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• Shipwreck was indeed the highlight of the term for Gym lessons - great fun but usually resulted in very aching muscles the following day for those of us who were not great athletes. In our house, the phrase 'being shipwrecked' came to describe the stiff way of walking downstairs the following day.
• Somebody asked about Hilary Hubbard - she became a doctor, then a consultant (Dermatology I think) in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital but retired early due to ill health (rheumatoid arthritis I think). She did come to one reunion some years ago and her sister Clare is still in touch with the Guild I believe.
That's it for now - time for coffee - and a biscuit! Please feel free to contradict any of the above if you know more.
From Ann at 15.44
Thanks for the photos, which I had not seen before.
I am in touch with Hilary Hubbard. She now lives in Bristol. Hilary trained as a doctor and became a consultant dermatologist but had to take early retirement because of ill health. Her health is still not great but she tries to be as active as she can and thinks a lot (including as an active Quaker) and always has lots of interesting ideas when we occasionally email or talk by phone.
I also see Ros King occasionally and have visited her in Salisbury.
Jane More appears in the front of one of your photos (perhaps in the front because she was not very tall). I think Jane was Fabian in Twelfth Night.. She now lives in Inverness; we usually exchange news at Christmas (unfortunately, as far as I know she does not have email) but I was happy to receive a postcard from her last week, with a picture of Inverness Cathedral ,of which she is very fond.
From Ann at 20.09
Jenny - I agree with you that poor Mrs Barber was killed in a car crash. I think, however, that it was probably in our VIth form years, as she was the teacher for the 'Special science' set, studying 'O-Level' 'Physics with Chemistry'; I do not recall any major disruption to our O Level studies.
When I came to QEGGS in the Spring term of our LVth year, I was shocked to find that 'special science' just meant 'Physics with Chemistry' and 'Biology ' O-Levels and that I did not have the option to continue the studies from my previous school of separate Physics and Chemistry O Levels. I was also surprised that so many bright fellow pupils were only doing 'General Science, which I had the impression (was I right?) was not a good course and was not taken very seriously. Of course, those taking that option then had the possibility of studying German- which would also have been useful to me, as I later worked in Germany for two years....Nevertheless I still find it strange that in many ways a forward - thinking school like QEGGS encouraged such early specialisation and downplaying of the importance of science in a rounded education.
In my 'Special science class' we decided one year to play an April Fool's prank in one of Mrs Barber's lessons. We put alarm clocks in several of the science lab cupboards, timed to go off at intervals during her lesson. However, the prank misfired. In that lesson it turned out that Mrs Barber had planned to give us some scientific demonstration involving, as it happened, some fairly dangerous chemical, perhaps concentrated sulphuric acid. Mrs Barber was a good teacher but could sometimes get into a bit of muddle. So there she was, pouring concentrated acid and
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