ban'ed cell where I find Winnie. There are the 
tears and sweat all right. I offer him a cheroot, but he waves it 
aside irritably. He growls something which might mean" Gemme 

out a· here. " 

I go in search of the S.D.O. The S.D.O. is holding a mmder 

, 

trial in his court. I slip into the court; the S.D.O. catches sight 
,of me, and invites me te sit near him en tlle bench. I de so. The 
prisener, whem I can well believe te be a murderer, glares at me 
horribly. The case procecds, te my great intercst. The prisoner 
gets very angry with the pleader who is defending him, ,!nd 
addressing the court in a loud veice says that he committed the 
murder all by llimseif, and nobody shall t~lf.c away the credit 
frem him. The S.D.O. calms him dewn and tells him net te break 
the rules and spoil the fun. Then fer tllO next couple ,of hours, 
between witnesses, the S.D.O. and I have a conversation about 
'Vinnie. Yes, he put him in jail. Yeu see, he was dealing illicitly 
in rice. I know you have a liccnce to store and a license to 
pmehase, but, you see, you haven't a license to transport it 
from G-, and 'Yinnie has taken two loa<!s at night aJl(! is 
attempting to take all the rice he has purchased for you. 

'Yell, wc ironed it out in the end. I persuaded the S.D.O. 
that 'Yinnie and I were not a couple of spivs, and that thete 
really was' a hostel with a hundred boys waiting to be fe<1. 
I eventually reeeive<1 my thir<1 license, an<1 hoppe<1 on to the 
hus just as they were letting IVinnie out. The rice ban<1obast 
was completed apart from another cheque I had to pay 'Vinnie 
to console 'him for the damage'to his reputation. 

Soon aftcr brcakfast next morning a deputation of boys 
waits en my verandah. They are not very kcen en the rice that 
js being supplie(l. Coudn't I make a different" bandebast"1 

G.K.H.J' . 

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OLD GIRLS' SECTION 

Committee, 1958/59 

President ~lisS ~I. K. Dunford 
Viee-President Mis. N. Raad 
Secretaries G. Hussey (nee Woodman) 

A. Rawson 
:J.'reaSU7'eJ' J. Drew' 
Staff Represimtative K. Drake 
Sports RepreSentatives R. Gibbs 
B. KnaptonCommittee Members A. Johnson 
B. Welch 
H. Young (nee Clarke) 
O.G.A. London Meeting,' March 15th, 1958 • 
Our first three London Reunions were held at the Central 
Club of the Y.W.O.A. The fourth one this year was held at the 
Westminster Hospital. ]lIary Young had given us the invitation 
at the O.G. Dinner the previous November and we had all been 
looking forward to it with keen anticipation. . . 

The average attendance at the previons meetings had been 

24. This time 56 of uS assembled in the lIIain Hall of the Hospital 
at 2 p.m. We were shown round the Hospital in two groups and 
then met in· the Hospital Ohapel for a short service at 2.40 p.m. 
This was taken by the Chaplain and one of the doctors played 
the organ for us. ~Iany of us found thiS service the highlight of 
the day. 
We then went to the Nurses' Home and had the photo, 
which is appearing in thiS.~Iagazine, taken on the balcony. At 
the end of a short business meeting, ~IisS Dunford presented 
lIIary Young with a bouquet and a Poole Pottery Vase as a 
small token of our gratitude for her hospitality. Then we had 
an excellent tea in the Nurses' beautiful Common Room and 
talked hard until 5.30 p.m. 

This was an unforgettable day. 'Ve were deeply impressed 
by the spirit of the Hospital "and were proud that its Matron is 
an Old Girl of ours. 

•

O.G.A. Summer Meeting, duly 5th, 1958 
The Summer Meeting was held on Saturday, July 5th, 1958. 
There were 50 members present. The meeting began with the 

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Tennis )fatch at tho Wincombo Lanc Field at 5 p.m. This 
resulted in a win for the School by 52 games to· 27 games. 

After thiS, members all went to t·he School to sec the School 
1'ilm and this was very much enjoyed by everyone. 'Ye then 
went to Barton Hill House for a womlerful buffet supper whicl, 
had been tastefully arrange(] by ~he Supper Committee. 

)Iiss Dunford opened the short informal meeting with a 
special welcome to )Irs. Rombulow·Pearse, wllO was attending 
an O.G. meeting for the first time. Sho also read a letter from 
)Irs. Raad, who sail] ho,," sorry she was not to be with ns. Best 
wishes were sent to her froiu the ~Ieet,ing. ~Iiss Dunford then 
tolt] members how onc of our oldest Girls, Miss May Short, hall 
come to SChool recently to beillme(l fortllo School Film. She gavo 
her usual news of the School and mentione(] some Staff changes. 

The date of tho ilinner was fixe(l for November 1st. Tho 
meet.ing, which was a very happy one, was brought to an cnd 
at 9I).m. ' 

Fifteenth Annual O.G.A. Dinner, November 1st, 1958 

There wcl'O fewer Old Girls than usual at the O.G.A. dinner 
this year and this, with tho absence of "Irs. Raa(l, whom wc 
misse(] very much, made tho "feeling" of thc meeting rather 
different from the usual crowded one. All the same, thoso 
preSent enjoyed themselves and it was a happy occasion. 

)Iiss Dunford was in tllC Chair at tho Annual General 
ilfeeting which preceded thel Dinner and prefaced J,er remarkS 
by regretting tho nbseneo of illrs. Raad. It was proposed that 
the O.G.A. should send her some flowers. A meSsage of remem· 
brance WIIS read out from May Short who had once again thought 
of us. 

In her report, Gill Hussoy mentionc(] the Hockey ilIateh 

'which tho School hall won, by five goals to two. The fact that 
two of the most stalwart hoekoy players were _that afternool). 
playing for tho County Secom] Eloven must have mado much 
difference to tho O.G.A. team . 

•Tean Drew gave an account of the financcS for the year and 
showe(]n most satiSfactory balaneo. 
In her Chairman'S report, ilfiss Dunford commented on tho 
smallness of the meeting and wonderCt] why this was; After some 
discussion, it was deei(]e(] to explore the possibility of holding 
the next Dinner at School. 

Changes on the Staff wero mentioned am] the building of the 
Domestic Science block was referre(] to as being probable. 

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The Committee, with the excelltion of one member, were 
l·e·eleeted for the next two years. 


After the clinner, Jane Brayford proposed the toast to the 

Old Girls. In her speech, she stresse,] the ,traditions of the 
School that linke,] 01,1 and present girls and this point was also 
mentioned by Pat Baker, who replied for the 01<] Girls. "Iiss 
Dnnford read "Irs. Raad's speech proposing the health of the 
School "Irs. Ram] said t,]tat she thought that she hml not 
missed a meeting since the O.G.A. began havjng an annual dinner 
and she felt very grieved that her husband's bad health prevente,l 
. her from having" the chance or'talking non·stop.for ilearly two 


hours without anyone suggest~ng that ono is being a little too 

loquacious. " 

She told us of the wonderful succeSs that grandson John 
had achieved in winning the Charles Ol<lham Scholarship in 
Classics at Corpus Ohristi College, Oxford. • 

"Its. Raad ended her speech by wishing tho Old Girls a 
happy evening" mul as for the School, long may it flourish and 


grow frOIll strength to strength." 

In her reply, for the School, Jenny Stagg, the Head Girl, 
thankc'] the Old Girls for all tlwir genei'Ous gifts. She then 
talked uf the recent controversy about compl'ehensive schools 
and wondercd how many people really thought deeply before 
they argue,!. Jenny went On to give an interesting account of 
different theories of education of other times and places and 
finally cHIne back to mo,lern times when people realise more 
fully that education is of vital importance. 


She en,led hcr speech by' saying that it was obvious from 
letters an,] f.:om conversations with 01<1 Gil'!s that they were 
leading full am] haPI)Y lives, and that the School was proml of 
them. 


The meeting endcd oiftcially at nine·fifteen but mueh light· 
hearted and serious talk continued long after that time. 


, 

An Unusual O.G.A. Re·union 

~[rs. J essiman (formel'ly MrS. Blackhall) writes from 
Singapore-" yesterclay (September 4th, 1958) was quite all 
historic occasion in the annals of Shaftesbury High School for • 
here, in far away Singapore, four old members of the Sehool 
met together on the top of Mount Faber. It was quite tricky 
finding a suitable clay to meet as Grace Ooombs had just been 
away to J al)an for " month's holi,]ay '\lid ITazel Pinniger is 

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due to go up to ~angkok. Fortunately Anu Tidey happened to 

be on night duty at the British :ilIilitary Hospital so that she 

could put in a tea-time meeting." 

Grace CoombS writes about this Re-union-" jlfrS. Jessiman's 
home is beautifully situatClI at the top of a very high hill overlooking 
the harbour. It was lovely to meet people from home 
again and we spent a very pleasant afternoon reminiscing. 
Mrs. J essiman produced an album containing many snaps of 
O.G_'s and Staff who were at School with us. The time slipped 
by very quickly and we were all very grateful to Mrs. J essiman 
for making this re-union possible. Ann offered me a lift home on 
her motor'Scooter and we careered off down the hilI stilI laughing" 
at some of our School memories. " 

Another Great Day, July 3rd, 1958 

"re have been eager to ltave :ilIay Short on our School Film. 
It was not easy to arrange for her and Miss Moore to be here 
together on a day fine el10ugh for It film to be taken out of doors. 
Mter one or two disappointments "our hopes were realised on 
July 3rd, only just before "fiss "foore sailed for Africa. 

About 10.30 a.m. Miss Short arriiVed by taxi and the film 
was taken near the new Library. There are shots of·'her ,vith 
¥iss Woocls and Miss Drake and with groups of the girls. At 
the time of writing we have not had an opportunity of seeing it, 
but Miss "Ioore tells US that it is charming. 

On December 3rd Miss i\Ioore and I are taking her projector 
and Screen to the Blandford NurSing HCline where :ilfay Short 
lives, and she is inviting her friends to a,showing of the School 
Film, and will then see her own part at the end of it. 

I am sure that O.G.'s who enjoyed seeing our School Fihn so 
much at the Smmner Re-union, will look forward to seeing this 
new part which is of such partieular interest to the O.G.A. 

lII. K. DUNPORD_ 

Our" Number One" Career 

In my Report on Speech Day I happened to mention that 
nursing remaincd our most popular eareer. 'Ye 'take this for 
granted; and so were rather surprised when it was taken up by 
the press. 

I' had also stated that there is hardly a great London 
Hospital which has not had an O.G. of ours training or working 

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there. I am now trying to compile a complete list of London. 
hospitals where our O.G. have spent at least part of their time 
training, and shall be grateful for names to add to the following 
list :-

Westminster Hospital 
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 
Guy's Hospital 
St. Thomas'S Hospital 
University College Hospital 
Wddlesex Hospital 
Charing Cross Hospital 
Royal FI'ee Hospital • 


•St. "fary's Hospital, Paddington 
illoorfield Eye Hospital 
Hospital for Siek Children, Great Ormond Street 
Queen Charlotte illaternity Hospital 
Park Grove Chest Hospital 
Albert Doeks Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich 
"rest Londoil Hospital, Hammersmith 
North Middlesex Hospital 
ilL K. DUNFoRD. 

Former Members of Staff 

ilIiss DICKSON came to see us on her return from Nortbern. 
Nigeria. She is now boping to get a post in Derbyshire 
where her mother is living. 

I 

ilb.·s. JONES (nee Handford) came to see us in tbe Summer Term 
and we were very grateful for her willingness to come hack 
to teach here for the Autmnn Term if, as seemed prohable, 
we were unable to appoint a P.E. illistress in time. 

ilIrs. LAWSON (",le Newton) calleq to see uS wb~nher husband was 
coming to'Sllfiftesbury for Congregationalllicctings. Tbey 
are still very happy in their work in the Clmrmoutb group 
of churchcs. 

ilIrs. SCALBERT is now one of our lJarents as her eldest daughter, 
Ann, enterel] School this term. 
ilIrs. RO~IIlUI.OW-PEARSE came to our O.G. Summer Re-union. 
"re were deligbtc(l to see ber after so many years. 
ilIiss L. ROBsoN is 1.ILW on ber way to Africa. Sbe is going to • 
te-ch in a Government scbool for Africans in Salisbury, 

S. RhodeSia, for a term amI may then decide to stay longer. 
illiss "\V. ROBsoN is keeping on their home in Salisbury, "rHtshire, 
during her sister's absence . 

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:ilIiss TILSTONE is enjoying her new post at the Roan School, 

Greenwich. 
~Iiss TOFIELD is taking an intensive one year conrse at Seaford 
Domestic Science College and then hopes to return to the 
West Country to teach Domestic Science instead of P.E. 
~IisS TOWELL is teaching P.E. at the High School for Girls, 
Tiniaru, S. Island, New Zealand. Many of the girls come 
there as boarders at l3·from "back Of the hills." Previously 
they havo only been able to have correspondence conrses 
and are quite unused to acting on a spoken word and so 
ineVitably have a hard t,ime among the other girls. 

Engagements 

Wendy Case to l'Iichacl Danicls 
Jean Drew to Paul Hall 


• 
)Inry, Gibbs to .Dcnnis Hannam 
Gill Gowcn to John Lunnon 
Pixio Gray to Dnvid Robcrt.s 
Jenny Hnrding to Grnbam WilIiams 
Rita .MuUins to Goarge T8ylorJudy Pecl to Anthony AlImn 
Dorecn Pike to Dcnis Alford 
Dorccll Pitmnn to Raden Lalando 
Valerio Sharp to Lawronco 'l'ilIctt 
Joycc Stone to l\Iichacl Clarko 
JUDe Tidey to Raymond do Dacker 
Marriages 

Diana Bowdcu to }'licbnel Dnwo Lane 
Rits. Brain to Rnymond Warren 
SyJvin Butler to 'I'ony Dudmsn 
Lorna ColIis to Derrick SangerWcmiy Calyor to Christopher BaU 
Dorothy Coombs to Gcoffrey Rnnsomo 
Eilccn Coombcs to David Scddoll 
Brcnda. Digby to Frank Burton 
PomeJo :Furnell to NiehoJas ChlWO 
Joy Godfroy to Georgo Gambljn 
Jean HaU to John Winchester 
Gertrude Harding to .Arthur Wills 
:\Iargarct Henstridgo to Anthony Burt 
Naomi Hine to Clyde Carson (In Ncw Zealand)
Joscphino IIumphries to };rie Holt 
Elizabeth (Jean) Nathan to Simon Pratt 
)fary Perry to AUister Clayton 
Shcila Shcpp:ud to Denis WarchAIll 
Joy Slade to Gernld Da\'id SoOOll 
Ruth Warcham to Charles )fcAJlister 
Audrcy Wilkins to Andnm! Lamont 
Brcmla Yeatman to ~rax Shooter (in Australia) 

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Births 

Pat Baker (nee 'falbot). a daughter, Fiona Noel 
Juno Bayliss (nle Dowland), a daughter 
~Iary Bush (nee Gray), a:daughtcr, Diaus. JaDe 
PamcIa Carter (nee 'l'albat), a daughter, 'Vendy Elizabeth 
Shirloy Compton (nee Pitman), a daughter 
)Iyra Drake (nee Hull), a daughter, Elaino )Iary 
Ruth Drake (nee Bartiett), sOil, Barry Nicholas 
Jean Graff (nee Walby), a daughter 
Jenny GreCllo (nee Purvor), a daughter, Judy 
Bntlty Hall (nee Gibbs), a son, Matthmv.SJcpbcn 
Diana Hnrvoy (nee Johnson), a daughter, Ann 
Dorothy Hcnsoll (nee Leo), a daughter 
Veronica Hopkins (nee Gray). a daughter 
Barbarn King (nee Cole), a SOli 
Grcta. Lane (nee Lano). a daughter 
Jean )Icrrifichl (nee Peddlo). a son 
Nita )[organ (nee Head). a dallghtcr, lsabcl 
Jean Parry (nle l't[cars), a son, John Sanderson. 
Esme Phillips (nie Coombs), a son 


,

)Iolly Rideout (nie Alfonl), a son 
Betty Smith (nie DaYitt), n. son, :Martin Christopher John 
Pat Snapcs (nee Galliver), a son, Clive 

LINNET ALLARDYCE (1058) is studying at the Poole Scliool of Art. 
ANITA ALLBN (1958) is It clerk in Mr. J. Rutter's Chartered Accountant's office. 
JILL BAIGE~T (1958) is taking n. year's secretarial course at tho PooIo Municipal 


College. 
PATRICIA BARFOOT (1958) has joined her parents in Germany am1 will probably 
tako a secretarial training there. 
WEXDY, BARTLEY (1958) is training as n. hairdresser with }.!arjorie and Nom in 
Shaftesbury. 
A.......x BLUSDE.... (nee 'Yard) (1955) had her 21st birthday party in the cottago that 
she and her husband hrL\'o taken at South Cheriton near Templecombc. Sho 
has joined the local 'V.I. 
AL:ltA BRADLEY (1947) has passed n. Civil Seryice Examination and has been 
transferred from the Tisbury P.O. to the Head Offico in Salisbury. 
SUSAN BROADlIOUSF,· (1957) is still happy in her work at Telephone House in 
Bounlemouth. Sho has been promoted from Learner Tracer to full Tracer and 
is working to become a Drawing Office Aisistant. 
SALLY BROOKS (1957). Since passing her Preliminary Nursing Examination at 
Weymouth Technical Collcge, Sally has been doing local jobs until she goes 

to the Kent and Sussex Hospital at Tunbridgc Wells in January. 
~rOLLY BURDE~ (1952) is now working in an Estate Office in Salisbury. 
RUTJ( BUItDEN (1954) is now teaching in the Berwick St. Jamcs Junior School 

in Wiltshire. 
BnE.....DA BURXETl' (1958) has taken on tho work that Eilcen and Drenda Digby 
used to do in thcir father's firm of Callcyal-&. Gallard in. Shnftcsbury. 
JEX~YBURRlDGE (1958) is thoroughly enjoying her first term at Reading Uni~ersity. 
She is in hcr mothcr's old hall, St. Androw·s. 

ClmIsTCiE BURTO~ (1958) is enjoying p-er first tcnn at So:uthlan~ College, in 
London, so much that she warmly recommcnds it to any present girls who arc 
hoping to train as tcachers in Lon4011. 

Bl.'Tl'Y BUSH (1958) is'a clerk in Arkoll's Solicitors office. 

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WE~DY CASE (195,';) 'ended her career at the Hose Bruford Schooi of Speech and 
Drama. by playing tho part of :\Ia.ma. in the 001l('go production of" L'cnfant 
prodiquo >I at the Edinburgh J.'csth·al. She is now '-"Cry happy in herfirst post 
a~ Upminstcr School, Essex. 

SOSYA CASSELL (nee Zinkova) (19;')4) ami her husbaIHl hl\\'o settled Ycry happily 
in Salisbury. S. Rhodesia, whero sho is working in the Standard Dank of 

S. Africa. At Easter they wcnt for an 800 milo trip. Fort Victoria, Zirnbabwo 
Ruins, the Lundi rh'cr and the Sabi Valley with the Birchcnough Bridge. 
Sonya says she bopes to be playing tennis for O.G.A. in H16I. 
HEATHER CHEATER cm';7) has been to l)aris for a holiday and has faUcn in )0\"0 
with it. Sho is still thoroughly enjoying her Nursery Training. 

ANN COLLIS (1958) is leaying school in Dceember and bcginning her nursing 
training in January at tho Bath &:; Wessox Orthopaedic Hospital whero sho 
will join Barbara Horloek·Joncs. 

PENROSE COLYI>R (1957) eujoyed her ycar at lIi11field School at Streot and has now 
joined Wendy at St. Clare's Hall in Oxford. 
W}!NDY COLYER (1956) was married in August. She aud her husband havo a flat 
in Oxford and sbo is in her seeond year at St.• Clare's Hall there. 
SALLY CULYERHOUSE (19~5) was glad whcn her 19th Birthday eamo and she could 
begin her nursing training at St. Thomas' Hospital. •

• ~LmY Emlo~msoN (1!J52) has now eompletcd her course in :Midwifery in Cbelten. 
ham and, after a. few weeks at homo, is going to tbe Radelyffe Infirmary, 
O~ford. as a Staff Nurse. 
~IAUREEN Fl'RENClI (19i)7) is doing some English teaching in Argentina. Sho 
is ~ooking forward to returning to England. 

JEa."\" GAY (nee Bristow) (1945) after losing contact with School for several ycars 
has !lOW attended all threo Rc-unions this year and wo have been yery gladto sce her. 

AsL.\.uo GODESETH (10.)7) was glad to be in Bath for the l<~cstival. She took part 
in tho County Dancing Display thero arranged by the English Folk Dance amI 
Song Society. 

SIIIRLE¥ GRAY (l9on) is happier than e,·er in her training at tho Weymouth ami 
District Hospital and says that sho is beeomillg increasingly inteI'Csted in 
;peoplo and their many different problems. 

MAny GREGOR (nee J..ollgman) married a Czcch Army Officor during the last ,,'ar. 
Thoy no~\· Ji\"o at Ealing and J18'·O ono daughtcr, Angela and twin boys and arc 
a very happy family. . 

ANN HALL (10,j8) is enjoying her year at tho Salisbury School of Art and hopcs 
to go on to Goldsmith's College next year. 

JF.A..~ HALL (1948) had a wonderful honeymoon at Como. As her husband is working 
in an offieo at Watcrloo they Ih'o at nedhill in Surrey and Jean teachcs in the 
St. :lfatthcw's C.E. Girls' School there. 

JENNIFER HAnDING (1057) is enjoying her work with I.C.I. in London now that 
h!.!r training period is o,·cr. Her fiance came to watch the 0.0. Hockoy 
)1ateh. 

JUDY lIATHERLEY (1952) havingdone her midwifery training atSt. James' Hospital, 
Balham, and at tho Portwoy Maternity Hospital at 'Yeymouth, is now at the 
:l!usgrove Park Hospital at Taunton doing full. time midwifery. 

nUTIl HATIlERLEY (1040) has left 'Yeymouth Training College and gone to her 
first jobatHarcfield JuniorScllool,Southampton. Sheplays for tho Southamp. 
ton Hockey Club and has been chosen for the Dorset 2nd XI. 

PAT lliYTER (1056) has passed her National Nursery Examination and is remaining 
at Euderley House, Amberley, as a juilior Staff Nurse. 
SARA HENDERSON' (1958) has had to mo,·e to Dover with her family, and have her 
last year in the Sixth Form in the High School there, but will join our O.G.A. 

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SYLYIJ. HISCOCK (19;ji) is in her first year at HoekeriU 'I'raining College at mshop 
Stortford, which Barbara . Hitchings has just left . 

.ANN HITCHINGS' (1954) after leaving tho'Beatrix Nursery at East Knoyle took 
sc\'Cral temporary Nannie posts and has found a. permanent ono in which sho 
is very happy. Sho has been looking after the SOil of Denis Goodwin, ther'I'.V. 
ami Radio Comedian, since ho was 10 weeks old. Sho finds it an exciting' life. 
The family spent ten wceks during tho Summer at Bourncmouth, whilo 
)Ir. Goodwin's show at the Pavilion was on. and will be spcnding the Pantomime 
Season in .:'IIanchcster. 

DAnDARA HITClIlNG~ (10:;6) is now 'I'caching in a. :l\lodern School at Stratford·onAvon. 
She specialises in Religiou_s Knowledge. 
DAWN HITCIUNOS (1958) is: enjoying her onc year secretarial courso at the Salishury 
and South Wilts College of Furthcr Education. 
Tm:L)fA Hor.wWAY (1958) has bccomc n. nursing cadct at the "restminster 
Hospital, Shaftesbury, until she is old enougb to start her nursing training. 

DARDARA HORwcK-Jmn:s (1956) is Ictn-ing tho Bath &. Wessox Orthopaedic 
Hospital mul going on to the West l.ondon Hospital, Hanul!ersmith, in the 
Spring of 1959. 

SnrnLEY HowELL (19;)6) is now a telephonist in Shnfiesbury Post Office. 
MAnOARI-:T Russl-a: (193i) has been appointed Principal Clcrk at the School of 
Oriental aml.African Studies at J..ondon University ... 

HILARY JONES' (lO,ji) finished her secretarial training at the Salisbury and South 
Wilts College of Further Education and then was appointed as a. junior 
secretary to the B.RC. Sho finds tho work intensely interesting. Her first 
expericnce was in the General O,,·erseas Service at Bush House. She has 
joined the RRC. Club. 'l'he section in which sho is most intercstetl is the 
Studio Amateur Dramatic Grollp which uses the ordinary radio and teledsioll 
studios. 

, RUTH JONI-:S (19:;:;) after completing a thh'tl year nt the Rose Brllford School of 
) Spcech &, Dramn in Lolldou is tcr..ching in a large Secondary )£O(iern School 
at Brixton. She shatCs n f1nt with two friends who were at the Hose llrllford 
with her • 

.AN::\A LAi!AltmEs (19;JS) is tnking a year's secretarial training at the Bournemouth 
)Iunicipnl College andlh·jng in n Y.W.C.A. Hostel thcro. 

'I'm: LOOK FA)ULY. Dt:RYL and AunR}~Y live at Little So<lbl1ry, nr. Bristol. 
Beryl is a Secrctary.Herdswoman on a farm and Amircy teaches in n school 
n few miles away. VERA ~pecialiscs in Cake-making after training in both 
l<'amily ami Large Scale Cookery at the Good Housekeeping Institute. Lt:~I.n: 
is now )£rs. Albcl't Yates. Her husbnml has his' ow'n market garden outside 
}<~xcter. 'I'hey ha,·o three boys. 

PA)lELA LO\'ELL (1053) completed her )lidwifery Course at St. Thomas' Hospitftl 
and has now returned to the Royal Victoria &, West Hauts Hospital at 
Bournemouth ns 1\ StaffNursc. 

STI-:r.LA LUULOW (1950) has had some interesting posts in Italy nnd is now doing 
Receptionist work in I.ondon but hOl)eS to go abroad agnin to widcn her 
expericnce still further. 

SlIlRLEY)lcLI-:oJ) (H1,j7) is getting en well in her .Accountant's office ill Salisbury 
and now has scvernl juniors under her. She is taking a Book-keeping amI 
Aecountnncy Course· in the e,·cnings. 

DElRDltE )IAOJ.I-:A'N (U153) obtained her Honours Degree ill English nt Edinburgh 

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Ullivcrnit,y amI' then went to Spain. She is now working in the l,'orcign Office 
in Lomion amllei\fnin~ Spanish in the evenings. She hopes to Iill'Ct her ohl 
fricnds at the 1.(1)<1011 ne.union iu )£nrch. 

J~~LEY)[)LI..\U (19.3i) is Jiving with her )Iothcr in London and doing clerical work 
there. • 

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Ax;s' )loRRIS (l!).j7) has been working ill Brussels amI had n wonderful opportunity 
ofsccing tha Exhibition. Shc is at homo again now and is considering n training 
in Orthoptics. 

Sus.u. PALLISTt:lt (19,';7) hns enjoyed her timo at the Wcstnlinster Hospital in 
Shaftesbury SlUl is now looking forward to going to tho Royal Victorin and 
West Rants Hospital at Bournemouth early in 1959 to continue her training. 

A:~o..: PARUAll (19.iS) is enjoying her secretarial training at the Wcston.supcr-1tInro 
)hmicipal College. 

EIL}:':X PAMOSS (1955) is still teaching in West Croydon. Sho is a Lieutenant in 
a Guide Company ill Croydon and also attends 811 Advanced Class for Recorder 
players there. 

JUI)\~ PEJ-:L (lI),i4) is completing her fourth year at St. Dartholomcw's Hospital. 
In January. when her father retires. her parents hopo to mo\'o into a no,,· 
bungalow in Shaftesbury. Judy is lea\'ing Darts in February and hopes to be 
married in April and then she will be li.ving in Paris. 

i\L\Jn.-PERItY (1950) was married in August and has now gono to LUllnshya in N, 
Uhodesia where her husband works in the copper· mines. 
])ommx PITlfAX (1955) did not complete her nursing trainingatSalisbury Infirmary 
hut was married on December 6th. 

Pmr.ll'PA POTTlm (1957) has been working at the offieo ofJefferys the Auctioneers 
in Salisbury wbile she waited for n \'acaney in a bank. Now she has joined 
tho Civil Sen'ieo as a Tax Officer in tho Iuland Uo\'enue Offiee~ in Salisbury. 

};r.lzADETII (Jf!AX) PItA'I"l' (nee Natban) (1951) Ih'es in Oxford whero her husban<l 
is doiug scientific research. They are members of the Unh'ersity Opera Club 
and the Uaeh Choir. 'fhey both hrwe singing lessons from Norman LilIy and 
Simon plays the clarinet in lIagdaleu's orchestra. 

SlIIm.A READ (19.11) was married in the Summer. She is Ih·ing in Londoll and 
doing part.timo nursing thore. 

CATm:mxE UICIIlIOXD (19;j7) has begun her nursing training at tbe Treloar Ortho· 
paedic Hospital at Alton and hopes to go on to tho Westminster Hospital 
later. 

VALI:nu: SI!DGI!WICK (1958) no\\' has her home in London as her "parents ha\'o 
returned to Bllgland from the Falkland Islamls. Sho is working for the Phoenix 
.Assurance Company, Ltd. 

C.Utor.l: SEItGt:A~ (19:;8) is taking n DOlllestic Science Gourse at tJw Salisbury alu1 
South Wilts Collego of Further Education. She is continuing her singing and 
speech·training with :lliss )[oorc in Salisbury. 

V.u.t:rm: SUAm' (1955) obtained Second Class Honours in )Iaths at Bristol ami 
is now ha\'ing a fourth yearin the Department ofEducation thero and enjoying 
it. imJllenscly. Sho swims for the English Universities and is Butterfly Stroko 
Champion of the Women's In~erwU'sity Athletics Board. 

Dt:,\XXA Sm:I'l'AltU (19;jj) is working ill a Post Office in Bournemouth. 
SHEU",,\ Sma'I'AUn (1955). When her family mond to Bournemouth Sheila became 


t' 

a Doctor's Rcccptionist there. She and her husband now have a farm ncar 
nlamlfon1. 
DIAXA S(uI'OIu) (19.10) is still enjoying nursing in Australia. Sho is being married 
soon and hopcs that Pat will go out and pay her a yisit. 

I)AT SmJ.'oRD (19.13) won a Young Farmers' Club Scholarship and wcnt to Israel. 
Since her return sho has becn appointed to t.he staffof the Lackhalll School of 
,Agriculture in Wiltshire. 

HCTn Sl'E~CElt (19.18) is enjoying her secretarial training at the Salisbury-and 
South Wilts Collego of Further EduCo'\tion though she says she has never 
worked 80 hanl in her life; , 

JOY SonELL (nee Slade) (1948) is now a Director oftho Fairmiw li'ood Products, Ltd. 
J.\CKU: STEl'JlEXS (1957) is a clerk at tho United Dairies at GiIlingham. 

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lUTDLEE!{ STO~E (19:)1) after completing her training at Bristol Royal Infirmary 
did her midwifery at tho Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh and is now 'at tho 
St. Helier Hospital at Carsha~~n. 

i.\IAUGARET STO!{E (1954) has finished her tmillLllg at the Royal Hants Hospital at 
Winchester and is now doiug her midwifery at tho North i)liddlcsex Hospital. 

ClJntSTINE TiTr {1953). Her family has changed their name to Pitt by deed. poll. 
Christino will change hers again when sho becomes )Irs. Coward in December. 
In the Now Year shc is returning to the Westminster Hospital at Shaficsbllry 
as a StnffNursc. 

:BltEN'DA. l'OlILINSON (1954) has come back to Shaftcsbury from York. Sho is 
looking after ~Ir. and i)lrs. Copley's baby at :Mnppowdcr. 

JEAN WALKER. (1953) finished her training at the )Iiddlescx Hospital and is JIOW 
doing 'Midwifery Part I at Southmeatl Hospitalnt Bristo1. In }'cbruary she is 
going 011 to Salisbury Infirmary for :Midwifery Part 11. 

JOAN WAREIIAll (1957) has finished her Domestic ScicneCl 'l'raining at the Salisbury 
and South Wilts College of J.<'urther Education, ami is now ..Assistant Cook at 
Milton .Abbas whero she is working under ).Irs. Pon-ell. 

JANET 'YJ1lTF. (1957) has had a yery interesting year in Germany antl early in 
1959 is going with Susan Palliater to the Royal Victoria amI West Ihmts 
. Hospital at Bounlemouth. • 

~L\RY Wn.soN (1956) after completing her two years of training at .A\"ery Hill 
College luutbecn granted a third year in which to take a. Diploma in Ueligious 
Knowledge at IGng's Collego, London. 

DA1'IINE WOOmIA.."i' (ID57) is now living at home and attending the Twickcnham 
County School. She chose to join our O.G.A. as she had spent six y('ars of her 
gramlllar school life hero. 

21LuuoN WORTHINOTON (1956) is in her third year of medical training at the Royal 
Frco Hospital. She had an interesting holiday helping with a Doctor's family 
in )[ornex whero Wagner wrote $Omo of his operas and John Ruskin stayed• 

A Visit to Japan 

This holiday, I think, was the most wonderful that I have 
ever spent, "Te travelle<1 on a French ship which calleel in at 
Saigon, "fanila, Hong Kong anel Japan, The passengers were o[ 
many nationalities and inelude<1 many monks, nuns aml 
missionaries who were travelling to the Far East to take up 
their duties, Our first stop was at Saigon where" owing to cargo 
being unloaded very slowly, we stayed five days. 

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The entrance to Hong Kong and the island itself is breathtaltinglybeautiful. 
On the two vjsits there wc managed to fit 
in sight·seeing and shollping. 

When we an';ved in Japan wc left the ship anel travelled by 
train to Kyoto, which is the old capitaL of Japan, and where we 
visited a few" of the many s.hrines, temples and palaces, The 
most beautiful is the Golclen Pavilion, the most graceful Buddhist 
temple built at the edge of ornamental lakes, and backed by 
'wooden hillsides, This is a l'ecent replica of the old building which 

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was burnt by. a monk. "Te spent both nights in Japanese Inns. 
It was a wonderful experienee and we .felt that time stood still. 
We eould very easily have been in a llast .age. ,Ve went 
thoroughly Japanese, lcaving our shoeS at the door, wearing 
kimonos, sitting and sleeping on the floor and even taking a 
communal bath (five of US girls taking it together!) The Japanese 
food in general did not appeal to us. 'Ve dill see some people 
weaving kimonos but 'Vestern dress is fai' more popular. ,Vc 
spent one very uneomfortable day travelling to Tokyo by train 
but the scenery at the latter part of the journey eompensated. 
We were disappointed that Mt. Fuji was coverc!l in mist. 'Ve 
were very impressed by Tokyo beeause it was so pleasant and 
green. We had a wonderful evening tour visiting the Kabuki 
Theatre, a night elub and a G.eisha party, where we were entertained 
by beautifully !!ressed Geisha girls, who danced and sang 
for us. On our last morning we took a hurried look round the 
shopping centre, whieh eonsisted mainly of large departmental 
stores. I have never seen sueh a festive send·ofl; as I experieneed 
at Yok.oha!lla. The quayside was lined with people and the 
ship was deeorated with brightly eoloure,l streamers. We were 
very sorry when our holiday came to an cnd and would like to 
have gone on with the ship to ~[arseilles. 

GltACE COo)IBS. 

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A Visit to Israel 

The time has flow!, since we arrived .here nine weeks ago by 
Britannia, after a perfeet flight. 

We were taken for our first three weeks to a kibbutz. 
1l. kibbutz is a eollective farm, all the people sleep in small ehalet~ 
an,l cat in a central dining baIL The children live in separate 
children's houses, and there is a central laundry. This leaves the

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women free to work in the fields with the men. Our kibbutz wa~ 
a modern onc and the children lived witb tbeir parents after 
three years of age. 

'Ve were up at 5.30 a.m. every morning, and we went to the 
dining hall for a breakfast of black bread, ,nargarine, jam and 
peeuliar coffee. Sometimes wc haq. semolina nnd boiled eggs, 
there was also saite,l raw berring, grate,l radish and wbite 
cheese. Wc got used to it after a while. Then we went to work, 
the work manager telling us the night before where to go. Several 

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days wc picked oranges with Germans, South Americans, 
R,uss!ans, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Poles, :i\[oroccans, French, 

Italians and Spaniards and, of conrse, Israelis, who arc calle,1 
Sabre after the cacti because they resemble them for being 
prickly. 'Vc picked tomatoes, and cucumbers and hoe,l melons. 

'Ve enjoyed our stay there very mueh-the people were 
very friendly and helpe'l us in every ,,,ay that they could. They 
}'eeeive only pocket money and a clothing allowange-everything 
else is provided by the Idbbutz. 

Next we went to a l)rivate farming village lik~ those ill 

England, except everybody ha(llarge orchards of fruit trees. 

ilIy hostess came from Russia and hall been educated in 
America, so sl!e spoke excellent English. They had a very nice 
hOllse and a standard of living comparable with England, ,except 
they had no television and no car. Cars here arc very expensive. 
They grew Almonds, Apricots, Guavas, Avocados and had a· 
vineyard of grapes for wine. The wine faclory is owned co· 
operatively by the local farmers an,l wc visile(l it onc day. 

The local school master mranged for us to accompany the 
sehool children on two Tiyuls. A Tiyul is a trip for the ehildren 
to sce all the country. The Israelis think it is very important 
t,hat I,he children should See all the country and know it well in 
I;ime ,of war. They travel by lorry, all piled in, and sleep in Youth 
Hostels or schools. They take food, and cases of tomatoes and 
cucumbers, jam and wc buy bread. They sing almost non·stop 
and think they have had a really good Tiyul if they come back 

hoarse. 

'Ve snw the Biblical Zoo which contains every animal and 
plant mentioned in the Bible. Wc visited King David's Tomb 
or the supposed site of it. This is on ilrounl; Zion, t.he 01(1 
Jerusalem. From there we could sce Jordan an(l Nw N omanslan(l 
between. 'lIros!; of Old J"erusalClii is in Jordan including thc 01<1 
University and a largc hospital. 

'Vc went to Rarat Rahal, which overlooks Bethlehem. 
Bethlehem, the Garden of Gethsemfine amI the ilIount of Olives 
are in Jordan and can only be visited from Israel once a year at 
Christmas time. 'Vc went to the Knesset Wllich is modelled on 
tIle British Parliament; it is only' a small building. near the 
road. On a later visit, we saw the Knesset in Session, we could 
not understand because it was in Hebrew but all the same it 
was very interesting. 'Vc spent the night in a school, all slecping 
on hard stonefioors. All the children were up at 4 a.m. next morning 
and wc had to prepare breakfast for ·them. 

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We visited the Sea of Galilee and swam in it. We saW 
Tiberias and the River Jordan. We visited Nazareth whieh is, 
still very old and Arabic and saw the place where Jesus lived and 
a beantiful Church. The children are very puzzled because they 
are brought up as Jews and know knothing of the Christian 
faith. 

One day we spent loolung aronnd the Camel ]Iarket at 
Reershelia, where there were Arabs in their long flowing 1'obes, 
many of them carrying rifles and big silver-handled knives. 
There were several hundred camels there, of all shapes and sizes. 
They WCl'e also selling little black goats and sheep, all by haggling 
amongst themselves. We were asked to photograph two eminent 

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Redouins who had jilst concluded a successful deal. We watched 
a quarrel between two Arabs over the sale of two goats, one had 
lwld of the front legs and the other had hold of the back legs and 
they were both tugging and yelling insults, surrounded by a 
crowd all shouting and trying to separate them. 

We visited Eilat on the Red Sea, which is the furthest llOrt 
South. We swam in the Red Sea and saw coral beds through the 
bottom of a glass-bottomed'lioat. We also ,vent to Sedom on the 
Dead Sea and floated in the -imter which tastes dreadful and is 
very warm. 

We have visite<l Tel Aviv, a very modern town of blocks of 
flats, residential areas, busy offices and too much traffic. In 
contrast there are also some rather unpleasant slum areas. 

Uaifa is a beautiful port, dominated by Mt. Cm'mel :llld 
a lovely wide sweep of bay. 

The third place we staye!l in was a viIIage of small-holders 
called a Moshav Oudin. Everybody kept chickens, cows and had 

an Orange Groye. Everything was sold co-operatively, aJl(l all 
ieeding~stuffs were mixed in a large warehouse. Thoro was a 

central bakery for the village, a hatchery and a milk depot. 
Each family receives a cash living allowance and all his produce 

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js recorded with a complicated accounting sytem and all profits 
are shared. The ~Iosliav we were staying in was one of the first 
jn Israel and had some very nice houses. ~ry hosts came from 
Russia, and spoke Russian,.Hebrew, Yiddish and a little English, 
so we communicated in German, a little English and the few 
words of Hebrew I have acquired. ~rany people in Israel speak 
iour or five languages. 
Everywhere in Israel· onc can see land being reclaimed; 

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water piped 200 miles ·from the River Yarkon. The Prime 
Minister, Ben Gurion, lives in Ili kibbutz Sede Boeher in the 
Negev. We passed it in the bus, just a collection of wooden huts 
standing bn.a sandy slope with a few small trees and nothing in 
sight for miles. When I returned to the kibbutz where we were 
staying I said "Why does Ben Gmion live there Y Dreadfnl 
placc-notlling but 'sand!" "Well," said my hosts, "so was 
this place when 'vc came here ten years ago." On the road to 
Jernsalem, a really beautiful road winding upwards With steep 
forested slopes on each side, we saw wide stretchcs of newly 
made tcrraces planted with regular lines of grapevines and·fruit 
trees. Yimeni workmen were busy making more terraces with 
pneumatic drills. One acre of arable. land costs £2,000 . 

.All Israelis are determined to be farmers. After centuries 
of exile and earning their living by business and the labour of 
otllCrs, they want to finish with that way of life. 

We imagined the Jewish people were very religions, but the 
l'eligion which kept them together for centuries they have 
abandoned as impractical and out of date. There are several 
religions vilL~ges wllCre they try very hard to obey all th~ rules 
of not working on Shabbat. They cook everything the day before 
and do everything else by a very complicated system of time 
switehes. It is very hard for them as everybody else travels and 
enjoys themselves on Shabbat, as this is the only day they are 
free . 

.All our hosts were very kind to us and hospitality here 
could not be bettered. .Although there was frietion between the 
English and inhabitants during the .time of the British Mandate 
this is all forgotten now, and many people go out of their way 
to be nice to us, because they remember it was the ;British 
Governmcnt which really brought the idea of a Jewish National 
State from idealism to reality. 

PATRICIA J. SIDFORD. 

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Residential Work With Deprived Children 

"I have always wanted to work with children." With 
what misgivings those in charge of Institutions sometimes greet 
that l'emark! It often means that the applicant has very little 
coneeption of how many aspects of " work with children" thcre 

arc, or what each invo!ycs. 

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As part of the COUl'se that]; aUl taking wc m:e sent out fOl' 
six weeks' practical experience in a hospital, and for another six 
'yeeks to some kind of boarding school. I was Incky enongh to 
lie given the opportnnity of going to a London County Council 
Establishment for deprived children, which is in Essex. Deprived 
children arc those who in any way are prevented from having a 
normal home background. This might result in any of a number 
of disturbances in a Cllild, and thus a home of this kind has 
children who are aggressive, educationally sub-normal, 
delinquent, in moral dauger, orplmned or illegitimate. nIany 
come as the l'esult of a Court case. 

This particular Establishment houses four hnndred and

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seventy such cllildren. As far as possible it is run on the most 
up-to-date methods of child-care. The authorities are, however, 
'handicapped by shortage of tl:ained staff and money_ Consequently 
they have to make do with houses for twenty-eight or 
even forty-two children. Although everyone knows that the

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large numbers arc bad, nothing can be done about them at the 
moment. The Staff tries to compensate for this shortcoming 
in other ways. 

The houses are set out in two crescmits of semi-detached 
buildings, enclosing a playing field and pl:tygronnd. The School 
has its own generators and a laundry which serves otllOr Institutions 
besides. A shoemaker has a workshop and mends shoes for 
the whole school, and a central clothing store distributes clothes 
as they are needed by each llOuse. The same thing happens in 
a store room for everything required for keeping honse. An 
excellent remedial unit is in the !:I'ounds for backward or specially 
difficult children. There is also a nursery activity group for those 
children who have come out of the Baoy Unit an(1 arc too young 
to go to SchooL Finally there is a Sanatorium to which any 
child needing anything but the most elementary treatment is 
sent. 

The School is run on the Cottage Home System. There were 
eight of the smaller houses "ith a Housemother, three Assistants 
and onc full-time Domestic Help, wllOm the Housemother can 
place as she pleases. The large houses have onc extr~member 
of staff, generally with a. married 'couplc at the head, and any 
male staff work in the big houses. This is l'egarded as the'ideal 
staffing, butit c.~nnot always be maintained. The Matron, who 
is in· an administrative pOSition, has the responsibility for the 
organisation of the Staff under the final jurisdiction of the 
Superintendent and his Deputy. She is also responSible for the 

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chccking of requisition forms and menus 111anned by the IIousemothers, 
and ultimately responsible for the clothing side of the 
work which is largely carried out by her Assistant_ 

The children normally go out to Schools in the district, amI 
a very few go up to London. This is a good' .thing because it 
]lClps to broaden their minds. The more widely the children 
can be dispersed the less likelihood there is of their being mcntally 
labelled as a gang in the Schools they attend. The co-operation 
of the IIeads with the Superintendent and i\L~tron in this respect 
is invaluable. When School functions are supPOl·ted by their 
own staff, like other children's parents, the children arc delighted. 

Whenever possible the children are given freedom so. that 
they develop common sense, and (if possible!) good taste. There 
is no corporal punishment. The children are allowed to go dO\\'ll 
to the village to spemi their money, and are free to accept, "ith 
permission, invitations to visit 1leople. Occasionally a membet' 
of the domestic staff takes an interest in a child in thc house 
in which she works, and may like to take one for companionship 
for her own children. In the clothing store thc children arc 
encouraged to express sensible opinions' about their clothes, ami 
fitting them up with garments is onc of the most (iclightful 
branches of the work. When a boy 01' girl reaches the age of 

fourteen he goes on to " outside buying". This means that with 

the aid of the IIousemother the child chooses his own clothes in 
a shopping centre. 

The whole basis of the system is that as many as can bc are 
" short-stay" children; that is that the visit is regarded 'as 
temporary, and only a substitute for the home. It is impressed 
on the minds of the staff that when everything possible has been 
done, it is only a substitute for the worst home. It intereste(1 
me that some ehildrcn "ith appalling backgrounds, from which 
sordid environment one would think that they are well-rid, 
count the days to the next time they go home 01' be visited. In 
many cases children go home for parts of the holidays. 

The deprived child is sometimes pathetically ignorant. I was 
amazed at two fifteen-year-olds with whom I went for a· walk 
who neither knew what a violet looks like nor what a Test-match 
is. They are, therefore, in some ways much more depcndent 
than'the normal Child, iu spite of thc " tough" appearance of 
the boys, and the old appearance, for thcir age, of the girls. It is 
a great pleasure to take one of them for an appointment, perhaps 
at a London IIospital, or, indeed to do anything for them 
individually. The younger ones 1larticnlarly are more demonstra-

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tive, and need an open show of affection to feel sccurity. They 
arc more respo!lSible thau many normal childre,ll' of their own 
age in th"t, if they have bcen under care for a long time, they 
are quick and genuine in their reactions to whatever is done for 
them. Their naiye approach to everything makes them lovable, 
and onc feels protective towards them because in many ways 
they arc so helplcss. 

Itis impossiblc to know wliat will bccome of them eventually, 
but a good mcmber of a child-care staff aims at giving cach child 
the best possible grounding ill every way, and attcmpts to give 
him stability at that moment. This sort of work is demanding 
and can only be entered succcssfully with a sense of vocation and 
a very real sense of humour. It can, however, be a deeply full 
and happy life. There is no profession in which a person can 
feel more needed, botl' from the point of view of the gener"l 
shortage of and demand for staff, and in the affection of the 
childrcn . 

JANE BRAYFOltD. 

(Bm'l'idge House Domestic Science Collegc.) 

My Third Year at King's College, London 

I finished Iny two years at training college, eagerly looking 

forward to a year at University. I have decided to take a third 
year supplcmentary COurse at King's College in the hope that 
the certificate which might be mine will cnable me to teach in a 
Grammar School. 

I have bcen in King's for over a month now and as I expectcd, 
the differences betwcen training college life and Univcrsity life 
are cnormous. There are approximately two thousand students 
here, and naturally one has to shoulder complctcly the responsibility 
for one self. Quite literally, life is what you make it. 

My course consists of thrce subjects which "'iIl be divided 
to form six different examil'~tion llapers. Apart from Old and 
New.Testament, I take Church History. Grcek is an optional 
subject and I decided to take it thinking that, no mattcr how 
badly I farcd, at'lcast my general knowledge would be improved. 
Now I think my sanity is being impaired as I spend so much 
time on it! Nevertheless I enjoy it. Besides thesc lectures 
I attend Prayer, Theology, and others to whiclt Theo)ogical 
students arc advised to listen. In all, I have twelve lectines a 
week, and all my afternoons free. Free, tha t is, from lectlll'es, 

but we have very much work to get through in one yeaI'. 

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I am snre though that at the end of the year I shall be very 
pleased that I decided to rcmain a studcnt for this extra year. 

lILmy C: WILSON. 

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An' Interesting New Job 

.Almost twelve months ago, having spent seven years as a 
medical secretary, I had a sudden desire t~ conquer" fresh fi~lds" 
and was fortunate enough to.secure a Principal Clerkship at the 
School 6f Oriental and African Studies in the University of 
London. It was for me a complete clmnge-from the hectic life' 
at B.lILA. House to the somewhat leisnrely environment of the 
UniYcrsity. 

The School of Oriental and African Studies was founded 
dnring the first world war, and greatly expanded during the 
decade after the second world war as a result of the recommcnda· 
tiOllS of the Scarbrough Commission which was appointed in 
1944 to examine, inter alia, the facilities offered by British 
Universities for the study of Oriental and African languages 
and cuitnres. 

. In 1938 the School was situated in Finsbury Circus with an 
acadcmic staff of about forty, drawn mainly from retired 
Indi,m Civil and Colonial Service Officials. To·day it occupies a 
central position in the University of London (almost opposite 
Senate House), with a staff of about Olie Imndred and fifty, 
many of whom have been attracted to these fields from other 
academic studies. This attraction has perhaps heen caused by 
the war· time experiences ,Of many of the younger lecturers. The 
function of the School is to give instruction in the languages of 
Eastern and African I)Coples, ancient and modern, and in the 
literature, history, l'eligion and customs of those peoples. 

The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art is 
administered in association with the School and .contains a 
nnique collection of Chinese ceramics. The library attached to 
the School contains over 200,000 books and pamphlets and about 
1,500 manuscripts relating to Oriental and African .studies, and 
is constantly being increased. An important fcature of the 
library is its large collection of Chinese books which includes the 
library of R'ohertll[orrison, missionary and Chinese lexic'ographer. 

My w,Ork is concerncd mainly with the Governing B'ody and 
its vari,Ous C'ommittees which are responsible for the academic 
and administrative functions of thc School, but I meet many of 

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the students who come from all parts of the world, as well as a 
number of visiting Professors from Universities abroad. I am 
also able to share in the social life of the School. As I make my 
way aronnd the College from day to day it is interesting to sce 
groups of students of different nationalities, many in their native 
dress, conversing in their own laligtiages, and, seeing them living 
andworking together in this way, it is difficult to understand why 
man's inhumanity to man should persist. Mine is an interesting 
post, and one I hOlle to enjoy for many years t.o come. 

lLmGARET HUSSEY• 

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The Old Girl8' A880eiation would like to give its' 'oarmest 
thank8 to CyntMa H",,,ble and Pamela Gatehou8e who, Jor 8everal 
year8, hat'e done m08t oJthe typindJor thi8 section oJthe Magazine . 

DORA SUMMERHAYS' EXHIBITION OF MINIATURES 

From June 23rd to July 5th an exhibition of miniatures by 
Dora Summerhays, the distinguished old girl of the School, was 
held in the Gold HilIl[useum. 

Two of the exhibits, which were displayed in large cases, 
1rere awarded sHYer medals at the Paris Salon, and all' were 
greatly appreciated by the girls of the ScllOol who paid a visit 
to the musenm during the fortnight. ' 

The portraits were o~ people of all ages, from very young to 
-very old, and sho\\'ed a remarkable degree of charactelisation 
and draughtsmanship. The childish ,innocence in the face of 
" Susan," or in the little girl in the miniature called," Bed-time," 
contrasted beautifully with the portrayal of character, experience 
and philosophy in the face of the old man called " Eighty-T\~o " 
and that of the" Rev. E. 'V. Huntingford." 

The colour used by the artist was sometimcs very slight, 
the merest tints, but this allowcd us to appreciate all the more 
the delightful pencil drawing underneath. One picture in 
particular seemcd to be a great favourite with many girls. It 
was drawn in black and white and showed a young girl plaiting 
her hair. 'The artist called it " Day Dreams," and it was full of 
tenderness. Others which drew special attention, although 

eX]lressive of different moods, were "The Cook" and "Can 
I do you now, Sir." G.C.O. 
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Life Members since January, 1958 

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Cordcry, Pamcln (nee )lills), 'Bristol House. 51, High Street, Shnftcsbury. Dorset 
l'tlillar, Lesley, 31, Fclday Rond, Lcwishalll, London, S.E.13. 
Parham, Ann, 45, Farm nand, 'Vcston·supcr:l!aro, Somerset. 
Richmond, Cathcrinc, Prior's Farm, Sentley, Wilts. 
Robson, )Iiss W., 3, Radnor Road, Salisbury, Wilts. 


Annual Members 1957/58 (since December, 1957) 

A1'dloy, Barbara (nee Wright), 6, Jcnncd Road, Arnold, N9ttingl.lnm. 
Chinn, Kathlccn (nee Hutchings), Causeway Farm, :Motcomhc, Dorset. 
Furscy, JilI, 6, Turks Close, l'tlotcombc, Dorset. 
Hiscock, Syh·ia. Hillcrest, Coombe, nr. Shaftcsbury. 
Hitchings, Barbara, Nowhohnc, Salisbury Street, :Mero, Wilts. 
Humphrics. YY'onnc, Yew 'Tree Cottage, Littlcdown, Shaftesbury. 
Hutley. Jcanne, lloync Cottage, Salisbury Road. Shliftcshury. Dorset. 
Sharp, Valeric, Cheriton, C11(1neJl Avenue, Bear Cross, Bournemouth. 
Short, }[ay, Grcnville Place Nursing Home, 1!landfortl Forum, Dorset. 
Tidey, June, 42, Crn!leS Park, Surbitoll, Surrey. 
White, Barbara, 13, Arthur Road, Wokingham, Berks. 
'Yorthington, }[arion, JJIlrnfield, Edmondsham, Wimbome, Dorset. 


Annual Members, 1958/59 

Alford, Christinc, 12, )[ountgro\'e Road·, Highbury, London, N.5. 
Ardley, Barbara (nee Wright), 6, Jenncd Road, Arno1d, Nottingham. 
Bond, Susan, 12, Tho Elms, :Fovant, Salisbury. 
Burnett, Brenda, Hamcross Cottages, Chieksgro\'e, nr. Tisbury, Wilts~ 
Cheater, Heather, C.N.T.e., 20, Pcppnrd Road, Caversham, Reading. 
Chinn, Kathlccn (net Hutehings), Causeway Farm, Motcombe. Dorset.. 
Gray, Shirley, New Home, Portwey Hospital, Wyke Road, Weymouth. Dorset. 
Hann, GilIian, Manor Farm, Wh'eliscombc, Taunton, Somerset. ' 
Hitehings, Dawn, Ncwholmc, Salisbury Street, )[ere. Wilts. 
Hitehings, Darbara, Ncwhohne, Salisbury Street, :Mero. Wilts. 
Humphrics, Y\'ollnc, Yew Tree Cottage, Littledown. Shaftcsbury, Dorset. 
Hutloy, Jeannc, Doyno Cottage, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, Dorset. 
Imber, Ena (nee Clarko), 'l'ho Ship Inn, Shafwsbury, Dorset. 
Potter, Phillipa, 7, CharJtoll, nr. Sha{t.csbury, Dorset. 
Prntt, Elizabeth (nee Nathan), 21, Polstead Road,. Oxford. 
Salisbury, Bridget. East Coppleridge Farm, !\[otcombc, Dorset. 
Salisbury, Janct. East Copplcridge Farm, :i\[otcombe, Dorset. 
Short, :\lay. GrcllyilIe Place Nursing Home, Bfandford Forum, Dorset. 
Spencer, Ruth, 28, Netherhamptoll Road, West Harnhnm, Salisbury,. Wilts. 
Staincr, Pat, I, St.. John's Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset. ' 
StcnllS, Jaequeline, 3, 'l'urks Close, :\lotcombe, Dorset. 
Squires, Janet, The Homestead, Gros\'enor Road, Shaftcsbury, Dorset. 


: Welch, Beryl, I..ayton Lanc, Shnftesbury, Dorset. 
White, Janct, Fontmell Hill House, Iwome :Minstcr, nr. Dlnndford Forum,Dorsct~ 
'Yoeclmau, Dapbnc, 24, Ehncrs Drive, Tcddington, :.\1iddlescx. 
'Voodman, :alargarot, 24, Ehncrs DriYe, Tccldington, Middlesex. 
Woods, Betsy, Rosedean, French }Iill Lane, Shaftcsbury, Dorset. 
\Vorthington, J\Iarion, BarnficM, Edmondsham. nr. Wimborne, Dorset• 

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL, 
WHETHER NEAR OR FAR, . 
WE-SEND OUR GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES 

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