Ely High School for Girls 1905-72 Annual Luncheons

Ely High School for Girls 1905-72: Annual Luncheons
last updated 7 July 2008

Who and what we are
The social spirit of the Old Girls Association which wound down in 2005, the centenary year of the school, continues in our Annual Luncheons.

The Luncheon group of Old Girls was started by two sisters-in-law from Sutton in about 1995 and has always been a friendly and informal gathering. Christine Fuller (née Bell) took over from them and has continued to organise the Reunions on the same basis to the point where there is now a mailing list of over 370. We have an average annual attendance at the lunch of about a hundred.

Our group has grown by word of mouth and encompasses all ages for girls who attended EHS. Staff would also be very welcome

If you were a member of the EHS Old Girls Association please contact Christine, as she does not have access to the records.

Our next Lunch
For some time we always met in Soham but in 2008 we happily met at the Sugar Beet Club, Lynn Road, Ely for our meal on 10th May.
We will return there on Saturday 16 May 2009 and folk will be notified sometime in early March 2009. Booking will be essential.

If you are interested in receiving booking information on our annual luncheon please either:

If you are not listed below or you are in touch with others from EHS not listed please make contact and provide:
- your name (and surname when at EHS),
- your address, tel no, and email address if you have one
- dates when at EHS
- with their permission, the above information for others or ask them to make contact directly

We are in touch with the following: (surname at EHS, forename)
If you wish to be in touch with someone on this list where both you and the person you wish to contact are on email, your message will be forwarded.
If the other person is not on email you will be contacted and asked to provide a sealed and stamped letter which can be posted on to the other person.
If you are not on email please provide a sealed and stamped letter which can be posted on to her.
We are reliant on people telling us of deaths that they know of so apologies if someone is listed who has died.

Armstrong, Mary Ashley, Christine Atkin, Jane Audus, June Audus, Jacqueline Audus, Mary	Backhouse, Jennifer Backhouse, Hazel Badcock, Olive Badcock, Margaret Baldwin, Yvonne Beamiss, Barbara, Barber, Marjorie Barber, Josie Barber, Edith Barker, Ruth Barker, Diane Barton, Wendy Barwick, Margaret Beckett, Hazel Bedford, Kay Beeton, Peggy Bell, Joan Bell, Maureen Bell, Rosalind Bell, Christine Belsham, Irene Bent, June Bester, Ruth Bidwell, Jackie Bidwell, Carol Bidwell, Lynne Bird, Louise Bird, Kate Blades, Gillian Blake, Jeanette Blakeman, Pamela Blinch, Olive Boutle, Sue Braybrooke, Janet Braybrooke, Eileen Bridgman, Sheila Brown, Hazel Brown, Julie Brown, Hazel Brunt, Carolyn Brunt, Jenny Bryant, Pamela Buck, Sandra Buckingham, Ann Bullingham, Joan Bullman, Lesley Bunnett, Susan Burch, Carolyn Burritt, Rosemary Burrows, Ann Bush, Penny Butcher, Margaret Butcher, Shirley	Camps, Jennifer Canham, Eileen Carlton, Pamela Carman, Edna Carter, Olive Carter, Hazel Carver, Jean Casbon, Shirley Chambers, Beryl Chambers, Sybil Chambers, Dawn Chaplin, Jennifer Chapman, Dulcie Chapman, Jill Chapman, Judith Clanfield, Rhodene Clark, Carol Clark, Maureen Clark, Jacqueline Clark, Audrey Clarke, Norman Clarke Valerie Clarke, Pamela Clarke, Marjorie Clift, Ann Coldwell, Leonita Cole, Barbara Cole, Diane Cole, Carolyn Collen, Sheila Collins, Gillian Convine, Vivian Cooper, Gail Cooper, Dandra Cornwell, Christine Coulson, Erica Cowmeadow, Carol Cowmeadow, Gail Cowmeadow, Susan Cox, Janet Cox, Doreen Cox, Sheila Crabb, Rita Crane, Frances Crisp, Evetts Crisp, Nancy Croft, Alison Cross, Pamela Cross, Moira Cross, Pauline Crouch, Sheila Crow, Rosemay Crowe, Jean Crowe, Marlene Crown, Janet Cullen, Linda
Dade, Gwen Day, Betty Day, Barbara Dobson, Ann Dodson, Ruby Doe, Judith Drake, Marina Driver, Elizabeth Driver, Lindsay	Eagle, Ann Easy, Beryl Easy, Pamela Ellingham, Jean Ellingham, Elizabeth Ellington, Marie Elsegood, Theresa Everett, Sherry	Faulkner, Muriel Feast, Sylvia Fendick, Ann Fendick, Janet Fenn, Pamela Fincham, Beryl Fisher, Pat Flack, Judith Flack, Pat Fleet, Peggy Fletcher, Suzanne Fletcher, Marguerite Fletcher, Margaret Fletcher, Iris Fletcher, Shirley Fletcher, Margaret Flude, Jean Foster, Daphne Freeman, Lorna Frost, Mary Fuller, Hazel Fuller, Glenys
Gale, Dorothy Gallagher, Patricia Garwood, Margaret Giddens, Alison Gilbert, Brenda Gipp, Linda Goodhead, Ann Gordon, Shane Gorham, Sheila Gothard, Joy Gothard, Elisabeth Graves, Brenda	Hale, Doreen Hales-Wigg, Molly Hammond, Jennifer Hancock, Margaret Handley, Marlene Handley, Maureen Harmston, Janet Harris, Rosemary Harvey, Jean Hayhoe, Margaret Hayhoe, Jennie Haylock, Margaret Hayward, Beryl Haywood, Bronwen Hazel, Mary Hills, Jean Hirst, Jean Holmes, Jenny Holmes, Shirley Hopkin, Diane Horspool, Janet Horton, Janet Howard, Josie Howard, Margaret Hubbard, Janet Hudson, Liz Hunter, Patsy	Ireland, Averil
James, Diana James, Heather Jeffrey, Dorinda Jenny, Drake Jones, Dawn Jones, Marjorie Judd, Betty	Keen, Tricia Kerridge, Freda Kilby, Kathy King, Diane King, Pam Kirtland, Gabrielle Knott, Julie	Ladson, Mary Lane, Vicki Lane, Grace Lane, Janet Larham, Joyce Lavender, Myrtle Layton, Ruth Lee, Mary Lee, Eileen Lemmon, Christine Lemon, Sheila Lister, Sheila Lowe, Beryl Lowe, Janis Lundberg, Betty Lyon, Barbara
Macer, Carol Macer, Jean Macer, Pat Maitland, Norma Mann, Janet Marsham, Joan Martin, Catherine Martin, Pat Martin, Liz Martindale, Sheila Martindale, Yvonne Mason, Carla McCullagh, Eileen McCullagh, Elsie McCullagh, Jean McCullagh, Mary McCullagh, Norah McCusker, Ann Middleditch, Jean Minns, Susan Muncey, Christine Murfitt, Brenda	Neal, Mary Neal, Cynthia Neal, Val Neal, Margaret Neville, Janet Newman, Shirley Newman, Barbara Newton, Gail Norman, Kathy Norman, Jill Nunn, Linda	Oakey, Josephine Oakey, Mary
Palmer, Melek Palmer, Cynthia Palmer, Beryl Papworth, Gillian Parker, Angela Parr, Deanna Parson, Linda Parson, Janice Peachey, Jean Peacock, Margie Peacock, Pauline Peacock, Heather Pearson, Hazel Pease, Edna Pen-Gilly, Ann Peters, Phyllis Peters, Margaret Peters, Mary Pettitt, Celia Philips, Joy Pinney, Gillian Plumb, Jean Powell, Ann Presnell, Rose Pringle, Mollie Prior, Joan Pryor, Mary	Rayner, Bridget Rayner, Phillipa Read, Janet Read, Nina Read, Judy Read, Wendy Reeder, Joan Revens, Jean Rice, Enid Rich, Julie Riley, Susan Riley, Bridget Robinson, Gwen Robinson, Margaret Robinson, Joan Robinson, Janet Rouse, Liz Rudderham, Mary Rule, Doreen Rush, Pat Russell, Theresa Russell, Rosalind Rutterford, Marion Rutterford, Marion Rutterford, Patricia	Saberton, Janet Salmon, Joyce Sanders, Barbara Savidge, Rosemary Scott, Daisy Scott, Beryl Sealy, Wendy Sewell, Linda Sharpe, Pat Simpson, Sandra Skeels, Christine Skinner, Gloria Smallpiece, Connie Smith, Georgina Smith, Margaret Smith, Joyce Smith, Kathy Smith, Helen Smith, Hazel Smith, Winifred Sparks, Diane Stanley, Diane Stittle, Yvonne Stow, Ann Strawson, Doris Strawson, Mary Sulman, Maureen Sutton, Elizabeth Swan, Margaret Swan, Sheila Symonds, Gillian
Taylor, Patricia Taylor, Yvonne Teale, Valerie Tedora, Betty Thompson, Anne Thorby, Alma Thurmott, Ella Thurston, Moira Topping, Judy Tuck, Stella Turner, Winnie Turnill, Susan Tyler, Suzan	Veal, Jenny Venney, Eileen	Wade, Ann Walker, Pat Warth, Angela Watson, Jean Wenham, Kay West, Ruby White, Myrtle Whitehand, Carol Wilkins, Mary Willcocks, Valerie Willetts, Linda Wilson, Eileen Wilson, Pat Wimpenny, Audrey Winter, Christine
Yarrow, Carol Yarrow, Maureen Youngman, Gillian Youngman, Shirley

Administrative/Biographical history: Bertha Tilly: Educated at Bedford College London, (BA 1924, MA 1932, PhD 1940); later Headmistress Ely High School for Girls; died 1980.

Publications: (ed) Virgil's Aeneid Book IX, London, G Bell (Alpha Classics), 1938; Vergil's Latium, Oxford, Blackwell, 1947 [represents in a revised form together with some additions, a thesis approved for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London in 1940]; The Story of Camilla from Aeneid Books VII and XI, Cambridge, 1956; Virgil's Aeneid Book V, London, University Tutorial Press, (Palatine Classics) 1966; Virgil's Aeneid Book IV, London, University Tutorial Press, (Palatine Classics) 1968; Varro the Farmer, A Selection from the Res Rusticae, London, 1973.
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The School Motto - FORTITER AD FASTIGIUM
This motto translates as 'Bravely to the Top' - was introduced when the school moved from Bedford House to a new campus in Downham Road in 1957 in recognition of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing reaching the summit of Everest on 29 May 1953.
Miss Tilly, a Classics scholar, hoped it would inspire her pupils to reach the peaks of academia.

Links
We are grateful to the Soham Grammarians for setting up this page on our behalf.
If you took part in any of the SGS drama co-productions with EHS or someone in your family was a Grammarian you may like to visit their website www.sohamgrammar.org.uk
It has a useful page on present day links to the local communities where many of us lived when at EHS.