ST MARGARET'S DEBUTANTES

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31658, 19 April 1968, Page 3

ST MARGARET'S DEBUTANTES

Thirty-three debutantes were presented to the Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt Rev. W. A. Pyatt) and Mrs Pyatt and the headmistress of St Margaret’s College the St Margaret’s Old Girls’ Association debutante ball in the Winter Garden last evening. They were presented by the president of the association (Mrs J. N. Matson), who wore a gown of lavender brocade. Cut on classical lines, it had a deep, square neck trimmed with a flat bow at the back. Mrs Pyatt wore a simplystyled dress of gold-embroid-ered Chinese silk. Massed pink and white floral pieces, arranged by members of the old girls* association decorated the ballroom where the hanging baskets were also draped in pink and white. A large arrangement in the foyer used silvered bracken and flax for a glistening effect DEBUTANTES The debutantes presented are:—Jan Archibald, Jennifer Armstrong, Jocelyn Arm-

strong, Anne Blair, Christine Foster, Vivienne Fleetwood, Sun! Ballantyne, Victoria Collins, Helen Cook, Alison Dendle, Gail Douglas, Rosemary Durie, Barbara Femer, Pena Fear, Suzzanne Fisher, Barbara Kempthorne, Suzanne Hammond, Susan Hyndman, Joanne Lee, Lyndsay McBeath, Felicity Maples, Helen McLaughlan, Gillian Polson, Vivienne Muirson, Nicola Reynolds, Dinah Thomas, Heather Scott, Judith Tipping, Rosemary Walker, Susan Wagner, Rosemary Wiflin, Rosemary Williams, and Susan Whale. The members of the committee who organised the ball were Mesdames J. N. Matson, L. H. Scott R. Collins, P. G. Edgen, J. K, Lawrence, W. D. Wood, J. F. Bum, B. O. Alexander, J. T. Botting, Misses L. Gardiner, S. Thomson, J. Young, C. Roberts and A. Wright Specially invited guests included the chairman of the board of governors (Mr'C. L. Patterson) and Mrs Patterson; the bursar (Mr G. S. Williams) and Mrs Williams; the assistant headmistress (Miss N. Cordner); representatives of Rangi-Rum Girls’ High School, Christchurch Girls’ High School, Villa Maria College, Sacred Heart Girls* College, St Mary’s Girls* College, and Avonside Girls’ High School.