"CAREER GIRLS"

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 13

"CAREER GIRLS"

PROMPTINGS OF HEART

SPENDING OF MONEY AND TIME

EDUCATION TRENDS

"Too often it happens that after a great deal of education, and after a good deal of money hzs been spenl) to prepare girls tor business careers, the promptings of the heart are too much fcr the earlier wishes cf the parents, and we feel that the energies of the girls may have been directed at college towards careers which they enter, but do not continue," said Dr. O. C. Mazehgarb, speaking at the annual prise-giving ceremony of Queen Margaret College in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last night. "Girls," ! he said, "are not properly trained \ if they are trained only for a ' career in life. "We used to be told that school days were necessarily the happiest days of our life,' said Dr, Mazengarb, "but now it is thought that school days should be spent in fitting pupils to obtain the greatest measure of happiness in their daily life,. That is the ideal we have at Queen Margaret College in laying down the policy upon which the girls should be trained by the staff. A WIDE RANGE. "There has been a great change in, the system of education. Education in. numerous subjects.- has been created, and today we endeavour to give wellbalanced instruction in scholastic, ethical, athletic, and artistic subjects. The day of adherence to the teaching of 'the three R's' has passed. I don't know, that it was altogether without its advantages. We teach in schools today subjects such as 'current events/ and there is-a great possibility of pupils muddling up things in their education." -

The impact of the war on school life was chiefly felt in the questions and obligations which it presented to the thoughtful adolescent, said the headmistress, Miss I. Wilson. -The war.influence was clearly evident in the urgency it had given to the thought of senior girls, who were eager.for relevant knowledge, and concerned with, the application of religion to the problems of their day. Thus such subjects as history, current events, scripture, and free discussion periods were all acquiring a new value, as they werr felt to meet a real need. . . .

THE PRIZE LIST,

The list of special prizes is as follows:-^ Dux of the school. Barbara Wall; consistent work, Jennifer Murie, Judith Blakeley, Audrey Jones, Ellen ThOrne, Edna Miles, June Cairtrty, Helen H->gg t Mary Land, Bangi Hogg; continuous service, slar?Maflt ell-Harding; school service (Old Girls' Association prizes), Isabel MeCaul, Joy Neale,. Mervyn Leece. June Cairney; general "helpfulness, Judith Baker, Shirley Ackroyd, Betty Booth: good progress, Avril Flockton, TS'gaire James, Margaret Bees-Jpnes, Barbara Watkins, Judy Macßae, Rata Tiller, Elspeth Frend, Valmai Paulin. Clarke Johnsoa memorial prizes for Scripture: Junior, Betty Gibb; senior, Ruth Olson. McLay memorial prizes for homecraft: Junior, Shirley Tweedie: senior, Mary Hopkirk.' Hatch memorial prizes for needlecraft: Junior, Katie Mantell-Harding; senior, Florence Davies.