OPENING CELEBRATED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 17

OPENING CELEBRATED.

TRAINING COLLEGE HALL,

The new assembly hall at the Auckland Teachers' Training College was the scene last night of a gay dance, which was held to celebrate its opening. The hall, with its deep cream walls and fawn curtains, was simply decorated with bright autumn foliage and tall stands of palms, decorations which showed off its fine architecture best advantage. Tall palms were also used to decorate the entrance hall, while the women's common room and three of the Jecture rooms, which were used for supper, were decorated with irises, early Iceland jxjgpies.. ■ ~ The guests, who included members of the' teaching staff, their wives, and students, were received by the principal of the college, Mr. D, M, Rae, and Mrs. Rae, who was wearing a frock of patterned silk in pastel tonings. The committee responsible for the evening's arrangements comprised:— Misses H. Davies, B. Haden, C. Gribble, P. Smith, F. Waldorf and Messrs. E. Casey, C. Belgrave, R. Sanders, G. Allcock and P. Barclay. Among those present were: Mesdames J. W. Shawj Ramsay Howie, B. M. Kibblewhite, A. Bain, K. J. Dellow, Campbell Boyle, K. C. Reid, C". Gillies, H. McChesney, Smytheman; Misses J. Carnachan, B. Bowden, A. Kennedy, E. Bayne, Grieve, Miller, K. Niccoll, C. Barr, D. Stkhbury, Mary Martin, Betty Fulton, Katie Simmons, Joy Brown, Jean i Morton Smith, Helen MacCormick, Linlev Walker, M. Kidd, Lou Gardner. Ray Shannon, Grace Thornton, Molly O'Brien, j June Hillary, Joan Winthrop, Dorothy I Fowler, Lesley Mac Donald, Amy Hall, I Jean McQneen, Winsome Bine, D. de Montalk, Joan Burke, Margot Griffin, Molly Kidd, J. Campbell, Pat Paterson, Jean Hughes, Leone Edmonds, W. Vokes, Molly Annett, Lois Anderson, Eunice Roscoe, Enid Jacobs, Beatrice Mylett, S. j Phillip, J. Irwin, P. Cooper, June Grant- ! ley, Aline Falkner, E. Tarnbull, Muriel Robertson, Joy Smart. Joan O'Brien, Nancy Ludlow, Joan Smith, Dora Hag- ' gett, Margaret McClean, Anna Mexted, . N. Strange, Phyllis Farmer, Olive Hall, M. Davis, Barbara Pirie, Joan Robinson, Ina Ratcliff, Vera Edwards, Nita Steele, M. Hipkins, Phyllis Burness, Dunlop, C. McCracken, Joan Cunipsty, E. Noble and K. Schwieters. j