NAPIER GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 10

NAPIER GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL

Diitribution of Prizes

Thp annual prize-giving ceremony of the Napier Girls' High School tpok place last evening in the Foresters' Hall. Masses of scarlet and pink Dorothy Perkins roses bordered the stage, and arranged on pedestals at each side werp lurge bowls of gladioli. The following items, which were most 'enjoyable, were presented by the pupils:— - Song, "David of the White Bock" (Welsh traditional song, with descant) School choir; two songs, "Grasshopper Grepu," "The Skylark" third fprms; drill, Form IY; folk dances, "If All the World Were Paper," Form IIIA, "Jenny Pluck Peaxs," , Form III B; two songs, "Strpet Lanterns," and "0 Swallow, Swallow, ' ' Fourth Formsj drill, Senior squad; folk dances, "The Beggar Boy," Form IV B, "Tatra" a Cai'pathian Dpnce, Form IV Aj two songs, - ' Ursula Dancing," "The. Meeting of the Waters," Two Songs, "The Ballud of London Biver," "Gpd Best Ypu hlerry Gentlemen, ' ' Schopl Choir. Bouquets were presented to the lady principal, Miss D. M. Arthur, M.A., Misp Anderson, and Miss Jerome Spencer, O.B.E. Mr J. H. Edmundgon, chairm&n of the Board of Governors, who prpsidpd at the gathermg, paid tpbute to the wonderful work of the late chairjnan, Mr W. Dinwiddie, to wh'ose memory Miss Arthur also paid tributp. During the absencp of the lady prln* cipal, Miss Anderson euperintended the gcheol, and waa thanked by Miss Arthur for her very capable and energetic management. Thg Eev. Stuart Frapeis, B.A., who has rocently arrived in Napier to taka over the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, gave an inspiripg addrees to the pupils, especially those who were leaving school. School and Church, he said, should be elosely associated and school should be thought of as a miniature of life. Thg firgt faetor, and t& many, the most important, was ihe companionship of school life, which, he urged, should be followed up &Ud kept as the years passed by, The seeond factor was the lessons leatned, and although there was a wide" range of^ subjpcts taught to-day. there were pt'Eer lessona, than those of the text bookS— those which tanght how to give and take, CPngratulating the prize-winners on their splendid achievements, the speak er told those who were not so fortunate, that it was often the quipt plodder who climbed the highest on the laddor of fame. The third factor was the personality of the teachers. The most successfui teacher was one who could inspire the love and confidence of the pupil, who would in tu?n carry the memory of sueh a teacher through life. "To those of you who are leaving school, ' ' concluded the speaker, ' ' be scrions, be courageous, the day deinands it, and above all, remember that the same team spirit should exist in the school of life as in the playing field of school." The Rev. M. Francis then presented the prizes Phyllis Brown gaining honours as dux of the school. The Sband Cup, presented b.v Mr. D. B. Shand for seholarship, charaeter, conduct, aecomplishment and sport, and _ miniature cup presented by the Napier brancli of the ex-Girls' Association, were won by M. Carey, the Proxime Accessit going to P. Davidson.