RANGI-RURU

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22894, 15 December 1939, Page 2

RANGI-RURU

PRESENTATION OF PRIZES "l ean say that the standard of the general work of the school has been well maintained this year, and I am grateful to those—whether they are members of the staff or pupils of the school —who have exerted themselves to keep up this standard ” said Miss Ethel Gibson, headmistress of Rangi-ruru, speaking at the annual prize-giving ceremony at the Radiant Hall yesterday morning, 'for the three essentials of a school, I consider, are a high moral tone, sound scholarship, ana the right spirit in sport. That is what-we have always aimed at.” In sport. Miss Gibson continued, the school had done well. In the Canterbury secondary schools’ tennis tournament Rangi-ruru had won the senior singles, senior doubles, and junior doubles. In the inter-school tournament, tire school had won in the A, B, and C grades, though the B grade title was won from the Girls’ High School only by a stroke. In swimming, pupils had gained 142 awards for life saving, including five awards of merit, and three pupils had gained the bar to the award of merit. Thirty-seven pupils had passed the St. John Ambulance first aid examination. In the matriculation examination the school had gained 84.5 per cent, of passes, and in the school certificate examination 91 per cent, of passes. pie cooking, dressmaking, and art classes had been well attended. After the prizes had been presented Archdeacon A. K. Warren briefly addressed the pupils, urging them to value the freedom they enjoyed in New Zealand, and to be grateful for the many blessings that were theirs. Prize List Mrs Warren presented the prizes as follows: Margaret Harris Memorial Prize—Presented by Mr Charles Bean: Erica Gardiner. Form Vl—Erica Gardiner, Mary Mulligan, Patricia Rogers, Betty Sutton (for consistent work). Form V—Lynette Gardiner, Sheila Wilding, Janet Morse, Ray Barbour. Joan Thompson (for mathematics), June Smith, Mary Matson, Sheila Box, and Pauline Gould (for consistent work). Form IV R—Billye Helme, Barbara Hale, Barbara Foreman, Barbara Hamilton, Elizabeth Newton (for consistent work). Form IVA—Judith Kent, Philippa Glasgow, Margaret Hutchison, Gabrielle Hope. Evelyn Gardiner, Betty Withell, Lois Lyttle, Beverley Brown (for consistent work), Fay Matson. Form IV Bl—Helen Gardiner, Joan Thompson. Hermione Wylie. Form IV B2—Marjorie Hill, Rhona Mldgley, Geraldine Allison, Lois Evans (for consistent work). Form lll—Alison Edgar, Jocelyn Cook, Rosemary Cumingham. Form ll—Marjorie Turnbull, Norna Woodhouse, Shirley McCully. Form I A—Elizabeth Edgar, Sheila Hutchison, Paulle Woodhouse, Ann Anderson. Form I B—Peggy Barnett, Barbara Parrott. Form I C—Joan Fox (for progress). Dressmaking—Thea Ward, Margaret Wylie and Winona Murray (equal) second. Sewing (Seniors) —Judith Woodhouse, Pamela Harper, Marianne Thomson, Geraldine Allison, Mary Matson. Sewing (Juniors)—Maureen Campbell, Virginia Warren, Audrey Robbins, Margaret Howarth. Cooking—Margaret Wylie. Painting—Joan Smith-Morton and Patricia Rogers. Lino. Cutting—Shirley Hall. Drawing—Judith Hanna, Marie Hall. Music—-Seniors: Helen Parsonson, June Smith, Winona Murray (sight reading). Juniors; Josephine Knight, Betty Murray, Josephine Murray. Swimming—Seniors; Prudence Pumphrey. Juniors; Louise Morison. Boarders’ House Prize—Margaret Wylie. Rangi-ruru Old Girls’ Association prizes given for steady work over a period of

several years—Patricia Hamer, Marjorie Dobson. School bursary granted to a pupil who has passed through junior and senior school with credit and intends to continue her studies at the university—Erica Gardiner and Joan Robbins. Games List Drill Bars—Senior School: Helen Parsonson. Erica Gardiner, Mary Matson, Prudence Pumphrey, June Smith, Margaret Hutchison, Patricia Copeland, Faith Fryer, Cynthia Allison, Barbara Foreman, Diana Lawrence, Josephine Knight, Dawn Garland, Dorothy Reese, Philippa Glasgow. Phillippa Kitson, Pam Webb, Fay Matson, Grace Strachey. Junior .School: Jean Mac Gibbon, Marjorie Turnbull, Janet Macfarlane. Games Colours —Tennis: Dorothy Reese, Alison Hewstone, Audrey Hewstone, Shirley Lucas, Pam Webb. Hockey: Judith Woodhouse, Janet Morse, Margaret Bannerman. Net-ball—Pauline Gould, Helen Parsonson, Audrey Cholmondeley, Pam Masefield. Tennis—Rangl-ruru challenge cup, senior singles, Dorothy Reese; runner-up, Mrs Lucas’s special prize. Pauline Gould. Amur! Russell challenge cup, junior singles, Anne Reese; runner-up, Mrs Lucas’s special prize, Philippa Glasgow; senior championship doubles, Pauline Gould and Pam Cuddon; junior championship doubles. Philippa Glasgow and Anne Reese. Swimming—Award of merit, Mary Matson, Cynthia Allison, Pamela Webb; bar to award of merit. Prudence Pumphrey. Geraldine Turnbull. Barbara Hamilton.