QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 68, 14 December 1944, Page 8

QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE

Annual Prize-Giving

. “You can’t all be prize-winners. The ‘also rans’ will probably be prize-winners next year or the year after,” said the mayoress of Wellington, Mrs. Appleton, jvho presented cups, trophies and prize certificates last night at the Queen Margaret College pnize-giving ceremony held in the Town Hall Concert Chamber. Stating that as the mother of a Queen Margaret old girl she qualified for the great interest she took in the school for 11 years. Mrs. Appleton congratulated the girls on their magazine "Te Karere” and on their orchestra, which played during the evening. She 'extended good wishes for Christmas, New Year and the holidays. and hoped that when they met again they would be able to celebrate peace. >

Lack of speeches distinguished the programme. the second half of which was devoted to Christmas music and items by' the verse-speaking, miming, junior versespeaking and choir groups, the whole school and the orchestra and a Russian Christmas play “The Legend of Baboushka.” enacted by Remove B. The principal. Miss I. Wilson, explained that a third of the school was absent, and judging by the crowded hall, it was a good thing. For. the first time the junior school prize-giving had been held separately. For the duration of the war merit certificates only were being awarded. with the exception of the dux prize, which served to symbolize all the prizes. She hoped that after the war a remembrance prize, would be available for every girl who earned one this year. Tlie chairman. Dr. O. C. Mazengarb, welcomed the chairman of . the board of Scots College. Mr. L. Ward, Colonel Glasgow of Scots College, who has returned after five years’ active service, and Miss E. Hatch, a new member of the board of governors. Deputizing for the president of the Old Girls’ Association. Miss E ; Hopkirk. Miss Hatch presented the association’s scholarship to the girl who this year , showed all-round ’"-omise. Frances Harding.

Dressed in their light blue summer uniforms, the girls sang the. First School s n ng as their house banners were ceremoniously niaced in order for the year, and concluded with the _ Second School song during the presentation of badges to leaving prefects. T Dux of the school was Julien Mather. Special service prizes for general helpfulness went to Jennifer Hanson, Margaret Huftam. Janet Spencer.; continuous service (Joan Watson’s prize), Joy Marks. Hatch Memorial prizes for needlccraft.: Junior, Inn Moss. Elizabeth Moss: senior, Mary Wild. McLay Memorial prizes for homecraft- Junior.' Patricia Dinnie: senior. Joan Nankervis. Clarke-Johnson Memorial prizes for Scripture: Junior. Susan Tripe: senior. Patricia Mopkirk. School service (Old Girls’ Association prizes): Judith Baker, Betty Gibb, Patricia Hopkirk. Suzanne Isaacs. Julien Mather.