RANGI-RURU.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 809, 8 July 1933, Page 16

RANGI-RURU.

! Old Girls Hold Annual Dance. NINETEEN DEBUTANTES. ; One of the biggest dances of the ■ year, the annual ball of the Rangi- . ruru Old Girls’ Association, was held , last evening in the Winter Garden. The ! success of this dance has become a byword among many people in Christchurch, and last night’s gathering still ; further enhanced the reputation en- ! joyed by the Old Girls’ Association of being excellent hostesses. The event is an unusual one in that it is always a programme dance, and on this account the guests began to arrive as early as half-past seven and continued to do so till nearly ten o’clock. White and gold, the school colours, were used to decorate the ballroom, and in the supper room a pretty diffused light was given by gold-shaded candles in crystal candlesticks. The Guests of Honour. Miss .Helen Gibson (principal of the school), and Miss Ethel Gibson, Mrs F. P. Osmond Smith and Miss C. Lowe were the guests of honour. Miss Gibson’s frock was of black fish net and georgette, Miss Ethel Gibson, black georgette and lace; Miss Lowe, black lace mounted on a shell pink foundation; Mrs Osmond Smith, black lace and satin. All wore dainty sprays of real flowers, the gifts of the Old Girls’ Association. The Committee. A large and energetic committee were responsible for the excellent organisation of the dance. They were Mrs C. S. Thomas, black satin; Mrs J. Newton, black angel skin lace; Mrs K. Robinson, black velvet; Mrs M. Johnston, delphinium blue georgette, closely patterned in a floral design; Misses Ena Fleetwood, white wool lace trimmed with red velvet; Noeleen Bishop, salmon pink georgette; Celia Reese, duck-egg blue crinkle crepe; Joan Cottrell, white satin; Louise Camm, ruby red flat crepe; Betty Webb, national blue satin; Norah Haggitt, Janet Sej’mour and M. Waller. Miss Helen Buckham, president of the Old Girls’ Association, wore a graceful frock of ruby red georgette with a draped collar; and Miss Ina Warner, the secretarj’, was dressed in a frock of black satin and georgette. The Debutantes. [ As in former years, a bevy of young girls chose to make their debut into adult society under the auspices of their old school. In all nineteen girls were received by Miss Gibson, after which i the special dance for the debutantes was held. Each debutante was presented on i arrival with a posy in the school colours, white and yellow, the gift of the > Old Girls Association. The debutantes were:— 1 Miss Elva Atkinson, who wore a frock of magnolia crepe satin, with flared panels forming the skirt, and shoulder straps of little flowers. Her crushed velvet coatee had long sleeves puffed at the elbow. Miss Stephanie Scott, ivory crushed velvet with tapering panels hack anc front, soft how at waistline with long : ends falling to hem of frock, three-quar-r ter length coat of blue ring velvet with - a collar of beige fox fur. I Miss Ruth Fear, primros6 organtl: 1 sprigged in pastel shades, big epaulette > frills at armhole, with smaller frills edging hemline. Miss June Stewart, white lace frock made tight-fitting to knees and ther » flaring widely, bodice with cowl neek- . line, coatee of the same material with » elbow-length puffed sleeves. Miss Alison MacOibbon. simply-cut ■ frock of ivory crushed velvet with sash • tying in a bow at the back, cape let ot ; chiffon velvet in the same shade. Miss Helen Bruce, frock of whit*! angel-skin lace made on simple lines with two little frills edging the wide , armholes, capelet of white ring velvet. Miss Huia Stables, cream wool lace frock cut on classical lines, and trimmed with rows of tiny georgette frills on the tulle sleeves and round the skirt, turquoise blue crushed velvet shoulder cape. Miss Mary Talbot, cream georgette made on classical lines with a beaded girdle at the waist, coatee of red panne velvet. Miss Mary Stephenson, ivory satin frock with lace bodice, crushed velvet canelet lined with pale pink satin. Miss Dorothy Redgrave, simply-cut frock of cream iridescent crepe, the swathed velvet sash tying in a bow at the back, crushed velvet coatee with cape sleeves. Miss Sheila Lynskey, white crinkle crepe frock, the little puffed sleeves finished with a bow at the shoulder and another bow on the skirt, green crushed velvet coatee. Miss Xance Sliand. picture frock of cream georgette fitted to the knees, fullness being given to the skirt by means of frilled godets. Frills also trimmed the little cape sleeves. Miss Mary Hamilton, cream elephant’s skin lace, appliqued in a floral pattern on to the net yoke, turquoise blue ribbon sash tying in a bow at the back. Miss Eileen Cuff (Ashburton), white net. o\’er taffetas, frilled bertha collar -and skirt, composed of tiny frills, taffetas sash tying in a how at the back. Miss Joy Ridgen (Greendale), pale pink Nottingham net lace with cape sleeves, coatee of crushed velvet in a deeper shade of pink. Miss Janet Seymour, white angelskin crepe shirred on bodice, and godets shir-red at the hipline, giving fullness to the skirt. Miss Margaret Caverhill, del blue crepe rosa frock cut on classical lines. Miss Rena Macdonald (Waikuku), white crinkle crepe frock with silver epaulettes, big bow at waist line at back. Miss Myrtle Stephens, picture frock of white lace, little cape composed of rows of frills. Others Present. Others present were:—Mcsdames E. Fear, C. A. Cuff (Ashburton), Victor Hamilton, H. X. Talbot, E. Ridgen (Greendale), F. B. Redgrave, Mervyn Stevenson, Arthur Stewart, A. S. Taylor, .Walter M’Gibbon. J. A. Stables, Russell Cordery, Harold Prescott, L. W. Matson, A. Todd, Cyril Stringer, R. H. Livingstone, K. J. Walker, F. Dunnage, N. R. Belcher, J. H. Pennington, J. H. B. Herbert (England). A. B. Moffett (Invercargill), Robert Wreaks and A. H. Cavell; Misses K. Horth, Margaret Hamilton, Kathleen Joseph, Peggy Wright, Sylvia Cook, Xan Macdonald, Doreen Cook, Madeline Meares, Alice Hewlett, Gertrude .Moore, Betty Evans, Mollie Evans, Margaret Talbot, Dora Neville, Barbara Beckett, Joan and Pauline ShayleGeorge, Jean Stevenson, Joy and Bonnie Nicholls, Paula Mackenzie, Dorothy Judd, Billie Allen. Dorothy Wauchop, Lois Ogilvie, Gretchen Sargent, Mollie Masefield. Roie de Pass. Rachel Denham, Helen Bretherton, Barbara. Bloxam, Margaret Webley, Joan Ormerod, Dorothy and Muriel Undrill, Sheila Atkinson, Gertrude Brown, Judith Jamieson, Dorothy Reid, Billie Henderson, Joyce Buss, Joan Hannah, Kitty Sinclair, Jessie Forbes, Joyce Osmond Smith, Gwen Smythe, Sybil Rutherford. Joan Dean, Betty Neave, Sybil Corsbie, Ranee Broughton, Grace Martin, Sadie Woods, Mary Menzies, Elisabeth Tipping, Joy Rawnsley. Eleanor Denniston. Elizabeth ATpers, Neroli M’Clatchie. Xorah Newton, Xola Sliand, Mary Gill, Lindley Herdman, Shirley James, Florence and

Marie Cannon, Mavis Boulton, Brenda Edmonds. Nancy Flavell. Joyce Tanner, Alison Beadel, Nancy Salmond, Shona Bampier-Crossley, Jean Irving. Winifred Hutton, Kathleen Needham, Hilary Fryer, Lesley James, Joan Lynskey, Ellice Blank. Dorothy Kernahan, Nance Blunden, Gladys Actcjn-Adams, Mary Alexander, Faith Herdman, Joan Hart, Joyce and Joan Burt, Barbara Mulcock, Gretchen Marsden, Noreen Craddock, Jessie M’Donald, Phyllis Smith, Kathleen Godfrey, Joyce Cooper, Joan Bates, Mollie and Monica Templeman. Joan Hillary. Pamela Price, Patricia Stewart, Averill Wilson, Wilmot Macbeth, Margaret Clark, Helen ITaskins, Rona Woodward, Mary Caesar, Margaret Hayes, Elaine Perry. Olivia Spencer-Bower, Marjorie Carwell-Cooke, Doreen Hight, Joan and Rona Rutherford, Caroline Joseph, Kathleen Austin, Joan Skipage, Monica Little. Joan Sorenson, Mavis M’Crostie, Joyce Austin (Oamaru), Jeannette and Ailsa March (Loburn), Shona Bassett (Oxford), Sally Lindsay. Mj'nette Watson. Mollie Waller, Averill Johnston. Patricia Ronalds, Pat SeottBaker, Edna Dunnage, Rose Reynolds, Merla Munns. Elsie Barr, Betty Bowling. Honor Plimmer. Myra Armstrong. Edith Pritchard, Edna Dickson, Glvn Monrk-Robinson, Gladys Grey, Betty Treleaven. Sheila. Pemberton. Irene Morton, Ella Murray, Joyce Blunden and Margaret Anderson.