ST. BRIDE’S CONVENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1940, Page 7

ST. BRIDE’S CONVENT

MUSIC AND ELOCUTION. EXAMINATION RESULTS. The following are the results of the music and elocution examinations conducted by Dr C. Edgar Ford at St Bride’s Convent. Masterton. on Friday and Saturday last for the Trinity College of Music, London. Twenty-three of the 24 pupils presented were successful. Unless otherwise stated the subject is piano:— Associated Diploma', elocution: Beryl Mabey. Higher Local Division: Norah Doyle, elocution honours, winner of College medal for highest marks; Joan McKenna, elocution merit; Grace Burch, merit; Edith Barcham. pass. Senior Division: Ngaire Blake, elocution merit.

Intermediate Division: Patricia Gog-« gin, elocution honours; Margaret Mary Hoar, elocution honours; Margaret Greenlees, merit; Jocelyn Murdock merit; Eugenie Keen, elocution merit; Mary Robinson, elocution pass. Advance Preparatory: Clarice Wright, merit; Kathleen Brophy, pass; Shirley Prentice, pass. Preparatory Division: Patricia Card elocution honours; Kathleen Stevens merit; Eugenie Keen, merit: Peter Jenkins, pass; 'Doreen King, elocution pass.

First Steps Division: Erin O’Rourke, elocution merit; Patricia Peek, merit; Shirley Card, elocution merit. On Sunday afternoon Dr Ford gave a very interesting lecture which was most entertaining to the community and boarders of the Convent. After compositions by Beethoven, Chopin and Greig he played a number of his own compositions and illustrated his wonderful gift of improvising by composing a fugue and sonata from a short theme given by one of the audience.