Coming Events

• AGM to be held on Saturday, April 17^th 2010 at 11.00 am, followed by lunch at 12.30 at the Royal Hotel, Scarborough. Tea / coffee will be available from 10.30 if pre-ordered.
• The deadline for booking lunch is March 31^st; please help the organisers and the hotel staff to provide an efficient service by sending your order before this date. BOOKING FORM

Thanks to Lynne Reed for preparing a Scarborough quiz for the event; there will be a £10.00 prize and profits will be donated to charity.

The Scarborough Literature Festival is being held from April 15^th – 18^th with many interesting speakers; further details are available from the Scarborough Library, Vernon Road. YO11 2NN or online at www.scarboroughliteraturefestival.co.uk. Tickets are on sale at the Tourist Information Centre in the Brunswick Centre; telephone 01723 372075. Also on April 17^th the Stephen Joseph Theatre are holding a free open day with back stage tours, a chance to discover how sound, lighting & effects are created and workshops to learn how to design posters & make costumes. See www.sjt.com or call the box office on 01723 370541

Membership News – There are currently 164 members listed on the database, although 4 people have not paid the subscription for two years and their names will be removed from the database if they do not respond to this mailing. There are now 5 honorary members, 29 life members and 7 people who pay the subscription by standing order. The annual subscription of £5.00 for 2010 – 11 becomes due on April 1^st and a renewal slip is available here.

Resignation: Yolande Corby (Smith) 1940 - 1946

Welcome to new members:

• Chris Berendt (Soper) 1967 – 1969
• Janet Land 1962 – 1969
• Gillian Furze (Cundwell) 1966 - 1973
• Esther Chamberlain (Ventress) 1965 – 1970

Miss Briggs – Margery Raper and Evelyn Peterson officially presented a cheque for £200.00 to St. Catherine’s Hospice in memory of Miss Briggs. A letter of thanks was received from the fundraising department on behalf of the patients, volunteers and staff. A photograph and report were also published in the Scarborough Evening News.

New President congratulations to Pamela Elliott who narrowly defeated Jean Bogie in the election for President of the Association. Jean has been asked to act as deputy president.

Autumn Lunch 2009: 48 members and guests attended this event on Saturday, October 10^th 2009 at the Crescent Hotel in Scarborough. Mrs M Willis and Marion Shanks both scored 49/50 in the quiz; Mrs Willis was drawn as the winner of the £10.00 prize. 41 quiz sheets were sold, leaving a profit of £31.00 which will be added to the profit from the AGM quiz and donated to charity.

Burton Agnes Hall:  22 members and guests went to the hall on Wednesday, November 18^th 2009 to see the Christmas decorations.

Stephen Joseph Theatre – the bitterly cold weather, with icy roads and pavements reduced the numbers able to take part in the visit arranged for January 9^th 2010. Three people went on a very interesting backstage tour and were joined for lunch by four others. A group of fourteen then enjoyed an excellent matinee performance of "A Christmas Carol"

2009 Glauert Mathematics Prize was given to Michelle Tindall who was recommended for the award by the head of Mathematics at Scarborough Sixth Form College. Michelle scored 576 out of 600 for A level Maths (grade A boundary 480), she would have got A* had it existed last year. She also scored 495 out of 600 for A level Further Maths, also grade A. She played a full and enthusiastic part of the Swedish exchange and helped other students within the department. She is now at the University of Durham reading Theoretical Physics.
 

I would like to say thank you for your most generous award which I was delighted to receive at our Sixth Form awards night. I have many ideas of what to use it for but am maybe thinking of buying the "Feynman Lectures" * or of using it for some of the many books which would be useful for my course. I am studying physics at Durham university and I am about to go back to my second term and unfortunately back to exams! With regard to my plans for the future, achievements and interests, I have just come back from snowboarding in Austria and I am already looking forward to going away to France at Easter with others from my college in Durham. I also enjoy playing sport and at the start of last term took up lacrosse. Other interests include shopping but I don’t know if that really counts. As for my achievements I was also very pleased to get an award in physics at the awards evening. As yet I don’t have any specific plans for the future but although I find it challenging I hope to excel in my physics degree and continue somewhere in that field. Michelle Tindall

*N.B. The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a 1964 physicstextbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, based upon the lectures given by Feynman to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1961–63. It includes lectures on mathematics, electromagnetism, Newtonian physics, quantum physics, and  the relation of physics to other sciences.

Frank Tugwell can anyone provide information about Mr Tugwell’s contribution to the building of the school at Sandybed Lane?

Archive: Thanks to members who have added names to the archive photographs. If you were at school in 1947 the whole school panorama photograph is now on the website (www.sghsoldgirls.org.uk.) but has very few names attached. We are very grateful to Maureen Ille for all her hard work hosting the website and keeping the information up to date; if you can add more names to the photographs please send these to Maureen or the secretary.

Contact details: Please remember to give any new contact details to the secretary so that you still receive information from the group. If you have an e-mail address which you use regularly it is quicker and cheaper to contact you electronically but it is helpful if you send a read receipt to confirm that you have received the information.

Secretary: Mrs Evelyn Peterson,
2, Lockwood Chase, Cloughton, Scarborough YO13 0BD
Tel: 01723 870885 or 871729 e-mail address: evelyn.noble2@btinternet.com

Webmaster: Dr Maureen Ille
If you have anything interesting for our website, or comments to make, please send to maureen@ille.co.uk