Magazine 2013 - City of London School for Girls
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Magazine 2013 - City of London School for Girls
#,/'! Magazine 2013 COMMITTEE MEMBERS CLOGA COMMITTEE MEMBERS & OTHER OFFICERS President Miss Diana Vernon Headmistress City of London School for Girls St Giles’ Terrace, Barbican London ECY 8BB Email:[email protected] Hon. Treasurer Ms. Elizabeth Lewzey 1966-74 Somerled 8 Kings Warren Oxshott, Surrey KT22 0PE Tel: 01372 844 020 Email: [email protected] Vice Presidents Lady France Castle House Castle Lane Eynesford Dartford, Kent DA4 0AA Hon. Secretary, Co-ordinator for Regional Representatives (to retire 2013) Mrs. Wendy Davies (Cox) 1950-55 57, Grafton Road Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1QY Tel: 01903 200 194 Fax:01903 216 402 Email: [email protected] Mrs. L.E.M. Betts Cotswold 39/61, Upper Tooting Park London SW17 7SU Dr. Y Burne OBE 4, The Marlins Eastbury Avenue Northwood, Middlesex HA6 3NP Deputy Head W. Andrew Douglas (Address as for headmistress) Email:[email protected] Tel: 020 7847 5500 Fax: 020 7638 3212 Executive Chairman, Representative for AROPS, Mrs. Jill E. Dixon (Andrew) 1955-63 “Kimba”, 6A, Bell Weir Close Wraysbury, Berkshire TW19 6HF Tel: 01784 483 309 e-mail: [email protected] Merchandising Officer and Travel Club Organiser Mrs. Beryl Ambrose (Osborne) 1946-55 7 Wonford House Heath Drive Walton-on-the-Hill Surrey KT20 7QL Tel: 01737 812 503 Email:[email protected] Assistant Secretary Miss Sheila Lewis, 1938-39 (Co-opted) 701 Grenville House, Dolphin Square, London SW1V 3LR Tel: 020 7798 8083 Email: [email protected] Representative for City Schools Freemen’s Association Mrs. Ann Reed (Hutchison) 1949-56 Flat 3, 12 North Hill London Deputy Chairman, Social Events N6 6QA Co-Ordinator, Subscriptions Secretary Tel: 02073512855 Mrs. Gillian Simcox (Galilee) 1954-59 Email: [email protected] 48, Rochester Way London NW1 9JL Prize Fund Tel: 020 7485 8884 Miss Joyce Lee, 1999-2006 Email: [email protected] 52 Cromwell Tower, Barbican, London EC2Y 3DD Membership and Records Secretary Tel: 020 7588 9640 (inc. Database) Email: [email protected] Mrs. Fiona Porter (MacHaffie) 1957-64 17, Selwyn Road New Malden, Surrey KT3 5AU Tel: 020 8942 1742 Fax: 020 8942 3669 Email: [email protected] CLOGA Magazine Editor Dr. Farine Clarke (Saeed) 1973-78 Farthings Newick Lane Mayfield East Sussex Tel: 07786110288 Email: [email protected] Miss Kathryn Jiggens (Kumar), 1991-98 8 Barleycorn Way, Emerson, Hornchurch, Essex RM11 3JJ Tel: 01708 437 049 Email: [email protected] Mrs. Anita Lowenstein Dent (Lowenstein) 1977-84 109 Elgin Crescent, London W11 2JF Tel: 020 7727 0856 Mob: 07896 005 544 e-mail: [email protected] Mrs. Catherine Delany (Lister), 1959-67 41A Pope Road, Bromley, Kent BR2 9QP Tel: 020 8460 6413 Email: [email protected] Miss Olivia Gray, 1992-2003 7, Elnathan Mews, London W9 2JE Tel: 07950 258 017 Email: [email protected] Careers Teacher c/o CLSG Head Girl & Deputy Head Girls c/o CLSG ‘Young’ Committee Olivia Gray. Kathryn Jiggens, Joyce Lee CONTENTS - CLOGA Magazine 2011 Committee Members and Contacts Editor’s Letter Chairman’s letter Prize Day Alumni News Millennium Scholarship Report Prize Fund Report Bec Astley Clark and the AGM Keep Calm...Its Only Trimmings! Visit to Shakespeare’s Globe Down Memory Lane I Fell in Love with an Elephant Old Girl’s Survey Results Girl’s Around the World On Top of the World Treasurers Report Reunions Marriages Obituaries inside front cover page 2 page 3 page 4 pages 6- 10 page 11 page 12 page 13 page 15 page 16 page 17 page 18 page 20 page 23 page 24 page 30 pages 32 & 33 pages 34 & 35 pages 36-40 New CLOGA Members Inside back cover Ann Peters, Betty Graham, Dr Joyce Mary Havelock, Marina Sharf, Dorothy May Dark, Francis Skinner 1 OF OLD GIRLS and YOUNG SPORTS Happiness is two old mares who understand each other! I should start this editor’s letter with a hearty and warm greeting but every time I write the words: ‘Dear Old Girl’, I cringe and can go no further. My horse, who turned 18 this month, is an ‘old girl’ and I often find myself saying: ‘There there, dear old girl’, somewhere between my kicking her on to go a bit faster, and her strangely energetic responsive buck. In her opinion I should respect my elders (in horse years) and everyone knows that an old mare cannot canter away from home (aka where the carrots are) but has absolutely no problem galloping back towards them! On these occasions, when I find myself flying past the traffic on our too narrow country lane, I have other names for her, none of which are printable here. So, ex-CLSG fellows, what should we call ourselves? Are you happy with Old Girl? If not and you have a better term, then please send your suggestions on a post- card. And while you’re at it, what do you think of the term CLOGA? I for one do not find it particularly inspiring. It seems to me like a mis-spelt pair of open backed wooden shoes. I yearn for some frightfully clubby ‘What Ho Jeeves’ sort of title, full of girlish rebellion and high spirits. This may be because my son is now at boarding school where they have nicknames for everything; from sweets, called ‘grub’ to an early morning alarm call, a so called ‘early bird’ for those who want to rise with the dawn chorus and get up extra early to do something illegal in the woods. The whole thing conjures up Blyton-esque visions of lashings of ginger beer and lemon drizzle cake. My husband’s old school for example have a ‘Pineapple Society’...... something to do with a dining club which met in secret during the war (I know I’ve got that a little wrong, so please don’t send letters.) I am not suggesting we call ourselves the ‘old fruits’ but...... And it’s no good hiding behind knitting needles and cries of infirmity because this issue of your magazine testifies to the huge amount of spirit, energy and overwhelming vitality that exists among the alumni whatever name they care to go by. In this issue alone we have girls pulling teeth from pumas (I am not kidding) as well as others receiving OBE’s, running successful businesses and nipping out from their extremely busy day job for a quick climb up Mount Kilimanjaro. And its not just the young-ish employed who show spirit. Oh no, your comments on the survey put paid to that idea. Take for example madame-gallows-humour (you know who you are) whose answer to the question: ‘are there any clubs or societies which you would join?’ may be in keeping with leaving school in the 1940s. Still, ‘How about grave digging for my age group?’ is not quite the response one expects from a lady of a certain age. So I do hope you enjoy this latest issue of your magazine. I could go into a long explanation as to why it is so late, but my excuses will sound like: ‘the dog ate my homework’. As I began this piece with horses, and we’ve discussed the pumas, I think introducing another animal at this stage will simply cause confusion. Suffice it to say that the magazine depends on you for success. It depends on your participation, suggestions and ideas. Most of all it depends on your stories and pictures. And you don’t have to climb mountains to be a part of it. You simply have to be a ‘good old sport’, with the emphasis on the young (at heart)! Farine Clarke Editor The City of London Old Girls’ Association www.clsg.org.uk Under the Data Protection Act 1984 we are required to inform you that the names and addresses are held on computer file and are used only for the circulation of Association material and the completion of membership lists. Please inform the Honorary secretary in writing of any individual objections. The publisher accepts no responsibility for the content of the advertisements or the views expressed by the contributors. The information contained within the magazine should not be reproduced, copied, stored, recorded, sold or otherwise disposed of in any form without the written permission of the Association. Printed by Promotion House Limited. Telephone: 01732 862461 www.promotion-house.co.uk 2 CHAIRMAN’S LETTER In her letter to members, Chairman Jill Dixon highlights CLOGA’s activities and future plans. When you read this we will be in the afterglow of the Olympics/ Paralympics event and all its successes. I am sure you will all agree that the whole event was brilliant with our GB athletes surpassing all expectations, splendid venues, fantastically enthusiastic crowds, excellent organisation and thankfully good weather. I was lucky enough to go to the Hockey Final in the Olympic Park but I also found the television coverage of the Olympics was an enormous distraction and compulsive viewing! Since the last magazine I have been delighted to represent CLOGA at the School’s Scholars’ concert, the Senior Carol Service in 2011 and the Junior Carol Concert in 2012 with the traditional carols and readings and the wonderful choral music from the choirs was splendid; a most professional performance of CLSG and CLS’s ‘Grease’ and recently a rousing Sing and Swing Concert. I am always very impressed with the high quality of performance and the variety of music selected for the various musical events. Maggie Donnelly head of music today certainly is carrying on the tradition of encouraging girls of all ages to appreciate and enjoy music - over 50% of the girls study and play a musical instrument. Whatever our particular subjects were, music is always mentioned in everyone’s reminiscences of their days at the City. In the Autumn Term I much enjoyed the School’s Senior Drama Group’s splendid production of Measure for Measure. Our AGM, although sparsely attended, went well and the buffet was particularly well received! It is difficult to find a date, time and day of the week that suits everyone. Your Committee will endeavour to do this and also, to encourage all of you to attend, arrange a ‘must not miss’ important attraction and encourage reunion events to coincide with the AGM. CLOGA’s Year 13 Leavers’ lunch is a welcoming event to our newest members of the Association and was again a great success. The girls said they really enjoyed such a wonderful lunch and had a fantastic time. They wanted CLOGA to know that this, together with our contribution towards their Leavers Ball, was very much appreciated. I represented CLOGA and duly attended the AROPS 2011 AGM held at St. Paul’s Girls’ School and glancing round the splendid library I noticed pictures of past headmistresses which included that of Ethel Strudwick, the second Headmistress of City, who left to become High Mistress at St. Paul’s Girls’ School in 1927. The 2012 AGM was held at the City of London Boys School. It was great to hear the Headmaster extolling the virtues of the John Carpenter Club and the assembled company much appreciated a very excellent talk given by an old boy of the School, Sir David Walker who is Master of the Royal Household. As an AROPS Committee member now I also attended their Conference held at Rugby School and am looking forward to meeting up with many other representatives of alumnae associations at the forthcoming conference in Portsmouth. Several snippets of news following on from last year’s letter; with regard to our founder William Ward’s tomb, the City Surveyors Department have advised his great-great-great nephew, Nicholas Ward, that they would be examining the site and would be producing a report which is still awaited, the agreed Life Membership subscription for all girls leaving the School came into operation in September 2012 and the updated CLOGA page on the School’s website will be up and running soon. I reiterate what I have been saying since becoming Chairman that we really must reflect on what CLOGA’s aims are for the future so that we continue to have an association relevant in the 21st century. I also think we should encourage the School to give continued support to CLOGA and show that they are committed to an active ‘Old Girls’ association. I am delighted that we have just set up a younger Sub-committee to report back on what their thoughts hopes and wishes are for our future. My grateful thanks to all the officers and Committee members who have been, and I hope will continue to be, the most loyal and tremendous help, members of staff who have assisted us over the past year and finally to Diana Vernon, our President, sincere thanks for her continued support and advice. I retire as Chairman of CLOGA at the AGM in April 2013, a position I have been proud to hold, and I look back on a most pleasurable and busy six years at its helm. I hope my successor Gillian Simcox will enjoy her term as Chairman and derive much pleasure and satisfaction in leading our Association. We look forward to welcoming you to events in the future which I hope many of you will be able to support and in the meantime send you all my very best wishes. Jill Dixon - Chairman - CLOGA March 2013 3 PRIZE DAY Parents and Pupils Eagerly Await the Prize Giving Like Dick Whittington before her, Jill Dixon also enjoyed the splendour of London’s historic Guildhall. On this occasion she was there to celebrate CLSG’s annual distribution of prizes. It is always a pleasure to approach the imposing Guildhall along the cobbled courtyard, flat shoes obligatory (!) The School’s Prize Day on Tuesday, 6th November 2012, was wet and windy day so it was gratifying to enter the bright foyer and to be greeted by welcoming staff. Into the Great Hall and a little time to look around - the windows contain the names of previous Lord Mayors of London interspersed with the monograms of reigning monarchs. There are splendid monuments to national heroes including Admiral Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Winston Churchill. Also to be seen are the huge figures of the legendary giants Gog and Magog who were said to have founded London – the original ones were made of papier mache and replaced in 1708 with oak figures and then in 1953 with limewood ones. As this imposing Great Hall filled up with students, staff and parents the buzz of voices grew ever louder as we waited for the arrival of the Lord 4 Mayor. The Prize Day programme began with the Overture Oberon (Weber) and the Processional was the March from Scipio (Handel). This was a rousing entrance for the Lord Mayor, Alderman David Wootton, in all his finery accompanied by the Sword and Mace Bearers. The School Caretakers looking extremely formal in smart suits, formed a ‘guard of honour’ at the foot of the raised dais as the Lord and Lady Mayoress, their entourage, the Headmistress and Governors took there places. The new Chairman of the Governors, Alderman White, opened the proceedings by welcoming us all and inviting the Headmistress, Diana Vernon, to give her resume of the School’s past year. She reported that throughout the year there had not only been excellent academic results but that the girls also excelled in sports and enjoyed a variety of extracurricular activities; they also took part in many fund raising activities particularly with regard to care in the community and other charitable organisations. PRIZE DAY - cont. The Lady Mayoress then distributed the Prizes which included the CLOGA awards. These days, the Prize Table does not groan with the weight and number of books as it used to as these have been replaced by envelopes signifying the award but there are still a few rather nice silver trophies! She then gave a short speech applauding the girls’ splendid achievements, highly praising the excellent staff and, of course, complementing the parents for all their support. The proceedings of the afternoon were interspersed with some wonderful music from the School choirs, orchestra and Madrigal Group. And with the ‘business of the day’ over, the Lord Mayor and his party left to the orchestra playing, ‘Allegro con slancio’ from Serenade (William Mathias). The CLSG Orchestra Added to the Splendour of the Day We then assembled for tea in the Old Library. This used to house over 40,000 volumes manuscripts and maps but this collection was moved to the West Wing and the Museum of London in 1974. At the north end of the room is a magnificent stained glass window depicting William Caxton. After a most welcome cup of tea together with some excellent finger sandwiches, and rather delicious little sweet temptations, the assembled company drifted away from the bright lights of the Guildhall into the grey, cold, wet and windy City. The Girls Appreciate the Opportunity to Chat with London’s Leading Dignitaries. Each year the Guildhall hosts not only the Lord Mayor’s banquet, but also royalty and state visitors. Dick Whittington even entertained Henry V and his Queen in this historic building. How splendid, therefore, that it has played host to the City of London School for Girls Annual Distribution of Prizes for many years. Jill E. Dixon (nee Andrew) November 2012 Music was a Strong Feature of a Wonderful Day 5 NEWS The ‘Young Girls’ Sub-Committee The Young Persons Sub-Committee comprises Olivia Gray, Kathryn Jiggens, Joyce Lee and Rachel Courtenay-Pinfield. The aims of this sub-committee are to address the issues pertinent to the younger alumni and offer support as well as providing them with contacts and help through a range of methods. Olivia Gray, Kathryn Jiggens and Joyce Lee of the Young Girls Sub-Committee. Hilary Lane Our congratulations go out to Hilary Lane who was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List for Services to the Arts. Hilary collected it from HM Her Majesty, The Queen, at Buckingham Palace in February. Hilary was very modest about us printing this story, but we felt her friends from City, and indeed all of us – would like to know more. So we persuaded her to share her experience here….! I was amazed to learn that I had been awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours List for services to the arts. The letter came in November and I managed not to tell anyone until the list was published . My neighbour said: “ Oh look there is someone with the same name as you is in the Honours List”. The MBE is the award that long serving school crossing people get and in a way that is the best way to explain it. I have been seeing arts organisations, writers, artists, musicians, dancers and theatre companies across the road in various ways for 40 years, most recently as Cultural Strategy Manager for East Sussex County Council, a post I left last August. I have also been the director of a university gallery and worked for the Arts Council in a variety of ways including devising and selecting touring exhibitions from their collection. I have enjoyed trying to find ways of making art in all its forms more widely available to people so that they can get to know and 6 Some of the areas which the committee plans to focus on include; networking, family and social events. If you have any ideas or would like to be involved in any way, then please contact... [email protected]. enjoy it without telling them what to think. The MBE was particularly meaningful because the process was instigated by artists and arts companies that I have worked with. It is their inspiration and energy that has sustained me over the years and it was in recognition too of all that they have achieved. The investiture of course required the wearing of a hat. I have a huge head and can’t buy hats off the peg. I used to have my school hat and boater made specially. Happily my son has a friend who is a milliner: Lady Gaga and Kate Middleton are amongst his clients. I tried on some wonderful hats at his workshop including one embellished with a huge golden apple. He made a beautiful, discrete black beret for me which was perfect. Because my husband is a wheelchair user we did not sweep up the Grand Staircase. However we had excellent glimpses behind the scenes and our own cloakroom and for my three guests, front row seats. I met many delightful, interesting and brave people in the pre-event mingling. Everyone I met was extremely nervous including the golfer Lee Westwood who said it was much more nervewracking that putting that final shot in front of expectant crowds, which I found hard to believe but was obviously true. I had no nerves at all. The Queen looked reassuringly like the Queen, very pretty in mauve and was smily and Hilary Lane MBE (1957 - 1964) warm. NEWS - cont. The Channel Swimming Team Our survey which is reported in this issue, showed that many girls who left school in the 70s remember the cross channel team. This picture is in a display of Channel swimming memorabilia in Dover Museum . Back Row Rosalind Hawkins; Anna France; Fiona CramptonSmith; Margaret Lyons; Janet Weiner; Judith Lowenstein; Heather Fairclough; Jayne Dale Front Row Heather Mitchell; Jane Allen; Lucie France; Geraldine Scales; Joy Adams; Hilary Nicholson; Jillian Pritchard Form IVb - Joy Adams and Jillian Pritchard Form Vb - Heather Mitchell, Jane Allen, Hilary Nicholson, Geraldine Scales, Lucie Harwood Form Va - Janet Weiner and Fiona Crampton-Smith Lower Sixth - Judith Lowenstein, Rosalind Hawkins, Heather Fairclough and Margaret Lyons Upper Sixth - Anna France The Alumni Webpages The Alumni webpages are being updated on the CLSG website and will be launched soon. This will be an area that the alumni can access and see events and news from within the association. It will also be an opportunity to re-connect with the School or fellow pupils from days gone by. If you are interested in submitting some news or would like to get involved with the webpages then please contact: Kathryn at [email protected] Jane Cresswell writes….. I enjoyed reading the interview with Elena Mauro in the last edition of the magazine. She was in the same school year as me, albeit not in the same form ... though we were for many years in the same French class with Miss Garnett. Having been licensed as priest in charge of St Paul‘s Nork in Guildford Diocese in July, I am enjoying the challenges which the new post brings, having completed my curacy in Southwark Diocese. The parish here has been very warm and welcoming. My four children are now all taller than me, which is a little alarming! The eldest who is 21 is working as a computer software engineer and doing an Open University degree, and the 19 year old is also working at present and dithering about what to read at university theology or philosophy. Meanwhile the 16 year old awaits GCSE results this week, but is happily employed for the holiday in his father’s company as well as doing some freelance work designing a website for another company! Though he says he will be pleased to get back to school to commence his A level courses. And the youngest who is 14 is about to start his GCSE courses next month. Where did my babies go?!!! Jane S Cresswell The Tassie - Two questions: Are you a woman? Are you a golfer? If you can answer ‘yes’ to both then the Old Queenswoodians have a treat for you - the chance to enter The Tassie, an interschool golf competition for women alumni. Audrey Butler of the Old Queenswoodians Association explains: “The Silver Tassie was first played in 1961 between the former pupils of a few girls’ schools. Since then the competition has grown and migrated as “The Tassie” to the Berkshire GC from Sunningdale Ladies GC. Its format has always been the same: Each school raises a team of 4 Old Girls with a handicap limit of 24. The competition is Foursomes Medal played over 27 holes, 18 in the morning and 9 after lunch. Tea and Prize giving end this fiercely competitive and enjoyable day. The Tassie Committee is keen to encourage more women competitors not only from girls’ schools but from those now co-educational schools with growing numbers of women alumni.” For Further information please contact Jill Dixon [email protected] 7 NEWS - cont. Kirsty Johnstone & Teddies I was at City from 1972 to 1979. Although I no longer work I am an Arctophile with a very large collection of ‘teddy bears’. This is not as kitsch as it sounds! I specialize in bears “with provenance” specifically with an historical background. For example I have one that was in his owners pocket when killed on the Somme. Having done some research I now have army records. I have more like that as well as a pair whose family are German and were after split by the Berlin Wall, with one lady marrying an English officer caught behind German lines. Kirsty Johnstone Vicky Tallon, an update: I have moved to Newbury, Berkshire following two years working for the British Embassy in Madrid. I now work for SABMiller in a project management capacity. I live near my sister, Lizzie, who was also at City, and her three gorgeous children. I am loving the access to outdoor pursuits, which are on my doorstep here at Newbury. I would love to keep in contact with my class-mates or year group so please let’s get in touch, Vicky Tallon. [email protected] News of the Paing’s; Mother and Daughter! Jenny writes...... Whilst browsing the ‘net’ this morning on the first of a few days off work, I found a link to the OGA and thought I might take advantage of the link to update our information on your files! My name is Jenny Judge (née Paing) school years 1969 - 1975, I started school in IIIC in the brand new building, Miss Champness was our form mistress. Miss Colton was the headmistress, later to be succeeded by Miss Mackie. I am a lifetime member of the OGA. I loved my school years and look back on them with much affection! My mother is Elizabeth Paing (née Simmonds) school years 1952 - 1956, under Miss Colton then too. In the old Carmelite St. School of course - I attended my interview there and a very daunting building it was too! We currently live in a house we bought between us last year in the west of Norfolk , and I don’t think I have yet provided you with the new address. So for your records we are now at: 29 Burrett Road , Walsoken, Wisbech, PE13 3RF . Tel: 01945 465521. Should you be able to put this into the next copy of the City magazine we would love to hear from anyone who knew us then! Jenny Judge Pictures make a magazine.... Girls gather in 1975 for a minibus donation So send us yours. Claire Hammer (née Ritchie) about to enter the pre-prep in 1970 8 They can be funny, serious or even sad, but they were taken during your time at school to be shared....one day. So dig out those snapshots of you playing netball, hugging your best friend, almost falling into the water in front of the school, or even painting a picture with your tongue sticking out. What good are they doing hiding in a box in your loft? We all have them....somewhere. So send them in. Share them! NEWS - cont. Penny Woods a new role: Dr Penny Woods (1973 - 1980) became Chief Executive of the British Lung Foundation in September 2012. Penny writes that: ‘the British Lung Foundation is the only national charity that works on behalf of ALL patients affected by lung disease, 8 million people in the UK’. Penny would like any girls wishing to know more to visit: www.lunguk.org Penny Woods Update from Yvonne Burne, Headmistress of CLSG from September 1995 – August 2007 “I haven’t got a vast amount of news I’m afraid, except to say that I am finding life busy and am still deeply engaged with education on various fronts, as a governor, trustee and, from time to time, consultant. My most recent venture has been in helping governing bodies recruit heads and I have greatly enjoyed this. I had no anticipation of becoming a ‘Headhunter’ on retirement, but it seems to involve mentoring as well as interviewing and is very satisfying. On the personal front, we now have a third grandchild, a beautiful girl called Rose. She smiles nearly all the time and is also very active! Tony and I find looking after the three of them, Isobel, 6, Laurence, about to be 4, and Rose, 15 months, quite a challenge! Our son is to be married in September.” Yvonne Burne Jacquiline Kingsford (nee Harmer) has asked for help to contact classmates. She writes.... Thank you so much for sending the latest copy of the CLOGA magazine. I really couldn’t put it down when it dropped through my letterbox a few days ago! In particular I enjoyed seeing the photo on page 36 of some of my year group at the ‘class of 1962-1969’ reunion. My email is [email protected] and I would be delighted if you could forward this to any or all of the following with a view to getting in touch and renewing old friendships; Pat Hawkins, Meriel Sawtell, Jane Few, Barbara Reeves, Iris Constantinedes, Jillian Prichard, Linda Nathan and Sally Hetherington. Jacquiline Kingsford News from Jo Greeno I was at the City from 1959 until 1965. Then I attended Harrow Girls Grammar School for the 6th form, followed by 3 years at Bristol University and 1 year at Southampton University. I studied Psychology and then did a PG Diploma in Education and worked in various schools from 1972 until 1991 when I left my Headship to work for myself. I have spent the last 21 years making/designing Teddy Bears. This second career has taken me to USA, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore, France and Germany. I travel less now as have three grandchildren (no. 4 is due in October) who need FREE childcare so their mums can work !!! Presently I am exhibiting 4 times a year, twice in London and twice in Japan. So I am still hanging in there as I approach my 63rd birthday. Jo Greeno Annabel Mander writes..... I recently received the invitation for the CLOGA visit to Mansion House. While I can’t make it myself, I just wanted to let you know something that I’m proud of as a daughter. My father John Mander’s company, Mander Organs, (taken over from his father, Noel Mander) was recently commissioned to build an organ as a gift to Her Majesty The Queen to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. It will reside in Henry VII’s Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey but, for a while, it will be at Mansion House for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal. I’m not entirely sure when the move to the Abbey will take place, but perhaps the organ will still be there when you visit. If it is, it’s worth asking for a demonstration of the bird stop, which, when played, makes two birds pop over the top and spin around... perhaps those on the tour might find that fun! My father himself and his brothers were City boys, but his two sisters, Ruth and Margaret, were City girls and Ruth (Hudson, nee Mander) was - I think - Head Girl in her time. Perhaps it’s another nice link to City while you tour Mansion House. Either way, I hope the tour goes well. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/newsroom/pressreleases/2012/Pages/city-of-london-organ-gift-for-hmqueen.aspx Annabel Mander Roxanne Keynejad..... Roxanne Keynejad (1992-2003) graduated from the Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine four year MBBS and is now working as a Foundation Year 1 Doctor in St Helier Hospital, Surrey, followed by FY2 in St George’s Hospital, Tooting. Roxanne Keynejad 9 NEWS - cont. Higher Trwellard Hill Farm, the holiday let is the left hand half Stunning View from the House Victoria Osborne-Broad (nee Veronica Cutler) who was at CLSG from 1959-1968 runs holiday lets from her house, Higher Trewellard Hill Farm in the far west of Cornwall..... The house has spectacular views of the north coast and although quiet and secluded is only a mile from the facilities of the nearest village. The rented part of the house is completely self contained. For any Old Girls who are interested in full details please Google: ‘Higher Trewellard Hill Farm’ and follow the Youtube guided tour, or take the link to Cornwall’s Cottages for a complete set of pictures and other details. News from Margaret Maw…. Who says ‘retirement’ – we have never been so busy. How did we find time to work? My husband and I have been very fortunate in being in a position to travel. Our daughter lived abroad due to her husband’s job, we have been to Romania twice and Thailand four-times-places which we may not have visited without an enticement. Now we visit Lucy and Alistair and our two grandaughters of three and six in Bangkok. We have recently stayed for five weeks so we have become familiar with the temples, museums, the Chao Praya river, Skytrain, lovely hotels and constant stream of traffic. The compound where they live is just tucked away a short distance from the Sukhamnvit Road and is so peaceful that one is transformed into another world. Their neighbours are a rainbow of nations so this makes life very interesting as everyone is very sociable. It was lovely to be able to take Arabella to the British International School and see the girls riding, swimming and going to ballet –doing all the grandparent things! My husband and I have travelled around going to Sukothai, the old capital ‘now very quiet’ to see the Temples and on our various visits, have also been to Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai and Ayuthia as well as further afield to Cambodia 10 and Borneo. All wonderful. Who would have thought I would have visited these places when marking them on a map in Miss Church’s geography lessons! I still see Elizabeth Bennett (née Sharpe) and Diana Jones (née Brown) and we have good times together. Margaret Maw (nee Southall. 1954 – 61) CLOGA MILLENIUM SCHOLARSHIP 2011-2013 Jill Dixon highlights the value of the CLOGA Millennium Scholarship, not only to the recipient, but also to the school by helping a talented girl to achieve her potential. Interest rates are still low and in the current economic situation, the Millennium Scholarship Fund is certainly in need of revenue to keep it in a healthy position. Inserted in the magazine is a donation/standing order form. I do hope you feel able to contribute as any amount would really be most gratefully received. Our current recipient has had glowing reports from the School for the past academic year. They say that it has been an extremely positive one for her and they are extremely impressed with her attitude and determination. She has developed into a very courteous and hardworking young woman, and their confidence that she would achieve impressive results in her GCSE examinations was well-founded, as she received an A or A* in 9 subjects. She has made the transition into the 6th Form very well and balances her academic work with active participation in a healthy range of extra curricular activities. I think all members should feel proud that the Association is providing this student, who would not otherwise be able to attend the school, the opportunity to enjoy and benefit from a splendid education. CLSG are very pleased that the she has matured and flourished as she has gone up the school and they feel she is a thoroughly deserving and very pleasant student. They are very grateful to CLOGA for supporting her. Jill Dixon March 2013 Millennium Scholarship Fund Please support the CLOGA Millennium Scholarship Fund. This unique fund helps a girl to benefit from an outstanding and unique CLSG education, which they would otherwise be denied. Your donation could make all the difference. Please fill in the form which is enclosed with this issue of your magazine. Our Thanks To outgoing Chairman Jill Dixon The committee is sure that the alumni will join us in sending our heartfelt thanks to Jill Dixon who has done a stirling job as chairman of CLOGA for the past six years. Jill has worked tirelessly, not only as the organisations’ representative at every event from prize giving to attending school conferences and a wide range of meetings, but also behind the scenes. As the Headmistress, Diana Vernon said at the 2013 AGM: ‘Jill had run her committee with intense professionalism’. The whole committee and indeed the whole organisation will always be extremely grateful to Jill for all her hard work. As Gillian Simcox the incoming Chairman put it, ‘She will be a hard act to follow’. We also wish Gillian every success in her new role. Jill Dixon, the outgoing Chair of CLOGA 11 Prize Fund Report 2013 CLOGA sponsors several prizes which the school awards to girls at the annual Prize Giving. Here Joyce Lee, Prize Fund Secretary, highlights the details about the 2012 recipients. at Downing College. The recipient of the Renwick Music Prize was last year’s Head Girl, Ella Cape-Davenhill. She was a great contributor to Music throughout her career in the school and gained an A grade in Biology, an A grade in Mathematics and a B grade in Music. She will be going either to Bristol or Durham to read Music. Lena Garrett was awarded the Woolley German Scholarship. She achieved an A in German and A* grades in Mathematics and Physics. She has a place at Brasenose College, Oxford to read German and Russian and will be travelling to Germany to hone her language skills. Kitty Burne, Head Girl 2012-13 speaks at the CLSG Prize Day 2012 The recipient of the Belgrave Classics Prize was Sofia Carreira-Wham. She achieved an A* grade in English, an A in Classical Greek, an A* in History and an A in Latin and will be going to Caius College, Cambridge to read Classics. The EDM Winters English Prize was awarded to Mollie Wintle, who was Deputy Head Girl last year and who achieved an A* grade in English, and A* in Greek, an A* in History and an A* in Latin. She will be going to Murray Edwards College, Cambridge to read English. The Ethel Studwick Prize was awarded to Katie Wingrove. Katie is a great all-rounder who has made a contribution to a wide variety of aspects of school life. Academically bright, she achieved A* grades at A level in History and Mathematics and an A grade in Government and Politics. She also obtained A grades at AS level in Economics and Thinking Skills. She is currently taking a Gap Year whilst she considers her options and may apply for universities in Canada or the USA where she has family connections. During her time at the school she made a great contribution to the extracurricular life of the school, running the Politics Society and representing the school in a number of sports. She also helped younger girls develop their sporting skills as a member of the staff/ student PE Committee. The Julia E Turner History Prize went to Emily Wingrove. Emily achieved A* grades in History and Government and Politics and an A grade in French. She will be going to St Andrew’s University to read History. The Bugby Mathematics Prize was awarded jointly to Grace Beckham and Jessica Glynn. Grace achieved A* grades in Mathematics, Further Maths and Physics and an A in Chemistry. She has a place at Girton College, Cambridge to study Engineering. Jessica achieved A* grades in Mathematics, Further Maths, Physics and Latin and she also has a place at Cambridge to read Engineering 12 Joyce Lee. Reports on the Prize Fund CLSG have expressed their appreciation to CLOGA for the generous support given to the school. Joyce Lee Talk by Bec Astley Clark before the AGM In order to make the association more appealing to a wider range of the alumni and to boost attendance at the AGM, the committe invited a guest speaker, taken from the talented pool of former CLSG pupils, to talk at the event. Our first speaker at the 2013 AGM was Bec Astley Clark who has managed to combine creating beautiful jewellry with running a hugely successful global business. Bec told her audience of the CLSG alumni that she recognized a niche in the luxury jewellery market because the so called ‘up-market’ brands were reluctant to get involved in on-line sales. She used both her initiative and her extensive understanding of e-commerce to gain funding to launch her business. Perhaps as a testament to her confidence from School, Bec also told the audience that she had faith in her own abilities and was not afraid to take a chance to get started. That so called ‘chance’ clearly paid off, and the business grew from selling online luxury brands that already existed to creating the famous Astley Clark brand, which comprises 80% of the company’s sales today. Bec achieved all of this within three years. Bec Astley Clark speaking to the CLSG Almuni. Below left & right: girls gather for the talk. 13 ASTLEY cLARK - Contd. The Headmistress, Diana Vernon, introduces Bec Astley Clark talumni After starting in 2006, Astley Clark is now a global brand with a unique and beautiful style. Girls at the meeting were treated to her lovely brochure which alone sits well on the coffee table! Not content wih his considerable level of sucess, Bec is already thinking of expanding further into the USA, Australia, China. Bec is based at her studio in London, not far from her City roots! Which Speaker Would You Like to Hear? Some examples of Bec Astley Clark beautiful jewellery. @astleyclark2012 14 The CLSG alumni is rich with talented, experienced and interesting girls. Which former pupils would you like to listen to? Write and tell us, together with your reasons why and we may invite them to give a talk. Or, if you are willing to share your experiences with former classmates, then nominate yourself. email: [email protected] KEEP CALM IT’S ONLY TRIMMINGS As ex-City Girl, Caroline Max explains, a cup of tea and some creativity can dry even her most volatile customer’s tears …..after all, it’s only trimmings! to become embroiled in it all, but for me it’s important to bring a bit of fun to into it.” Caroline has noticed that more and more customers are turning to the shop to help them find a way to inject some new life into old clothes. “There’s a definite make do and mend culture at the moment; we have a lot of ladies who come in with a moth-eaten jumper asking us what’s the best way to cover it up. They’re looking Caroline Surrounded by Treasures in her Shop Situated in the heart of London’s West End, it is little wonder that Barnett Lawson Trimmings has a whiff of showbiz about it. Set designers and costumers have flocked to the Aladdin’s cave filled with ribbons, sequins, tassels and more for over 50 years and the shop continues to play a part in a host of exciting projects. “We supply to the theatre, film and television trades and just about anybody who needs exciting trimmings for any purpose,” explains owner Caroline Marx. “You name it, we’ve done it.” Despite its star status, the shop resolutely keeps its feet on the ground (or underground due to its basement location!) and retains a sense of humour even when it gets too much for a few customers. “There was a girl who came in last year looking for a heart-shaped sequin motif and because the one we had wasn’t quite right, she burst into tears,” says Caroline. “She had been everywhere and had no luck finding anything. We gave her a cup of tea and sorted her out but it gave me the inspiration to create one of those fashionable vintage signs saying ‘Keep Calm. It’s Only Trimmings!’ It’s easy to update their wardrobes in cost-effective ways; people have definitely got more of a conscience these days when it comes to throwing things away.” With a huge customer base, staff are used to seeing their most loyal shoppers almost daily. “We have people who come in two or three times a week, sometimes every day if there’s a show on,” says Caroline, whose expertise is also called on by the fashion industry. “Companies like Topshop also come to me with their sourcing problems,” she adds. Caroline acquired the shop eight years ago after the previous owner retired. “Some of the staff have been here for 30 years and the knowledge they have passed on is just tremendous. I think customers are drawn to all of that knowledge as well as the fact that we have over 12,000 trimmings under one roof. We have a huge variety of products and because we’re wholesale, cost is kept to a minimum,” she explains. “Friends say that this job was tailor-made for me; I love the creativity, the colour, the various customers and discussing their different requirements. It’s wonderfully engrossing and very rewarding.” 15 globe visit Visit to the Globe Theatre in October No dressing rooms for Elizabethan actors – they had to make do with a small space behind the backcloth, shared with each other and the props. All actors were male, meaning questions of immodesty did not arise. After our tour, all 18 of us repaired to the Swan Bar for lunch, where we sat at a long table. Afterwards, members were free to look at the Globe Exhibition which is so comprehensive that it is difficult to take in all at once. I particularly liked the display of props made exactly as they would have been in the 16th century (original practice) – gold leaf was used for gilding! CLOGA and the CSFA chose a beautiful day weatherwise to combine forces beside the Thames for a guided tour of Shakespeare’s Globe. This was led by Hannah, a young woman born in Germany, brought up in Sweden and now living and working in London, in a job that she really loves at the Globe. Hannah explained how the Fathers of the City of London did not approve of entertainment and thus all the fun was to be had on the South bank of the Thames. The Burbage family had built a new theatre in Blackfriars but were not allowed to operate it because of complaints by local residents (nothing changes) and so dismantled it and ferried the wood across theThames to use in building the Globe. I joined a costume dressing demonstration and learned the origin of “straightlaced”. This is where a wealthy woman had her corsets straightlaced at the back by her servants whereas a woman of lesser means who had to earn her living laced her corset at the front. When she got hot and bothered at her work she loosened her laces, hence the term “loose woman”. There is much, much more in the exhibition to see and absorb so, if you have not visited yet, do go. Gillian Simcox We were taken to sit in the gallery of the theatre and Hannah recreated the experience of the Elizabethan theatregoers. Up to a thousand people were packed standing in the yard, those at the front resting their chins on the edge of the stage (in the present it can accommodate up to 700). The best place to sit is in the middle gallery, facing the stage. The roof is thatched with Norfolk reeds, open in the centre which allows for daylight performances without the need for candlelight. Gillian & Tony Gillian was appointed the new Chair of CLOGA at the AGM in April 2013 The talented pupils from CLSG will be performing at Shakespeare’s Globe later in 2013. For ticket information please see page 26. 16 Once upon a time, and long ago! Former City Girl, Dorothy Bell takes a trip down memory lane.... Most school mornings from September 1930 to July 1935 I walked, brown leather satchel in hand, with my father from Lincoln’s Inn down Chancery Lane to Carmelite Street where the City of London School for Girls then stood. A five storeyed building with a large light central ‘well’ in the middle, a long way up for young legs to reach the top floor where it seems I spent all five years in one or other of the three classrooms there, together with the sick bay! The first and second years with Miss Helby, a genial figure; after that I’m uncertain whether we had a specific class mistress, though I remember the names of Miss Murray and Miss Cuthbertson. I’d been taught by my mother until I was six, already loved reading, practised very careful handwriting, specially good examples of the latter adorning the walls of my doll’s house! The only thing I remember in particular of those first years was the geography exhibition where, with a brother working on the Union-Castle line, I scored highly with exhibits from South Africa! For handwork I learned to cane a little square wooden stool which I still have though, alas, the original caning has been long gone. Of the following three years I recall little except break-time in the basement (a very long way down and up) where for various games we counted out the individuals for teams “eeny meany miney mo, catch a …!’ Politically incorrect to continue! There was a less contentious “One potato”, two potato (sic), three potato… and perhaps others. One year I was awarded a prize; my parents chose Lamb’s ‘Tales from Shakespeare’. Sadly, I was unwell on the evening and I remain touched by the remembrance that Miss Turner, the Headmistress, came all the way to Lincoln’s Inn to bring it to me in bed! Prize Givings took place annually in the splendid hall of the City of London, City Boys School on the Embankment, though dilapidated. I recall the heady perfume of hundreds of crimson and white carnations adorning the dais – and of course the school song. Though I can still hum the tune, only a few lines remain in my memory: ‘here in the heart of the pulse of the earth” and “daughters and mothers of England to be”; stirring stuff! In May 1935 we were allocated seats in front of the Boys’ School for the Silver Jubilee procession of King George V and Queen Mary. In the same carriage as their grandparents were the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. We were each given a fountain pen as a souvenir with a tiny silver side view of the royal couple on one end. Every afternoon my mother was there to collect me, the evening papers were being sold in the nearby streets. The vendors shouted out:“Star, News or Standard”, as there were three evening papers then. We had to watch out to avoid the enormous rolls of paper waiting to be used for later editions. Fleet Street really was in its heyday for all the news of a pre-war world. I look back with gratitude for the grounding I received at CLSG “in the heart of the pulse of the earth”; for a long time I had my autograph book (I think I sent it to the School Archives), now only two names of classmates come back to me: Joan Cutting and Margaret McDonald – with Kathleen Scudamore as the Head Girl one year. Why should I think she went up to Cambridge? I went to see if the building in Carmelite Street still stands, alas no, probably bombed and now with a small plaque stating that the school began in 1874, started by a Mr W Ward. May the CLSG flourish in the Barbican! Dorothy Bell 17 I FELL IN LOVE WITH AN ELEPHANT Since reading ‘My Family and Other Animals’ at City, Anna Westbury has been passionate about conservation and animals. Here she describes the fascinating and varied career she has enjoyed...so far! This zoo needed a great deal of attention, in terms of animal welfare (there were a lot of chronic health problems and nutritional inadequacies) and also the infrastructure – for example enclosures housing big cats were on the verge of collapse. With a small but dedicated team I worked 14 hour days, 7 days a week for a couple of years. We renovated fences, dug holes, constructed electric fences and built suitable animal housing. I set up good animal husbandry practices; put overweight animals on diets, called in favours from zoo vets and the UK’s only zoo dentist to get the animals back in optimum condition. I even used some skills acquired at “City” during this period – for example, when an Amur Tiger was due to move to a zoo in France as part of a conservation breeding programme I was able to phone the receiving zoo and ask: “avez-vous une boîte pour le tigre?” Eventually we were able to fulfil the UK zoo licencing legislation and re-open the zoo to paying visitors. This work is documented in the film “We Bought a Zoo”. Boy the Elephant Since leaving CLSG in 1996 I have spent my time studying and preparing for my current career as an exsitu conservationist. At school I was passionate about the environment and ecology. I studied for an HND and BSc Honours degree in Applied Biology. During this time, having been inspired by reading “My Family and Other Animals” whilst at CLSG, I applied for a work placement at Gerald Durrell’s Jersey Zoo. Here and at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park I found that I had an affinity for working with animals – ensuring high standards of welfare and facilitating the captive breeding of critically endangered species. I developed my education further with a Masters in Wild Animal Biology at the Royal Veterinary College and the Institute of Zoology. Following this I worked in several UK zoos to gain more experience working with the animals. Not long after graduating I received an interesting phone call: a small zoo in Devon had been closed following violations of animal welfare and zoo licencing legislation. The animals were all on site and a new owner had been found who unfortunately had no background in animal management. This opportunity intrigued me and I presently found myself moving to Plymouth and working as the Animal Manager at Dartmoor Zoological Park. 18 Anna Assisting in a Tiger Operation Whilst at Dartmoor I was asked by a veterinary charity to visit and assess Kyiv Zoo – a zoo with a notoriously bad reputation in Ukraine. I visited and wrote a report on the zoo with my recommendations for future development. This was accepted by the Director who then surprised me by asking if I would work for her and implement my plans. This was an interesting prospect as I had always wanted to work overseas but I tended to imagine I’d be somewhere a bit more tropical. I arrived in Kyiv to temperatures of -30ºC and snowstorms. The zoo and the rest of the country have suffered greatly since the fall of the Soviet Union. A small amount of people have a lot of money, and a lot of people have a small amount of money. Kyiv Zoo and living in Ukraine is probably the greatest I FELL IN LOVE WITH AN ELEPHANT - cont. challenge I have faced (more so than being chased by a tiger, which happened to me a few years ago!). Zoo Keepers in Ukraine and in the UK are paid tiny salaries, but in Ukraine there is no prestige for the work and keepers there are considered no differently than road sweepers. As a consequence, the zoo was understaffed, many keepers were barely literate and some had no passion for the work. This needed to change – the keepers (despite their backgrounds) had great knowledge of their charges and many instinctively knew what was good for the animals. I campaigned on their behalf to the Director to gain finances to improve conditions and worked with the keepers to develop “Enrichment Programmes” for the animals – giving them activities to stimulate natural behaviours and reduce boredom. I spent a lot of time with Boy – the zoo’s lonely 6 tonne, 40 year old, grumpy (double keeper killer) Asian Elephant. Everyone was so scared of Boy that he had been severely neglected and overfed to keep him placid. Boy’s biggest problem was chronic foot pain. Elephants in captivity need regular foot care otherwise their nails overgrow. Boy had the most overgrown toenails I have ever seen. To deal with this I drafted in a team of German Elephant Keepers and Zoo Vets to anaesthetise Boy and help me trim his nails. Elephant anaesthetics are dangerous to elephants because of their size, and to vets and keepers due to the unpredictable nature of wild animals. Boy’s went relatively smoothly and in the course of a morning we wore out 4 angle-grinders getting his nails to a manageable length. Following this I had a protective wall constructed and used operant conditioning and positive reinforcement to train Boy to put his feet through openings in the wall and allow me to give him manicures! Anna with a Baby Skunk Anna and Puma at the Dentist For personal reasons I had to leave Kyiv after a year and found myself back in the UK. Boy sadly died about 6 months after I left and I miss him every day. Most keepers build up special bonds with their animals, I’ve done it previously, but I’ve never been in love with an elephant before! Now, I’ve found myself a position at Twycross Zoo in the East Midlands, the only UK zoo where you can see all the species of Great Ape; gorilla, orang-utan, chimpanzee and bonobo. I work as Team Leader managing the Birds, Tropical and Domestic Animals sections on a daily basis, as Animal Manager for the whole zoo most days and I have various other responsibilities too. I lecture at all the local universities on Zoo Legislation and Animal welfare. Twycross Zoo is also a zoo re-inventing itself, but not to the extent of the other places I have worked. The zoo previously became famous as the home of the PG Tips chimps and the future is to develop as a centre of expertise and excellent welfare and conservation standards for all species. I enjoy championing the less high profile species, the fascinating overlooked animals that people walk past on their way to the gorillas, elephants and snow leopards. My team of keepers are hardworking and thoroughly dedicated. We take pride in high standards, educating our visitors and getting our animals to breed. I think that those who knew me at “City” will not be surprised by my unusual career choice. It is intensely satisfying and completely different every single day, whilst being physically and emotionally demanding and totally draining. I can’t imagine doing any other type of work. Anna Westbury CLSG 1989-1996 I hope you agree this is an incredible story and any girls wishing to support Anna’s work should contact her at: [email protected] 19 OLD GIRLS’ 2011 CLOGA Membership Survey A good proportion of the alumni returned the survey which was enclosed with the last issue of the magazine. In the report below, Farine Clarke outlines the key findings, many of which are surprising. Which decade did you leave school? 0% 6% 13% 26% 18% 19% 8% 7% 3% 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000 Thank you very much to everyone who filled in the survey which was circulated with your last issue of the magazine. And even greater thanks to those who took the trouble to write accompanying notes and who expressly said they enjoyed filling it in. What a varied and talented group of girls you are! It took me a week to analyse the results. Well actually the analysis probably took a day, the rest of the time was spent reading your creative and spirited comments, many of which had me laughing out loud! To give you a flavour of what I was up against, your memorable experiences included; ‘Chaining Mr Kent’s leg to his piano stool while he was playing,’ and ‘Winning the inter-house hockey, with an unusual -but legalmanipulation of the rules!’ Both of which reminded me of watching our petite French teacher fall into the bin when she ran out of blackboard but continued trying to write her very long sentence! So, time may have passed for many of you, but it is clear that your memories have not faded. 20 To the question, ‘what was your worse experience of school?’ ‘falling down the ‘stairs from heaven’ into the dining hall’ seemed strangely popular, and brought visions of flying hockey sticks and red flannel knickers to mind, not to mention the health and safety implications. School wouldn’t be school without the worst memory for many girls, namely, ‘the pain of waiting outside the headmistresses’ office.’ Although, interestingly this was not mentioned by a single girl who left school after 1980. Have headmistresses softened somewhat I wonder? However: ‘The day I left,’ summed up the sentiment of most girls as the worst thing that happened to them at the City of London. In total some 70 surveys were analysed, although not every respondent replied to every question which is why the answers are presented as a percentage of the specific question total (are you still with me?). The survey was deliberately general and before those of you with advanced statistics degrees – of which there appear to be a fair few - write me an outraged letter, I know the results will not stand up to intense scientific statistical scrutiny. What they do do give us is a fantastic flavour of your thoughts and experiences at school. And there is no doubt that there are specific trends and commonalities amongst those girls who responded. There was a reasonable spread of respondents, although they were biased towards those who left school during or before the 1960s (67%). The other main group left in the OLD GIRLS’ 2011 CLOGA Membership Survey 1970s. Very few girls responded who left school in the 21st century! Having said this, a few spirited girls who left school in the 1930s and 13% who did so in the 1940s also returned the survey. This profile may loosely reflect the current membership of the alumni organisation which has been acutely aware of the need to increase membership amongst younger girls for some time, without of course losing the invaluable contribution from more mature members. A number of initiatives, including the new ‘young committee’ which is highlighted in the news pages, have been specifically set up for this purpose. Your memorable experiences at CLGS are a book in themselves, and tend to reflect the decade you were at school. The war, billeting and returning to school post- evacuation, were strongly recurring themes among those who left in the 1940s. While the wonderful teachers, musicals, plays and trips to Russia are a foremost memory for those who left in more recent decades. The Queens’ coronation (and being given crowns by the Lord Mayor), and the lawyers raising their bowler hats as you walked through Temple Courts are amongst the memories of those who left in the 50s. Those swinging 60s girls remember attending John F Kennedy’s memorial service in St Paul’s and ‘being gated but still watching two journalists being arrested outside the Daily Mail offices.’ The cross- channel swim and the move to the Barbican was cited frequently by those who left in the 70s. A picture of this famous team can be found in the news pages. ‘Is there anything you do today as a direct result of your teaching at school’ ? Good manners and respect for others were frequently mentioned in response to this question. As were; discipline, hard work and an inability to ignore poor grammar or spelling. A love for art and classical music were also an important legacy from your schooldays. One respondent wrote: ‘Miss Wickham’s music lessons gave me a desire to learn an instrument, which I finally achieved when I stated learning the clarinet at the age of 65!’ Fluency in languages, particularly French, featured strongly amongst many girls. Some girls who are now of a ‘certain age’, say they are still learning new languages as a result. Confidence was probably the one key characteristics which girls felt came from school, no matter which year they left. Or as one respondent put it: ‘ Yes- my ability never to be at a loss for words.’ ‘Answering lots of questions on University Challenge correctly,’ was another heartfelt benefit felt by one respondent! Of your comments on what you do as a result of being at City, perhaps the one which sums them up best is: ‘Direct-no. Indirecteverything!’ Are you still in touch with the girls from your class? Yes: 76% No: 24% As the figures show, the vast majority of girls are still in touch with former classmates. Of those who are not, this is usually because they have lost their close friends through bereavement rather than an inability to stay in touch. Have you encouraged your daughter/ a friend’s /relative’s daughter to apply for CLSG? Yes: 84% No: 16% It is a strong inication of your past experience and the current reputation of the School, that the overwhelming majority of girls would recommend CLSG to their friends or relatives. Those who would not frequently qualified their answer with comments about difficulties in travel arrangements. 21 OLD GIRLS’ 2011 CLOGA Membership Survey Did you sit School Certificate or O Level Type exams at 15 or 16? Yes: 95% No: 5% Did you sit Matriculation or A-Level exams from City? Yes: 79% No: 21% As is the case today, the overwhelming majority also achieved O Level or equivalent exams at 15 or 16. And considering the age group of the girls involved, it is remarkable that only marginally less achieved A Levels or equivalent at 17 or 18. This must have been a far greater number than the national average of the day. Were you promoted during you working life? Yes: 75% No: 25% Of great interest is that after school 82% went on to University or higher education, and the overwhelming majority (95%) also continued to work after this. And it simply is not the case that those few who did not work left school in the 30s and 40s. In fact all the girls who left in the 30s worked in serious posts, including the civil service, for several decades. Clearly there is no job a City girl cannot do and the list of occupations includes everything from; stints in the War Office, to qualified doctors, vets, nurses, secretaries, teachers of all disciplines, architects, concert pianists, actresses, solicitors, barristers, High Court judges and QCs. And of course, a splattering of headmistresses (yes, I know they’re also teachers, but they do deserve a special mention!) Have you had children? Yes: 68% No: 32% Did you undertake continuous or intermittent paid work after having children? Yes: 96% No: 4% Despite the huge amount of life skills which City girls so clearly have, less than half (37%) felt they had sufficient to help other girls and even fewer (32%) were willing to mentor other girls. This raises a serious question as to why and it would be interesting to hear people’s thoughts on this? Amongst the societies you would like to see launched, sports figured heavily amongst the younger girls. A ‘grave digging club’ for the older members (which I have already mentioned in my front page letter) was amongst the ‘useful’ suggestions from a girl who left school in the more distant years! 22 Many of those 75% who said they would not follow CLOGA on Facebook explained that they were sceptical or not on-line or did not have a computer. In a similar vein most of those 80% who do not attend the AGM cite age and distance as the key reasons. Although it must be said that a few feel they are boring with nothing useful to offer and some girls also felt the organisation was very removed from the wider alumni. The committee hopes that the introduction of a speaker at the AGMs will attract more of the alumni to attend and create a more lively and in-touch atmosphere for the meetings. There was surprisingly no criticism of the magazine, although several girls asked for more news items. As the current Editor, I would like to point out for this to happen girls need to send in their news (and please don’t forget the pictures!) Of greater concern some girls asked for the frequency to increase to twice yearly! As this issue of the magazine begins with an apology from me for its delay (albeit cleverly concealed within a story about horses) the likelihood of this happening remains, well.....unlikely! Those girls who left school in recent decades wanted the magazine to be electronic, although there was also a recognition that the older members may not wish for this to be the case. Many girls said they keep their hard copy for reference. Do you consider that there are enough organisations to support women after they have left education? Yes: 34% No: 25% Don’t Know : 41% Overall the survey gives us a really interesting and informative insight into the views of the CLSG alumni and it would be fun to repeat it in a few years to see how things may have changed. In summary, the spirit of City decades ago seems very much alive today. It seems that girls have never felt disadvantaged by being ‘girls’ and even in the days where very few women went on to University or higher education many of you did so. It also appears that good old fashioned values including good manners and good grammar have been at the forefront of a solid City of London School for Girls education for many decades. What Networking Opportunities do You want from Your Alumni Organisation? CLSG is one of the most successful schools in the country, which means Old Girls should be able to advise and assist each other throughout their lives. Many good schools provide excellent networking opportunities facilitated by their alumni organisations. Write and tell us what you would like to see provided by yours. Please email:[email protected] GIRLS’ AROUND THE WORLD Jane Lelue has certainly travelled since leaving the City of London in 1965, be that to China, Pakistan or Cheshire, as she describes in her article below.... If I were to meet up with any of my old City classmates (1958/1965) they might think at first that I had lead a very ordinary life, as I have been married, to the same man, for 43 years, brought up two sons and practised as a solicitor in a small country town. In fact, thanks to the man I married, I have at times had a very interesting and, sometimes exciting life. It began in 1980 when the boys were 4 and 2 years old, I was a full time mum and my husband, John, agreed to take over his Civil Engineering firm’s Middle East office in the United Arab Emirates. We moved out to Sharjah, the Emirate adjacent to Dubai. The building boom in the UAE and Dubai in particular, had begun but fairly slowly. Dubai was a fraction of its present size and much less sophisticated. We were even paid an, undeserved, hardship allowance. John had to travel around the Gulf part of the time and as I had a live-in Indian houseboy to help with the house and children I soon found part-time work with an Arab law firm in Dubai to occupy me whilst the boys were in nursery and school. Jane and her boys in Sharjah circa 1982 My job involved advising UK and American businesses on compliance with local laws and the increasing requirements for local partners and representing the interests of maritime insurers. It took me to the Ruler’s palace, the Dubai Central Prison and an Onassis oil tanker on a night’s sail through the Straits of Hormous, among other places. The expatriate social life was a lively one and we spent a great deal of time outdoors on the beach or exploring the desert in four wheel drives. We returned to England to live after 4 years and a two month round the world trip. Home and life was fairly ordinary for a while with John making only short trips abroad. In the 1990’s however he set up his own consultancy and began working for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in countries such as Mongolia, Bosnia, Slovakia, Pakistan, Russian and the former USSR states that all seemed to end with “stan”. Since the boys have grown up and thanks to the generosity and flexibility of my partners in a local law practice, I have had many fascinating trips to join John in the more convivial of these places or to meet up with him for some R&R in Istanbul, Paris or Dubai. The most memorable of the visits to places where he has been working have been the following; Jane with a few of the Terracotta Warriors 1) St. Petersburg, where I spent three weeks exploring this beautiful city, its palaces and museums, whilst changing our dollars in small amounts everyday as the rouble was falling like a stone and the shops were putting up their prices overnight. 2) The Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan (pre 9/11) where we took a trip up the Karakorum Highway to the Chinese border through the glorious Hunza Valley and from Gilgit to Skardu, site of the base camp for climbers on K2, staying in very basic motels and eating lots of curry! We didn’t manage a trip up the Khyber Pass whilst I was there, although John did it later, as a local disturbance with the Taliban made it too dangerous for the train, even with an armed guard! 3) China. I have visited many of the famous sites such as the Terracotta Warriors, and the limestone peaks of the fabulous Guilin area but amongst the things that stand out in my memory are; shopping in the markets and supermarkets in areas well away from tourists where I was a curiosity to the locals who wanted to take my picture, travelling on a train with John’s Chinese colleagues and trying to eat a fried egg served with lunch with a pair of chopsticks, the live chicken brought to our restaurant table for us to see whether it was large enough to eat (I opted for pork) and, on my last trip, the power of the large (2008) earthquake which shook, but fortunately didn’t damage, the hotel in which I was sitting. We have both retired now and spend our time between our home here in Cheshire, our house in France and visiting our families, including our granddaughter, in London and the Midlands. We still enjoy travelling farther afield however and have spent recent holidays in Sri Lanka, Canada and Alaska, Egypt and Cuba. On one of our trips to London it would be good to meet up with some of those classmates and find out what THEY have been doing. Jane Leleu The family in France for our (née Taylor) 40th wedding anniversary 23 ON TOP OF THE WORD Mount Kiliminjaro Professor Frances Flinter practiced for her amazing ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro by climbing the stairs to her office at Kings‘ College, London. Not only was she part of a team which raised over £600,000 for a very worthwhile charity, she also explains below why the whole experience was so enriching. Maybe it was the thought of turning 50? The need for a different type of challenge? Certainly the difficulties faced by the NHS in affording increasingly sophisticated equipment were on my mind when I happened to come across an article about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. I like walking, and climbing holidays have been a regular event for many years; but at the end of each day the best bit is a long hot shower, fluffy white towels, a really good meal with wine and then a comfortable night’s sleep. That is not quite the deal on offer for people who climb the tallest free standing mountain in Africa…. but the photos were amazing. It was clear that I could not do this on my own, so I asked a couple of colleagues and they were surprisingly keen. An email sent one Friday afternoon inviting staff who work in the Evelina Children’s Hospital to come to a meeting and find out more soon identified 46 intrepid volunteers with an age range of more than 30 years. We had a charity fund raising target of £300,000, at which point the hard work began. Clearly we could not all go together as this would deplete the hospital of too many staff at once, so we split into 2 teams, one climbing in June and the other in July 2011. We had to get ourselves fit enough to make the attempt safely, and find sufficient sponsorship to ensure that we would raise the money needed to buy new equipment for the hospital. Over the next 18 months we walked and climbed anything and everything that went uphill – the stairs in the hospital 24 (my office is on the 7th floor), the escalators on the tube; and, at weekends, hills and mountains all over the UK (and occasionally abroad). Nothing can prepare you for the altitude (nearly 5,895 metres at the highest summit) but at least you can get your legs used to climbing. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is a big undertaking. The porters, who carried the tents, food and kit, are the real heroes; but we had to carry our day bags with spare clothing, plus water and food, which were heavy enough. It took a week to get up and down – that’s a week with no electricity or running water and no toilets. For people who are used to washing their hands innumerable times every day this was quite a challenge; we got through dozens of bottles of alcohol gel and industrial quantities of baby wet wipes. I’ve never gone for a week without washing my hair, but after a while you stop worrying about it. The climb was amazing – from tropical rainforest to frozen wastes (at minus 20 degrees centigrade – imagine camping in that!) in just 4 days. It was un-seasonally cold and very windy, and on summit night, when we left the camp at midnight, it was only an hour before all my drinks had frozen solid despite being wrapped in spare walking socks. The final push involves a steep climb in the dark for 6 hours before reaching the summit at Gilman’s point just as dawn breaks – an exhausting and very emotional experience. We then had the option of continuing round the rim of the equator for another 2 hours to reach the highest peak, Uhuru, where the photo was taken. The air is so thin that simply bending down ON TOP OF THE WORD - cont. leaves you completely out of breath for several minutes; but most of us made it, and the sense of exhilaration gave us the energy to start the long trek down. We had another 8 hours walking still ahead of us that day as we had to descend sufficiently low for it to be safe for us to go to sleep for the final night under canvas. So what did we achieve? Well, we raised £610,000. This was more than double the target, thanks to incredibly generous sponsorship from patients, colleagues, friends and families. Just as valuably, we had set out as a team of colleagues, but returned as a group of very close friends, who had supported each other through some pretty tough moments, all the way there and back. We work together differently now – there are shared jokes and very personal memories; and we have a deep understanding of the personality of every member of the team and what each individual can bring to a challenge, which has influenced our clinical practice in a very positive way. Professor Frances Flinter (nee Morgan) 1969 - 1977. Professor of Clinical Genetics, King’s College, London Consultant in Clinical Genetics and Caldicott Guardian, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust So if you feel like a challenge and are prepared for both the best and the most difficult thing you will probably ever do, then try climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. You can also read about Professor Flinter’s daughter, Charlotte’s wedding, who also attended CLSG on page 34. Evelina Children’s Hospital staff at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.Professor Flinter is sporting the purple jacket. Travel Club on an open top bus in stratford-upon-avon The travel club enjoyed travelling on an open top bus (albeit with their umbrellas) and an unusual performance of Twelfth Night during their visit to Shakespeare country A small group spent an interesting four days during early October in the delightful town of Stratford -upon -Avon staying in a tavern frequented in the past by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The open top bus proved an excellent means of transport to visit Ann Hathaway’s cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace, Hall’s Croft (home of Shakespeare’s daughter) and Mary Arden’s Farm . Having said that, sheltering under umbrellas on the top deck during a heavy shower also proved to be a challenge. To complete our full Shakespearian experience we attended a modern production of Twelfth Night at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, which caused a mixture of shock and amusement! It was wonderful that several ‘Old Girls’ who lived in the area were able to join us for an extended lunch one day. Needless to say, as we had not met one another for over 40 years, much reminiscing about school life took place, particularly about school life in Carmelite Street. It has not yet been decided where and when our next Travel Club destination should be but we would welcome anyone who wishes to join us Beryl Ambrose 1946-1955 25 MEASURE FOR MEASURE The 2012 Senior School Production of Measure for Measure - November 2012 I was delighted to be asked to attend a performance of the 2012 Senior School production of Measure for Measure. The director Steve Morley was certainly presented with a challenging task particularly as there is a lot of movement within the play and somewhat limited space in the school’s hall. However, having the talents of CLSG to hand I am sure he much enjoyed such a challenge for it was a most eloquent production and congratulations must be given to all the cast for their excellent performances. It is certainly a ‘problem play’ with a certain amount of comedy. The main element of the plot, that of a woman forced to surrender her chastity to a corrupt ruler in exchange for a condemned man’s life, is a familiar theme in western literature and may have originated in an actual incident which took place in Milan in the 1540’s. ‘Mesur for Mesur by Shaxberd’ was performed before King James 1 in 1604 and in the period that culminated in the writing of this play Shakespeare had assumed a more thoughtful attitude to life. Morality had become a new preoccupation and supposedly a favourite Court topic. Measure for Measure was, therefore, consonant with the spirit of the time. All this I am sure led the CLSG girls to some thought provoking discussions on the real moral questions of the play! Jill E. Dixon (nee Andrew) December 2012 Don’t Miss the CLSG Performance at Shakespeare’s Globe The talented girls from CLSG will be performing The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe on Monday 4th November. What a wonderful excuse to get a group of your classmates together and visit this historic venue. Any girls who wish to attend should register their interest by emailing: [email protected] The School will send out ticket notification by email once they know the full ticketing details. Make sure you and your friends get tickets for the hottest show in town! 26 celebration of GCSE results On December 6th, the whole of Year 12 together with their parents was treated to an evening in celebration of their GCSE results. Yasmin Duffy describes the evening..... ‘Don’t believe people who tell you that you are overambitious in a derogatory way. And don’t think of ambition as a positive male trait and a negative femail trait. If a person believes that remember that is their problem not yours.’ FC The girls who had left last year returned and it was lovely to catch up with them, while enjoying the refreshments provided. After receiving certificates commending our achievements, we were given a speech by an oldCity girl Farine Clarke. After leaving school Farine studied medicine and qualified as a GP bfore moving into publishing. She was promoted through the ranks to become Managing Director and Main Board Director and a published author. Farine was invited by the headmistress, Diana Vernon, to talk about her experienes before handing out the cetificates. This created a network of women who were able to share advice obtained from their experiences, proving to be invaluable. Farine left us with the saying ‘The world is your oyster, but look around you at your friends and remember that right now you’re surrounded by pearls’. This reminded us of the significance of friends and acquaintances who will ultimately prove to be more useful than any other advisers. Yasmin Duffy Year 12 ‘What your parents have given you is more valuable than a Nicole Fahri jumper or a million pound house, or whatever material thing you may think you want now. It is something few people, and sadly even fewer girls, are ever lucky enough to receive. It is this. It is an education. But a CLSG education is not an ordinary education.’ It was an absolute pleasure and honour to be invited back to my old school to speak to the girls and their parents. Although it was somewhat unnerving to be on the stage, as, like many of my generation, my overriding memories of the hall are of sitting in assembly with my classmates, looking up at the stage and trying not to fidget. Times may have changed but the fresh-faced enthusiasm of the girls has not. Because this was a celebration of GCSE results and because we were at the City of London School for Girls, the number of certificates was rather overwhelming. Although shaking hands with such an array of different coloured nail polishes made me smile. I’m pretty sure I will never be asked to hand out quite so many awards in recognition of excellence at any other institution in the future! This was undoubtedly the highlight of the evening. Farine expressed how grateful she was for receiving such a brilliant education at our school, and informed us of how this had given her the confidence to make the decisions, allowing her to have such a successful career. One of the most important pieces of advice she gave us was the value of staying in contact with old friends. By networking with fellow former City girls, she was able to maintain a number of useful contacts, both in careers related to hers and ones completely different. Farine Replies.... Get Involved with Your Magazine There are no rules governing who can be involved in CLOGA amd the magazine. Every old girl is eligible to contribute. You might want to write an article telling us about your memories of School, or interview a schoolfriend about their life. Or, you may have special skills which can be put to good use helping to ensure your alumni organisation is as vibrant, productive and exciting as the fantastic School it represents. You are bound to have ideas about what you want from your organisation, so why no share them? Your input will be very welcome by everyone. Therefore if you would like to be involvd in any way at all, please do tell us. All ages, skills and ideas are welcome. 27 CLOGA’S SIXTH FORM LEAVERS’ LUNCH 2012 For several years now, CLOGA has organised a lunch at school for the Sixth Form Leavers. This year’s lunch was a great occasion. The Sixth Form Centre was packed with lively Sixth Formers along with a few teachers and CLOGA members. The Headmistress gave a welcoming speech and CLOGA Chair, Jill Dixon, also said a few warming words. Over an array of wonderful foods, there was some nostalgic talk as well as conversation about future plans. Some of this year’s Sixth Formers are planning to go on to study a range of different subjects at University from Bio Engineering and Maths to Jill Dixon Addresses The Girls Music and Languages or to take a GAP year. There were also discussions about their attire as they were dressed as what they had wanted to be when they were young as part of their festivities for their final days at City; there was an archaeologist, some astronauts and Minnie Mouse; not all of them have adhered to their childhood aspirations. With their new aspirations and as they move forwards with their futures ahead of them, they will be able to keep in touch with each other through CLOGA. Joyce Lee 28 The Girls Dress According to Their Childhood Aspirations, Mini Mouse’s Ears are Just Visible Prep Christmas End of Term Concert 2012 Near the end of the Christmas term, the Prep Department, led by Miss Murphy and accompanied by Mr Stokes, put on a lively and joyful concert for parents and guests. by Nirmala Shah. The Cello Group gave dynamic performances of the ‘Wallace and Gromit’ theme tune and the ‘Can Can’. And the large orchestra played several pieces with gusto including the Overture to ‘William Tell’ and ‘Autumn’ from Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’. The Preps whetted the audience’s appetite by beginning with a piece called ‘Rain’ which they improvised themselves; the girls impressively created the sound of rain by clicking their fingers and clapping their hands. This was followed by a range of songs from different cultures across the globe including a Chinese Christmas Cradle Song and a traditional South African song, ‘Siyahumba’. The Prep Senior Choir’s rendition of ‘Can You Hear Me?’ was accompanied by two of the Preps who skilfully signed parts of the song. The Preps sang together with enthusiasm as part of their form groups as well as part of the Prep Junior and Prep Senior Choirs. Each year group performed a poem. Lower One formed a Christmas tree shape as they recited ‘The Little Christmas Tree’ while Upper One’s performance of ‘Miss Houlihan’s Christmas Cake’ was accompanied by guitar music and dancing. Lower Two gave an amusing delivery of ‘Under Santa’s Hat’ which involved wearing a variety of different hats and Upper Two gave an animated performance of ‘Santa’s Journey’ creating the impression they were in a large sleigh. The girls also displayed their other talents in the concert. Two girls performed a dance to Upper Two’s vocal of ‘Ame Sau Vala Tara Bal’, or ‘We Are All Your Children’, The concert finished with all the Preps joining together to sing ‘Frosty the Snowman’ followed by an encore of ‘Gonna Rise Up Singing’. It was a successful concert that left the audience in the festive spirit. Joyce Lee As well as a fantastic end of term concert, the girls from the prep department showed further talent in the form of their hats at their Christmas lunch 29 Treasurers report At the Annual General Meeting Liz Lewzey explained the key points and highlighted the strong balance sheet, in the CLOGA accounts. Total expenses were £927 in 2012 compared to £4,082 in 2011. CLOGA did not incur any magazine costs in 2012, compared to £3,056 in 2011. In 2012 we wrote off slow moving stock of memorabilia. Going forward income from the sale of these items will be taken straight to income. Once again the Association made a donation of £400 to the school ‘Leavers Ball’. CLOGA made a net surplus of £9,518 for the year ended 31 December 2012. The balance sheet of the Association remains strong, with net assets of £32,744 at 31 December 2012. Total income was £10,445 compared with £11,317 in the prior year. Subscriptions were down year on year because of amendments to the parental scheme. Pupils are now being offered a life sub for £300 payable over the years of attendance at the school. As a result, a proportion of subscription receipts have been taken to deferred income and will be taken to income over the 20 years following the leaving date of the pupils. Cash balances stood at £82,383, of which £10,150 has been put aside for the Bursary fund. Deferred income, which is made up of subscriptions paid to the Association for future year’s membership under the Parental Subs scheme and other life subscriptions received, stood at £40,115. 30 Liz Lewzey Treasurer April 2012 Treasurers report 31 REUNIONS Class of 1980 celebrate turning 50! It was on a bright October day that I found myself tottering across Paternoster Square clutching a huge box which contained a very valuable cake! Smiling all Night A picture of Ros castle, taken by the CLOGA travellersNobody from Stopped the lake. The 50th Cake which was Carefully Transported across St Paul’s ‘Make way,’ I shouted to the men in suits, ‘Stand aside please...... Valuable cargo coming through.....Very important party soon to be had...... Lots of VIP ladies about to arrive.’ And that was how I felt because the class of 1980 all turned 50 (give or take a few months) in 2012 and although many of us had enjoyed private celebrations we could not let an excuse for the biggest joint party of our lives to simply pass us by. We made light work of getting organised and hired a lovely room in a wine bar, which was fittingly situated in the heart of the City. We organised nibbles and drinks to everyone’s taste (like all good parties the joy was as much in the anticipation as in the final event). We even took soundings about the best pyrotechnics for maximum effect (nothing beats a Mount Vesuvius candle and the threat of the City fire-brigade to make a party swing). And, most importantly, emailed all and sundry in the year to be there or be extremely square! Needless to say that those who could not attend were not square, but really sad to miss it! Of course we had a ball. It was as if we had never left each other and were instantly transported back thirty years to the days of netball tournaments, rounders matches, art lessons and biology teachers driven to tears by our imaginative explanations about how kangaroos reproduce. Life had never been better since. Lisa Cohen, who really had done a stirling job at organising the whole thing, even set up a file sharing site for our pictures afterwards so that we could relish the event forever. The O Level Russian Group 32 We have left ourselves no choice but to repeat our party every year (even if that means remaining 50 for the next decade or so) and strongly suggest that all ‘old girls’ do the same! Farine Clarke REUNIONS - Contd. A reunion at Strada near St. Paul’s by Pat Repuski......... We have been meeting almost every year since August 2007 and once more, in August, just after the Olympics our little group met at Strada near St. Paul’s. This year’s attendees were Veronica Beaumont (Basford), Yvonne Neild (Eldridge), Beryl Ambrose (Osborne), Una Hubbard (Brankin), Wendy Robinson, myself and as a wonderful surprise Jill Davies (Cowie). Jill had a stroke some years ago so has been unable to attend but this time her husband braved public transport and brought her up to join us. We had a most enjoyable lunch with a great deal of laughter especially when the waiter placed Jill’s salad too close to the edge of the table and it fell into her lap. Jill’s only concern was that she wouldn’t be charged for two meals! Sadly we are now missing two members of our little group - not only Frances Skinner who had died shortly before our meeting in 2011 but also Ann Robinson (Peters) who died very suddenly earlier this summer. Unfortunately without Frances present to ask the waiter to take a group photo we didn’t think of pictures until after Jill had left - I think we were too busy talking. However I did manage to take a couple of photos - one of Yvonne, Veronica and Beryl and a second of Wendy and Una. Later in the first week of September Liz Paing (Simmonds) and I met up at the same restaurant as she had been unable to join in with the bigger group. We strolled over to the Centennial Bridge and looked down river to Tower Bridge with the Paralympic symbols proudly displayed . There were also several versions of the Olympic mascots posed for tourists’ photographs. We were most amused as the Boys’ school was open and we could hear the chatter of boys through the open windows. London certainly seemed more alive this summer than in past years. I really enjoyed seeing all the Ambassadors greeting and helping visitors. London is my favourite place and I love visiting old haunts from my school days. I can thoroughly recommend Strada as a meeting place they seem very happy to accommodate us and have never made us feel we have overstayed our welcome no matter how long we sit around and talk. Pat Repuski (Garibaldi) The picture above was sent by Clare Holley (nee Mole, 1976 - 1982) who writes: ‘We were 3A in 1977 and most of those pictured stayed on for the Sixth Form, although one or two of us left to go to boys schools. We have met sporadically over the years and when we all hit 40 6/7 years ago we had a big reunion and have tried to maintain contact ever since. It was a lovely class of girls and although some were unable to attend we spoke with fond memories of everyone. One of my daughters is now 17 and studying for A Levels at The Leys, in Cambridge. At the Christmas Carol Service I recognised the Head of Art as my old art teacher from City, who was then Miss Chapman!’ Pictured left to right above: Linda Kaye, Lucy Newham (nee Morgan), Karin Cook (nee Mcleish), Joanne Kingston, Jane Shalders (nee Llewelyn), Carly Lessoff, Alexia Ring (nee Matthews), Clare Holley (nee Mole), Jane Hughes, Anita Lowenstein and Louisa Hooper. Why Not Organise Your reunion? You know you want to! It is not nearly as difficult as it might seem at first and once you’ve got a few girls together the event will start to organise itself! Let us know about yours and we will always print your story, and pictures, in your magazine. Of course they will also be uploaded onto the website as soon as it is fully functional 33 MARRIAGES Wedding - Charlotte Flinter (class of 2007) to Thomas Halliday, 14th April 2012 Charlotte writes: ‘We had our ceremony and reception in Pembroke College, Cambridge, where we were both students from 2007-2010. It was a wonderful day (about the only dry day in April!) and we were lucky to have many of our friends there. The music during the service was provided by our fellow choristers in the Pembroke College Chapel Choir and during the reception, Rachel Wick (class of 2007) played her harp beautifully for us. My sister Elizabeth (class of 2004) was my chief bridesmaid (far right below) along with my new sister-in-law Ellen. One of the readings during the service was given by Francesca Yeldham (class of 2007) who was also at Pembroke with us. We celebrated the wedding afterwards with a traditional Ceilidh which was great fun and a fantastic way to let off some steam after the stresses of wedding organisation! A huge thanks goes to my parents, David and Frances Flinter (née Morgan, class of 1977), for all their help and support in organising our wedding. I am currently working on the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme where I am on placement as a service manager at North Middlesex Hospital, whilst my new husband Thomas is studying for his PhD on Palaeocene mammals at UCL.’ Simone Ben Hur Wedding Simone was married at the grand Connaught rooms in the City of London on April Fools’ day (she is happy to share this!) The lovely couple were, as Simone herself says: ‘April Fools with luck on our side with a beautifully sunny day. We even had a few City girls present, from across London and one City girl even flew in from America’. 34 MARRIAGES - Contd. Jordanne and Toby Jordanne (nee Young) left City in 2005 and went on to study Classics and Spanish at UCL, spending a year abroad in Salamanca. Since then she worked in PR and set up her own agency, ‘Appear Here PR’, working with luxury lifestyle and jewellery brands. Jordanne married Toby Shackleton on 9th June 2012 at Trinity House, London, in front of close family. They then celebrated with bowling and dancing at Shoreditch House with friends and family. An unforgettable day! Who Needs Hello When you have Your magazine? As you will see from these stunning pictures your wedding should be commemorated in print. Girls from all generations would love to read about your wedding so make sure yours is in the next issue of the magazine. They will also look wonderful on the website. Send your wedding story and pictures us at: [email protected] 35 ObituarIES Ann Peters Ann taken at a reunion lunch July 2010 Our thanks go to Patricia Repuski for these memories of Ann. I first remember Ann in V1-1 (as it then was - first year of the Sixth). She was studying sciences and I was studying English and languages so we didn’t cross paths very often. We had a mutual friend in Veronica Beaumont (Basford) so probably got together at break and lunch time. Sixth forms were relatively small in those days so we were a fairly close knit group. Which House was Ann in? I have no idea. I was in Tudor and I don’t recollect Ann at House meetings. She may have been in Fleet with Veronica or Ward or St Bride’s. I believe she was a prefect in V1-2 as were most of our class. Ann stayed on for a third year in the Sixth Form with Una Hubbard (Brankin). I think Una was Head Girl and Ann Vice though I could be mistaken! Ann invited me to accompany her and her parents one weekend during the summer holidays to sail their yacht (I had spent a week in the Norfolk Broads that Easter so was deemed a “sailor”). I can’t remember exactly where the yacht was moored - somewhere near Ipswich I think. Ann and I slept in the bunk house whilst her parents slept on board. We had to row out to it in the morning and Ann spent quite a while trying to teach me to row. Dr. Peters allowed me to steer for a bit which I enjoyed though we were merely proceeding in a straight line. When Ann was studying Dentistry she invited me over to her small shared flat for supper one evening. I was quite envious that both she and Veronica were studying at University and I had merely studied typing and become a secretary. They had flats and lived on campus - I was still living at home with my parents. Ann invited me to her 21st birthday party held at a big hotel in Kensington. Luckily Veronica was there too so I had a friend to talk to. In 2007 Veronica and I with the help of Frances Skinner organised a class reunion to which Ann came. Each year I have returned “home” since a few of us have met up again and Ann was one of the stalwarts. Sadly Frances died last summer and now we have lost Ann very suddenly. We are getting together again this August and will toast them in coffee. My condolences to Iain and their daughters. Ann was very proud of her four girls and kept us up to date with marriages and grandchildren. It seemed that there was a new baby almost every year. It is wonderful how one can meet up with school friends after years and years and yet still chat together as if no time had elapsed. from Patricia Repuski nee Garibaldi (1949 -1956) Betty Graham: 1913-2011 Betty Graham was Head Girl of the City of London School for Girls and her brother, Jon was Head Boy of the City of London School for Boys! Anne Peters at a reunion lunch for the 1956 alumni. From left; Patricia Repuski (Garibaldi), Ann Robinson (Peters), Frances Skinner, and Beryl Ambrose (Osborne). 36 After school she went on to read History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Through her brother she met her husband Ian, who was at Trinity College, Cambridge. They were married in 1940, after which she led a full and active life. Betty died peacefully in hospital on 23rd February 2011. ObituarIES - cont. Dr Joyce Mary Havelock (née Buck): 1923-2011 Joyce was born in Ealing in 1923. Her mother had been a nurse in the First World War, and then won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. At the age of 4, Joyce developed nephritis, and spent several weeks in St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, where Alexander Fleming was then engaged in work that would lead to his discovery of penicillin the following year. Although her father was at the time the Financial Secretary to the National Children’s home, with no piscine connections, Joyce won a Fishmongers’ Company Scholarship to the City of London School for Girls, where she started at the age of 11 in 1934. Her least favourite subjects were hockey (at Grove Park) and Latin, but she excelled academically, especially in the biological sciences, and won a number of prizes. The varied selection of books thus gathered, including the satirical “1066 and all That” and its sequel, “And Now all This”, testifies to the enlightened regime of the school. Her school days were punctuated by a number of important events, including the abdication crisis (“Hark the herald angels sing, Mrs Simpson’s pinched our King”) and the Coronation of George VI in 1937, when each girl was presented with a silver gilt spoon by the Lord Mayor of London. Independence was nurtured by travelling from the age of 11 every day by District Line from Ealing to Blackfriars, and she took the opportunity of exploring London with her friend, Elizabeth Nash (now Coton), particularly on wet afternoons when games were cancelled. She maintained her love of London to the end of her life, and also an excellent knowledge of the bus routes. When war came in 1939, the school was evacuated, initially to Ashtead, and then to Keighley in the West Riding. Joyce was put up, along with Elizabeth, by an affluent family among whose friends was Sybil Thorndike, who once came to tea while they were there. She had known Brian, her future husband, from an early age through the local Methodist Church, but their relationship started to take a more serious turn early one evening in August 1940 when he offered to accompany her home from the local tennis club. It happened to be the day the Luftwaffe bombers shifted their attention from airfields to London, and the 17-year-olds trod the streets against an increasingly incandescent sky reflecting the conflagration of the East End. Joyce’s ambition to study medicine had been galvanised by the image of the idealistic young doctor in AJ Cronin’s novel, “The Citadel”, which she read in her teens. In 1942, she started her medical studies at University College London, later to be immortalised as “St Swithin’s Hospital” in the original film of “Doctor in the House”. The only medical schools in London at that time that took women, apart from the Royal Free which had no men, were UCH and King’s. Going from the relatively cloistered life of an all-girls school was something of a rude awakening, and Joyce used to muse on how quickly and extensively her vocabulary and experience of life had been enriched. She moved to the West London Hospital, Hammersmith, for her clinical training. Soon after it started, the V1 and V2 raids on London began, and she used to go out in ambulances sometimes to help treat victims on site. One of her mentors was Col Vivian Green-Armytage, a charismatic Harley Street consultant and pioneer of the speciality of obstetrics and gynaecology, who had retired in 1933 from the Indian Medical Service and since become, in those pre-NHS days, an important figure in the London medical scene. Joyce was taken under his wing, and used to accompany him in his Rolls-Royce on visits to patients in private nursing homes with their confidential ailments. She attended post-mortems conducted by Professor Keith Simpson, then establishing his reputation as one of the legendary figures of forensic medicine, whose glamorous blond secretary used to sit at the end of the post-mortem table typing to his dictation as he carried out the examination. When Joyce qualified in 1947, the year before the NHS came into being, she became the first house surgeon to Harold Burge, a pioneer of vagotomy (cutting through part of the vagus nerve) in the management of gastric ulcer, before the advent of the modern non-surgical approach. In 1949, Joyce had married Brian, fresh from war service as an RAF pilot, and Cambridge, who was moved by his new employer, ICI, to temporary exile in Liverpool, and 37 ObituarIES - cont. another family friend. After 10 years or so, she decided to take up new opportunities in public health, and became for a time a Senior Medical Officer in Community Health Services in south London. In the 1980s she turned to occupational health, and for some 15 years ran the service at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton. Meanwhile, she continued with family planning, and served for a year as Chairman of the London Family Planning Doctors’ Association. Joyce worked for a time as an Assistant Resident Medical Officer at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Her subsequent experience of studying for the Certificate in Public Health entailed a wide range of site visits which opened her eyes still further to social medicine, and prepared her for her next post as an Assistant MOH in Liverpool. This was the heady time of post-war optimism in building the modern welfare state, and expansion of public services, principal among which was the NHS. It was a good time to be a doctor, and particularly special to be a woman doctor - and one of the apparent perks was that all three of her children were delivered by (later Sir) Norman Jeffcoate, who had recently been appointed as the first Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Liverpool. The family moved to Surrey in 1957, and after a period of working in the school health service, Joyce became involved in the early 1960s in what were still the pioneering days of the Family Planning Association, at that time still a charity independent of the NHS. Perhaps her zeal for this work had been enhanced by her voluntary position at a home for unmarried mothers. A symbiotic arrangement had developed whereby the FPA were allowed to use local authority (as they then were) clinics free of charge. This usually worked well, except when, as in the local area in which Joyce worked, the local Medical Officer of Health was a Catholic, and therefore opposed to contraception. Joyce became a doughty campaigner for family planning, in which she believed passionately, and something of a contraceptive crusader in bringing the gynaecological gospel to some of the less salubrious parts of south London. After a few holiday locums for a close friend who was a singled-handed lady general practitioner, she took advantage of the new opportunity in the early 1970s to become a part-time salaried GP, and joined the practice of 38 Joyce was now active in the Society of Public Health and was a founder member of its Faculty of Community Health, formed in the early 1990s to develop the academic credentials of community medical practice, including child health and family planning. She was the third Faculty Chairman, and during her three-year stint the Society went through the first of two reorganisations, from which it finally emerged in 2008 as the Royal Society of Public Health, of which Joyce was a Fellow. After Brian died in 2000, she continued to run a women’s clinic at a local practice until she was 80, when she finally retired. Shortly afterwards, she underwent extensive emergency cardiac surgery in 2005, from which she made a remarkable recovery after six weeks in intensive care. Up to her last few months, she continued to attend meetings of her local Medical Society, and had many other interests, including music and opera, the theatre, and cats. She had a ready wit, a light touch and the ability to make speedy but pungent judgements. She was delighted to become a great-grandmother in her last year, but slightly annoyed that the Queen had beaten her to it! Joyce was always proud of her association with the City of London School for Girls, and grateful for the impetus it had given for her professional career. She maintained a close life-long friendship with a number of her school contemporaries, including, as well as Elizabeth Coton (née Nash), Monica Diplock and Elisabeth Littlejohn. Joyce in March 2011 with her great granddaughter, Lana OBITUARIES - cont. Hiliary Reed (née Fairhead): 1923-2011 Hiliary Reed (née Fairhead) CLSG 1928-1937 Hilary was born in Illford London in August 1919, as one of five children. Her father was a master draper who ran a successful shop. After leaving City in 1937, Hilary worked at the Bank of England which she said she found dull! However, during the war she found her true vocation in life and worked as a nursing aid in a military hospital . Through nursing she put her desire to help others, sense of duty and her quiet strength to good use. After the war she trained and qualified as a nurse at the Royal London Hospital. Hilary travelled a great deal and in 1953 she became a theatre sister n Singapore before moving to Brunai to be a deputy matron. In 1963 she moved to Kuwait to become matron of the Al-Sabah hospital, where she met her husband a handsome engineer. In Kuwait Hilary had a wide circle of friends and her daughter, whom she adopted there, remembers activities including yoga, swimming and going to “do’s” at the Embassy. After 20 years in Kuwait Hilary and her family returned to the UK where she remained an active member of the community. Not least at her church, St Paul’s in Winchmore Hill. Hilary continued swimming every day until the age of 80. In 1997 she was granted the Freedom of the City of London. Although she suffered a number of health problems, including Alzheimer’s disease, Hilary remained brave and uncomplaining in later life. Dorothy May Dark (née Hempfield): Attended CLSG 1950-1957 Marina Sharf: 1918-2011 Our thanks to Jean Cardy for the following synopsis: Marina Sharf was in the sixth form when I started at CLSG in 1936 but I remember her because she was striking and elegant. After the War, I heard that she had been dropped into occupied Europe: that was probably not true but she did work for British Intelligence, partly in India and was mentioned in dispatches. However, she never spoke about her wartime experience. Years later I read a newspaper account that she was living as a nun in a remote part of the Yorkshire Moors. Her newspaper obituary told me more about her remarkable life. She was born in Caucasus in the middle of the Russian revolution, and was baptised in a flower vase because firing prevented her parents from getting to a church. When the family moved to England she attended CLSG. She went on to Girton College, Cambridge to read English. After the war she worked as a civil servant, an actress and a teacher, and was Head of English at Bedford Girls’ school. In 1965 she became a Greek Orthodox nun . As Mother Thekla she became muse, librettist and commercial adviser to the composer, John Taverner who called her his ‘spiritual mother’. She gave him the words for the ‘Song for Athene’ which was played under a different name as Princess Diana’s coffin was carried out of the Abbey. She wrote a libretto for his opera, ‘Mary of Egypt’, and various choral works. Her end appears to have been rather sad; an American nun she hoped might take over the convent dumped her in an Anglican convent in Whitby and sold the Orthodox one. An Orthodox archbishop preached at her funeral an two works by Taverner were played. Dorothy passed away peacefully on Sunday 17th February 2013 surrounded by family and close friends. Loving mother of Matthew, Heather and Gina. 39 OBITUARIES - cont. Frances Skinner: 1938-2011 Sadly after some 10 years and despite wonderful treatment from Brompton Hospital side effects and lung cancer took their toll and her heart finally gave out. Frances was a loyal active member of the CLOGA committee for many years, organising many visits to interesting places and holidays in Europe with the Travel Club. Despite the fact that she exasperated some of us by constantly changing arrangements Frances lightened our days with the apparently oblivious way in which she sailed through one adventure after another. We were all privileged to have known a true spirited Brit. Ann Reed 1949-56 Our thanks go to Ann Reed for her fond memories of Fances. Frances was an extraordinary person, energetic, eccentric, uncomplaining. Frances had to leave school when her father died and there were only sufficient funds to continue the education of one child ; her brother attending CLS took precedence. Frances left school to follow a career with Wandsworth County Council. I first got to know her properly when Frances had retired. Never having married Frances looked after her mother (who by then was confined to a wheelchair) taking her to Paris for a week endand anywhere else that seemed a good idea to Frances. Nothing daunted Frances and this in the days before the level of attention to the disabled that we have now. Not having had the chance to go to university, in her early 60s Frances took a degree in Biochemistry and obtained a 2:1. With this Frances went to Africa with a medical aid organisation. Frances developed breast cancer while still looking after her mother. This Frances bore very bravely, learning much about her condition and treatment,correcting her doctors if she disagreed with their advice: she never complained. 40 In memory of former CLSG Pupils One of the functions of the CLSG alumni organisation is to remember former classmates who have been sadly lost to us. This includes all generations of girls some of whom will have been lost in their prime, perhaps leaving young families behind. Clearly the alumni would wish to remember these girls and support their loved ones and their friends. If you have a class-mate or friend you wish to commemorate, then please write and tell us. It does not matter how many years have passed. The alumni is here to remember and support all former CLSG pupils. new members of cloga New CLOGA members are listed below. The list gives the new members who joined on leaving school in 2012 Abrahams Kate 26 Princess Ave, London N10 3LR Allen Isabella 2 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PH Amos Josephine 226 Alexandra Park Rd. London N22 7BH Andrade Sara 105 Longthornton Road London SW16 5QF Baker Jessica 9 Arlington Sq. London N1 7DS Barrett Poppy Wyngates, Spring Road, Kinsbourne Green, Harpenden AL5 3PP Bates Helena 12 Alwyne Place, London N1 2NL Bayliss Rosie 4 Dereham Road, Essex IG11 9HA Beckham Grace 13 Wallside, Monkwell Sq. London EC2Y 8BH Bhudia Damini 37 Penge Rd, London, E13 0SL Brown Eliza 17 Kensington Palace Court Sancroft St. London SE11 5UL Cape-Davenhill Ella 34 Anson Rd, London N7 0AB Carreira-Wham Sofia 9 Carlisle Mansions, Carlisle Place London SW1P 1HX Caslake Holding Florence 76 Regina Rd, London N4 3PP Chan Abigail 127 The Vale, London N11 8TL Chenciner Louisa 12 Lloyd Sq, London WC1X 9BA Chovanec Sarah 12 Colmore Court, 283 Watford Way London NW4 4TQ Coward Deyell 148 Wanstead Lane, Redbridge Essex IG1 3SG Coy Poppy 12 Long Rd, Cambridge, CB2 8PS Craddock Sarah 17 Pine Grove, Brookmans Park Hertfordshire AL9 7BP Cullen Gemma 9 Highfields Grove, London N6 6HN Curtis Jessica 331 Nether St. London N3 1JJ Dattenberg-Doyle Imme 2a Bradbrook House, Studio Place London SW1X 8EL Davies Rosemary 15 Herschell Road, Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 2NH Dayan Alyssa 117 Beford Court Mansions London WC1B 3AG Dillon Hatcher Eleanor 2 Banbury Rd, London E9 7DU Dunne Elizabeth 76 Melrose Ave, London NW2 4JT Evans Hannah 14 Keats Close, London SE1 5TZ Garrett Lena 2 Willoughby House, 1 Willoughby Rd, London NW3 1RP Gillmore Katie 78 Offord Rd, London N1 1EB Glynn Jessica 22 Navarino Rd, London E8 1AD Greenwood Millie 17A Highbury Terrace Mews London N5 1UT Griffiths Olivia 54 Colebrooke Row, London, N1 8AF Hamilton-Jones Imogen 9 Kiver Rd, London N19 4PE Harley Hannah 14 Petherton Rd, London N5 2RD Hartnoll Beatrice 46 Offord Rd, London N1 1EB Holcombe Eleanor 73 Conduit Way, London NW10 0SD Holt Rosa 115 Whitecross St, London EC1Y 8JQ Hudson-Kozdoj Zara 6K Stanley Terrace, London N19 4JX Indwar Arsheya 20 Aberdeen Court, Maida Vale London W9 1AF Jack Apphia 47 Canonbury Park North London N1 2JU Januszczak Mercedes 54 Brookfield Mansions 5 Highgate West Hill, London N6 6AT King Sarah 149 Kennington Rd, London SE11 6SF Ledger Elizabeth 36 Liphook Crescent, London SE23 3BW Lineham Amy 11 Canonbury Park North London N1 2JZ Miller Madelaine 32 Gainsborough Studios North London N1 5EB Moinizadeh Anita 62 Addington Rd, Kent BR4 9BJ Murray Asha 53 Kemp House, Berwick St. London W1F 0QU Nkee Vivienne 15B Ringcroft St, London, N7 8ND Ohajah Elise 17 Hanover Road, London NW10 3DJ O’Keeffe Sarah 92 Empire Square South, Empire Sq. London SE1 4NG Oratore Alexandra 21 Wilton St, London SW1X 7AX Panella Amelia 4 Brookfield Park, London NW5 1ER Patterson Sally 31 Chalcot Rd, London NW1 8LP Premathasan Thugitha 30 Lathom Rd, London E6 2DX Pritchett Edith 5 Grotes Buildings, London SE3 0DG Raja Nitika 245 Haverstock Hill London NW3 4PR Rawlinson Isobel 52 Outram Rd, London N22 7AF Richardson Madeleine 82 Lady Margaret Rd, London N19 5ES Rivett Miranda 27 Windermere Rd, London N10 2RD Robb Freya 35 Alkham Rd, London N16 7AA Rosen Sarah 64 Kings Ave, Woodford Green, Essex, LG8 0JF Sands Madeleine 14 Highbury Terrace, London N5 1UP Selby Alana 49 Heber Rd, London NW2 6AB Shang Yingxue 41 Villa St, London SE17 2EJ Sharma Ekta 3 Limedene Cl, Pinner Middlesex, HA5 3PX Shearer Eleanor 17 Fournier St, London, E1 6QE Sinyor Jessica 70 Sheldon Ave, London N6 4ND Steer Florence 11 Sekforde St. London EC1R 0HD Subbiah Sheila 8 Old Manor Way, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5XS Tai Allissa 145 Telegraph Place, Mill Quay London E14 9XB Tharmaraj Tamara 51 Middle Rd, Brentwood Essex CM13 3QS Tomic Tiana Flat 4, 71 Southern Row, London W10 5AL Tweedley Ellie 100 Cloudesley Rd, London, N1 0EB Tyler Amy 4 St. James Mansions, West End Lane, West Hampstead, London NW6 2AA Vasiliades Deana Flat 4, 51 Hans Place, London, SW1X 0LA Veerabahu Amalia 16 Regent Court, 1 North Bank, London, NW8 8UN Wang Eileen Flat A, System House, 3 Deanery Rd, London E15 4LT Warren-Hamps Beatrice 31 Chesterfield Grove, London, SE22 8RP Whitehead Samira 2 Maiden Place, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HZ Whitworth Ines 35 Devonia Rd, London N1 8JQ Wingrove Emily 26 Lancaster Grove, London NW3 4PB Wingrove Katie 26 Lancaster Grove, London NW3 4PB Wintle Mollie 31 York Rise, London NW5 1SR Wojital Klaudia 2 Spirit Quay, London EW1 2UT Wolman Sarah 28 Duncan Terrace, London N1 8BS Zelkha Sarah 35 Albion St, London W2 2AX 42