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RETIRED Scarborough Girls' High School headmistress Millicent
Woods got the surprise of her life 25 years ago.
A ‘This Is Your Life’ surprise evening for her was staged
at a meeting of the Soroptimist International of Scarborough. It was researched
by another former Girls' High School headmistress, Hilda Briggs.
Miss Woods was head of the school from 1946 until 1963,
and then Miss Briggs took over until the school disappeared in the chang-eover
to comprehensive secondary education in 1973. Surprise guests at the event
included former pupils and teachers. |
PICTURED ... Sitting beside Millicent Woods (front centre)
are Hilda Briggs (right, holding placard) and Mrs Hannah Levy, then Scarborough
Soroptimists' president.
Round them, left to right, are Miss Joan Jefferson (kneeling,
a one-time teacher at the SGHS and then headmistress of Hunmanby Hall School),
Miss Ida Slarke (one-time deputy head of SGHS and a former Mayor of Scarborough),
Mrs EA Ingham (Soroptimists), Miss Edna Robertshaw (SGHS teacher, and deputy
head to Miss Briggs), Mrs Anik Symes (one of Miss Woods' last head girls),
Miss Bertha Wood (Miss Woods' housekeeper), Mrs Mary Priestley (former
chairman of the SGHS governors), Miss BE Newsome (then chairman of the
local Girls Guides Association), Mrs A Chouler (former SGHS pupil) and
Mrs Gillian Steele (kneeling, one-time head girl of SGHS). |