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Caroline Thomas' Autobiography
Go to The Society page and click on a special box. To exit from the Autobiography page just close the window and you will return to SMOGS.
Mouse-mat - - - Would you like a mouse-mat with this painting of our School on it? Email carolinejthomas@yahoo.co.uk and you will be sent an electronic version of the picture. Then you can send it to the mouse-mat maker of your choice. If you don't know one, Caroline will recommend the one that made hers @ £8 including postage.
REDESIGNED REUNIONS PAGE
The page Reunions/Previous Events has been redesigned to create more space for the future, by moving the videos to a separate page, which you can reach by clicking on the navy blue box with gold lettering.
A list of girls' names in each GCE O-level year is published on this website. We need help getting it right, so please look at your year's list and email the Webmistress if you spot any errors: carolinejthomas@yahoo.co.uk. Go to History / Class lists.
A list of of Staff Members can be found via the History page. Please tell the Webmistress if you find errors.
RESEARCH ON ST MARGARET'S IN THE WAR YEARS
Welcome to Johnnie Manckiy in the USA, who is doing research on English country houses during the 2nd World War. He found the SMOGS website and Chapter 3 of the book about the school's history, which describes the evacuation of the pupils from Folkestone to Netley hall in Shropshire. The De la Mare Girls who went there are kindly contributing to his research, which asks for facts and feelings about their brief stay there. If you were there and have not been contacted yet, please email him on jmanckiy@gmail.com (note this was changed on 5 Nov 2010).
Read what he has to say on the page History / The story of the School / The War years.
ANOTHER VIDEO FROM THE OLD DAYS!
Davena Loughton has sent us a DVD showing girls in the School's back garden, on the Leas ant playing cricket. What a fantastic addition to our archive! Thank you so much, Davena. Speakers on for the lovely music.
Our Dora Dicum has written a book - more information on the page Items of Interest / Personal Ads.
Mrs Rosemary
Cocking died
3rd Feb 2011,
aged 94. Taught
Remove class.
No sound to this old cine film, taken by Caroline Thomas. The girls are from O-level year 1958 and 1959.
NEW ! BUILDINGS: then and now. Go to History page and scroll down. There are some new pictures of inside the old Junior School in Grimston Gardens.
Read a strange article about a Folkestone school, and Jennifer Bateman's prize-winning response! Go back to Home page, then click on Items of Interest and scroll down.
Sister Pam French
We have just learned that Sister
French, the last Assistant Matron,
died late in 2009 or early 2010.
Lots of new pictures sent in by Julie Westall. Go to History/Photographs of Girls, Sports and Sports/Cricket pages and scroll down. Thanks, Julie!
LINDSAY PATTERSON
We are sad to have to report that
Lindsay died on 21 August 2011
after a brave fight with a nerve
disorder. More details from the
Webmistress
carolinejthomas@yahoo.co.uk
Read about JANET KING on the Items of Interest page.
ANOTHER TRIP TO KEW GARDENS IS PLANNED
Marilyn Wood invited us in 1993 to tour Kew Gardens where her husband Simon works. He will soon be retiring, and she asks if SMOGS would like to go there again while we still have the opportunity. See Reunions / Previous Events for a video of the last trip. Thank you, Marilyn, for the invitation.
If you would like to join us, email Caroline as on 'The Society' page, or telephone Maureen the Chairman.
