SIXTY YEARS OLD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21183, 2 November 1938, Page 10

SIXTY YEARS OLD

"PAGEANT OF MEMORY” AT AT MARSDEN SCHOOL Sixty years is a venerable age for a New Zealand school, and Marsden School, Karori, Wellington, which is celebrating its diamond jubilee, has a record and a history to look back on cf which it may indeed be proud. Nearly 300 old girls and past members of the staff, from all parts of New Zealand, are visiting Wellington for the celebrations, which began on Friday night with an entertainment given by present pupils. On Saturday afternoon a tennis match was held, and in the evening a “Pageant of Memory” was staged in the school assembly hall. There is a quality about a school reunion which no other gathering quite achieves, and which was very apparent on Saturday night. The “Pageant of Memory” was a record of the school, from its earliest beginings at Fltzherbert Terrace to the present day. The account was read by Miss Kate Stocker, an old girl and a past member of the staff, and the most amusing and significant highlights were enacted by old girls. As the life of a school Inevitably is, the pageant was a blending of serious events with the amusing or trivial little things which become traditional, and which only those in the closed circle can really understand.