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St. Michael's Girls' Diocesan High School
St. Michael's Girls' Diocesan High School
After their evacuation many of the pupils, teachers and nuns kept in touch through St. Michael's Old Girls' Guild, set up in 1958 with their first AGM and newsletter distributed in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S.A., India etc., to all the "old girls'." Over the years many of the "girls'" would travel to London for the Annual Reunion - the same project was set up in Australia - many were life long friends and kept in touch and would often travel abroad to meet up, sending brief reports/travel logs for input to the newsletters. Some returned to Burma to see friends "old girls" and family and describe the neglect of the buildings and gardens in the 1980's. Obviously some died during these years and brief obituaries do appear in the newsletters, the last copy we have is dated 1982. We have extracted names from the membership/distribution lists - if there are errors please let us know. Their newsletters also mention that the "Old Boys'" of St. Michael's were doing the same thing - but we have not come across anything yet....
Corrections & additions:-
We have been informed recently that the entry for Doreen Rollins - married name - should be Herne (not as in the newsletter published as Hearn.)
and also
"Both my parents and their siblings attended the school which was opposite to the "Homestead" where they lived. My mother, Maisie Mackenzie (Cornelius) spent most of her young life there starting about 1919 and ending up as head girl. Her sister, Joan (Gallant) also attended as did my father, Cecil his elder brother, Bert and sisters Joan (Tighe) and Patricia (Johnson). The "Elsie Fuller" on the list could be, I think, Elsie Skinner, my aunt."
Click here for extracts of the newsletter 1966.
After their evacuation many of the pupils, teachers and nuns kept in touch through St. Michael's Old Girls' Guild, set up in 1958 with their first AGM and newsletter distributed in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S.A., India etc., to all the "old girls'." Over the years many of the "girls'" would travel to London for the Annual Reunion - the same project was set up in Australia - many were life long friends and kept in touch and would often travel abroad to meet up, sending brief reports/travel logs for input to the newsletters. Some returned to Burma to see friends "old girls" and family and describe the neglect of the buildings and gardens in the 1980's. Obviously some died during these years and brief obituaries do appear in the newsletters, the last copy we have is dated 1982. We have extracted names from the membership/distribution lists - if there are errors please let us know. Their newsletters also mention that the "Old Boys'" of St. Michael's were doing the same thing - but we have not come across anything yet....
Corrections & additions:-
We have been informed recently that the entry for Doreen Rollins - married name - should be Herne (not as in the newsletter published as Hearn.)
and also
"Both my parents and their siblings attended the school which was opposite to the "Homestead" where they lived. My mother, Maisie Mackenzie (Cornelius) spent most of her young life there starting about 1919 and ending up as head girl. Her sister, Joan (Gallant) also attended as did my father, Cecil his elder brother, Bert and sisters Joan (Tighe) and Patricia (Johnson). The "Elsie Fuller" on the list could be, I think, Elsie Skinner, my aunt."
Click here for extracts of the newsletter 1966.
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