Class C2b, 1938

Item — Box: 25

Identifier: S25300008

Staff Only

Dates

1938

Extent

From the Series: 24 photograph(s) (Box 25)

Language of Materials

From the Series: English

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Additional Description

Named photograph

Taken outside Home Arts building Forth Street, date confirmed and names supplied by former student Sylvia Baxter, nee Lorentzen.

Names (left to right) [Names in brackets are married surnames]:

Back Row: Evelyn Edwards, Audrey Townshend, Marjorie Fortune, Lorraine Bell (Kellet), Kath Matthews, Shirley Pope (Whyte), Kath Winter, Nina Bulman, Gwenda Maley (McCosh), Lois Congreve (Stevens).

Middle Row: Edith Forde, Sheila Ferguson, Ruby Hamilton (Graves), Vera Colyer, Olive Butler (McMillan), Megan Swanson?, Kath Wallis, Sylvia Lorentzen (Baxter).

Front Row: Irene Agnew?, Frances O’Donnell, Mary Howie, Miss Vera Smith (Verngreen), Linda McDermott (Ericson), Flora Henderson, Bertha Brandford, Dorothy Hurworth.

Absent: Gloria Dawson (Cartwright)

Notes from Sylvia:

Evelyn Edwards – very intelligent

Marjorie Fortune – matron at Park Hospital which is now Southern Cross

Lorraine Bell (Kellet) – lives near Sylvia on Moana Street, Invercargill

Nina Bulman – recalls that she had a leg amputated in later life

Edith Forde – married a jockey

Ruby Hamilton – married a South African in South Africa, Bob Graves

Frances O’Donnell – her daughter trained as a nurse at Kew Hospital and married a house surgeon called Rodger Baillie

Mary Howie – as of 2020 possibly still living in Wellington?

Miss Vera Smith (Verngreen) – married another teacher called Percy Verngreen

Linda McDermott (Ericson) – her husband Bruce Ericson worked at Awarua Radio

Bertha Brandford – died young of breast cancer

Gloria Dawson (Cartwright) – her husband was Clinton Cartwright