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ATT TITHE FOI
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A HIST
THE VEMBA
FOR THE PAST

)(DT (DF THE U TREE
ORY OF
D SCHOOS HUNDRED YEARS.

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as reproducded by irls' Association,
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LIST OF ILLU
Dr. Thomas Coke. Rev. Peter Percival. Miss Twiddy. Mrs. Wiseman. The Octagon. Miss Kilner. Miss Merrikin. Stone Statue. Boarding House. Hall Frontage. Mrs. Nallammah Tampu-Newin Dr. Nallammah Satiavageswara.
Mrs. Pooranam Raju. Mrs. Mary Tampu. Miss A. E. Stephenson. Miss Mallinson. Miss Mosscrop and Staff. Miss C. B. Hornby. Boarding School Staff. Veinbadi from Tharakulam Roa Boarding School New Building.
Miss E. A. Lyth. Rev. G. J. Trimmer.
Mrs. Trimmer. Miss E. P. Ireson. Ireson Block. Rev. and Mrs. A. Lockwood. Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Weaver. Principals' House.
Mrs. E. T. Veeravagoe. Mr. A. V. Charles. Miss M. M. Murgatroyd.

JSTRATIONS.
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Boarding School 1937.
Miss M. Creedy. Miss M. Pickard. Domestic Science Block. Miss Retnam Chelliah. Dr. Pakkiam Solomon. School Crest. "Taming of the Shrew" Domestic Science.
Miss E. Scowcroft. Miss E. M. Wilson. Miss M. P. Dore. Miss M. B. Barker. Art and Hand-work. Illrd. Jaffna Guides and Brow Sports Champions. "Quality St." Mrs. N. Saravanamuttu. Mrs. Grace Rajanayagam. Miss Nallammah Daniel Thill Music Pupils. High School Staff 1938. Centenary Birthday Cake. Tree Planting Scenes from the Pageant.

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I heartily welcome the congratulatory message to
It is a great achieveme of such service as a Schoo. fender. The number of sch these years may possibly b influenice has been to the whom it has trained is compute.
It is a further distincti Girls' School established l Overseas.
May you have great ha Celebrations, and may I wis years to come.
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opportunity of sending a the Girls' School at Jafina. .
2nt to have done 100 years l like this has been able to olars in the School through e éstimated, but what the community through those beyond anyone's power to
on to have been the first y the Methodist Mission
ppiness at your Centenary sh you every success for the
OBERT BOND.
(President of the
Methodist Conference)

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On the occasion of th ary of the Vembadi G Women's Work Committ ary Society desires to sen sent pupils, to the old gi friends of the School.
, We recall with grati vice which the School generation after generat Jaffna, and we believe tha near by and far away the ter and of service which t
During all these yea) of fellowship between til Church in Great Britain a we are assured that it is may together help in tl which is So Sorely neede today.
We congratulate the gress and on the contr education of women in C creasingly the School and may continue to car ry ( past, and to bring fresh i generation of pupils to se of the will of God,

e celebration of the Centenfirls' School in Jaffna, the ee of the Methodist Missiond warm greetings to the prerls, to the staff and to all the
tude to God the splendid serhas been able to render to ion of girls in and around at they have carried to homes : ideals of integrity of charachey learnt in the School.
rs, the School has been a link he women of the Methodist and the people of Ceylon, and in such co-operation that we hat mission of reconciliation d by the troubled world of
School on its splendid proibution it has made to the eylon, and we pray that inall who have shared in its life on the great traditions of the inspiration to each succeeding ek in life and service the way

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FOREV
This book, which is a 1 subject of the Vembadi G comed by future historians present pupils of these inst tb every reader that it has search. Great credit and Miss Scowcroft who is not author of the major portior portant piece of education life and work is here crowd is not a bare catalogue of f; compelling human appeal a many Christian personal lonese, devoted to the servi through the long years. many light and humorous t smiles as the reader turns said in praise of past Princ also been written in the c other contributors about the Principal of the Girls' Engl only add that, in my judgr abler or more efficient servi "Vembadi' than the - two w Scowcroft and Miss Mur should make them happy : God for them both.
E. Jaflna, September 14-38.

VORD
mine of information on the irls' Schools, will be wellnot less than by past and tutions. It will be obvious 2ntailed nuch laborious rehearty thanks are due to merely the editor but the of an exhaustive and imall history. A century of ed into a few pages; but it acts and figures. It has a s we read the record of so ties, European and Ceyce of the Vembadi Schools it is also appreciative of hings which will provoke the pages. Much is here ipals, and something has ourse of the narrative by 2 highly competent present ish High School. I will ment, no ladies have put ce into the life and work of ho are still with us, Miss gatroyd. The retrospect and thankful. We thank
MIDDLETON WEAVER.

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INTROI
When the committee Centenary Celebrations of V was decided that the story O written and published. The of Vembadi fell to the lot O. myself. Of necessity mine h through the old records care the Mission House, and of g as possible of those who mig the past – previous Princ numerous Old Girls in diffe Tambiah was appointed the full records of the Modern putting together the essential numerous other ways, photographs etc.
There are many peo too numerous to mention is England and Ceylon who h records and photographs, w without their co-operatic preparation of this book impossible. We also grate permission granted to quo Centenary History and " Magazine of Methodist Co loan of Educational publica Colombo Museum Library.
Apart from all thc acknowledged in the text, w Rev. E.M. Weaver for pla Mission Records and sundry

DUCTION
2 appointed to arrange for the embadi met to discuss plans, it if the hundred years should be work of compiling the history f Miss Satiavathy Tambiah and has been the task of searching fully stored away in the safes at etting into touch with as many ght be able to furnish details of cipals now in England, and rent parts of Ceylon. To Miss job of going through the very Period in the G. H. S. and | features, as well as assisting in V» collecting information and
ple to whom we are indebted, individually, but to all those in ave helped with reminiscences e our most sincere thanks, for on and contributions, the would have been well-nigh :fully acknowledge the kind te from the Central College Upward and Onward" the lege, Colombo, and also the ations by the Director of the
A.
pse whose contributions are re wish to thank especially the acing at my disposal all the magazines, for SO

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readily assisting in every. enough to write the Forewc a tower of strength and su through with me each sect drafted, giving helpful criti deeply indebted to Miss Mt write up the story of the M S. for none but she could h Hellier has very willingly pr Twiddy and Mrs. Wisemar ing the early days, all the 1 records are so scanty. The tioh of accounts of various Celebrations, and we acki contributions sent in by me Girls.
Every attempt has bee culars as possible, but wher cient, or there have been di cident has not been recorde are due to one or other of be any inaccuracies, we hop have done the best we coul disposal. .
This task, even with sc most overwhelming and pa whom writing does not com wading through the record for it has brought clearly a realization of the heritage with shame to discover hov and labour, the failure and ing of awe and admirati how great was the "cloud O are surrounded. We have

way, and for being kind rd. Mrs. Weaver has been upport, for she has gone on as it has been roughly cism and advice. We are 1rgatroyd for consenting to odern Period in the G. B. ave done that. Miss A. M. ovided photographs of Miss 1, and information regardmore welcome because the e last chapter is a compila
parts of the Centenary nowledge with thanks the mbers of the Staff and Old
n made to get as full partie details have been insuffifferences of opinion, the inid. Any omissions therefore these causes. Should there pe we may be forgiven. We d with the material at our
many helpers, seemed alrticularly arduous to one to he easily. But the work of s has been its own reward, ind vividly before me the that is ours. It filled me v little I knew of the toil success of the past. A feelon filled me as I realized f witnesses' with which we indeed reaped where we

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sowed not, and entered we did not strive. Are bour of the past? That and I dared not answer bow my heart before C generation might one di our place with them. T ing our attention, so mu tine office and clerical v ourselves sometimes, 'A
One other thing. much emphasis is pla getting a degree, or taki Not for one moment wo dom of service into whic tered, but it is necessary passing examinations is in life, but that the buil, conscientious fulfilling o need to realise that grea responsibilities, that we may give, that we canno
I have felt it a grea Vembadi for the Centen: lised as never before my who have laboured here bours I have entered. I h ate loyalty of my colleag
votion and ungrudgin
energy have made poss whatever of success has a past and of the last term
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into an inheritance for which we worthy of the love and laquestion forced itself upon me, in the affirmative, but only od and pray that we of this y be counted worthy to take nere are so manythings claim - ch energy to be spent on rouork, that we are bound to ask re first things being put first?" it seems sometimes as if too red on passing examinations, ng some place in public life. uld we decry the greater freeh girls and women have ento emphasize the fact that not the most important thing ding up of character and the f duty is more desirable. We ter opportunities entail greater have received in order that we it live unto ourselves.
ut privilege to have been in ary Celebrations, to have reaown place in the line of those before me, and into whose lahave realised too the affectiongues on the staff, whose deg surrender of time and ible, under God's guidaace, attended all the efforts of the
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DR. THOM

AS COKE

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FOR
During the year directed backwards two able day on which John warmed', and he recei forgiven and the love O came one long and stre tidings. The world wa his followers that a littl felt constrained to leav to the East, Dr. Coke the means of establishir and now at the age of s been expected to settle him launching out on a in 1813. Many diffic urged him to think of hi money to come from t He himself offered to pt ference could not; such pose won over those wh consent to the scheme. ministers who had volu out. Those were days They embarked at Por 1813. On May 21st. 18 but two of the little b: Mrs. Ault, the wife of their leader, had been b changed and there was d days' voyage, the Revs skine, and Clough lande

APTER 1
صحیچ_
EGILLEAMS
l938, our thoughts have been hundred years to that memorWesley's heart was "strangely ved the full assurance of sins f God, so that life for him benuous effort to publish the good is his parish, and he so inspired le band under Thomas Coke 2 their own land and journey by his zeal, had already been ng Missions in the West Indies, ixty-six, when he might have down in retirement, we find project for Ceylon and India culties beset him—his friends is own health-where was the o finance such an enterprise? ovide the money if the Coni devotion and tenacity of puro yet hesitated to give their Dr. Coke and the six young unteered to accompany him set of long and tedious voyages. tsmouth on December 29th. 314 the ship reached Bombay, and were no longer there for one of them, and Dr. Coke, uried at sea. Plans had to be elay, but eventually after a nine . Lynch, Squance, Ault, Erd at Welligama on June 29th.

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. They were warmly rece had various suggestions to n schools should be opened, th mising financial assistance. and Jaffna were the centres eắch of the first three plac Jaffna. . The Revs. Lynch a ceeded to Jaffna where they James Mooyart the Sub-Col. their arrival, they proposed mence the school. They we cious counsel of Mr. Mooyal pone their design until a pla able for a school in so hot a
It was not until 1816 th and Lutheran Church buildi pied by Central College) we the Jaffna English School wi
In 1817, the Vembadi M der Dutch rule had been the residence, was bought at a Mooyart and transferred t on the 27th. of March 1824. English School was remove this was a Boys' School it that the Returns for 1825 sh They were mostly of Burghe by a highly respected Burgh

mua
ived by the Governor who nake. It was agreed that ne Governor himself proBatticaloa, Matara, Galle chosen, one man going to es mentioned and two to nd Squance forthwith prowere welcomed by Mr. lector. “Immediately upon
to hire a place and comre, however, by the judiit prevailed upon to postce could be procured suitclimate.'
at the Old Orphan House ngs (on the site now occure purchased, and there as begun.
Mission House, which unCommandant's country public auction by Mr. o the Wesleyan Mission Soon after, the Jaffna. d to Vembadi. Though has , an interest for us, in ow 40 girls in attendance. er families and were taught er lady, Mrs. Schrader.

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CHA
IN THE
It is not until 1834, that might be called the Girls' Schools. The Rev come Chairman of the looked upon as the founc the Girls of Vembadi cla was a great scholar and time schools were establ insula. The circumstar was made are not knowr Synod Minutes to the fi were being taught at the ters of Mr. Price, togeth Tamil girl. There are n lowing year there is a rel school run by Mrs. Perci
Fortunately for us, at some length to the pro cation. At that time t schools in the Vembadic School, the Boys' Traini lish Girls' School and the Here is the Report:-
'The Upper Englisl young ladies is in a flour expenses which amount t
"The Lower Englis teresting little institution consisting of Burghers a

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BEGINNING. however, that we see anything fore-runner of the Vembadi . Peter Percival D. D. had be
District, and as he may be der of Central College, so may nim him as their founder. He educationalist, and during his. ashed widely all over the penaces under which a beginning 1, but there is a reference in act that during 1834 five girls
Mission House--the daughper with one Burgher and onė 1o further details. The folference to "a superior kind of
val and Miss Ashton.'" in 1837 Mr. Percival referred ovision made for Girls' Eduhere must have been four :ompound--the Boys' Central ng School, the Upper EngLower English Girls' School.
1 Girls’, School containing 24 ishing state, and pays its own o about £40 a year." h Girls' School is a very In.The number of scholars, nd Tamils is 38, and the at

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REV. PETER
 

PERCIVAL, D.D.

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tendance and advanceme are instructed in the Eng Needlework. Many of t knowledge of the Conf are able to read the Test intelligent of the pupils Boys' School form an in Congregation, and as mai Sunday School after the is hoped that with the bl be enlightened and that ing knowledge of the trut that as these schools ar. and under the daily, an hourly supervision of th greatest possible advanta
It would seem as if attended the Pettah T classes,
Mr. Percival was n schools. He had a great educational facilities as view established a numb by villages. Girls' School ters' Street were thus be
“Tatta Girls” Tan
This is a new effort and
plishment we can only r The number is 25, of wh Catechism: One has ma
"Carpenters' Street very distant from the Si has only very recently b of girls collected is sixte

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2nt are encouraging. The girls lish and Tamil languages and hem have obtained a tolerable erence o Catechism and a few ament. The older and more belonging to this and the teresting part of our English hy of them are assembled as a Sabbath morning Services, it essing of God their minds will :hey will be brought to a savh. It must be observed, too, e all on the Mission premises d it may with truth be said, e resident Missionaries the ges are secured.' •
the girls of this school also Tamil Boys' School for some
ot satisfied with these two t desire to give girls the same
boys, and with that end in per of day schools in the nearls at Tatta Street and Carpengun.
mil School contains " 25 girls. being very difficult of accomeport of its commencement. om five or six are learning the ade good proficiency.”
Tamil Girls' School is not ilversmith Street School and een commenced. The number
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In addition a few girls Boys' Schools. "In the Va "six girls are in attendance, i School four girls, in the W nineteen girls, in the Aria głrls.'"
• Mr. Percival continues: the foregoing brief notices 'attention to female educati "some extent suceeded."
*“ Difficulties the most way. Not only are the peo "-education of their females, 1
selves would have it so. “T learning?" "Of what impo letters be to my daughter? "her." “It is inconsistent fo is not our custom." These we hear when pleading with cation of her daughter. W being well persuaded that same advantages of educati are enjoyed by the males impression on the people at so much to do with the earl generation that it may gene .child will be morally what
standing the extreme difficu education, it is pleasing to under instruction on this sta

were to be found in the innarponnai Boys' School n the Great Bazaar Boys' eaver Street Boys' School akulam Boys' School six
"It will be seen from that we are directing our ion and that we have to
- formidable stand in our
ple generally averse to the put the adult females theimVhat have I to do with ortance will a knowledge of
· "It will only degrade ra female to learn." "It are some of the remarks
the mother for the edue will, however, persevere, until we can impart the on to the females which ve shall make very little E large. The female has -y training of the rising rally be relied on that the the mother is. Notwithulties in the way of female see the number we have
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THE BOARI ESTA:
The following year, est and importance, for i of which developed the t blished. Those early Er for a short time only. It School that was the one
"Notwithstanding t Schools, they are defectiv of preparing Tamil agent of School mistresses and Percival) has therefore es School on the Mission pt receiving a Christian educ girls, three of whom have ciency both in their book of great service as moniti come valuable agents in t only enjoy the advantage have a Tamil governess, resides with them and the Worship.'
Satisfactory progress the pupils in the other sc
"The Upper Girls' interesting and efficient With the exception of La of Law and Geometry, a branches taught are the sa The advancement made

PTER 3.
nubiaaaaa
DING SCHOOL BLISHED
1838 is one of supreme intert was then that the school out. Iwo Schools later, was estaglish Schools were to flourish : was the Tamil Boarding to last. he efficiency of the Female reas to the desirable object. s for the important situations. Seemstresses, and he (Mr. tablished a female Boarding remises, in which girls arer , cation. We have only six made very respectable profis and needlework. They are resses and will, I hope, be-, the Mission. These girls not s of the school generally, but one of the seemstresses, who sy attend with us at Family
seems to have been made by hools.
English School is the most part of our establishment. tin Grammar, the principes ind Political Economy, the ame as in the Boy's School.
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regarded by competent juc and such as would entitle the distinction even in Europe. ) work many of the girls have gress, as was most satisfacto mens exhibited on the day o the presence of the numerous witness it. The prize was w was referred to in 1834 as bei pupils.'
It would be interesting t
An Upper Girls' Tamil to in this year. 'The child pectable part of the Tamil girls have made commendal hope, be the first-fruits of gre
“The Lower Girls’ Scho
has continued to prosper thr number is not greater than it see that many of the schol: attendance. Most of them al as English.'
It is worth while noting on the Girls' Schools, for hi such as commend themselve
ADVANTAGES FROM THESE
The mental advantages the nature of the studies and former have been mentioned every possible means is used

lges as creditable to them 2 school to a respectable fn plain and fancy needle
made commendable proily shown in the specif Public Examination in ladies who assembled to on by the Tamil girl who ing one of the first five
o know who she was
School is also referred ren are of the most rescommunity. The little ble progress and will, I later things.' rol (Tamil and English) oughout the year. The was, but it is pleasing to ars are regular in their re taught Tamil as well
Mr. Percival’s refections s educational ideas are s to us even today.
RESULTING SCHOOLS.
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the powers of the mind, discouraged and by me; ing the instructioh, wh the mihd whose powers to reflection. The suc on a comparison betwe and others who have be Clearly connected will be found the moral as possible the religio assemble the scholars f half after nine. On the tures arë read and brief singing, and prayer.
It must not be ove tages resulting from thi value. . The system of exclusive and party feel affected. I witness eve proofs of the attachmer them.'
Amongst other thi which used to go round he had midday meals p "scholars need not be ab
THE FIRST
În the same year M ety for Promoting Fem India, giving an accou This Society, founded and the earliest of all A branch Society was
 

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-- Mere memoriter lessons are ans of questioning and explainich is imparted is impressed on - we strive to awaken and train cess of the attempt is apparent en the children thus taught en differently instructed.
with the mental advantages effects. To promote. as much as influence of the schools, I or worship every morning at ese occasions the sacred ScripHy expounded, to which we add
rlooked that the social advapo s institution are of the greatest Caste in the Hindu and the ing of the European are equally ery day the most interesting ats which are forming among
ngs, Mr. Percival had a bus - and collect the children, and rovided on the premises so that osent in the afternoon.
LADY PRINCIPAL. Mr. Percival wrote to the Socinale Education in China and nt of his plans and operations. in 1834 was undenominational
Women's Missionary Societies. Formed in Colombo under the

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patronage of Mrs. Stewart Governor. Its first step v Colombo for the daughters men, of which Miss Crossth Giberne and Miss Metcalfe the latter assisting in the Vc
In response to Mr. Perc in England sent out Miss T a Methodist Minister's da minster College. Before lo cival were writing with uns progress made.
'I am happy to inform as well as I can expect. Sir the Institution during his sta delighted. The children we History, Scripture, Geograp expressed himself gratified v department. Their work w inspection, which, with a ve by a Tamil girl for Lady Oli satisfactory remarks.'
At this time the two de
Tamil) were divided into fou gether 200 girls.
Miss Twiddy did not ret 1841 she married the Rev. P patam. Mr. Percival did no to succeed her as the followi his will show.

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Mackenzie, wife of the vas to open a school in of Mudaliars and Headwaite took charge. Miss.
were sent subsequently, embadi Schools in Jaffna. ival's appeal, the Society
widdy in 1839. She was Lughter, trained at Westng, both she and Mr. Perpeakable pleasure of good
Jassna, Aug. 14, 1841.
you that I am succeeding
Anthony Oliphant visited. -y in Jaffna and was inuch re examined by him in hy and Grammar, and the vith their progress in each as also submitted to his
y handsome bag worked. iphant, elicited the most
partments (English and r schools containing alto
main long however, for in eter Batchelor of Negat attempt to get anyone ng extract from a letter of

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MISS TWIDDY { 18
 
 
 
 

(MRS. P. BATCHELOR) 339 - 1841

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“The question respectin agent for our Female Scho almost constantly since inclined to think that Mrs. P helpers can conduct our fer
ciently. I Had we a lady frp our schools we could not m
agents now employed, nor c up their places. Under all would be the most advisable
help and thus improve it. T -economy and the superior ac
of things in the country poss
on Mission Stations are very
So for the next twenty carried on by the wife of the what helpers she could find l monitresses trained in the sc hear of the English School Mattheisz, daughter of Mr. V. self with unremitting attent gradual improvement was inc In 1844 the Tamil Boar ning to afford evidence of it young ladies who were being give considerable aid in the ments of the Girls' Day Sch the daughter of Mr. Philips,
Thus we see Girls' Schc flourishing. Mr. Percival bc the Society with local funds substantial and appropriate :
In 1851 he returned to back to Ceylon. His collea eye with him regarding M

g the appointment of an -ol has been. before me I last wrote; and I am Percival with her present male establishment effim England at the head of aintain the .subordinate puld she, a stranger, fill circumstances I think it
to make the best of local Che advantages in point of . -quaintance with the state essed by those raised up - great recommendations." years the schools were resident Missionary with ocally, for the most part hool itself. In 1842 we being conducted by Mrs. elupillai. She devoted herion to the school and". oticeable. -ding School was beginEs utility since two of the
educated were able to English and Tamil departools. One of them was
a Tamil minister. pols well established and bught a piece of land for s'and on this erected a schoolroom for them. . England and did not come :
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policy, and for the next scant attention, so that it what was happening to t at the Mission House ce: and Tamil Pettah Girls' the Mission premises the the Boarding School.
SOME ( That this school w which it was begun, nam workers, is shown in the of those early students.
In 1849 Mr. Perciva .already referred to as b
monitress:
"This morning I haa very interesting couple comalie and Miss Philip is a convert from Hind cated in our Jaffna Inst young woman, the daug the Rev. Mr. Philips, a i Christ."
Two years later Si mended for the ministry Johanna Tangal, till partment of the instituti highly accomplished, ev simplicity of character a and useful—in short, we tively to discharge th statiori.”

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few years the schools received is difficult to discover exactly nem. The English Schools used to exist, though English
Schools are mentioned. On only one that remained was
DLD GIRLS.
as serving the purpose for ely that of training Christian following references to three
ul writes of the Miss Philips eing a student and then a
ve united together in marriage , Mr. Robert Newton of Trins of Jaffna. The bridegroom uism. The bride was edu. itution and is a most amiable hter of our Assistant Minister cried and faithful brother in
mon Gasperson was recom
In 1845 he had married then a pupil of the female-deon. “She is, for a Tamil girl, inces much independence and und is pious, active, energetic ll qualified, we believe, effece duties of her prospective

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There is not much info. girls in the school in these e we come across some refer little booklet describing the Home in 1884 we find the st good use the training she about the time with which w
"Mrs. Perera was a tea High School, a good Tamil trained in our Mission Scho once that if she could live i forming, she would be very : first she hesitated on accoun Christ's sake she consented, we got our Home ready for was a tremendously difficul gathered in were the poorest had infinite patience and ta them into her motherly hea stures began to pay her and l when that began, our diff they came they knew no "g taught them those she had 1 -'Here we go round the m and Lemons,' and some pre soon tinade some for them house, and visiting, like othe ΟΥΕΤ,
Then the first trouble f son, a fine lad of 20 suddenl tion and before she realized Six months later the second she herself fell ill, and the t for did not revive her. He get back to Jaffna, I should

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:mation about individual arly days, but occasionally ence to a student. In a : beginning of the Kandy ory of one who put to such : had received in Vembadi. ve are dealing. cher in our Kandy Girls" lady who had herself been ol at Jaffna. We saw at 1. the Home we proposed suitable as our Matron. At. t of her family, but for
and as soon as possible the children. The task t one, for the children : and wildest. Mrs. Perera ct with them. She took rt and soon the little creaas back, love for love, and iculties lessened. When ames, but Mrs. Perera earnt in the Jaffna School ulberry bush," "Oranges tty Tamil plays, and they selves, cooking, keeping er children all the world
ell. Mrs. Perera's eldest. y sickened with consump
his danger he was dead. followed. After his death hree months test she asked r cry was, "If only I could "be well again," and the:

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thought of going home desire, and it was piteo anxious question, 'Whe Colombo P' knowing a journey would bring her make arrangements for 'Serendib' came to Colo
She had had a sad,
battling, struggling, neal sake. With a silent
trouble, shc vv orked for ! do, keeping all the while in God and out of her ab dren having much to sp than hers in not having s School of Jaffna is honou
death.
We are so apt to thi tion. "They forget any say. But the children Mrs. Perera. Her lesso God's Holy Spirit, bore following her death, for found happiness in the Jesus.'
Of the ten years foll Rev. Peter Percival ther School premises needed tenable. As this school ed entirely by local fund the Society, and as it wa part of the educational e mittee was asked to fin building. Statistics sho
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to Jaffna grew into an intense Es every day to meet the n will the steamer be at. s we did that no earthly health. Her friends tried to her going, but before the mbo she had passed away. hard life, but bore it bravely; -ly starving for her children's. endurance of heart-breaking Ehem as few Oriental women
a steady, bright confidence bundant love for her own chilpare for little ones less happy such a mother. The Mission ured indeed in her life and
ink lightly of children's emo
sorrow in five minutes" we 1 in the Home did not forget. ns, through the working of blessed fruit during the week
· a number of the children realization of the love of
iowing the resignation of the e are few records. The Girls'
about £ 75 to make them would henceforth be supports and cease to be a burden on s second in importance to no stablishment, the Home Comd the money to finish the w that the Boarding School

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was gradually growing. It six and risen to' between'tw Pettah, Tamil and English but after 1860 there is no English School. The Tam. yntil 1917 when it was ama ing School.
The first stage had cor experiment on a wide scale left with the Boarding Scho obviously doing effective the other schools had serve day was done. The Tamil more and more attention. ? education in their own lang getting, together with what
We have said that th remained. That means as certied. The Boys' School of the premises at Vem badi The Vembu (Margosa) trees the Boys' School become th Girls' School clung affectior Vembadi it remained !

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had started in 1838 with enty and thirty. In the Schools were carried on, further reference to the til one continued however, lgamated with the Board
me to an end, the stage of At the end of it we are ol firmly established and work. Equally obviously 2d their purpose and their community was receiving Their need was for a sound uage and that they were English was necessary. e Boarding School alone sar as the girls were concontinued to occupy part for another half century.. might be cut down and Le Central School, but the hately to the old name and

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CH
GROWTH
As the beginning formation in England forth was to send ou schools, it will not be way in which the Won book called 'Workers is the source from v and from which quotal
'Who can tell wh gan? It is easy to giv and the names of those are still to be seen in treasured at the Missio did not wait till then to far-away sisters, and it as well as to make a ne able meeting was held.
“The real originat wives of our pioneer 1 dured loneliness, hards courage, and found eve could do, and tackled i the question of supplie equipment for the little ing and maintenance f whom they befriendle turned to the friends le cuit, and many Such ci of foreign letters, filled periences and irresistib

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AND EXPANSION.
of this period coincides with the of the organization that hencet ladies to take charge of the out of place to refer here to the hen's Auxiliary was started. A Together' by Miss A.M. Hellier which information is gathered ions are made.
en the Women's Auxiliary bee the date of its first Committee who called it together, for they the original minute book, now in House. But Methodist women D discover ways of helping their was to link up existing efforts 2w departure that this memor
ors of the Auxiliary were the missionaries, women who enhip and danger with cheerful ry where work that only women t. They were soon faced with es. How could they provide : schools they started, or clothor the orphans and destitute 2d? Naturally their thoughts ft behind in the old home cirrcles were thrilled by the afrival
with the romance of new exle appeals. Others, during Dr.

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Hoole's long secretariat, v
friend of Missionaries' w wants known among those l
"From the first days women had been enthusiasti but these appeals brought love, and afforded a new ou! them had much money, b ways of earning it, and gave industry. At a time when were unknown, and all w expert needlewomen, sewing ary basket flourished exceed of missions it was a congeni fied needs of stations they w of acknowledging and forwa dertaken by Mrs. Hoole, an the cellars of the Old Miss with willing, skilful hands.'
Reference has already b for Promoting Female Edu Miss Twiddy who served ne badi. On her marriage to of Nagapatam she continue there, and for several yea Boarding School. When th for her and she wanted a he Society that first sent her to other missions to claim its a the time had come for the W a Society of their own. So one of the little group of wo of historic importance, setti a Society and urging its for strongly to the whole Farm

D ma
wrote to Mrs. Hoole, that ives, and she made their ikely to help them. of the Missionary Society ic and faithful collectors; the personal touch they tlet for their zeal. Few of ut many found ingenious : freely of the fruit of their machine-made garments omen were expected to be meetings and the missioningly, and to these lovers al task to meet the speciere interested in. The task Lrding these gifts was und she spent long hours in ion House, packing them
been made to the 'Society ucation in the East,' and arly three years in Vemthe Rev. Peter Batchelor 2d her educational work urs ran a very successful he work became too much lper, she remembered the the field, but as there were id, it seemed to her that esleyan Methodists to have she wrote to Miss Farmer, men in London, a letter ng forth the need for such nation. The idea appealed er family and they invited

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Dr. and Mrs. Hoole to di sult is seen in the followill of the Missionary Society
'General Committee a letter from Miss Farm Mrs. Batchelor of Nagapa mation of a Ladies' Socie India. Rosolvcd, that th tion in India is regarded l. interest. They rejoice ir afforded by many Ladies elsewhere, and look favou nizing those Societies mc motion of Female Educat of the Mission Field.'
The way was now cle was called for 'the purpo the subject of Female F December 20th. 1858. from each London circuit The Rev. William Arthur prayer, after which he anc statement of the plan Thereupon the ladies set Committee, Mrs. Hoole respondent, there was a Minute and Finance Secre ing it was realized that a They agreed to issue a pc runner of the present Mag
The first business of t was to find teachers for th Missionaries' wives and fo rily to the Normal Traini

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scuss it with them. The reng extract from the Minutes
October 13th, 1858. Read ar, accompanying one from tam, recommending the forty for Female Education in subjcct of IFomale Educaby this Committce with lively the help which has been ' Societies in London and rably on the project for orgapre extensively for the proion in India and other parts
2ar for action, and a meeting se of directing attention to Education.' The date was Two ladies were summoned and fourteen were present. opened the meeting with l Dr. Hoole made a general proposed, and then retired. o work to form the Ladies' was appointed Foreign CorHome Correspondent and a atary, and by the next meetTreasurer was also necessary. :riodical which was the foregazine-Women's Work.
he newly formed Committee e schools already started by or these they looked primang College at Westminster.

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At first only teachers were qualification required in a y that of Christian character, v tary teaching to very littleg pupils were not to be had.
for its first candidates the Co
simple plan. As requests fo each one was dealt with
the need was proved and matter was settled. No-one consult either the Synod or
trict concerned, till less to c of other stations. The sch missionary's wife wanted a h one in the Mission House
In these days it is diffic difficulties beset these pion service of any kind was not f aspired to it were though Church life they kept in the expect to sit on Committees had no business or adminis Ladies' Committee came il pleasantry. Its first annive the Mission House in 1882, said boldly that at a meetin, women, a woman speaker w the suggestion was regarded with laughter and cheers.
Mrs. Wiseman's appoil the beginning of a great cha to place holding women's m her graphic power of descri nary amount of interest, missionary volunteers and

asked for, and the sole oung missionary, beyond was ability to give elemenirls for in those days older In choosing the stations Dmmittee adopted a very or teachers came before it,
on its own merits. If the funds available the thought it necessary to the Chairman of the Disonsider the relative claims hool was promising; the helper; there was room for what else was there to say?
ult to realize how many eers in England. Public or women, and those who t un womanly. Even in
background, and did not . Women, it was assumed, trative capacity, and the 1 for a good deal of mild rsary meeting was held at and when the chairman g organised by women for ould not be out of place, as a joke and received
ntment as Secretary was nge. She went from place eetings and by means of tion roused an extraordiund inspired numbers of other workers. On July

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RS. W.SEMAN

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14th. 1912, she passed to s and the Auxiliary had to m was so identified with her collapse. "What do you d is gone?" "Does your Com
were some of the questions ful gift from God for the in of the work in its earlier s missed. But it had outgro leader, lhowever great her ci
And so in 1861, when Chairman of the District, the first lady Missionary to the Women's Auxiliary, wa
Mrs. Kilner with the work o cally the whole of the 24
Missionaries' Wives had be and for a long time after th
Workers they continued to great tribute cannot be paid and self-sacrificing service. have been no Girls' Scho when later, ladies came out many of them were able to for one reason or another, a wife who filled the breaclı.
We may quote here a passed at the Conference of Ceylon held at Calcutta ma
"This Conference wisl high sense of the services re Missionaries and Ministers pecially in the cause of Fem such services of more than o

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service in the life beyond lake a new departure. It that many expected it to o, now that Mrs. Wiseman mittee ever meet?' These asked. She was a wonderspiration and development tages, and she was sadly wn the powers of any onc indow ments.
the Rev. John Kilner was Miss Isabel Vere l'Eacott, Ceylon to be appointed by s sent to Vembadi to assist of the school. For practiyears of its existence, the en in charge of the school 2 appointment of the Lady be virtually in charge. Too to them for their devoted Without them there would ols for many years, and specially for school work, stay for only a short time, ind it was the Missionary's
resolution of appreciation Missionaries in India and ny years later. nes to place on record its indercd by the wives of our in India and Ceylon, csale Education; it regards rdinary value on account

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of their voluntary and disin cause of the confidence and tion of a Minister's wife cor the earnest hope that the su mulate to greater effort in th
When Miss Eacott arri added on to the room intenc her time a donation of a con tory of India worth A10 was in England, the wife of the the Missionary Secretaries jewelry, as the result of whic to the school.
In response to a reques mittee, the District furnishe and those of Vembadi can Minutes. Very little of the existed then. Half the pres rooms belonged to Central, mitory of the Girls' School. House did not exist, nor ar there now. . There was a bu wall in First Cross Street wil lished. The Tamil school came, extended only as far takes off the water from the old boundary wall is still st yond was still paddy land. been the Octagon and the Mission House.
In 1864 was foreshadow For some years there had be ing suitable young men for grant of (100 for that purp

terested character, and be
influence which the posimmands ; and it expresses Iccess of the past will stihe future.'
ved, a dressing-room was led for her use. During signment of Garrett’s I lismade to the school. Also Rev. Elijah Hoole, one of
in London, sold some h she sent out ( 10. 2s. 10d.
st from the Home Com2d plans of all properties, still be seen in the Synod school as we know it now ent English School classthe other half was the dorThe present Boarding ly of the other buildings ilding along the boundary |hich has since been democompound, as it later beas the present drain that bathrooms. Part of the anding. All the land beThe classrooms must have : back verandah of the
ed the Training School. 2n an Institution for trainMission Work. Out of a ose it was proposed that

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A25-an unexpended b year for the purpose of as teachers under the su
During this same in England decided to financial responsibility f Schools in the District. and thus began the grad of all work connected wi letter of thanks was sent
“This meeting tend its warmest and most si ral and timely support til of Female Education in generously taken upon schools on the Jaffna Sta evitably have been close be granted by the Distri this meeting further hop tant when the whole o " shall be under their patro
Miss Eacott left the transferred to India and No other lady was appoi during which time Mrs.
In 1866 cholera swe it was estimatcd that 10 appearing earlier in the for it
Classrooms were ere special subscription. In of study to be followed v four classes.
 

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pervision of Mrs. Kilner. year the Ladies' Committee take a definite share in the or soine of the Girls' Village
The offer was a timely one, . ual taking-over and expansion th women and girls. A warm
home by the Synod: ers to the Ladies' Committee ncere thanks for the very libehey have afforded to the cause
this district, by having so
themselves the cost of six ation, which schools must in: l as no funds whatever could ct for their maintenance, and es that the time is not far disf'our Female Establishments Dnage and support."
district at this time. She was
married the Rev. A. Levell. nted for the next eight years, Kilner carried on alone. ept through the peninsula and ,000 people died. A comet year was made responsible
Ected in 1868 and paid for by the following year the course pas detailed. It provided for

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"We trust that this acces God's blessing serve to mai ence that this school has alı Kilner's unwearied and mat
Unfortunately Miss Car of not being able to stand Synod of 1871 it was felt tha of health and the growing im the district at large and the quate teaching power as we Christian Perinpanayagan, be appointed forthwith as accommodation on the prem came into residence for one i Rev. Daniel Valupillai was an old girl of the school. covered somewhat and was a
The year 1870 was a m ally, for the Grant Scheme grant was calculated on the
—that is, so much per child ation conducted by the Gove ciency was measured by mea and a money value was a each subject. "Six standard a pupil „might qualifiy for g each standard above the Sec ous concession and lent itse soon discovered.) The subj Geography and Ilistory in t

arrived from England in il with pleasure the safe led to take charge of the
ision of strength will, under intain and widen the influeady attained under Mrs. ernal esforts.’’
twright soon showed signs. the climate and at the ut considering her failure portance of the school to necessity for securing adell as effective supervision, a Tamil minister should Principal. Consequently hises was provided and he year. The next year the Principal. His wife was Then Miss Cartwright reable to take charge again.
omentous One educationcame into operation. The payment by result' basis. who passed the examin:rnment Inspector. “Profiuns of an cducational test ttached to proficiency in ls were allowed for, but rant more than once in Ond. (This was a dangerlf readily to abuse as was ects were the 3 R's with he Upper standards.

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The details of the t
for the sake of compa
(Stds. 1-3)
Reading.
Writing.
Arithmetic,
Reading.
Writing.
Arithmetic.
Reading.
Writing.
Arithmetic.
Geography.
Std. 1
Two short the linspect ing 3ook, by word. To write ol capital and Form on b tion figure figures up figures up t
Std. 2 Three shor cult Readir read. Copy in v lesson read A sum in si and the m learnt by h.
Stod. 3
A few sente read from a lReader nex A sentence slowly rea three words A sum in a division anc
The Geogr

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ests may be of some interest rison with those set today.
sentences to be selected by or, from a rudimentary Readarticulately pronounced word
ut the letters of the alphabet,
small. lackboard or slate, from dictaes up to 20. Name at sight to 20. Add and subtract O 10 orally.
t sentencos from a more diffing Book slowly and distinctly
vriting a sentence from thes
imple addition and subtraction ultiplication table thoroughly eart.
2nces slowly and intelligibly narrative contained in the t in order of difficulty.
from the same paragraph, d once, and then dictated,
at a time. ny simplc rulc as far as short l thc money tabla.
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The Methodist Mission Government assistance thi
schools to inspection. Tha by Vembadi was 4, 25.
Thirty-six students wer te the dormitory were carrie was built on the site of the and a verandah on two sides Central was also expan (afterwards used for the Ki Girls' School) was enlarge -erection of a gallery and rem A paragraph from a GC ing with Vernacular Educat idea of the general state of a
"Regarding the educatio the outstanding difficulties w about educating their daugh with the requisite ability cou take a school far from home Girls' Schools was, howeve partly met the difficulty of c a few years men assistants Girls' Schools. These bega as Boys' Schools. Still the remained about one-eighth o was felt that Missionaries w people in this matter and th education was left to them."
In 1874 the numbers r letter to the Home Commit faction with the educational “Christian education has be SUCCESS. The best of our a

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decided to avail itself of us offered and opened its t year the grant received
e in residence, alterations ld out, and a dining room present badminton court, s of the class-rooms. lding and the College Hall indergarten children by the :d, and improved by the oval of the verandah wall. overnment Pamphlet dealion 1870-1900 gives an ffairs:- on of girls in the seventies, vere that parents hesitated ters and that few women ild be persuaded to underThe prejudice, against r, now dying. Monitors obtaining teachers and for were also employed in un to show as good results number of girls in school f the number of boys. It ere more trusted by the e pioneer work in female
ose to 45. The general tee expressed great satiswork that was being done. en crowned with marked gents and the most pro

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minent and reliable O come to us from this so to adapt the class of sch lation, giving English ol dently used and paid There are 891 girls in : 225 in one year.'
The Ladies' Comm all Girls’ Schools, a ges the district.
The District Meetir in its opinion that the thorough and efficient w as regards appropriate e with a view to securing i systemetic training of solved that the following adopted:
For every presentable g Capitati
Std
Std
and so on. This presu was to be paid at the en
Rooms for the Li 1875, and they continue built in Hospital Road bedroom is now a dorm the other room that was School office.
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four Church members have urce. We have endeavoured ools to the wants of the popunly where it is likely to be prufor in some just proportion. all our schools, an increase of
littce now decided to take over ture very warmly welcomed by
ng of this year was unanimous time had come for a more orking of the Girls' Schools ncouragement to teachers, and increased attendance and more the scholars. It therefore reg mode of payment should be
irl in the
on Class 6 d. per head.
1. 1 d. , , , 2. 2 d. , ,
mably refers to a bonus that d of the year.
ady Principal were erected in d as such until a house was in 1929. What was once the itory for younger children, and s the sitting room is now the
are being made for Boarding sewhere. The Synod Minutes. ''Opposition to Girls' Schools.

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has almost entirely disappe. value of Female Educatio) admitted.' This is probabl but it does indicate a chang greatest wants is properly have to look to our Central ply this pressing need.'
By 1878 there were 94 boarders and in 1880 the r respectively.
DEPAR OF MISS CA
Miss Cartwright's heal robust, at length necessitate For nine years she worke rapidly increasing numbers was. The school numbered there were 94 in it when she was placed on record :-
'This school is now one efficient institutions in our tions for admission are so almost double the number o of the senior girls have giv during the past year. As a ficance we may also mentioi this school have been marrie the year just closed.'
That is surely a worthy in 1878 and later went to S. The school was fortuna to Miss Cartwright in the pe
 

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ared. The necessity and n is now pretty generally y on the optimistic side, ing attitude. 'One of our trained teachers and we Boarding Schools to sup
scholars of whom 75 were numbers were 127 and 97
2TURE
RTWRIGHT.
th which had never been 2d her return to England. !d in the school and the show how successful she 27 when she came to it; left. The following minute
2 of the most popular and District and the applicanumerous that we might f students any day. Many cen their lhearts to Christ : fact not without its signithat nine graduates from 2d to Christian men during
record She left Ceylon
Africa. lite in securing a successor arson of Miss Penny. She

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1seems to have won the a leagues and pupils ver aptitude for the work in is the record of a harmo music and singing now t culum. The girls were lyrics and were of help ing numbcrs ncccssitatc
During hcr timc th( caused by a Revised Co. tor of Education and his anything but approbatio This Revised Code the school into cight sta from standard to stand Syllabus being redrastec away repeated presentat Pupil-T cachcr system Schools, and a three y examinations as for stc composition and teachi carn spiccial grants of a Penaltics were laid dow and grant was refused i standard 1 and all over
The system of worl was also changed. Prev been taught side by sido might be taught only as passed in the V crnacul had to possess a certific mand that the avcrage n It was predicted th ruin the Girls' Boarding

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ssection and regard of hcr coly Cuickly and showed great which she was cngaged. Therc nium that was bought, so that ook their places in the curritaught religious songs and in the Church scrvices. G1 Owd en largcd dormitories and ution. rc was considerable anxiety de. Mr. Bruce was the Direcs measures were received with
. of 1880 divided the work of ndards instead of six, the steps ard being made casier and the 1. At the samo time it swept ions in the same standard. The was extended to Grant-in-Aid ears' course introduced with ls. 6—8 with som c additional ng. The Pupil-Tcachers might nything from lRs. 50 to Rs. 100. n for falsification of registers in respect of children over 12 in
19. k in Anglo-Vernacular Schools riously English and Tamil had ', but he ordered that English ter the 4th. standard had been ur. All teachers in the fósture ate. There was also some deuttendance should be increased. at thc change of system would Schools, but in vicw of their

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exceptional position they double grants on examina lation the average grant pe the new it rose to 17/50.
The name Anglo-Verr as the official title of the so
When the Code had i reported on favourably. I ter than the old. The teac thorough and the girls were gress in the brief time they days, than had been the cas mentioned, the Governmen of the instruction and train ing Schools, and aided ther the old code. There was d because of the demand for this would scarcely be a di nearly all the girls were bo
Where was the School made more than once to th it, first in 1868, then in 187 lery was put in. It can hav building that stood until School compound under tr was eventually used by the stood until 1937, when it and had to be demolished. school hall and classroom pound, and another link w severed.
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vere from this time allowed tion. Under the old regur pupil was 13/85. Under
acular School now appears. hool in the Synod Minutes. peen working a year it was. in some respects it was bething it demanded was more able to make greater pro
gave to education in those se previously. As already t recognized the great value ing given by Girls' Boardn more liberally than under ifficulty in the day schools.
increased attendance, but fficulty in the case where arders.
room? Reference had been e erection and extension of 0, and now in 1880 a Galre been no other than the recently in the Boarding he tamarind tree, and that e Tamil Kindergarten. It was condemned as unsafe The site on which the first s stood is now open comith the past has thus been
Mission House verandah the classes for many more

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MISS KILNER

! (MRS. A. E. RESTARICK) 1882 - 1887

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Miss Penny did not stay and married the Rev. J. N Prof. Edward Thompson ha self as a writer of books dea himself lived and worked Methodist Mission for somc "An Indian Day' are partic two y cars ago, on a visit to point of visiting the promi: worked before her marriagc.
In order to fill the vi Beauchamp, who was at Po to Vemlbadli bccause of tl Committee to find another
In 1882 Miss Kilner, tl was appointed. She cnte heartily and checrfully and fulness. Tamil cxaminati werc introduced and she ap of the language. She was teacher but strict withal. ( the harmonium and took Church services. By her c to Christ. When a girl was dealt with her immediately thing she had done was wro behaviour. She went allou and it is for her kindliness in most remembered.
The numbers remainec year there were 112 on the its reputation and was of
Girls' Boarding School in t
3 ܫܝ

long, for she left in 1881 1. Thompson. Thcir son, s made a na mc for him - ling with India, where he in connection with the ycars. "Atonement' and ularly well-known. About Jaffna, lhe made a special scs whore his mother had
cancy thus created, Miss int [Pedro, was transforred e inability of the Iome ady just then.
e nicce of Dr. John Kilner red upon her work very with promise of much useons for Lady l’rincipals plied herself to the study a very plca sant and good Girls were taught to play urns in playing for the xemplary life she led girls s, discovered in a fault, she made her sce why the ng and won her to better it with a similc on her sace, cl cheerfulness that she is
l high till 1884, in which roll. The school maintained icially declared ' the first |hc Island. ''

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There are no paythan 1883, so that it about those who were there were five on the Sittam Dalam, Miss L. Mrs. Stockton. Mr. Sto had been for a number school till April 1897. ordinary class duties w; study for an hour. In sick girls to the hospita corted the boarders to generally. His wife was and taught singing foi from time to time. S those days, when we c today. A teacher on started with 10/- a mo trained Headmaster wa got their board and a l no salary scale; salarie the Mission. 1/-, 2/5( rates for untrained teac Headmaster in Decemb tion till 1892. He was and taught there before
1884 was a year were considerably strait ments by the Oriental visited the peninsula ca property and a special r
In school, Miss Ki compelled once or twic

STAFF.
lists extant dating back further is not possible to say much teaching before then. In 1883 taff, Mr. T. H. Stockton, Mr. A. Koch, Miss N. Margenout, and ckton was the Headmaster, and of years. He remained in the One of his duties apart from as to take the girls for evening his later years he accompanied al to Dr. Paul for treatment, esChurch and looked after them also on the staff for some time which she received a bonus Salaries were small enough in om pare thėm with those earnęd leaving the Training School onth, and the maximum for a s only 30/-. Unqualified girls ittle pocket money. There was s depended on the resources of ), 3/-, per month were regular hers. Mr. P. Tamber came as per 1884 and occupied that posian Old Boy of Central College : coming to Vembadi.
of disaster. Mission finances tened by the suspension of payBank. Then a terrible cyclone using great damage to Mission equest for help had to be made.
lner fell ill, and was reluctantly e to rest entirely from teaching

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labours. Fortunately the
Headmaster were secured mentioned) so the teaching reduced as it would otherwi
AV THE FOUND
TAMPU SCH
The unexpected deaths M. Tampu cast a gloom ov however, he made it poss girl to win a scholarship to education. We cannot do the whole account of this tra
“A new incentive to di year in the establishment ( the following interesting Tampu Esq. a wealthy yet Jaffna had two daughters School. They were both bi gave promise of grcat futu begining of the year, by a were stricken down with fev father, anxious to perpetual invest two sums of Rs. 50 for the purpose of founding to be competed for by the ing Schools in the Distric nation including Scripture IIistory, Arithmetic, Dic Sewing.”
A copy of the correspor and Mr. Rigg (the Chairma

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services of an excellent
(Mr. P. Tamber already power was not nearly so se have been.
NG OF THE |OLLARSHIPS.
of two daughters of Mr. T. cr all. Out of his affliction ible for many a deserving enable hcr to complete her better than quote verbatim agic event and its Outcome.
ligence has been added this of two scholarships under circumstances. T. M. godly Tamil gentleman in learning in the Boarding ight, good, clever girls and ire usefulness. IBut at the strange Providence they er and died. The sorrowing te their mcmory resolved to 0 and Rs. 250 respectively two scholarships. These are girls of the various Boardit, the subjects of exami, Catechism, Gcography, tation, Composition and
idence between Mr. Tampu n) is now given.

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Rev. E. RIGG,
Chairman of th
Rev. and Dear Sir,
We have prayerfu should invest the sum o
which we have resolved the names of my two d and Catherine Annamm His infinite wisdom and and we have come to the 1. That as it is ou
names of our two
ment, with the memory, with so your Mission, we established in the this purpose bett
vestment. 2. That if the schola
competed for b Schools in your d good than confin and for that reas
to all schools. 3. I promise to pay
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Jaffna,
19th. June, 1884. Le North Ceylon District,
Jaffna.
lly considered as to how we ( 500/- and 250/- respectively to invest in your Mission, in laughters, Ellen Muttammah nah, whom it pleased God in
mercy to take unto Himself e conclusion ir intention to associate the o daughters with the investobject of perpetuating their me good work to be done in e think that two scholarships eir names respectively answer er than any other kind of in
arships be made general to be y all the Female Boarding istrict, it will be doing greater ing it to any one institution on we wish to make it general
the 500/- in the name of my Muttammah during the course
e interest of which you will nually for a scholarship to be len Muttammah Tam pu Schowarded to the girl who stands

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first in her studies in the schools. 4. I promise to pay 25 daughter Catherine . draw a certain amoun V the Oriental Bank, th will please devote foi titled 'The Cather Scholarship' to be a stands first in her stu out of all the schools.
5. If there should be an the latter sum, I pro with it so that arra ing the two prizes to be a
Trusting that thc ail
I
The offer was thankfu the following reply se
To,
T. M. TAMPU ITS
Dear Sir,
Your letter to the Chai tention to found two schola two dear children whom God read in the District Synod assembled thankfully accel expressed their great satisfac ration of the departed ha
 

the 8th standard out of all
50/- in the name of my Annammah as soon as I t now in fixed deposit in he interest of which you a scholarship to be eninc Annam malh Tampu warded to the girl who dies in the 6th. standard
y delay in the payment of mise to pay the interest ements may be made for warded next year.
bovic will be accopted,
remain
Yours truly,
T. M. TAM PU.
lly accepted by Synod and 1n t.
Jaffna,
20th. June 1884.
man announcing your inrships in memory of your has taken to Himself was esterday. The brethren oted your noble offer and tion that your commemo.d assumed so eminent a

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Christian form. It was tian consecration was but very strongly enforc
But our brethren v press their appreciation templated but also their the loss you have sustair mon loss and in the pre vidence we can only bow Divine Will, praying that your family His gracious
We feel that wear takers with you in this sc forward to a bright and ters, and feel that their ranks of our membership
It was the unanimot a life so sanctified and daughter Ellen taught l learned. We have ther prepare a short biograph published in English anc
Assuring you of the and loving sympathy,
On behalf
I be
These scholarships ing Schools in the Dist scholarships were found Misses Newton, who di
 

38 - felt that the spirit of Christhereby not only expressed ed.
vere not only wishful to exa of the generous. act con- deep sympathy with you in sed. Yours has been no comesence of such mysterious Prov in reverent submission to the t God will multiply to you and s consolation.
e more than ordinarily partDrrow. As a Church we looked useful future for your daugh
removal leaves a gap in the p that will not soon be filled up. as feeling of the meeting that
consecrated as that of your essons that should be widely -efore requested Mrs. Rigg to ny that shall be translated and HTamil. e continuance of our prayers
of the District Meeting, =g to remain, Sir, Yours affectionately,
George J. Trimmer
(Secretary). were open to all Girls' Boardrict till 1888, when two other Sed by ladies in England, the splayed great zeal and libera

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lity in giving and collecting purpose. Then it was decide Eastern Province and the the Northern.
In 1889 the Sinnatham trąynsferred from Central Col. ing School, Jaffna, at the rec
The year 1886 saw the b School for Teachers. One s in obtaining a Queen's S Another of the senior sch Government as a Pupil Teac
RETIREMENT OF
After five years' devoted home in 1887. In the Annu Committee the following men
"We can scarcely allow Kilner to England to go witl part as to the ability and un ciency with which she has Lady Principal of the Jaffna during the last five years. O a teacher, of her unreserv strength to the interests of th for the pupils under her charg to speak in too high praise. the esteem, not only of the t rity and the parents of her whole Mission circle.
We part with Miss Kil
hope that the return to Engla may recruit her health and fi
 

the sum of A 750 for the 2d to reserve these for the Tampu scholarships for
byapillai Scholarship was lege to the Girls" Boarduest of the donor. eginnings of the Training senior student succeeded cholarship worth 100/-. olars was registered by her.
MSS KLNER.
service, Miss Kilner went all Letter to the Ladies' norandum is to be found:-
the departure of Miss hout an expression on our iform kindness and effidischarged the duties of Girls' Boarding School f her tact and ability as 2d devotion of time and he school, of her affection ge, it would be impossible She holds a large place in cachers under her authoscholars, but also of the
ner with real regret, but and she now contemplates ther for future work, and

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MISS MERF
 

RIKIN ( MRS. CLARK) 887 - 1889

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should it so please Provider come her back again amor not less notable sphere of u
She returned the follow A. E. Restarick and for ve of usefulness and blessing the South. Everywhere and her kindly influence re many who came into conta
Miss Merrikin arrived to take over Miss Kilner's year Synod reported that a firm hold on the school very satisfactory progress She was zealous in her stu such a pity that her health stay more than two years, she was invalided home an Those who were students i being very quiet and shy b zeal for the study of Tamil
On one occasion in the quite sure she had seen : whole dormitory saw one v verandah dressed in white. and uproar, and the hurried
Mr. and Mrs. Rigg. The gho ing Tamil !
The newly organised I two students, one of whom amination in 1888.
This year was noted of the Spirit of God, and testimony in a public meeti

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ice we shall rejoice to weligst us, in some other but sefulness." ring year to marry the Rev. ry many years lived a life
both in this district and in she was greatly beloved
mains in the lives of the ct with her.
in May of the same year luties. By the end of the she had not only obtained put she had already made in acquiring the language. dy of Tamil and it seemed I would not permit her to for at the end of that time d was not able to return. under her remember her as ut nevertheless firm. Her impressed them.
early morning one girl was a ghost. Immediately the valking up and down the
The result was confusion lappearance on the scene of est was Miss Merrikin study
Craining School consisted of e passed the Teachers' Ex.
for the gracious outpouring many of the girls gave their
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Also Mrs. Wisema! Committee in England Stations in Ceylon.
REV. G.
ON EDUCAT
At a meeting of Mi in Kandy in 1888, the pertinent remarks to 1 Schools, without one of 'sion Station realized thi needed attention he tho
1. From what class middle class see effort. Girls sho the surrounding each. Some schoo he thought there :
2. What fees should would admit girls be insisted on.
3. What should be
gested it should l which the childre
4. As to training.
broad as possible to cooking and h should be taught Bible Classes s pupils for work in
The school at Vem these lines and the poi

4I
n, the Secretary of the Ladies' paid a visit to all the Mission
J. TRIMMER
ION FOR GIRLS.
nisters and Missionaries held Rev. G. J. Trimmer had some make about Girls' Boarding which he considered no Mise ideal. Two or three points ught. −
should girls be drawn? The med to him the best for this uld also be brought in from all villages, one girl at least from pls had two classes of boarders; should be but one class.
l be paid? In certain cases he free; but, as a rule, fees should
the style of living? He sugbe regulated by the homes from n were drawn.
He thought it should be as . Special care should be given ouse-keeping. The elder girls to look after the younger Gnes. hould be used to prepare the
the Mission.
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support and curriculum are today. The tradition has b
Cholera broke out in school in this year and parel for the safety of their childre however, showed courage be mained free from infection.
In the following year th loss, for not only was Miss but the Rev. and Mrs. Rigg
Mrs. Rigg. The Synod ciation of the work done by in connection with the Gi upon this especially fell the long experience of fostering
'She has won the love a of this land by devoting hers improvement of the Girls' ) ing meetings for Hindu wC Christian women to procla Hindu sisters.'
Like her predecessors a low her, she had entire resp arrangements. The Lady with the work of the childr ary's wife with their home ti
Mrs. Rigg did a good idea that certain work is deg ing from wealthy families C do manual work. To her t had to take a share in ho dusting, cleaning, cooking. T some who thought the food
 

such as receive emphasis. een maintained.
he neighbourhood of the hts were greatly alarmed n. The girls themselves, :yond expectation and re
e school suffered a double Merrikin invalided homc, also returned to England.
placed on record its appre" Mrs. Rigg, particularly rls' Boarding School, for blow of losing Mrs. Rigg's
Ca1e.
nd gratitude of the people elf to the en largement and Boarding School, to holdmen and to encouraging im the gospel to their
ind those who were to folonsibility for the Boarding
Principal was concerned en in school, the Missionaining.
deal towards killing the rading, and that girls comught not to be cxpected to hey were all alike, and all use-hold tasks-sweeping, hen, as always, there were in the Boarding House was

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not good enough, and th from home. But no, M So long as the girls v be treated alike. The third class arrangements We today have to be gr; snobbery and superior root. They are ever the ever conditions aire favoi has ever becn the aim o conditions werc ncver m
Self-control was als not scream out when the they must first find out. and a ghost is easily in enough to upset a hundr pened many times since. would be fetched in to ta ment, or shall we say me oil or salts
In spite of the loss kin the school had a goo Government Examinat than the year before,
An article appear the Magazine of the Pet ombo (forcruinner of Mc interesting sidelights on part concerning Vembac
"On arriving at our by our kind host and their bungalow. This is : Dutch house opposite

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hey would have theirs sent in rs. Rigg was firm yet tactful. vere boarders they must all te were no first, second and s. What a wise stand to take ateful to her that such ideas of ity were not allowed to take 2re, ready to spring up whenurable to their growth, but it f Vcmbacli to see that thosc ade possible.
io inculcated. The girls must cy thought they saw a ghost: But girls are easily frightened nagined; one hysterical girl is ed. The same thing has hap)- |
On such occasions Mr. Rigg alk to them, and the punishedicine, was a dose of castor
of Mrs. Rigg and Miss Merrid year educationally and the ion gavc much better results
ing in "Onward and Upward', tah Girls” ligh School, Colthodist College) contains some Jaffna and the schools, and the li is here reproduced : - o
destination we were welcomed hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Rigg to a large, lofty and old-fashioncol the new and clegant Clock

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Tower which was erected Jubilee.
On the Mission premise they adopt the sensible met for the Madras Matriculatio but I believe not for the Cam which a boy or a girl has to pouring over Shakespeare's ignorant of the modern la Jaffna Wesleyan Mission B good work among the Englis little I saw of it assured me boys who, for instance, can a as an English boy.
On the same premise School under the manageme belongs to our Ceylon Gem fault seems to be love of w Ceylon Tamil girls. This -out more than two years anc creditably examinations in was holiday time so that we ers, of whom there is a larg lieve, than that of any other Ceylon. The girls have a -dormitory, and sleep on m spoilt for their home lives.
The Wesleyan Chapel i most striking feature of it b in front. These are covered polished so as to look qu lars inside are of the same l the convenience of the minis see each other at the sides C
 

in commemoration of the
es is a Boys' School, where hod of sending in the boys in and B. A. examinations, bridge, in preparation, for waste hours and hours in English while he is still nguage and idiom. This oys' High School is doing h speaking Tamils and the of the intelligence of those unalyse a sentence as well
s is the Girls' Boarding nt of Miss Merrikin who Society, and whose great ork for the benefit of her young lady has not been i has already passed most the Tamil language. It saw nothing of the boarde number, larger, we beof our Mission Schools in large, airy well-protected ats, so that they are not
s well worth a visit, the eing the fine white pillars over with a composite and te like marble. The pilind but are too large for ter and people who cannot f the Chapel. There is a

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Reading Desk as well as a P marble-like Font made of pillars. Round the Church the graves of certain well-k the Jaffna Tamils, or their li For more years than a member, a stone statue abou seen in the school compoun and how it got there, nobody legends are too fantastical to it was unearthed on the pro found at Puttur and broug Nor has the image been id is lBuddhist and some I l indlu hundreds of schoolgirls were and the history of Vembac without some reference to it Lockwood thought it ought t it could be preserved and s Museum, where it may still
 
 

ulpit and a beautiful white, thc same substance as the is a small gra veyard with nown Missionaries among ttle ones.'
nyone now living can reut four feet high was to be (l. Where it came from seems to know, and the accept as history. Whether miscs, Or, as some think, int in, remains unknown. cntific d ; some sur mise it l. 3ut it is a fact that : well acqua inted with it, li would not be complete t. At length, in 1925, Mr. o be in some placc where O scnt it to the Colombo, be scen.

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HA
BOARDING H(
 
 

OUSE ( INFOREGROUND)
1895
LL FRONTAGE
1895

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OHΑΡΤ DEVELO
Miss Merrikin's place Stephenson, the daughter cribed as "a bright, young already settled down and i rôundings.'
A few months later the to Jaffna as Chairman and fo school was under the care of
The story of the eight development in many direc was hopelessly inadequate now in attendance. The do and more classroom space was brought forward and 1 menced in 1892. Two year dormitory and dining room ber. These were the onest such, though very soon they to give place to the larger an ing that is just being begun. becoming vacant, they were rooms, one part being extend form the Hall as we know it ings in the vicinity inust hav of the general scheme and no which are constantly making games ground, remain to tell there. The Synod of 189: completion of the building pound assumed the configur:
tically unaltered till 1925.
^,

"ER 5.
PMENT.
was filled by Miss Annie of a Missionary and desenthusiastic lady, who has s in love with all her sur
Rev. G. J. Trimmer came or the next thirty years the
Mrs. Trimmer.
years 1889-1897 is one of tions. The accommodation for the number of girls ormitory needed enlarging was required. A scheme new buildings were coms later we hear of the new being opened in Septemhat are still being used as will have to be demolished ld more commodious buildThen the old dormitories transformed into classled into the compound to at present. Other builde been demolished as part othing but the foundations, their appearance on the the tale of what once was 5 reported the successful scheme. Thus the comation that remained prac

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This period stands freedom was being sec Special Mission Service which twelve girls went tained the full consent sions were also conduc the girls went visiting Trimmer and Miss Stel impressed by their gooc that they petitioned for Puttur. The presence couraged the women Again we hear of them : helping with a village S
Sewing Classes wer of these developed the \ servicos were hold, at th school children were se and the men under the
The first school pi nized by Mrs. Trimme and many of them refus
Thus was begun a continued to flourish w the years that have follo
At this point we habits and ways of the s of the day, jacket and supplied by the school t girl had three sets, one days. The dhoby came and Saturday, and ev Sunday outfits which h day, Every girl had to

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out as the one in which greater ured for girls by the school. were held in Vannarponnai, to to form a choir, having obf their parents. Special Mised at Puttur and Achelu and from house to house with Mrs. henson. The villagers were so | manners and quiet behaviour a Girls' School to be started at of the girls at the meetings ento attend in larger numbers. Lssisting at village meetings and unday School.
e held in the Octagon and out Women's Auxiliary. Open air ce first of which the la dies and ated on the Church verandah trees outside.
cnic to Mandativu was orgar, but the parents were afraid ed to let their daughters go.
series of activities which have ith varying success throughout wed.
may pause to enquire into the chool, Uniform was the order cloth of white cardigan being both teachers and girls. lach or Sunday and two for weektwice a week, on Wednesday -ry second Monday took their : brought back again on Saturhave her clothes marked in red

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with her initials and the yea to last six or eight months. then, 2/50 or 3/- a month girls paid less or nothing at : sent out money to support i. way many a girl received ar would have remained illitera parents were yet anxious for and it was only by giving the more were allowed to learn.
Mr. A. V Charles, who tion with the school first cam leaving the Copa y Trainin at Kockuvil and in India in exception of a break of one service of the Mission at the School and for a short time nearly forty years, retiring on Headmaster and helped in th for some time.
Mr. G. Subramaniam w 1896. He stayed for seven y by the Mission as an InspectC Boys' Training School. On became a Catechist under th a short time ago.
Mr. R. N. Sabapathy har a half years became Headma Mr. Stockton in 1897 but lef however, return to the High S of years.
Up to this time most o hands of men, but now that pil teachers and take the trait
 

r. One set was supposed The fees were very small at the most. Very many all. Friends in England individual girls and in that l education who otherwise te. Also by no means all their girls to attend school, em everything that many
had such a long connece in 1894, five years after g School, having taught the meantime. With the year, he continued in the Vembadi Girls Boarding
in the High School, for ly in 1928. He became Le Training School also
as engaged in November fears, then was employed or, and later went to the
leaving the Mission he e C. M. S. and died only
ving taught for three and ster on the retirement of t the next year. He did School later for a couple
f the teaching was in the girls might qualify as puning course they began to

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be available. Mrs. E. F period. She was Ne combirred, arrd continu her charge till 1911. 'Ponnu Accasi' and many Old Girls.
Indicative of the g women a larger place i sion in 1893 to invite til those sessions of the Sy discussed.
At the same time was offered for competi The Training Schc been started in 1886 m 1890 for the first time certificates, and three y 1894 saw the begin that belongs to the next

t. Frederick also belongs to th edlework teacher and Matr ed to “mother' the girls und She was affectionately call such she still remains to h
eneral tendency towards giving n general affairs was the deci ne Missionary Ladies to atten nod when Women's Work w
a Scripture Prize of Rs. 15/- tion in the Girls' Schools.
bol that we mentioned as having ade satisfactory progress. In two of its pupils secured full ears later two more.
ning of an English Class—but
chapter.

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CHAPT
BEGINNINGS OF SCH(
In 1894 a decision was great effect on the future of who passed out of the Anglo to enter the Training Clas further education in Englisl and not to be denied. An E formed with a view to some presented for the Cambridge
Soon another class was into which came other gi the Anglo-Vernacular Cours and some from outside, sinc Class anywhere else at the t
The enterprise was so s separate school was startedinto existence It was re growing demands for an En well as for boys in the large.
"these indications that the Ta
behind in intellectual cultur cal expression to our sympat throwing open our English S have heretofore been restrict may compete for them also was the Synod's attitude.
During the time of the English Preparatory Depart on his compound (Burleigh of small boys were house
Albrecht. When the Girls'
 

ER 6.
THE ENGLISH DOL
made that was to have a Vembadi. Not every girl 1- Vernacular School wished s. Also the demand for was becoming insistent English Class was therefore of the elder girls being 2 Local Examinations.
formed-English Class I, rls who, having finished e, were staying at home, e there , was no English ime.
uccessful that in 1897 a -The High School came indered necessary by the glish education for girls as r centres. "We rejoice in .mil woman will not lag e. We have given practihy with lher aspirations by School Scholarships which led to boys, so that girls
on equal terms.' Such
Rev. W. T. Garrett, an ment was started in a shed IIouse). There a number d, and taught by Miss English School began she

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brought along with her s one of the first teachers, opened with 27 pupils o lappah who had lately b the Boarding School car the other teacher was M Inspector Leembruggen Mrs. Ludovici. Mr. Tri graphy for a while and M from the other school to
Mrs. Trimmer worl the new school, going ro allow their daughters to number of girls came ovi School there would have bers there had been sc remained at well over 10 wise impaired.
Just at the time of School Miss Ireson came tary worker to continu Vannarponnai begun five She was however reque school and so became its years bcsorc she could work to take up the kind come. She is specially cxceptionally good Matl in Jaffna was a long one : found to her and her wor
The English School ing thc next ycar and was in a number of Saivite higher classes it had so fa

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one of her pupils and became
Accordingly the school w n the roll. Mr. H. M. Chel een appointed to the staff inc over as Headmaster, an iss Vanzyl. Later she marrie and after his death becam mmer taught Physical Ge Mr. Supramaniam came ove teach Tamil.
ked indefatigably on behalf o und and persuading parentst continue their studies. As a er from the Anglo-Vernacula
been no surprise if the num omewhat reduced, but the 0 and its strength was in no
the opening of the English out from home as a volune the evangelistic work at years earlier by Miss Lamb. stcd to take charge of this first Principal. It was many pe sparcd from cducational || l for which she had really r remembered as being an hematics teacher. Her stay and further reference will be k.
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were being prepaired for publ Sticcess attended the efforts. C and there must have been fel and elation. For the first Jaffna girls were preseated and Cakstta Entrance Ex Ta Emp was the successful Cambridge. Examination a II thendation for two years pre more than fourth stage Engl. lish Composition, Arithme Mathematics, Religious Kno justly be proud of her.
Of the three candidates Embrance Exallaination, Nall, passed in the Fist Class at Chandta Sen. Prize of Rs. 14 candidate who stood first it Mary Paul also passed, in th nam Eliatham by did the sar A Senior Cambridge Class w lamma Tampu had been the the Junior so she was the firs bridge. She passed the Ca and the Senior Cambridge ir
The English school was Grant for the first time in Jit were very good, over 80% ol
All this is indicative of among the girls of Jaffna an cess that attended the early
It will not be out of briefly the subsequent career
 

ic examilimations. kn 1899 of teachers and students 2kings of great Satisfaction
time in the history of for the Junior Cambridge saminations. Nallamma candidate in the Junior di deservedly wota, COMviously she had done no ish. She passed in Engt .tic, Literature, History, wledge, and Vemba di can
presented for the Calcutta. amrina Williams Murugest hd obtained the Keshub, OV- awarded to the girl all India and Ceylon. Le Second Class. Poorane in the following year. tas formed, and as Nal
first Jaffna girl to pass. st to pass the Senior Camlcutta Entrance in March
December of 1901.
examined Eor Government une l:900, and the results the pupils, gaining a pass.
the progress of education, d of the phenomenal sucefforts of Wembadi.
place to trace here very s of the four girls who thus

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NALLAMMAH THAMPUNALLAMMAH WILLIAMS MURUGESU, L.R.C.P. &.S. L.M.S. ( MRS. NEWMAN )( MRS. SATIAVAGESWARA IYER )
 
 
 

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distinguished themselves so e English School.
Nallamma Tampu was M, Tampu who has already tdonor of two scholarships. tip time of the tragic death ( she was in the 7th standard started and she was one of th to the examinations already ( girl to win a Senior District ther worth Rs. 60/- in 1902, anyone from Vembadi was to mained in School until sln During the years 1910-1914 again and taught for some ti minent' worker in connectio has been the President of the She is now living with her m
Nallamma Williams Mu thc Anglo-Wernacular School 1890, and graduated out years later. Though only Teachers' Training Class an Queen's Scholar, obtaining Then she left school, but rett to join the English School. the Calcutta Entrance Exam tiomed. She remained in scl end of 1900, then left for Ma College. Later she procc Dublin, returning to Ceylon doctor (L. R. C. P. & S. L she held the position of McLeod Hospital, Inuvil, th
set up private practising for
 
 

arly in the history of the
, the daughter of Mr. T. been referred to as the She was one year old at )f her two sisters. When the English School was e first pupils. In addition letailed she was the first Scholarship-the Crowit was a long time before win it again. She ree was inharricd in 1904. , however, she canc back me. " She has been a proin with Temperance and 2 Old Girls' Association. arried daughter. rugesu was admitted to l in the 5th standard in of the 8th standai dl four 2 years old she joined the di toolk the full course as a her certificate in 1897. urn cd the following year in March 1899 she passed ination as already mcnool as a teacher till the dras to join the Medical rded to Edinburgh and in 1911, a fully qualified . M. S.) For five years Mcdical Officer at the in went to Colombo and women and children. In

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1921 she became Mrs. S nued in practice.
She was the first T of medicine and to prac has every right to be p usefulness did not end
keenly interested in all
work. We therefore fin Y. W. C. A. and helpin Then when the move Women's Franchise she round from house to hgu chise meant, and was ca Donoughmore Commiss
Ill-health has comp now, but she retains her has paid visits to her old and returned to Inuvil Dr. Curr, so that she ha that has been going on h
Mary Paul was the House Surgeon at the Ci the pupils in the English English School, and af trance she joined the sta until 1902 when she left Gurusamy Tampu. Aft urged her to take up teac 1917 and gave another 5 very difficult to get e charge of Std. VII. Sh school and kept in touch years she was the Secret ation.
 

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Satiavageswara Iyer arid conti
amil lady to take up the study ctise as a doctor, so , Vembadi roud of her. Her i sphere of
there, however, for she was Forms of Christian and Social d her on the committee of the g with the camps at Negombo. ment was made for getting took an active part in going ise explaining what the franlled to give evidence before the 1ΟΙΩ
elled her to give up her work interest in everything. She school on several occasions, for a short time to act for s remained in touch with all
ee.
daughter of Dr. Paul, the vil Hospital. She was one of Class when it became the ter passing the Calcutta En
ff in May 1899. She taught .
to be married to Advocate er his death, Mrs. Trimmer :hing again so she returned in years' service. Teachers were ven then, and she was gřiven e has always lived near the with it. For a number of ary of the Old Girls' Associ

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( ndWWI '9 "SHWN )( n[WH "SHWN ) T[\\sd ÅHV/WAEWWHIVITE WW/NW/HOOd

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Pooranam Eliatha along with her sister by of the American Missic other provision for Eng Entrance in 1900 she w Anglo-Vernacular Sch she acted as Principal. ligh school part of hcr ing she left and was ima
Later she went to
in the supervision of th when he left and no oth indeed the mainstay of neighbouring village an interviewing parents an to serve the best int munity.
The English Class of the new hall but inct sary for them to move From now onwards thc building and stayed the while the Anglo-Vernac hall and classrooms.
All the boarders sl tory which was divided tually wooden beds wi school, so narrow that, period says, you were a falling off The Board dining room and boxro dined in the present Fo in the rooms now occup

imby was brought into Vennbadi y her father l’astor Eliathamby on because there was then no lish. After passing her Calcutta was appointed to the staff of the ool, where for part of the time She also helped in the Engtime. After six years of tcachurried to Mr. S. Raju.
Udupiddy to assist Dr. Miller 2 home life of the girls. Then her missionary was sent she was the school, visiting in the d getting the support of people, d planning all the time how erests of the school and com
es were Originally held in part easing numbers made it necesback into the old gallery hall.
English school occupical that are for a good number of years ular School occupied the new
ept together in the new dormiinto. two by a screen. Even2re bought for the English as one Old Girl of a later raid of turning over for fear of ing School used the present »m, and the English School rim I room and had their boxes ied by Miss Alphonso.

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Meantime Miss Stephen the Boarding School and hel work every afternoon in the she was on furlough in 1896 and buying things to bring reason to be grateful to her with an organ. Amongst t brought back for the school bell. During this year Mis supplied for her.
In 1899 we hear of 18 Indian Sunday School Unio and of the Director of Public | wife spęcially to see the mus
Miss Stephenson was g) one. She taught the girls m sons. They were going to m homes of their own. They to conduct themselves. Cons how to serve meals and ever pare a good Tamil meal to s as well as serve tea on nut they learnt how to be host front of people without being cious. They were taught ev even how to keep accounts, the sale of Needlework m an almirah in the Mission F. life they were taught to keep were held every Thursday a every Saturday. There wa patchwork quilt was sent to
In 1898 the Mission W tion sent home to England a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

son remained in charge of ped with the Language
English School. While she was collecting money pack. The Church had
for slhe provided them che equipment that she
vere long desks and, a s Jackso11 came in and
of her girls passing the en Scripture Examination, - Instruction bringing his sical drill of the little girls. reatly beloved by everyuch more than mere lesnarry eventually, and have must therefore know how equently they were taught y month they had to preserve to the Missionaries, nerous occasions. Thus esses and how to act in ! awkward and self-consverything about a house, by being given charge of aterials that were kept in Couse. To add interest to
diaries. Class Meetings nd Busy Bee Meetings s a famous day when a an Exhibition ! orkers on the Jaffna Staset of letters in place of a

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Christmas card. The son will appeal to thos throw light on the activ
“We are beginning drawing very near: m the holidays and are ve adorn themselves with village schools also we the Mission House are is a busy time for us wi dren for whom to prepa a great deal of good, in dren to learn the Script the parents to the schoo interest that friends fa
We had a splendid five of my girls were ba -olle of them told me sh (Christian since she was A fortnightago seven o mitted into full Church impressive Recognition afterwards, and then a one. I am sure that m
crated themselves fresh
determinations to follov
But thoughts at tlh dear II Homeland, who tlh us in our work. May C and give to each one a joy in the New Year.
That letter also inc not confined within the
 

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one written by Miss Stephen
who remember her, as well ities of that period.
to realize that Christmas is y girls are counting the days t ry busy making new clothes to on Christmas l)ay. In ou hear talk of prizes, and we in making our preparations. This th two thousand school chil| re. But these prize-givings do Dt only in encouraging the chilure verses, but also in bringing pl and letting them see the r away take in their children.
time on Children's Sunday; ptized in the Morning Service: e had always wantcd to be a a little girl in the village school. four Christian girls were admembership. We had a very Service, with the Communión Tamil Bible was given to each orning, those seven girls conseto Christ and made many new w him closely.
is time fly often to those in the ink about us and so osten help iod bless you all abundantly very happy Christmas and all
AN NIE STEPHENSON.
licates that her interests were four walls of the school build

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TEPHENSON
1901

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ing. She and Mrs. Tri visiting and holding co employed a Biblewoma in touch with girls who those from Puttur. Ol her accompanying Mr. and Carisal (the Home what was then an unco dous journey,
In 1901 she fell ill The following year the
An appreciation o Work and we could not as giving a summary ol
"Annie Eliza Step Mysore, India, on the 2 was the eldest daughter Wesleyan Missionary. England with her child mature death, Annie bei She inherited many of and resolved that she to return to India. After Clapham, during which herself to Christ, she r until a younger sister sh This was not a period ( gained experience and Sunday School, taking last in 1889 she was free Auxiliary of the Wesley was at once accepted an the Girls' Boarding Sch her duties there in Janu

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mmer did a lot of outside work. mpound meetings. She also in whose business it was to keep had left school, particularly h another occasion we hear of and Mrs. Trimmer to Mannar : Mission Field) undertaking mfortable and almost hazar
and had to return to England. sad news of her death arrived.
F her appeared in Women's do better than quote from it,
her life and work,
henson was born at Gubbi, 7th of September 1866. She of the Rev. John Stephenson, Mrs. Stephenson returned to ren after her husband's preng at this time seven years old. her father's qualities and tastes O would be a missionary and leaving Queenswood School, time she definitely consecrated emained at home for a time. ould be able to take her place. of inactivity, however, for she knowledge by teaching in Ambulance Classes etc. At to offer herself to the Women's: an Missionary Society. She d appointed to take charge of ool, Jaffna. She entered on ary 1890 and with the excep

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tion of her furlough, remaine loving, efficient and fruitful
In 1900 she became eng another society, a man of sai love she found a new and gre pathetically brief. In twelve their betrothal came the new This blow, to one already in most severe. For cight mon on doing her work when reall was ordered home. On her , fully ill and worn, but it was nursing would restoric her. love and care could do, she some months of gradual decl June 1902. In her illness sh and cheerful, and for a long future and for work again am
One cannot overestimatc. phenson's work. II er school and disciplined. She took til work thoroughly and well. Tamil scholar and omitted ni to make the school more succ but the means to the great en for Christ. She knew every all their different temperamer and by her loving ways and
and self-forgetfulness, she a dence. School hours over, sl interest in their doings, ta played with them herself with that they all loved to have h of simple goodness, lived as i
 
 

d for twelve years of most service.
aged to a missionary of intly character. In his at happiness, but this was weeks from the day of is of his sudden death. n weakened health was ths longer she struggled y un sit for it. Then she trival she looked painhoped that care and good Despite all that tender never rallied, but after ine died at Leeds on 1st he was wonderfully bright time planned for the
ong her 'dear girls.'
the value of Miss Stewas admirably taught ne ut most pains to do her She was a first class othing she thought likely ressful. Yet it was ever d, winning the children one of her girls so well, its and special difficulties warm-hearted sympathy lways won their confihe took just as keen an ught them games, and such evident enjoyment er as a playmate. Her life t was in such close touch

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чыгышы
with the girls, did then f of talking.
Since her death has
-carefully entered the na
the school, her progress
scholars left her, she fo
hones and lives. She si sole duty it was to visit t
and encourage them in t
self went also, whenever
Miss Hall who was the news of Miss Stephe letter home describing th
"On Wednesday 25 phenson's death reached we had heard of her, som sad, but the last tidings prepared us for the wors very hopeful and they fe it came. We closed the postponement of the Co.
evil for us, for how could
ings at such a time?
The following Sund was held. Mr. Weaver testimony to Stephensor character; he spoke of h and her great love for h with her fellow-worker and childlike trust in Jes also said that she had w life in the memory of he forget her while they liv

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ar more good thann any amou
been found a book in which i me of every girl who came into and life history. When hë llowed them still into thei ecured a Biblewoman who he married girls and instru he Christian faith. She her
she could,'
in Vembadi at the time when nson's death arrived, wrote a he memorial service.
th June, the news of Miss SteVembadi. From time to time etimes cheerful news, oftener we had before that date had t; still some of the girls were lt the blow most keenly when schools that afternoon. The ronation was not an unmixed | we have joined in the rejoic
ay night the memorial service preached and gave a splendid Amma's beautiful life and er bright and sunny ways, er girls, and her sympąyhy s, but above all of her simple us her Saviour. Mr. Weaver on not only Eternal Life, but girls, for they would never ed.

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The girls sang speciał hy the dead,' and 'Ten thousan and two or three from Wesle these arrayed in white ?“ bei had been asked for by Miss S similar Occasion.
After the service Mr. ( March in Saul. The service for although it was, tỏ comt for Ceylon, yet we have bee willing sacrifice, and a worth and she had now been summ (. the King, whom she had ser
Not only were our own dearly, present, but all those who, could manage it, came, lians now in Jaffna, among til ant Mrs. Mortimer.'
A tablet was erected in S it may be seen on the right munion rail. Also in Muru Memorial Church' was built foundation was cut on March mer. FH er old scholars raise
 
 
 

mns, "Ilush, blessed are |d times ten thousand," ey's hymns-“What are ng one chosen because it Stephenson herself on a
looke played The Dead ! was solemn but not sad, memorate a life laid down In renn indled that it was at y reward hadl been won, oned to the presence of ved so faithfully. peoplc, who loved her : from the other Missions and some of the few civinem Sir William Twynam
St. Peter's Church where
hand side incar the com|ngan “The Stephenson ... Tħe first sod of the 1st 1906 by Mrs. Trimd a fund for the memorial.

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MIS (MR
 

SMALLINSON S. J. REAVLEY) 902 - 1904

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CHAPT
A PERIOD OF The year 1901 saw the changes in the Mission Staf of the schools were concern were dominated by the spiri Trimmer who remained whi
When the English Scho have two English ladies, c school. Quite often it happ to do the work of two.
Miss Lily Hall, B. A. Ireson, on the completion turned to England early th Hall was left to look after Mallinson arrived later in th not able to return to the dist to family reasons. When h ed her, then again she came the work she loved. Very s ferred to Batticaloa Vincer married and became Mrs. that Miss Mallinson was for two schools. She really ca. cular School, but she gave w to the English School. Sh "The true spirit of Method schools and many of the hea lists both in the schools an work we tried to do outside, noons in our visits to com love to any old girls who st not forget them. In March sixteen months she was trar
 

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CHANGES.
; beginning of a series of f as far as the Principals ed. The next twenty years t and personality of Mrs. le others came and went.
pol started, the idea was to Dne responsible for each ened though, that one had
was sent out in 1901. Miss of five years' service ree following year, so Miss both schools until Miss he year. Miss Ireson was .rict after furlough owing er father no longer needback to the people and oon Miss Hall was transnt School, and later she Pierrepont. That meant a time the only one in the me to the Anglo-Vernathat supervision she could Le writes from England:- dist fervour was in the ad girls were real evangeld in the home missionary especially on Sunday afterpounds.' She sends her ill remember her. She does 1904 after a stay of only sferred to Ikkadu in India,

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where she laboured till 1 ried the Rev. J. Reavley. are living in Darlington.
Before she left, Miss take Miss Hall's place in ber 1903.) She was a gi Diploma. Despite the c good year and in 1904 Sy “ making a com ploctc wor Two or three things wort Government appointed a Evans, who certainly in branch of education. T union was held. It was enjoyed. It was some Association was formed. raişed by their own eff work.
In 1904 began the c doubtless supported by t "Attempts were made to the 'old barns of Vemba atmosphere of its present suaded the Committee to and a New College Build find the additional money stand how 400 boys were the building by the road. move They had to wa before they were able to
In August there w; because of the action C cation in forcing schools London Examinations in

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913. She resigned and marThey have now retired and
; Ruth Mosscrop arrived to the English School (Novemaduate and held a Teacher's hanges thc school reported a "nod recorded that the aim of nan' was being kept in view. hy of mention may be noted. n Inspectress of Sewing, Mrs. nade for efficiency in that hen the first Old Girls' Relargely attended and greatly years, however, before the
During that year the girls orts 400/- for philanthropic
ry, 'Move Central,” a cry he girls as well as the boys. shift the Boys' School from di” to the more wholesome habitat. Mr. Wilkes pergive a grant of Rs. 15,000/- ing Fund was inaugurated to r.' It is difficult to underaccommodated in that half of
No wonder they wanted to it, nevertheless, some years lo so. -
as a protest meeting called f the Department of Eduto take the Cambridge and stead of the Entrance Exami

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‘STOO HOS ONW || E.H.L HO SHE HOWEL HIINA (HBWWIHL ‘SHW GNIHB8 ONIGINVLS) dOMOSSOW SSIWN

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nations of Madras and C dismay, for the Englis suitable to the needs of J the study of Tamil Liter; precisely what did hap avail, and the Cambridg were established.
The English Schoc change, for Miss Mosscro Boarding School, Barrac mained till her furlough i state of ill-health and the to the East. She thereu as Tutor to the Sisters Children's Home. Lin 19 St. George's Co-educatio penden where she is now the following message :-
"I remember the gre; of my teachers whose lov gladden and encourage m would like to tell those at opportunities of helping.c of the most Christ-like th: do it.'
The Boarding School a Missionaryo Principal, a whom reference has been and kept things, going, pointed to supervise the records of the next three y inference is that work was
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alcutta. It was viewed with h ones were not considered affna, and it was feared that ature would suffer. That was pen. The protest was of no e and London Examinations
1 unfortunately had another -p was, transferred to the Girls kpur, Bengal, where she ren, 1909. She went home in a . doctors forbade her return Don took up work for a time in training at the National 214 she joined the staff of the
nal Boarding School at Har-- Senior Mistress. She sends
at kindness of all, especially ring thoughtfulness helped to e in a none too easy task.. I E school now to look out for other people.--for that is one ings we can do—and. all. can
I meantime had been without nd Miss P: Eliathamby to
made earlier on, took charge. intil Miss Watson was: ap-.
work of both schools. The years are very scanty, so the » going on steadily. wished to remain anonymous,. hands of the Chairman to

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found scholarships. Synoc this sum to the founding of
in connection with the Girls District.
The year 1907 seem to the number of changes on til made the working of the scl; In 1907 there was not a si that had becn thcro in 1901
The Anglo-Vernacula better off. In 1904 Mrs. V on the staff before her t Sithamparapillai) nov reti Charles gave many years of vice. Others came änd wer
they reached pensionable
work and influence was ensul
Miss Watson fell ill in work of, the schools was disc Miss Kerr, from India, cam
six months, and thus filled til
could be appointed. Miss \ land, and on her recovery Madras District. She is now Findley.
About 1906 the two schi the Boarding School going
Hall and Octagon, while t
over to the buildings along t was necessitated by the it High School, the roll no names.
In 1907 Sick Nursing C
Sisters from Puttur used to
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resolved to appropriate two scholarships to be held English Schools in the
have been exceptional for c staff. They must have ool very difficult indeed. ngle teacher on the staff
School was somewhat 2eravagoe, who had been narriage (Miss Thangam urned, and she and Mr. faithful and devoted serit, but they remained till age. Thus continuity of red.
this same year . and the rganized in consequence. 2 in and took charge for he gap until a successor Watson returned to Engdid supply work in the the wife of the Rev. G. H.
ools exchanged premises, back again to the Gallery he English School came he road. This exchange creasing numbers in the w containing about 120
lasses were began. The come in every Tuesday

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is. VI, VIII, and VIII togeth
classes very much and looke he modern Domestic Scien in back thirty years to find i

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CHAPTE
1908-1 The year 1908 marks t more settled period as far a: cerned. Miss Kerr left in carried on in the interim, an from England to take charg Immediately she set about the a Junior Cambridge Class w: were entered for the Exam Supramaniam was the first s a lapse of ten years.
The Wesley Guild flou continued to meet regularly Prayer Band was started, an a deep spiritual movement : schools. Society Classes had the beginning. Now the on grew so big that it had to be
Meanwhile the Boarding
• on by the Headmaster. T seven students in 1908, one trance, and two the 1st. Year
1910 was a landmark in The Englislı School reported in numbers. Miss Ireson re home and was warmly welc more the Boarding School She not only attended to its to teach Mathematics and M
Then at long last the b badi to their new preinises. begun in 1908 and it was op for expansion was assorded to

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he beginning of a rather s the Principals are conSeptember, after having d Miss Hornby came out e of the English School. er work with enthusiasm : as formed for 1909. Girls ination, and l’arimalam uccessful candidate after
rished and the Busy Bee y. Also a 'One-by-one' d the next year we hear of among the girls of both of course been held from le in the English School divided into two.
School was being carried he Training School had of whom passed thc En
Examination. the history of Vembadi. 1 a considerable increase turned after eight years at Dmed back again, so once had a full-time l’rincipal. inceds, but found time also
usic in the other school. oys moved out of Vem - The building had been ened in 1910. Thus room D both boys and girls.

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C. B. HORNBY 908 - 1913

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The first change that it Hall of the Boys' School w the Boarding School for a t being made to provida mo accommodation for them, fo röoms were not large enoug gether. At that time they r who were in school in 1911 : year. The Stone-Laying C for the Boarding School too a large assembly. Stones w Dr. W. A. Rogers, N. C. sampillai Esq., Rev. J. M.. I of the Wesleyan Methodist Sabapathipillai Esq., and I nuary 19th.
Then Dr. Nallammah Scotland where she had t: C. P. & S., the first Tamil La to obtain those qualification meeting of welcome was arra a guard of honour and an her. We have already give when we recorded in 18 Keshub Chandra Sen Schola
The numbers of the E forward from 137 in the p the four girls who sat for th successful.
The Training School, t being 14 girls on the roll, th Up to this time the number there were not graduates eve reson's able guidance, the
 

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ook place was that the old as used as a dormitory by me, but plans were already te suitable and adequate or the dormitory and other h for all the boarders toumbered 140. The girls are not likely to forget that f the "Upstairs Building k place in the presence of 'ere laid by Mrs. Trimmer, Campo Esq., M. CathireBrown (General Secretary Missionary Society), S. N. Dr. T. MacIntyre, on Ja
Murugesu returned from alken her L. M. S. and L. R. dy in the whole of Ceylon s. No wonder a public unged. The girls formed
address was presented to in the details of her career, 99 that she had won the rship.
nglish School again leapt evious year to 189. Also e Junior Cambridge were
)o, had a good year, there e highest number so far. ; had been very small and ry year. Now under Miss
numbers increased and

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students passed out cach y three years, and in additic practice was arranged in t schools-Chernia Street, K( Every girl did one day's tea Qther schools-a different gained good practicc in tca ments and under conditions in the Boarding School. E school teachers camc in abo students had to give assistal ligious work included taking Examinations, teaching in S ponnai and going sick visit Sunday with Mrs. Trimmer
Mrs. Wiseman, to whor as the one who worked so ha Ladies' Committee, and wh Secretaries, died in 1912, office by Miss H. M. Bradf the writer of the Synod lette
'Her death has mcant who by her unique knowled at home and abroad, by her ation and wonderful powe place outstanding in the Church. We were always as earnest desire to help for and children in our district.'
The following year a V larship was awarded to the ence Thiedman, a Mannar lish School.
 

car. The course was for in to book work, teaching hree of the nearby village Dddady, and Chetty Street, lching a week in one or the ! one cach wcck--and so ching in di serent environnot so favourable as those very Saturday the village ut their scwing, and the ince, Their training in rethe Sunday School Union Sunday School in Vannaring in the hospital every
m reference has been made ard in connection with the O was for so long one of its and was succeeded in that ord. Of Mrs. Wiseman,
r says:-
the taking away of one ge of the work and workers splendid gifts for organizr of appeal, has filled a history of the Methodist sured of her sympathy and
ward the work of women
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The numbers in th and two passed the Jun School numbered 89, 1
1913 was another i ing School it must have new building was comp was something unhear talk of the town. Mr. pal of Central College works manager, and to ing Ceremony took plac the members took a pro scheme was not comple ly, airy dormitory upsta With what joy those f up their mats for the f mingled with fear? Ev going up and down stai raise funds locally, and a great service when h money for the building.
It was a good year out of 58 passed the G Training School also ha 16 presented for examir pleting their course. O Boarding School and a
Correspondence no tration of the English S with a Secondary Dep; School Examinations. of the Education Comm Secondary Education d ings and equipment, tra
 

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he English School rose to 196 ior Cambridge. The Boarding 4 of whom were in Training.
important year. For the Boardbeen one of great joy for their leted. An "Upstairs Dormitory' d of in Jaffna, and it was the W. R. Cooke, the Vice-Princiwas the architect and general him goes the credit. The Opence during Provincial Synod and minent part in it. The whole 2te, but the Hall and the loveairs were ready for occupation. ifty boarders must have taken irst timel Or was their joy en today there is a thrill in rs. Many were the efforts to | the Rev. J. V. Benjamin did he went to the Staits to collect
for examination results for 52 overnment Examination. The ad its best year so far, for out of nation, 15 passed, three comne of them joined the staff of nother went to Point Pedro.
w began concerning the regischool as an Elementary School artment working up to Senior
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staff, and the raising of fees. problems for the next few y the school was adequate t more passed the Junior Cam Inspection the work done giene by Sister Easter II highly commended. "The language taken with thc kn reveal that this is not merci girls went about the practic like sashion.'
Miss Hornby complc toc went hom on furlough. At review of her period. Rese some of the things for whicl good singer herself, she first ing. Tamil had been negld subject for the Cambridge l: trend of Education was in rector Denham, "More En The fear of the neglect of Jaffna to protest in earlier English Exams in prescronc ment rocalized that this was re-introduced as a subject i. over from the Boarding Sch English School teachcrs we School for English. At that for Tamil into dissorcint st with Mathematics, and la Drawing.
After the Annual Inspe Special Classes were form an education in Tamil an
 

All these were to create bars, but for the moment o meet the need. Three bridge and at the General in Sick Nursing and Hyayden from Puttur was very quaintness of the owledge of facts shown, ly book knowledge. The work in c very business
l hcr term of scrvice and
this point we may take a rence has bcen made to she was responsible. A taught the girls part-singcticd because it was not a xaminations. The whole thc sannous words of Diglish and better English.' Tamil was what caused years against the taking of c to Indian ones. Govern; a mistake and Tamil was in 1908. Teachers came pol to teach Tamil and the nt over to the IBoarding time the school rodivided ges as was also the case cr with Necdlework and
ction held in June 1912, rd for girls who had had cl who now wantcd somc

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English. The practice what a difference in the most of the children in
ween the ages of 8 and 1 chance of getting a fair
they were any age. One 5, and of a teacher at the that class which had two girls were brought to sch getting married so that studied in an English
much English they pic The children in the Spe all their time learning El lowed to be presented f which they had already
possible to promote fro
Std. 6.
In addition to grant extra grant could be ea which Mathematics was ( in force for a long time, been made to it.
Miss Lottie Spittel w to go to Training Co 1910, the first trained te gave another three yea teachers between 1908 an of the shortness of servi School this could hardly teaching was but a step t
Miss J. Sattrukulasir 1912. Then she went turned in January 1915.

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still prevails of , course, but
average age of the class! Now
the 1st. Year Special are betO, and so stand a much better education in English. Then hears of girls over 20 in Std.
} age of 17 being put to teach
students 24 years of age. Such hool for a few months before they might be said to have School. One wonders how
ked up in that short time. | :cial Classes spent practically
nglish as they were not alor Inspection in a subject in passed in Tamil. So it was
m the 2nd. Year Special to
paid on Examination results, rned for specific subjects of one. This system had been but so far no reference has
tho had left in December 1907 ollege returned in January acher to be appointed. She rs' service. Again the list of id 1913 is a long one because ce of so many. In a Girls' be avoided, for in most cases O matrimony.
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- pointed in 1908 and with the has given continuous servici Silva has an unbroken rccor pointment in 1912.
Central College master hplp at various times-M. and J. K. Chanmugam for R. Cook for Physiology and
At the end of her sur lo return. She came back to C in Colombo and there spent years in service. II er grcat itself and was given full sco many and varied activitic Service. Alongside the co homes of the people in the C the Pettah, she and her littl ried on a Day school, Chil trial Classes for poor womer ... for better housing condition
form of Social Welfare.
In 1929 she was recallet of the Secretarics of thc Wo Missionary Society, in connc in five years of strenuous wou to ill-health. She sends
message:-
'So 1938 is Wombadi haps you who are now conn think it is not exactly a ma congratulated. Perhaps yo congratulated recently on re he responded, "I can't help place as I am proud to havc
 

exception of one break e for 30 years. Mliss de il from the time of her ap
S also came in and gave assrs. C. P. Tha motheram Miathematics and Mr. W. . I lygio Inc. Lugh Miliss l l ornby did not cylon, to the City Mission many happy and fruitful organizing ability showed pe in con ncction with the s connccticd with Social instant cvangelism in the over-crowded arcas around e band of deaconesses card-Wolfare Centric, Indusl, and co-operated in work is, temperance and every
l England to becomic one omen's Department of the ction with which she put k, resigning in 1934 owing us thc following cheery
Contenary Year l'erccted with thc school may ter on which YOU can be scol like a youth whom I aching his 21st. birthday; t!' Yet you have your
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those who from the begi make the soul, the char, that living institution w are so proud this year. S other I find it hard tol since I began my Ceylo much inward quaking, you for five years. I re. tude, the kindness and h then connected with the lars, and the Church. always made me feel tha joy to send my rememb way.
I rejoice in the wide have opened out for gir and in the share which both in making these po for them. I trust that none of the grace, patie their mothers, even whi and confidence which w in the new conditions th
I send my warmest tury opening out before
A report for the ye Miss Ireson's handwriti
'The number of 1913 was 172 of whom ment Examination was presented. The teach and Hygiene as a sp mended by the Inspect

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nning onwards have helped to acter, and the attainments of hich we love and of which we o we will all congratulate each pelieve that is almost 30 years n life by taking over, with the position I had amongst member now with much gratiaelp I received from so many
school, the families of schoIn later years, Jaffna people ut I belonged to them ; so it is a orances to old friends in this
er life and opportunities which Is in Ceylon since those days,
Vembadi Schools have had ossible and in preparing girls Jaffna girls of today will lose ence, and unselfish devotion of de they acquire that knowledge all enable them to live worthily sat confront them. - good wishes for the new cen
the school.
CLARA B. HORNBY ear 1913 appears in the file in
ng:
girls on the roll in December 52 were boarders. The Governin June when 110 girls were ing of practical Sick Nursing ecified subject was highly com-ess, and a large class of girls

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passed well in the subjcct. Sister Easter Hayden (one ( tur) vho is a fully qualificd taking Std. VIII through a
There have been a go staff during the year. Miss pal left for lEngland and ha Kerr, who lhas bocen hear til Several of the teachers have Some other reason, but their others. We were fortunatt of Mr. J. C. Thamothcram, bridge work. Of the girls bridge Local Examinations ful, one senior and two jun four candidates were presen juniors.
The Trinity College of held in July and of those w Intermediate grade, two the paratory. There was a pre the successful candidates ( mccting during the Synod it Those who were succes nation of the Indian Sun ( certificatcs at a Sunday Sc nection with Children's Suin
The District Scripture results and many of the standards were reportcd by
The year has been m events in all of which the gi have had their share. The once a week provided a sta
 

They were taught by of thc 1) ca concessos at l’utnurse and this year she is coursc of Invalid Cookery.
od many changcs on the i Tornby, the Lady lPrincis loccin succccdod by Mliss y wolcon cd back by all. left to got married or for places have bc.cn filled by > in Sccuring thc S Cervices B. A. to help in the Cannpresen tcd for thc Camin 1912 three werc successiors. I n l D cccinn ber 1913 tod, onc senior and three
Music Examinations were ho went in two passed the Junior, and onc the rescn tation os ccrtificatos to of the previous year at a
January. ssful in assing thc examilay School Union received hool mecting hold in con - clay.
Examination showed good papers in the 6th and 7th thc oxam incr as cxccent. arked by several special irls of the English School IBusy 3cc which they hold ll t to Salo o VVork in

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connection with the ope School and raised quite a Festival they contribut evening entertainment a and money to help the C
The Wesley Guild larly on Saturday evening siding and doing most of September. Mr. and Mrs amongst many other f Guild Meeting in the sch
In connection with which Mrs. Jordan spolk signed the pledge-seven schools.
In December a mee members was held in the were admitted into full n
The earliest Log Bo gins in Miss Ireson's ha There are pages and pag parations for Grant-inevidently supplied by the of those instructions soun because of the minutenes
"Reading Books for either new or freshly cove
“The children's slat disinfected before the exa ing the school year.)"
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ining of the new . Boarding nice sum of money. At the ed a number of items in the nd brought in gifts of goods entenary Fund.
Meetings have been held regu- | gs, the girls themselves prethe work of the meetings. In . Jordan visited Jaffna and unctions came down to the ool and addressed the girls.
the Temperance Meeting at :e, a large number of girls ty although from the two
哆
ting for the recognition of : Church at which four girls nembership.”
ok still in existence also beindwriting, about this time. es of instructions for the PreAid School Examinations,
Inspectress in 1911. Some d rather quaint to us today s of detail.
the Examiner should be :red with clean paper.'
2s should be well washed afhd mination (asat intervals dur
on was a very serious matter

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In order to cope with getting trained teachers the encouraged. Detailed notic guidance of those in charge ( to pass examinations conduc three years. The Pupil-T c. E. T. Winslaw, R. Camagas
Circular 44. A
'Much of the defective t nection with reading lesso “Meaning Books.' In mar regarded as necessary for th which long lists of words written out. Managers and to take steps for stopping til to any intelligent system of
After Miss Hornby's de tioned, Miss Kerr came in already helped out once b worked hard to cope with Education Department, whi est disficulty of that time -—tl staff. This must be recogn preciate the situation. It is such conditions the school co
1914 saw the outbreak though Ceylon was far remo action, yet it felt the reper were drastic reductions in fin frantically for one War Fu schools at Vembadi took pa activities and Needlework G provide money, bandages, cli
 

thc cxtreme difficulty of Pupil-Teacher System was es wcrc provided for the of them. These girls had tcd by the Inspectress for Achers of this period were bai and L. T. Solomon.
ugust 1912.
caching of English in conins is due to thc usc of y schools it seems to be c pupils to havc books in
with their meanings are | Principals arc requested his practice which is fatal toaching.'
eparture, as already mento supply again. She had efore in 1907-08. She
thc new demands of the le battling with the greathe constant changing of ized in order fully to ap
remarkable that under ntinued to make progress.
of the Great War, and Dved from the spheres of cussions of war. There ance, people were working hd or another, and the rt in all the Red Cross uilds that werc formed to othing etc.

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The school got up a the funds, and the Ne during the year was se Queen Mary's Needlewc typical list : August 7t
11 day shirts 20 potticoats 17 dresses 27 chemises | 1 pillow cas 11 handkerch 15 bags
A quotation from the situation with regar cation Department.
'In this district the tion is growing with ext influx of boys and girls i them to the limit of the imposed on us by the E developed by the additic differentiation of elemen both tending to complic of efficiency which th steadily and in a few yea to the standard attain secondary schools in E on English Education method it is essential th to the demands of the efficiency of a school is opportunity.'
This paragraph will circumstances of the per

a grand concert in aid of one of edlework done by the classes nt to the Schools Branch of »rk Guild. The following is a h, 1918.
Std. Std. Std. Std. eS Std. hiefs Std. Std.
the Synod Minutes will reveal d to the demands of the Edu
: demand for English EducaIraordinary rapidity and the into our English Schools fills ir capacity. The curriculum ducation Department is being n of new subjects and by the tary and secondary education, :ate our task. The standard e Government requires rises urs it will approximate closely ed in similar elementary and ngland. So long as we carry as part of our missionary at our schools should conform Education Department. The the measure of its missionary
serve to present the peculiar iod next under review.

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In the English School : the registration of a newly There was some correspon and Miss Gibbon (the Inspe re-classification of the scho cular dated 19th. June 1914 h sổ that the Infant Departmc I nability to get a traincol te up and it was suggested that tion should be substitutical That Miss Kerr was kccnly obvious from the letters, tlh as a supply. Girls werc cnt Senior Cambridge Examina which must have been a t Miss Sattrukulasinghe had lege in January 1913, so tl efficient teacher, and at the trained one-Miss L. Spit 1912.
More changes with reg mises were effected in 191 moved out, the original hall until the Boarding School g for a time the boys' old have been used. The clas for occupation by girls as til so a reconstruction Schcm( lFunds for the purposc v rather, materials werc. Mi evcr, demanded that these to order. She was told that she asked whether, if she g might be provided. That V set to work. Eventually ti
 

application was made for
organized Kindergarten. dence between Miss Kerr ctress) on the subject. The bol as demanded by a cirad not yet been carried out nt could not be registered. :acher was holding things : the IE. S. L. C. examinafor the Junior Cambridge.
intorostcol in thc school is ough she was only acting ered for thc Junior and tions in Doccmber of 1914, riumph over great Ocids. ocen sent to Training Col– hc school was short of an samc time had lost its only tel who left in December
ard to buildings and pre5. After Contral College
was used as a dormitory got its new buildings. Then Dremises do not seem to srooms were not suitable hcy opened on to the road, had to bo talken in hand. were collected locally, or 's. Trinmor, cncrgetic as buildings should be put inthcre was no monoy. Then ot the materials, thc labour vas agriccd upon, and she c required materials were

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VEMBADI FR SHOWING PREMISES
BOARDING SC

OM THARAKULAM RD. /ACATED BY CENTRAL COLLEGE
:HOOL NEW BUILDING

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got together and the work st
reported that the Girls' En entire possession of their ne school as we know it today v
In the early part of the apd entered into more spacic decessors ever enjoyed. Thi a Kindergarten room, and C Out,
The Registration that cording to the circular in 191
'I have the honour to
badi Girls' English School efficient Elementary School ment working up to the Jun with effect from the beginnin tration is allowed on the ur will not fall below its presa less than seven of the teachers to the school shall be either provisionally certificated.
The Lower School will and 3rd. syllabuses with an i
(Signe
The Infant Department same year. The Inspectress s was registered for the first til assessed the grant at the high start has been made. Miss experience under Miss W. charge with an assistant. Ir premises, in June, in the ne and furniture are excellent a
 

arted. In 1915 the Synod glish School entered into :w premises. At last the was theirs
year Miss Lyth arrived ous premises than her pree old hall was turned into lasses were able to spread
had been applied for ac4 was now granted. inform you that the Vem - will be recognized as an with Secondary Departior School Examination g of the year. This regislderstanding that the staff ent strength and that not s who devote their full time trained or certificated or
be worked under the 1st. nfant department.
d) J. HAWARD.
Director of Education.
was registered during the states in her report: 'This me this year, and I have est rate as I think a good M. Loos, who had some Loos at Clifton was in January I was in the old w. The accommodation nd material is being sup

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plied as it becomes necessar and busy, though not very C ing a good deal of English.”
The Arithmetic was ta posed that the method of tc under the supervision of the Training School and that th to be used as a practising training.
A good start was thus The Report shows that muc bring the rest of the school Miss Lyth applied herself t qualifications of the staff it ridge and Annam Konamala bridge in December 1915 at ers the following January. been sent to Badulla to rec dergarten method under N February 1916 and entere Kindergarten.
Numbers that had dro again slowly but steadily ea reach those of 1912 and 191 ders was comparatively lov Juniors passed the Cambri and for the first time in the of its pupils were awardcds. mcnt Training College. O kenridge--was the first to and to return to the school.
Unfortunately thcre ar. the next few years and it is
Distinguished visitors came
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y. The children are happy orderly and they are learn
ught in Tamil. It was proeaching in Tamil should be Teacher of Method in the c Kindergarten be allowed
ground for the students in
made in the Kindergarten. h hard work was needed to up to the required standard. o this task. Gradually the improved. Rasu Breckenai passed the Senior Camnd were appointed as teach
Miss Alphonso, who had eive some training in KinMiss Brailley, returned in d upon her duties in the
pped a little began to rise ch year though they did not 3. The number of boarw. Two Seniors and two dge Examination in 1915, 2 History of Vembadi two cholarships for the Governİnc of thcsc-IRasu I3rcccomplete the course there
e few records of events for
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them the great Indian C dar Singh. In 1917 Miss addressed the girls on til terest in view of the forn Others were Lady Betra fusis and her daughter, and Miss Strout, the Sec ance Association.
Staff meetings were cipline, arrangement of \
The Special Class attention, and Needlewo raged and improved.
The report in 1920s improvement was to be r The discipline and behav the work in the Kinderga English in the lower class
It was during this Association was inaugura meetings of old girls had til 1916 that it was decide was at a Women's Meetir occasion of the visit of M Rev. Marshall Hartley, S thodist Missionary Societ former pupils were presc ferred to the desire of ma for an Old Girls' Union addressed the meeting, af elected, rules drawn up fixed for the 29th of May useful suggestions were 1
 

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hristian mystic, Sadhu SunAlexander and Miss Ferguson e Y. W. C. A. This is of innation of a branch years later. m, the Honourable Mrs. TreSir John and Lady Randles, retary of the World Temper
held regularly to discuss diswork, methods of teaching etc.
es received a good deal of rk and Drawing were encou
ays "In three ways a distinct oticed in the school this year. iour of the classes were better, rten was more efficient, the ses had improved."
period that the Old Girls' ted. Once or twice previously been held but it was not un2d to form an Association. It ng on March 13th. held on the Iiss Hartley (daughter of the ecretary of the Wesleyan Mey), at which a large number of int, that Mrs. Trimmer reny connected with Vembgdi
Dr. Nallamma Murugesu ter which office bearers were ) and a Committee Meeting ". This was held and many made for the carrying on of

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the Association, but after th until 1921.
Miss Lyth went home ol not return to Vembadi. Sh the London County Counci to the Mission Field in Palai in the Deaf and l3 lind Schoc l)uring that time slic paid of warmly welcomed by hor rou scd in the work that slho years a contribution was scn end of her second torm of sc lided home, and the Medical tion her return to thc Trol years she taught in a school had another breakdown, sinc up teaching altogether. In she says:-
'When I was in Jaffna Mottto "Up and Onward.' better than remind the pres ing of “Excelsior” which is a different expression, and and witness of St. Paul hi things which are behind and things which are before, I p the prize of the high calling My thoughts and prayers ar ing these coming celebrautio to having a copy of the II shall be gladl if you will rei teachers, scholars and old g
With all
Your
 

at thc records arc silent
() furlough in 1920 and did c took a position under l for a time, then returned Incottah, where she worked }l for tcn years (1923-33). ne visit to Jun and vas
old girls. Intcrost was
was doing and for some t to Palamcottah. At the rvice therC she was inva
Board would not Sancpics. For two and a half in II crcsordshiroc, but thcn c when she has had to give a letter recently received,
I introduced as the School I don't think I can do cnt students of the meanjust the same motto with adding to it the words imself-'IForgetting those reaching forth unto thosc ress towards the mark for g of God in Christ Jesus.' c with you, espocially (luris and I shall look forward istory when ready. Also I mcmber mc to any of the irls who remomber mo. good wishes s very sincerely
EDITH A. LYTH.

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We must now re happening in the Boa welcomed back from fi the English School wh of the Boarding Scho started the Primary Su
The second part ol School now went ahead by the side of the hall stones were laid by the Hartley during their vi the i Missionary Secreta preciated. The schools When these classroom Boarding School was v ample accommodation boarders.
The Rev. T. Appap in his will the sum of Appapillai Ammal Sch Schools. Two of them w ern Province and one f
The Pettah Girls' S been started in the very house where the Rev. J known as அக்காசிப் பள்ள was amalgamated with t
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race our steps to see what was ding School. Miss Ireson was rlough in 1915 and went into le Miss Harland took charge l for a year. She it was who day School.
the scheme for the Boarding A block of three class-rooms las planned and the foundation Rev. Marshal Heartley and Miss sit to Jaffna. He was one of ries and the visit was much apwere given two days holiday. is were completed then the vell provided for. There was for all classes and for the
illai who had recently died left Rs. 1,000/- to found three olarships for Girls' Boarding ere to be reserved for the Eastor the Norther n.
Chool that was noted as having early days (carried on in the . V. Benjamin now lives) and Fiji, 7-6 (Akkasi Pallikudlum)
he Boarding School in 1917.
mpetition was organized for Anglo-Vernacular Schools in red by Sir William Twynam ce on the Mission House Ten2 of Rs. 50/- was awarded. to class from Vembadi while a

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5
second prize was awarded to her class from Uyarapulam.
MRS. TR
, The death in England Rev. G. J. Trimmer and the Mrs. Trimmer brought to a District and in the Schools. Chairman, during which time ness of purpose, a devotion or feel discouraged', exhibiti common sense. IIis busines tive gifts found ample scope the growing churches of the educational institutions.'
For thirty years Mrs. T head of the schools. She wa very many ways and so lo gave her opportunities such afforded otherwise.
While the Principals wi demic side of the schools anc tacts with the children, it w the 'Mother' of the Boardin came to Jaffna, practically a and so came under hcr influe through the schools during memories of her and it is of frequently. "In whosc time ask, and the answer in Trim mer’s.” There can be cerning the interest she took ence she exerted over thcm

Mrs. Thevasahayam and
|MMER.
while on furlough of the : consequent non-return of in cnd another cra in the For thirty years he was : he worked with "singlethat never scenccl to flag ng 'superb judgment and is capacity and administra: in the work of organizing district and extending its
rimmer was virtually the s a remarkable woman in ng a Sojourn in one place as could not have been
crc rcsponsiblc for the acal for Sccuring personal conas Mrs. Trim mer who was gllouse. Whcn she first ll the girls were boarders :nce. Every girl who passed thosc thirty years has vivid her that thcy speak most were you a student?' you almost invariably, 'Mrs. no shadow of doubt conin the girls and thc influShc regarded thcm all

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CHAIRM
 
 

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as her children, and sco for them as a mother di
She was energetic people to be the same. half-heartedness or car superintended the work and dishes herself, so girls to do the same, sh she herself did and no were to be housewives teaching them how to house.
One day some girl bedroom. It was swept belonging to a gentlema been left lying about we The girls were called them that in the future the care of such things their housewifely dutie
Then they must le serve meals, entertain wardness, be able to co they might be true hel course there were grum there were eyes that pe was left undone. The away with it.
She attended to : Each morning she gav food for the day. She i and from time to time complete reformation
 

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lded, chastised, loved and cared loes her own.
and efficient, and expected other
She had río room for slackness, elessness. In the kitchen she of the cook, often making cakes
that when she expected the e was telling them to do what it merely what she said. They eventually, and she believed in do everything connected with a
s were appointed to attend to the , dustied, tidied, but some items .n's wardrobe that had purposely re most carefully left untouched
back and it was explained to 2, when school days were over,
would be a necessary part of
S.
2arn how to conduct themselves guests without shyness or awkpe with any situation, so that pmates to their husbands. Of blings and covert evasion, but netrated corners and saw what culprit could not hope to get
all the boarders' requirements. 2 out the stores and ordered the nspected the premises regularly there would be an upheaval, a and things would settle down

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again. Wrong-doers and sla) time, but they loved her nev her. If a girl fell sick, she w House to be cared for till sl
But it was not mercly di Mrs. Trimmer toolk an intere a marriage for many a girl a mon thing for a man to rcf a bride. Vombadi girls had good wives. We think that maintained that reputation a marriage arranged, the wedd the girl must be married frc ception in the Mission I lous were many girls launched in
Once married and settle interest, for she would go that a dirty brass pot? Th surely be told about it, but gratitude and not resentment. school and boarding house the house, and the lcssons in werc not allowed to be forgot that needed this kindl of holl She was very keen on this fo that she gained an intimate number of families. Was til Then she was on the spot. T the trouble confessed, and sl make. Their burdens becam liglhtcncdl becausc slhc lhadl l thcre sickness or borcavcmcn to know and the first to sharc
 

ckers might quail at such a ertheless and lived to thank as talkcn up to the Mission ic Was well again.
luring their school days that est in them. She arranged ind it uscd to be no uncom - er to her whcin ilhc vvantcd the reputation of making we can claim that we have und possess it today ! The ling was arranged too, for »m school and have a rese Drawing lroom. Thus
life.
d they did not forfeit her ound and visit them. Was cn the young wife would kindly, so that there was
As she had inspected the remiscs, so she inspected partcd during school days ton. Shc kncw the oncs ) and was therc to give it. llow-up work and it meant knowledge of a tremendous cro trouble or difficulty ? he prololem was discussed, he had some suggestion to c hers and their hearts were cen in the housc. Was t? Then she was the first
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She was a great w folk, and all sorts of ori hit upon. In order to gi ing the value of rousing taking out Norman with
"Oh but you can't Some one, remonstratin "Can't I?" she repli to reach those poor wor silly."
Naturally her effort open to her and she wa
She placed a high
in Boarding School and
Vannarponnai and Putt great hopes in starting t would attract girls fron it did. A great many Vannarponnai because t in the schools.
Was money needed Mrs. Trimmer counted in Centenary of the landing celebrated in 1914, she se the sum was realized at Thanksgiving Service S it and visited an endless I to time new buildings v Being told there were no had a great way of gettir money-no mean achieve she had such intimate kno airs, it was no good try exactly what people could

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man for making contacts with ginal and amusing devices were st into a difficult village, knowcuriosity, she one day suggested his monkey. -
do that; you'll look silly', said g with her.
ed, "If indeed it would help me men I would not mind looking
were successful and homes were s a welcome guest everywhere.
premium on the training given worked hard to get girls from ur into Vembadi. One of the he English School was that it n seclued homes, and certainly present students come from heir mothers and aunts studied
for any worthy object? Then othing impossible. When the
of the first missionaries was t Rs. 1,000/- as her aim and the collection taken during the he had all the girls working for number of people. From time vere needed for the schools. Il funds did not daunt her. She g people to part with their ment in Jaffna-—and because wledge of them and their affing to evade her. She knew asford and acted accordingly.

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When on furlough in Er course, getting people to sup send out boxes of toys, cloth In a magazine dated 1895 th ception of one of these boxes Mr. Lawton was scnt for to ta ing of the box on the front IIousc just outside the Chair Trimmer sitting on thc cmpt ting around, Mrs. Trim incr missionary ladlies and som c while on the table and stricw 2,000 toys.
Vembadi Mission lousc a stranger had cause for thanh was there. She got all sorts schemes and often found she unawares'. In order to be a thristy. IBecause she was suc so much of the actual work he tain on a lavish scalc.
At the back of cvery csso desire to spread thc Kingdom the women and girls of this l; laboured without coasing, u lives in the hearts and affectio people today.
MISS IR
We cannot proceed any s work of Miss I reson, for aus fa the schools is concerned, she
Mrs. Trimmer, though actual work until Miss Murgatroy of 1921.
 

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ngland she pursued the saine port individual girls, or to and needlework recuisites. erc is a dcscription of the res of things for Christmas. ake a picture of the un pack
verandah of the Mission man’s offico. There is Mlr. y case, and standing or sitund the samily, two other toachers from the school, in about on the floor are
was opcn house, and many kfulness that Mrs. Trimmer of people interested in her : was "entertaining angels ble to clo this, she hal to be :h a good manager and did rself, she was able to enter
rt was her all-consuming of Christ, csipccially among and, and in that service she Insparing of herself. She ns of hundreds of Tamil
ESON.
urthcr without detailing the r as hcr con ncction with
bclongs to thc period of ly sho remained in school cl arrived in the autumn

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MISS 1897 - 19
 
 

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Miss Ireson's name has years from 1897 onwards. English School was being sta worker for village evangelism ed as a teacher. During he was in charge of the English the great success that attend years of its existence. She and is remembered particul Mathematics. To prepare g ination so soon after the Eng mean task, and the students, have been, could not have b teaching not been well organi Coming out after Miss Ireson found in her a ready and will able to testify to her qualitic the goodness of her heart.
A period of eight years f claimed her. Although her l gave herself in that charact task that lay before her in E That was enough. Of self s ever was needed, wherever it it and do it cheerfully.
When at length she was Boarding and Training Schc ary Principal, so she took c their destinies through smool years. That she was greatly fact that parents and child yubidir that being a contract thought suited and describe she gave help in the English
 

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kept recurring during the She came out just as the rted and though a voluntary l, she found she was requirfirst term of service she School and we have noticed d her efforts in the first few was an admirable teacher arly for her teaching of irls for a University Examlish School began was no bright though they may een so successful had the zed. A young missionary had given up school work ling Tamil tutor and was. es as a teacher as well as to.
ollowed, when home duties heart was in Ceylon, yet she eristic way of hers to the ngland. She was needed. he had no thought: whatwas, she was ready to do
able to return in 1910, the ols were without a Missionharge of them and guided h waters for the next eleven
beloved is shown by the ren alike called her gy60). F ion of her name that they il her. At the same time School and had always time

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to accompany Mrs. Trin expedition.
She was devoted to
her efforts. Quiet and u background doing the wo She stayed on and saw may be, not always for t cism to make of younge parisons with the old da did not realize it at the honoured her for it.
The fact that she c carried on work other tl to which she felt called, her character. Neverth cumstances to preventh villages. Mrs. Trimme I reson is a great success village school work anc She is a great help to m helpers, with their hearts offer for other parts of of schools shevisited Vai and often got children fr
In a report of the account of how she beg when at long last it wa school work,
“Definite evangelist Women's Auxiliary a lit when Miss Lamb came were promised for five y when Miss Lamb left at ried, the subscriptions

in mer on a visiting or evangelistic
Mrs. Trimmer and seconded all nobtrusive, she was often in the ork while others got the credit. many changes, some of them, he better, but she had no criticolleagues, no disparaging Comys. Those incwly out, perhaps,
time, but they did later and
cheerfully and uncomplainingly han that for which she came and is significant and indicative of cless she did not allow these cirer from doing something in the r writes of her in 1898, 'Miss in every way. She loves the l the children, and they love her. c. I only wish a few more such in the work as she has it, would the field." While still in charge nnarponnai aus much as she could om there in as boardlers.
district for 1926 she gives an gan her work in Wannarponnai s possible to release her from
ic work was begun here by the tle more than thirty years ago
For this, special subscriptions ears by friends in England, and the end of five years to be marceased and no successor was

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'sent. But her memory is ponnai. She spoke Tamil she was a much-loved and homes. I am constantly goodness and wonderful do gratitude of all she did for
Miss Horton lived he some time, but except for
whole time in working si after Miss Lamb left until ago. I always felt very when I was in school work day and usually once dur Meeting. While I was i Jessie Trimmer) gave mu of Vannarponnai.
When I came and se glad that the Women's A Vannarponnai at last and cherished of a Woman M was realized.'
She set to work to ar for secluded girls in their men of the Jaffna and Va share in them and to feel
Having been for so schools she knew a lot of was able to get into many at home until a marriage link with the school that h world. Her services to th as she visited she found ou and was often able to pers

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fresh and green in Wannarso easily and beautifully, and welcome visitor, in so many hearing of her and of her pings and they all speak with
their women.
are as a voluntary worker for that no-one was devoting her pecially amongst the women
I came two and a half years much drawn to the place and
came down here every Suning the week to the Sewing in England, Mrs. Bell (then ch of her time to the women
●
:ttled here in 1923 I felt so uxiliary was really occupying that the ideal we had always Aissionary. living in the place
range meetings, hold classes own homes, and led the wo
nnarponnai Churches to take a
their responsibility.
many years in the Vembadi the girls and through them
a home. To them, now kept was arranged, she was the iad for them been the outside he schools were invaluable, for ut about the girls of the family || uade parents to send them to

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Boarding School. It has ofte there might be someone like work amongst girls who have the schools into touch with the Boarding School went do' of Needlework to poor girlss to earn a little. On Sundays ing School helped by carryin Schools in that area.
Miss Ireson went to livo
house by the side of the Chu lowing year when the Rev. an furlough she came back to
for the school workers. Evci setting off in bullbandy. The the inconvenience of having to times a day. Then a new ho narponnai compound (now oC she took up her residence the
Because she was living i not lose her interest in the sc very practical way by undert the finance in order that a might be provided. She coll girls, gave very liberally hersc her name was opened at tl 1927.
 
 

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in been wished since that her to do that follow-up left the schools, and bring new families. Girls from wn to help in the teaching o that they might be able students from the Traing on two of the Sunday
in Vannarponnai, in a little rch in 1923. l3ut thc sol - d Mrs. Lockwood were on Vembadi to “keep house' y day she might be secn ero was no complaint of make that journey four use was built in the Vancupied by the minister) and
C.
in Vannarponnai she did hools. She showed it in a aking to be responsible for much necdcd Sick-lRoom cctcdl money from hor old lf and the block that bears he Old Girls Reunion in

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CHA
THE MODERN F
From 1920 to 1930 th the Rev. A. Lockwood, W Vembadi. It was a perios of ways, and his coming beginning of the modern then the finance and ge schools was in the hands C arrangements in those of attended to the internal wo ever increasing demands o the gencral tendency towa growing recognition of the cipals were responsible for bility from the shoulders O to those of the Lady. Princ never an easy one, and thi
For sonne time Mr duties of Mrs. Trimmer in when Miss Murgatroyd an in, handed over to them c. ders. That she did so gra in which she did everythi interviewed the matron a mean that she withdrew the teachers and children. the great gift of friendlit was poured into her symp; her help in vain. If, when her husband, she came acr tances, that girl would be and sheltered until suitabl
 
 
 

PTER 9.
PERIOD-GENERAL,
e District was administered by who was also the Manager of l of many changes in all sorts to office coincided with the period in the schools. Up till neral administration of the of the Manager, the Boarding his wife, while the Principals ork of the schools. But the f the Education Department, rds decentralization, and the scope of the powers of the Printhe gradual moving of responsif the Manager and his wife on, ipals. A period of changes is is was no exception. 's. Lockwood took over the the Boarding House, then d Miss Pickard were settled omplete charge of the boar.ciously is to sum up the way ng. Because she no longer nd gave out stores did not w her interest in the schools, Far from it. She possessed less and many a tale of woe athetic ear. None ever sought out on an evangelistic tour with oss a girl in difficult circumsbrought along to Vembadi e arrangements could be made

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for her. A trained nurse, in those days the schools c 'staff, and there was alw attention. For a long tim Church by the patlh that le sion louse was kept up, girls and always had a rea a home-maker and took a of girls' cducation, so tha slould be the one to opet Block when at length it w timo she was the Presider in great estccm by the Ol 1”reviously thic l’rinc the financial affairs of th management and appoint also a change came about schools were handled over lPrincipals became respon schools, collecting fees, and spending the money was behind everything, controlling capacity. De those years was not an ea system of grant paymen many were the consultati to see how the schools we 1925 the system of grant nation results, so many r the Inspector's test. No ded as very serious affair cationally, for it was not backward pupil not to col that the percentage of pa -certain failure.
 

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shc was often in demand, for ould not boast of one on the ays someone needing medical he the tradition of going to ed across the front of the Misbecause she liked to see the dy similc for them. She was particular interest in that side t it was most fitting that she the new Domestic Science ius finished in 1925. • Ifor some it of the O.G.A. and was held ld Girls of the schools. ipals had had no concern with e school or with the general inent of staff. In these realms The whole accounts of the by Mr. Lockwood and the sible for all the affairs of the receiving Government Giant, thus received. The Manager but in an advisory rather than :aling with the finances during sy matter, for a whole new it came into operation, and ons held and calculations made re going to be affected. Up to payment was based on examiupees for cvery child that passed wonder inspections were regar 's It was open to abuse, eduunknown for a teacher to tell a me to school on that day, so sses might not be lowered by a

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The basis of the new dance. For every fifteen un an English School grant on A graded, incremental scale introduced, which served to I pssion, and also a scale of i tions. This had to be got ou cluding increments, was paid ment, but not until after thc Gone were all the special gra be earned-the grant depend Two things were inevitable. nagers' Fixed Contribution to ers the fees had to be raised, means of ensuring better attel ber of teachers was to be re staff had to be reduced, for v under the old system when sa of what they now became, a cally no difference in grant, C Special Classes and the stand. rately so were put together af and VI also had to do much C Anglo-Vernacular School was the units of attendance were was no Managers' contributiol ble. In the classes where l'En, ject a small fee was charge contribution had to be paid i those classes.
Such were the general col ing the twenties. In 1930 an ment took place for Mr. and district to settle in England.

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system was average attenits of average attendance in one teacher would be paid. of salaries for teachers was 'aise the status of the proVanagers' Fixed Contribuut of sces, and the rest, inby the Education Departcind of the school year. ints and bonuses that might 2d entircly on atticindance. In order to meet the Maywards the salaries of teachand thc school had to find ndance if an adequate num - 2tained. Nevertheless the what had becn maintained laries were less than half ind when there was practiould not be afforded. The ards were very small sepater the first year, Form V of their work together. The similarly affected. There 30 instead of 15 and there in as no fees werc chargeaglish was taught as a subl, and then a Managers' In respect of teachcrs for
Inditions of cducation durother change in manage
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sonal interest in everyone
acteristics. They had t ting a face, and knew thi people that they were held not lose their interest in Ja left the Island, but were was going on. The news wood last year was recoiv many who remembercol
same unfailing kindness, h send a message to V cmba
'It was my privilege Centenary of one of the ot in Jaffna District in 1925. happening in the celebrat Centenary. For this I h accepting the Principal's in of greeting and congratula real pleasure. It is a ma God that all down these m tinued to carry its torch a
ClCO.
When I think of Ven Educational Institution (C that there is especial hono! sistence and achievement which is theirs by reason o med in. Other institution great advantage of being C selves'; but not so our In wait for years before we c tion I may say how much have been able to "burst y
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werc their outstanding charIe great gift of never forgetfamily history of so many in great affection. They did sfna and its people when they always eager to know what of the passing of Mrs. Lockcd with great sorrow by the hcr. Mr. Lockwood, with the as responded to the request to li at this timoe.
to be prescint and speak at the her important Girls' Schools Now a still greater ovent is ion of our Vembadi Schools'
ave to content myself with
nvitation to write a few words tion. I do this, however, with tter for great thankfulness to lany years Vembadi has conind shed its light and influ
nbadi and our other Central entral College) I always feel ur due to them for their perunder the special handicap f their being so closely hems of this kind have had the asily able to 'spread themstitutions. We have had to puld expand. In this connecI rejoice with you that you our sides' at Vembai and get bound. But in spite of this

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obvious difficulty and many a your Centenary year. In yol fine record to look back on. outward and visible sign-bu remembrance of the inward has been mediated through t expressed in devoted service students throughout the Isl: the world.
I recall with pleasure anc Teachers and Students that v we co-operated when Mrs. Li you. Reference has been m of the land necessary for your the courage and persistence ( for seeing this through to its add hearty good wishes for completion of the scheme.
May Vembadi still abu: in the body of its buildings, b dents. Never was your work than it is to-day in your Islan er scope and need for well ed controlled lives than there is
In order to fill the Chai was necessary to recall from dleton Weaver, who had bec fore. For the last eight year nies of the North-Ceylon become more intricate as th the educational policy of C so that it is not easy to loo

nother, you have come on to ur celebrations you have a Of some of these you have t of still more you have and spiritual grace that he schools and has been by hundreds of Vembadi and and in other parts of
l appreciation, Principals, vo knew and with whom ockwood and I were with ade above to the procuring Extension Scheme. I admire of those who are responsible
present state and I would the further progress and
ndantly prosper-not only ut in the spirit of its stuand witness more needed d. Never was there greatucated, Christ-centred and to-day.
A. LO CIKVV O OD.
rmanship thus vacated, it England the Rev. E. Midan in the Island years be's he has guided the desti
District along paths that e years go by. Changes in eylon have been frequent, k ahead and plan for the

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future. A good many experi still being made; what will
no man can say. Another cl to payment when Quarterly Thus the great financial str $ntailed by the advancing of
the school year was relicved.
Under the wise lead( district lhas wcatlherced sinau fcct sct upon a rock. l l is vention, but while not in management of the schools, pathy or advice. He is nev problem, to comic and addr at alterations that have bcc on a difficult matter, or to taking. Never has he show into cverything more than ( brations, and indeed during beforehand.
Mrs. Weaver, an edi worker of som c y cars' cx pe has brought with her a sym conditions and work. Quic carries on her social and rc.l schools are concerned, she ward, but when asked for The hour is nover inconvo never grudged. Thc Towc grateful to her, for through service is opening up for i Street Child Welfare Clinic takes with her two or threc sphere of usefulness. I ler s has been invaluable. This
 

ments have becn and are be the outcome of them all hange camc about in regard Grants were decidcd upon. in on Vernacular schools increments until the end of
'rship of Mr. Weaver, the incial storms and had its olicy is that of non-interterfering in thc internal
he nover refuses his symer too busy to discuss a ess a Staff Mccting, to look in carrical out, to give advice support any worthy underin this willingness to enter luring the days of the Colc
the wecks of preparation
lcational and evangelistic icnce before her marriage, pathctic understanding of :tly and unobtrusively she igious work. As far as the never pushes lher scl s forhelp gives without stint. nicit, the time taken up r Club lhaus rcauson to be her cssorts a fic d of social Ls members at the Moor , Every Friday evening she and initiates them into a upport during the last term book owes much to her,

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and her advice with rega for the Centenary was g upon. An Old Girl,
makes this comment, “O
Weaver who took a keen on. One forgot for a me ger's wife, because of the she took an active part i She was ever so ready to
As the two schools i ing the years following 1
venient to deal with General conditions wer developed along its own contribution to make. E
will be good to see Old Girls' Association fo
We have already ref Association in the previo break of five years, a Ger Mrs. Barker in the chair, Hornby as chief speakers been held annually, at th possible. Sometimes a to the re-union, sometim programmes have alwa meetings much enjoyed.
• The Old Girls have of the schools as they ha an appeal was made for : ally opened at the me undertook to collect fron very liberally herself, an On the same day “The 1

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help.'
made such rapid progress dur920, it has seemed most conthem in separate chapters. 2 the same for both, but each lines and had its own special Before doing so, however, it what was happening to the r that concerned both schools.
erred to the formation of the us chapter. In 1921, after a heral Meeting was held with
and Miss I reson and Miss . Since then a meeting has e end of September whenever whole day has been given up es only half a day, but the ys been interesting and the
responded too to the needs ve been presented. l n 1923 a Sick Room that was evenftueting of 1927. Miss Ireson her old girls and contributed d the building bears her name. orchbearers' Fair' was held

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and the Old Girls made a the financial success of the s for one of the stalls, contrib about Rs. 400/-. It was vic large gathering of pcople an altogether to put to the R Fund.
At the Ro-union hold in of th( latic lrc v. lind Mrs. Tr Raju and the Rev. J. V. 3c terms of the noble work thcy joined feelingly in the sing in thc saints who from their la
From time to time com and the present girls were Singing, or Debating or Act a keen spirit of friendly riva amusement and enjoyment. pany was entertained by tcn! a programme of sports.
In 1935 the question of ation in Colombo was first in till 1937 that anything camc Chanmugam, who was in Co largely instrumental in getti Miss Scowcroft went down f About 50 old girls assembled an enjoyable cvening.
The re-union of 1938 for Celebrations, to an account ( is devotcd later on.
 

vcry rcal contribution to alc by being responsible uting in gifts and in cash ry wcll supported by a it about 1200/- was raised
cnovation and Extension
1920 large photographs inn Inn (eo: vv (* re* uu ii v ( ri lev(l. Ml "s. njamin spoke in glowing y hadl doncs, and (o very one g of the hymn "For all Dours rest.' petitions between the old
arranged, som ctimes in ing. On these occasions !ry was aroused and grcat
At other times the comInis or nctball matches or
forming a 3ranch Associnooted, but it was not unof the suggestion. Mrs. lombo at that tim c was ng the branch formccl, and Or the inaugural meeting. į at Wella wat tc and spent
med part of the Centena ry of which a whole chapter

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Miss Murgatroyd was a the Anglo-Vernacular Schoc She brought to her task the i. England in both day sch and enthusiasm. She was th the school, and for the next whole-heartedly for its we pecially received her person and it was no wonder that took particular care over th dation for the little ones, wł them to be given a place of
The years between 192. rapid expansion and increas at the end of the year 1921girls presented, while in Mai the register. This year a number of boarders, 112. accommodated in the origi two-storey block and the sh which were reached by a pe verandah. The old buildin; room and dining room, and across from the kitchen-a very windy weather. The or very damp, and the stone ga ations of school-girls had b under the thatched roof of v been too decayed to bear til more like a family circle tha dominated for some years b Veeravagoe and Mr. A. V. C
 

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ppointed to take charge of }l in the autum of 1921. gifts of valuable experience tool and boarding house, nus fitted to carry forward sixteen years she worked lfare. The boarders esal and individual attention, the numbers grew. She le provision of accommonen it became possible for their own to live in.
1 and 1937 were a time of e. At the inspection held -1922 there were only 37 rclh 1937 there were 263 on also showed the greatest
In 1922 the school was nal thatched building, the ell of the back classrooms, rilous jump from the back g was used both as classthe food had to be carried difficult business in wet or iginal floor of Dutch tiles, illery on which many gencrbeen taught, still remained, which the timbers had long es. This little school was un an institution, and was y the personalities of Mrs. Charles.

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Thangammah Akka wa 1921 she was already old in been there as pupil, teache early youth. She was bapt the class which she afterware and which she loved above a yearly prize for Scripture uit The amount of work she did do in a day was incrclible. 1921 she had been tlhc Matro after that of the Boarding S trained teacher doing fullt keen evangelist among the g husband much on her mind find time to put a new l’rino A giant's spirit dwelt in tlı wore it out before its time body after the spirit had left have been years beforc, ca smiling, as if well content given to the service of God had guided and scolded and
To Mr. Charles the scl was a serenity about him w activity of Thangammah A in every girl in the school, at circumstances and difficultie or too tired to give liclp and never raised in anger; the s child, could not scar him. I anything, (rom teaching the lock cart for an unexpected of strength to a new-comer ( the country and its customs

s a wonderful woman. In the school, for she had r and matron since her ized from Standard VI, ls taught for many years, ll the others, sending it a til the tinne of hor death. herself and made others 3cefore the ; un tunnin of in of thc two schools and chool only ; she was a ime to aching ; she was a irls; she had an invalid ; yet she could always :ipal through hcr paces. at sparc little body and ... We looked upon that it, and saw it as it must lm and strong, the face with the years of work among the girls whom she loved for so long. hool oved much. There |hich contrasted with the klka. f Ic was in tcrcstCdl ndl k ncw hor family, her s. I Ic was nevcr too busy advicc. l I is voice was inhallost, the most timid Ie secmcd to be able to do tOp class to fitndliing a buljourney. Ile was a tower rom England, ignorant of and language. IIc was a

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Christian gentleman, an his beautiful spirit during ful service.
In October the Unio being. Each of the three had for many years carri its own, but none of these could support a staff adec day, so it was deter three and form a Union Teachers. There was so suitable place for the sch that Vembadi could offer the best buildings. Ea teacher—the C. M. S. Gunanayagam, the Meth nacular teacher, Miss American Mission the M
Williams who had recei Colombo. The Women' dist Missionary Society u sionry Principal, and undertook the added wor. scheme involved. The h given over to the newly-f half of the large upstairs for the students. The co years, during which time work had to be covered a tical work in the Practisii was time for Drill and or Society which was greatly
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1 the school was enriched by his years of long and faith
n Training School came into : Protestant Missions in Jaffna ed on a Training School of 2 schools was big and none quate to the demands of the
mined to amalgamate the Training School for Women
me discussion as to the most pol, and it was finally decided the most central position and .ch Mission contributed one the Headmaster, Mr. S. S. odist Mission a trained Ver--
M. T. Veeravagoe, and the istress of Method, Miss M. ved an English training in s Department of the Methondertook to provide the Mis
Miss Murgatroyd cheerfully k and responsibility that this all and one classroom was ormed Training School, and
dormitory was screened off purse of Training was for two a very large amount of book Ls well as time found for pracng School. Nevertheless there ganised games and a Debating y enjoyed.
received for training had side Jaffna. It was difficult rs and mountains when they

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had never seen them. H to be able to explain to cl they themselves had no c were arranged whenever oil mill and weaving shed excitement of contemplati hills and rivers, to feel co train, to mcct strange peo never forgct the adventu through the dark, the colc sight of the hills. For ye "I will list up mine eyes known no mountain save Manipay. In Kandy the and consideration from th the High School and the and they all came home much loving-kindness in experience gained and the
During this time, the education of girls seemed more serious aspect. Pu! longer, whether they inten not, so that the upper clas more girls began to come ment regulations became | a new scale of payment fo All these things tended to school.
The presence of thc s school was a wonder stim trained teachers in the Tr; vistas, not only to the stu nacular trained teachers properly taught and regul:

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ow then were they ever going ildren those things of which onception ? So cxpeditions possible. Local visits to the s came first, then, oh the ng a visit to Kandy, to see ld, to travel all night in the ple ! That sct of girls will "c-thc jolting of thc train damp of the dawn, the first :ars they had becn saying, unto the hills,' and had the mounds on the road to y learnt lessons of kindness osc who entertained them in
Peredeniya Training Colony,
convinced that there was the world. All this was girls were the better for it.
whole attitude towards the to change and to take on a pils began to stay in school ded to take up work later or sses grew enormously. Far in as day students, Governmore strict. A new code and ir teachers came into force. change the character of the
tudents at the top of the ulus to work. The English lining School opened up new dents, but also to the VerGames were introduced, arly played. When the new
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regulations for the payment c cation Department came in, scarce, and it was possible to and apparatus, and to put in 1 the teaching. The old sch Kjndergarten, fully equippe and apparatus from England grew enormously. For a tim as a classroom. Then the di the three back classrooms we to the main building. At first dation quite adequate for th Schools, but as the numbers
more difficult to fit in all the
ers, especially in the wet seaso was not water tight. Room rooms during the day and fo
The students from Uduv branch of the Y.W.C. r. whic long as the Training Schoc number of older girls made p of outside work, and three were staffed by the students. joy to them, and the Board continue some of it after the Vembadi compound.
In 1926, while Miss Mur Miss Scowcroft took charge this year the old gallery was garten room, and cement lai very damp Dutch tiles. Company was also started. ground for the girls who havi ders in the school and aft

of teachers by the Edumoney was not quite so provide better furniture maps and pictures to help ool was turned into a d with modern furniture , and the Primary classes he the Octagon was used ning room was built, and 're cemented and joined t this made the accommoe Boarding and Training grew, it became more and classes and all the boardon, for the dormitory roof s had to be used for classr bedrooms at night.
vil brought with them a :h did much good work so ol remained. The large ossible a certain amount village Sunday Schools This work was a great ing School was able to Training School left the
gatroyd was on furlough, of the schools. During removed from the kinderd over the interesting but The VI Ith. Jaffna Guide
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School, and, we hope, in have gone. One Guide Inuvil Hospital learning
term, when the Nurse wa Chicken-pox in the Sickr after the cases that came of them adopted very p garten, bathcd them and in these small ways lea Service.
In August 1927, the was held in Vembadi, fo was up and on its renew; M. S. should have the re a time. So it was movec years later to Uduvil, wil gave much-needed room difhg School. This year I reson Sick Room, first inexplicably fell down ir
her leg.
There was a series arranged by the Educa cular Teachers about th Aid lectures and demons All these added much to and gave them encourag the school was registere this registration was alte tage might betaken of t education in Tamil. A prepare girls from the P Junior Class for the Tea Examination together w

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the villages to which they spent a long holiday in the First- Aid, and then the next Ls busy with an outbreak of 'oom, she was able to look : to the dispensary. Several oor children in the Kindermade dresses for them and rnt the beginning of Social
last Teachers' Examination or the five years' agreement all it was decided that the C. sponsibility of the school for l to Kopay, and then three here it is now. This removal to the ever-increasing Boar
also saw the opening of the used by the teacher who front of her class and broke
of lectures and conferences tion Department for Vernais time, together with Firsttrations at the Civil Hospital. the efficiency of the teachers ement in their work. In 1928 l as a Bilingual School, but :red later, in order that advanhe growing demand for higher ) arrangement was made to oint Pedro Boarding School chers' Preliminary Certificate ith our own, and a steady

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stream of girls entered the U this way. At Christmas the say goodbye to Mr. Charles five years' service. IIe took regard of many generations always glad to see him in carne to take his grand-daug termn.
The roof of the dormit Satisfactory, and it was now tiled. On the first wet nigh the roof without descend Thangammah Akka roused t and thanked God for a sount ments. About the same tim were moved to the Princip since the completion of th Road. This came to be knc House under the rule of Ma small girls and a few small older Babies were the first Jaffna Brownie Back.
This first weekend retr Autumn term, led by Siste from Puttur. Miss Alfred there was also a day retreat quiet times full of inspiratio In 1933 Thangammah 1 had been feeling the work to retirement. The Boarding same without her. She mis: came back one Sunday a m evening service. Her place w Matron Akka, who stayed married quite recently.
 

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Jnion Training School in : Boarding School had to who retired after thirty with him the assoction and of sclool-girls. WC were the compound, when he hters home at the end of a
ory had never been very
removed, raised and reit, as the rain beat upon ing upon the children, hem all, and they knelt Il protection from the ellene, the younger children al's old quarters, empty e new house in Hospital own as the Baby Boarding try Alkka, belo ved of many boys also. Some of the
membcrs of the VI I Ith.
eat was held during the r Gertrude and a student held another in 1932 and in 1934. We found these in for the girls. \kka, who for sonne time o much for her, went into School was incver quite the sed her girls sadly, and onth to take the Tamil as taken by Mrs. Ponniah, with us until she was

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Miss Murgatroyd wo 1933 and Miss Scowcroft of the school for twelve 1 to the High School. It Matron was new and ine young, but steady progre year Miss Murgatroyd began to make importan perty. The floor of the c signs of insecurity, was st the walling of the compo ground filled, levelled an was made of ofering boa teaching in village schoo advantage of it. They social and spiritual life Then a Teachers' Certific provide for girls who wisl Teachers' Examination.
In March 1936 there Mary Akka, with throne, plete, and two of her own maids. She is now very son in a village near Trin
The school report fo of 264 of whom 112 were bers ever reached. An o tress, and a teacher of we stafl. A new and enthus fired everybody and mucl "among the children. We Schools Nurse and our ov all they could to help and

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ht home on furlough again in once more had the oversight nonths, this time in addition
was a difficult year : the perienced, and the staff all ss was made. The following returned re-invigorated, and t improvements to the prolor mitory which was showing rengthened and re-cemented, und sinishcd, and thc nctball l marked. The experimcnt rding accommodation to girls ls, and three teachers took
added considerably to the
of the Boarding House.
:ate Class was registered, to ned to take the Third Class
was a wedding in school for wedding cake and all comBaby Boarders as brideshappy and proud of a small comalie.
r 1936 recorded a roll number boarders, the highest numld girl was the Head Misaving had becn added to the iastic Schools Doctor had health work was being done were fortunate both in the rn Vembadi nurse who did
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Much time and mon the buildings into a good thing should stand in the hoped to erect when the But these plans were to modation to be made in year a tremendous and upon us, when we receive schools in the District h fell upon Vembadi, for t housing two schools, and going out of existence all the Boarding School sh Bilingual School at Poir Boarding School broke did not end. Practicall ber of day girls accompal Pedro, carrying with th blending its traditions w the Vembadi Boarding S the Vembu Tree was pla to accommodate the influ named Vembadi House. all those who have passe throughout Ceylon and living Christian lives in girls trying to put into they have learnt in scho ever studied or taught t
Miss Murgatroyd g; continuous love and ser predecessors or contemp in the G. B. S. enjoyed guidance for the whole ti The growth in numbers

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ey had been spent in putting state of repair, so that noway of new blocks that we High School began to build. remain on paper, and accom - another compound, for last un foreseen change was thrust 2d instructions that one of the ad to be closed. The blow his was the only compound in order to prevent a school together, it was decided that ould be amalgamated with the it Pedro. In March 1937 the up for the last time. But it y all the boarders and a num: nied Miss Murgatroyd to Point || em the spirit of Vembadi, and | ith those of Point Pedro. So School still lives. Its symbol, inted when the new building ux from Jaffna was opened and It still lives in the lives of !d through it; in girls in towns he Malay States; in women isolated villages; in Hindu practice something of what pl. In the hearts of all who here the school lives still.
ave to Vembadi a period of vice longer than any of her oraries. The Modern Period her unbroken oversight and ime and flourished exceedingly,
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that people in the Jaffna per upol the clucation U11 trai
The school was essenti and Miss Murgatroyed gare love and care, not to the gi as inclividuals. She worked them the best that could be and gave herself unspairing ones, perhaps, had first plac Kindergarten was excellentl nate in the teachers she was her own old girls for the me aster training. When it was boarders separate accommo Ilouse was a joy to visit. and tables suitable for their sleeping rooms, and their o and sickly ones were broug or another could not rcccir and they were cared for and of the Boarding Ilouse were sion, and it was no small ta
On her first furlougli, s ing and came back cquippe own Company, but to take of the Organization in the become popular, the numb creased considerably and tl has increased accordingly. periods when the l’rovince missioner, and that has m Secretary. There have bec ccrts to organizc, annual capitation sces to collectattention.

insula and outside placed ning to loc fou incl thero. a lly a l3oarding School, to her boarders a mother's ls in a mass, but to the in incessantly to pro vicle for as forced in material way's ly to them. The little e in her affections. The v run, and she was fortua ble to procure for it---- st part, who canne back possible to give the small dation, the 3ally Boarding The tiny oncos had chairs sizo, their own clining and vin Akka. Many (le lica te ht in, who for one casoil proper attention at home, I nourishcd. All the affairs under her own supervisk to care for 2 children. het ook in cours in Guidnot in rely to run her () voer the Scc1 est; rial work l”rovinco. ( Guidling hat s 2r of Companics has inc amount of clerical work The there have loccin hans looon without its Com'aint o xtra work for tho in rallics to arrange, con - eturns to complete and ull (lcmandling tinne and

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When faced with re great sacrifice of closing had been building up on rations of previous work faced the situation with d lesson to Vembadi of hov life's difficulties. But th Pedro, she still belongs to natural to see her on the and end of a term, when home, but she has taken spirit dwelleth not in hou
 

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:renchment, and when the what for sixteen years she he foundations laid by geneers was demanded of her, she ignity and fortitude, itself a 7 her daughters should face ough now resident at Point Vembadi, for it is not only premises at the beginning girls are returning or going Vembadi with her. Verily the ses made by hand !

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CHAPTE
THE MODERN PER|
FIRST P
After Miss Lyth's depa the English School was lef March 1920 to July. In Jai Miss Creedy had been appoi was just settling in happily and transplanted to Vennbad brilliantly clever, having g. tripos at Cambridge. She ful disposition and soon mad brought with her the true Gu the school to the Girl Guido were very fond of saying ' motto "I can' painted on b every room. She was very and was soon on intimate ter pupils. A good deal of perso
was done.
A circular re the treatmo round by the Director. In O take an intelligent and sym matter, Miss Creedy offered tion, one for Stds. 5 and 6, O the Junior Cambridge Class, jects:-
Stds. 5 and 6. 'Animals; what we should do for Stds. 7 to J. C. "Evil is v as well as want of hea
(with special rescrenc 8

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OD IN THE G. H. S.
HASE.
rture on furlough, again t without a head-from nuary of that same year nted to Point l'edro and
when she was uprooted i. She was musical and ined her Mathematical was of a bright and cheere her influence felt. She uide spirit and introduced Movement. The girls I can't' so she had the oards and hung up in friendly, too, by nature, ms with her staff and Dnal and individual work
2nt of animals was sent rder that the girls might athctic interest in the 1 two prizes for competine for Stds. 7 and 8 and
for cssays on these sub
what they do for us and thcm.” trought by want of thought rt. ''
to treatment of animals.)

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MISS M. CRE (MRS. H 192
 

EDY (Maths. Tripos.) . R. CORNISH) 2O - 1922

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As the year had been a the E. S. L. C. candidates h passing the October examina that had been in existence be were presented in March of
For the first time we he chosen-Jane Thamotheran Cambridge in December, th made a very capable and quently a new Head Girl w term-Florence Daniel.
Mr. Patrick Leatham, March reported consideral work since his last inspectio found un fit for promotion.
Again for the first time Log Book to Girls' Schools Old Park on the King's Birl
Unfortunately Miss Cre ning of November and was term. Once more a vacanc time it was Miss Croft whos She had come out with Mis and been stationed at Point covered just in time to start the end of term. The follo the 'Origin and Developm badi.ʼ
“On an extra clear anc 1921, Miss Creedy, the Prin English School announced ; that she was going to start a school, and wanted any girl join it, to stay behind for a

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broken one it was felt that had not much chance of tion, so the two divisions fore became one and all the following year.
2ar of a Head Girl being n. She took her Junior en joined the staff and efficient teacher. Conseas chosen for the new
inspecting the school in ple improvement in the n. Not many girls were
2, there is reference in the Sports being held in the thday.
2edy fell ill at the beginabsent for the rest of the y had to be filled. This stepped into the breach. s Murgatroyd in October Pedro. Miss Creedy re
the Guide Company at wing extract is taken from ent of Guiding in Vem
l bright day in December cipal of Vembadi Girls' at the evening assembly Girl Guide Company in
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was over. A group of ab quite eager to know what their share in the affair w; got them all together in all were seated on the flo what Guiding meant, an knots. After this, she d groups and wanted them also the name of a flower be called. Thus the But came into existence, with vathy Chanmugam and M tive leaders. Meetings Tuesday evening and by to take their Tenderfoot indeed when Miss Purfie Jaffna Company came to day was the 31st of Janu: of the 3rd. Jaffna Compa enrolled by the Pro Twynam.
A little later in they Rally was held at "Airy . i missioner. At that time panies in the whole of U duvil, Vembadi, Rama full day's affair. All thi 9 a. m. and the morning midday meal and gettin lunch and a rest the Gu when the Commissione singing of rounds and it panies brought the day
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out a dozen girls did so, Guiding meant and what as going to be. Miss Creedy the School Hall and when or, she told them in brief l then taught them a few vided the girls into three to chose a leader cach, and by which they would like to tercup, Rose and Lily Patrols Pakkiam Solomon, NirmalaMary Alfreds as their respecwere held regularly every and by the Guides were ready Test. It was an exciting day eld, the Captain of the 1st test them. An even greater ary 1922 when the first Guides .ny, a dozen of them, were vincial Commissioner, Miss
rear, the first Jaffna Guide Dale,' the home of the Comthere were only four comthe peninsula-Chundiculi, nathan. The Rally was a 2 Guides assembled at about was given up to cooking the ig to know one another. After des had their March Past received the salute. Tea, ems contributed by the como a successful close.' it remain at Vembadi much 22 she married the Rev. H. R.

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Cornish, the Acting Principa school was of course delighte very own, so to speak, but al more without a head
Short though her term Ceedy accomplished a great of the school and in inculcati spirit. She left the District \ transferred to South Ceylon, lent for a year to Central C visit a few years later and wa affectionate welcome. .
In 1929 she fell ill and where it was hoped that heal restored to her. But in spite and the best medical attention home in November 1930. T`l laid a stone in her memory at mony of the new Hostel.
SECOND
Miss M. Pickard, B.Sc.
She took over from Miss Full ficent work during the few mc supplying. Coming as she ( modern schools in England w ing for ten years, she was not sight of the Vembadi building the school. She immediately less energy into the work ol it might be recognised and reg School, for it was still work Registration. In order that
plished as quickly as possible

nama
1 of Central College. The d to have a wedding of its as for the school once
1 of service was, Miss : deal in raising the tone ng a willing and cheerful when her husband was for he had only been ollege. She paid us a s given a most warm and
l returned to England th and strength would be of all that loving care n could do, she passed he Rev. H. R. Cornish
the Stone-laying Cere.
PHASE.
arrived early in 1923. er who had put in magninths that she had been lid, from well equipped, here she had been teacha little distressed at the 's and the equipment of threw herself with cease
raising its status so that gistered as a Secondary ng on its Elementary this might be accomthe Home Committee

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19.
MISS M.
 
 

PICKARD, B. SC. 23 - 1927

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decided to send out another of the same year, Miss E. join her.
The coming of Miss marked the beginning of a no siye expansion of the scho Scowcroft, the Vice-Principa rebuilding and remoulding O form. Together they broug Vembadi, carrying it a step progress, which so many bef made broad and safe.
Miss Pickard was a per impressive personality and v. characteristics helped her to school. The Domestic Sci monument to her achicvcn. speaks of her enthusiasm for the House System exhibits h feeling of corporate life and guration of the School Maga: freedom of thought, and her windows and cracked floors Order, cleanliness and tidin istic of her.
The achievements of the ship can best be dealt with it than chronologically,
Work and S
It was imperative that it for Vembadi girls to take thc out having to go elsewhere. had passed the Junior was re.

worker, and in October Scowcroft, B. A. came to
Pickard into Vembadi *w chapter in the progresol. She found in Miss l, an able assistant for the s the school in its present nt into existence the new further along the road of ore had opened up and
son of singular ability v aried talents and these adorn and enrich the ence Block is a living cnts, the Netball pitch games, thc institution of er desire to cultivate the responsibility, the inauzine shows her love for attention to the shabby eveals that passion for ess that was so character
school under her leadersubject sections rather
yllabuses.
should again be possible Senior Cambridge with
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prepared for Senior that Kanagasabai, Mary TE Florence Daniel and Pal first Senior group of the them got through and the factory for a beginning.
As soon as the Educ that their conditions were raised the status of the sc So far, so good. There to be done to justify tha qualify for Secondary reg that Mathematics and a provided for. Miss Picka that task and she began t. straightaway. For a yea: could not offer it as a subj sion for Science meant a n
work to draw plans and for a block in which Dome Science could be taught. A and Government also mad 1925 the building was op taught all the Domestic interested in Home Craft. Junior and Senior Dom and any prejudice that rei work was swept away. F the course ; there was no taking Cambridge and the Science. Reporting on thi March 1925, Miss Pickar Home Management, Coo and Needlework, and by pare our girls here to be

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ery same year. Balambigai motharam, Faith Samuel, kiam Solomon were in that modern period. Three of results were felt to be satis
ation Department realized going to be fulfilled, they hool to the Secondary grade. remained a lot of spade work t promotion. In order to istration it was necessary Science subject should be Lrd was eminently suited for o re-introduce Mathematics r or two it meant that Seniors. ect for Examination. Proview building, so she set to make out a list of requisites stic and General Elementary A grant was made from Home e some contribution, and in ened. Miss Pickard herself Science, for she was keenly Girls were prepared for the stic Science Examinations, nained against doing houserom the start all girls took |uestion of the brighter oncs slower ones taking Domestic at the Prize Distribution in says 'This course includes (ery, Sick Nursing, Hygiene, hese studies we hope to prereal home-makers. It is in

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DOMESTIC SCIE
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accordance with this aim kitchen only such appara have in a good Tamil h here is designed to make their homes. We seek tc themselves until they cal well ordered, clean and provide wholesome, no Above all we want so to able to change a house in At the Torchbearers 16th, 1927 the Domesti tice what they had learnt delicious jams, tasty pic tractive cakes and sweets Cafe came out of it quite Besides these, children's nursery mates, Vembadi covers and dresses, leath and paper flowers were Fair amounted to Rs. 1, Renovation and Extensic Syllabuses of work r days a school was allowe according to them, provi Inspector. Accordingly Geography scheme, and Arithmetic, Algebra, anc of Domestic Science, wl Scripture, History and E
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that we have provided in our tus as our girls may expect to ome. The work to be done girls able to make the best of make them dissatisfied with n manage a house and keep it neat. They must learn to urishing and tempting food. train them that they will be to a home.' ' Fair which was held on July c Science girls put into pracin the classroom and made ckles, good preserves and ats. Eveyone who entered the : refreshed and strengthened. garments, household linen, curtains, pictures, stencilled er bags and belts, hair slides sold. The nett proceeds of the 164/- and were devoted to the on Fund. Leeded overhauling. In those 'd to make its own and work ded that were approved by the Miss Pickard re-drafted the made out detailed ones for l Geometry, and all branches hile Miss Scowcroft dealt with
nglish.
Staff.
was staff. Besides the Prin, there was in 1924 a graduate ) one trained teacher in the
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Kindergarten (Miss Sitham trained teacher (Miss Watson ridge, the only other trained was impossible to replace her or Junior qualifications. 192 Senior Cambridge girls had to 4 and be given a little training do that it was necessary to put Dalton plan, and that year it weekly Staff meetings were e. term.
In 1926 Miss Kuruvilla a appointed. She was the first I into the school, and thankful t Miss Gabriel and Mrs. Cha brought with them larger idea the narrow horizons of girls wh not been out of Jaffna. Miss term of service and endeared her quiet, firm but loving ways at first, for Jaffna was conserva her way to its heart. That sh versal regret when she left. S through a very trying period a to see it triumph over its diffi success she contributed not brought musical talent with h to take Over the Singing Classe for introducing Country Danc demand whenever a concert never failed to have a set of g occasion. Mrs. Chandran firs laddam that was famous for a over and over again. She did School, for which she was spec

barapillai) and a Tamil ). Miss Rasu Breckenmistress had left and it The rest had Senior 4 was a heavy year. be put into Forms 3 and by the way. In order to the 6th. Form on to the worked well. Regular stablished in the Autum
pplied for a post and was ndian graduate to come he school was to get her. indran followed. They s and helped to widen o, for the most part had Kuruvilla gave a long
herself to the girls by . It was not easy for her tive and she had to win e dlidl, for tlhcere was uni - She helped the school und stayed long enough culties, towards which a little. Miss Gabriel 2r, was able eventually s, and was responsible ing. She was in great was to be got up and rls well trained for the t taught the girls a Kollong time, and repeated good work in the Lower ally cngaged. All these

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have left us now, two to return to a busy educati The great need was fo and the great difficulty training. There were in 1924 Palkkiam Solom medical course, the sco in 1927 Nirmalam Char Christian College, Madr able to complete the col Chelliah w.ent to Qu Pakiam Solomon retur I nuvil Hospital, where a credit to Vembadi, ab same cheerful and will in a Guide in school. Ret passing out the first in t ours English. She also the staff of Ramanathan Vice-Principal. She r school and is always to b
A lot of work was Teachers' notes of lesso Methods of teaching di f those who had no traini order Mark looks were tive to work, tidiness, , tures were bought and : tCrim.
The two Netball pc tory, would go back to t of Miss Pickard stood is admonishing the men wl

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be married, and the third to onal life in India. or trained and qualified teachers to get girls to leave Jaffna for encouraging signs however, for non went to Vellore to take a cond Vembadi girl to do that; nmugam went to the Women's "as, but un fortunately was not urse; while in 1927 Retnam cen Mary's College, Madras. ned and joined the staff of she is doing good work and is solutely unspoilt, with still the Ig spirit that she displayed as nam took a brilliant degree, he whole University in Ion
returned to Jaffna and joined College where she is now the emains very loyal to her old e seen at Old Girls' Reunions.
done by way of systematising ins, giving courses of talks on erent subjects in order to help ng. Honours Lists and lDis
introduced, and as an incenttendance, clean liness etc. picwarded to the best class each
r 4.
aeS.
sts, if asked to trace their hishose days when the slim figure front of the main building no were laying the pitch. This

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MISSRETNAM CHE
DR. PAKKIAM
 
 

LLIAH, B.A (HONS)
SOLOMON

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game which she introduc out the years that have fo pular. One cannot adequ that prevailed among thi House Tournament was It is true that most, if mother Earth innumera often acted as umpire an the rules of the game as first match against Chu School grounds on July beaten. On July 30th, t spired with fear at the si letes from the Girls' Hig unrivalled skill on the no Uduvil and Vembadi al laurels.
The Hc
In order to create Pickard thought it would into three houses. Accor the idea was unfolded a Red, green, purple, wer house elected its own of Games Captain, and formed the House Col house mistresses. In th ings with Miss Pickard v that she might get her it large. Points were awai ly mark lists, Games, Ti deducted for Lateness stage in the history ol choosing of patronesses.

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ed has been played throughllowed and is still very poately describe the excitement 2 girls when the first Interplayed on July 11th. 1924 not all the players kissed ble times. Miss Scowcroft d gave instructions regarding well as joining in herself. The indiculi was played on the 28th. 1926 and Vembadi was. he Vembadi players were inght of the robust Kandy athh School. They exhibited their etball pitches of Chundiculi, ind went back wearing their
puse System.
more esprit-de-corps, Miss be good to divide the school lingly, on January 25th. 1924, nd explained to the school. 2 the colours chosen. Each icers-Captain, Vice-Captain, Secretary, and these twelve mmittee together with three a beginning, Committee Meetvere held frequently in order leas across to the school at ded for Honours on the weekdiness and Competitions, and and Misconduct. The next the House System was the The Green House chose Miss

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· Crecdy, the Red House Miss
HIouse Miss Lytlh, and cacl ideals of its patroness who h: school in her day. During 1
House was considered to hav and the Hornby House prove Picnics and socials were also they are today, and Kayts, I turai, Urikkadu, Mandat Pedro and Navatkuli have al places for picnics. The se building actress her chance clined ones also. Compet those early days, (when the other activities demanding att ing, Singing etc. On Dece annual meeting was held w gave rousing reports from platform. Thus a keen and he and did much to improve the
The School
1925 was a great year i first magazine then saw the croft was its clitor and it success at that time. Many it, and at last the kecn iusig her to call it "The Torchbea choice was recorded in the cc Torch-bearer we had in mino as it will be. The idea bchi old relay race when onc ast flaining torch and racccd wi wlien he in turn carried it on

Hornby, and the Purple resolved to live up to the ad given of her best to the Ehe early day's the Lyth
e the "Wits of Vembali" cd its superiority at sports. characteristic features, as Elephant l'ass, Kankesanivu, Kccrimalai, Point 1 been sought as suitable pcials have given many a
and the clomestically initions were frequent in Fe were not quite so many Ecntion) Drawing, Garden
mber 16th. 1924 the first hen the House Captains the superior level of the salthy rivalry was aroused : tone of the school.
Magazine. or new beginnings. The light of day. Miss Scows to her that ve owe its titles were suggested for it of the Editor prompted rer." The reason for this itorial. "In choosing The | the school as it was and nd the title is that of the Ar another caught up the th it to the next runner,
In the same way, we of

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the School Present wou the School Past and w Future.' The design on of a hand holding a lig was a silence of four y magazine raised its hea
B
We have already anxiety to improve the b the Domestic Science bl Tharakulam Road were of a uniform style, so was greatly improved. provements were carried swallow up money an diture. As much new f was also provided—indi introduced. Since then have gradually been sup system was needed for th so a pump and tank down.
Sch
The end of 1924 School Motto “Dare to was felt that what pe courage of their convicti the girls should develop they might not be tos public opinion and be h people will say.'

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ld link ourselves with those of ith those-to-be of the School the cover up to 1928 was that hted torch. After 1928 there rears and then once again the l, bearing the School Crest.
uildings,
referred to Miss Pickard's building and to the erection of lock. All the windows along replaced by wooden shutters that the outward appearance Many other repairs and imil out, like roof repairs, that ld show little for the expenurniture as could be afforded vidual chairs and desks were , the old fashioned long desks erceded by this kind. A water he efficient working of the Lab, were installed and pipes laid
ool Crest.
saw the introduction of the do Right,' chosen because it ople in Jaffna needed was the ons and it was necessary that some of that courage so that sed about by every breath of eld in the grip of “fear of what

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Some two years later, wh was stationed in Jaffna, a Scho the design was carried out l palms above were chosen as Jaffna. The butterfly below, sals symbolised the stage that They were just coming into : Pickard wanted them to be : the palmyrah in body, mind, the butterfly in thought, word and good to look upon. A sc the motto “Dare to do Right’’’ At the Prize Distribution of 19 presented to the school.
"Taming of thi During this period girls g ter measure of freedom. Parc some even refused to allow the Qthers in public, but there was the bond of restriction. In 19 ram conceived the idea of pres the Shrew,' and for weeks hi across the compound from t coaching the players. This wa suitable for Jaffna taste, as mission There was greath question of dress, particularly the idca of Easternizing the w tcd itself. So the la dices werc men in long slowing rolbes. T Central College before a large commenting on it says, 'It was tive and appreciative audience It was admirably performed, t

en the Rev. P. E. Thorne bol Crest was evolved and by him. The Palmyrah being characteristic of cmerging from the chry. Jaffna girls had reached.
larger freedom. Miss is strong and straight as und spirit, as beautiful as and decd, and graceful 'roll at the foot bearing completed the Crest. )27 it was un vcil cd and
e Shrew.' radually reccivcd a greaints were still strict and ir girls to sing along with a general slackening of ì23 Mr. J. C. Thamothesenting "The Taming of s voice could be heard he Lab, where he was s thought to be the most inculcating wisely sub2art-searching over the for the 'men' and then hole production proscnclad in sarcos and the lhe play was staged in audience. Miss lickard tlhe quietest, most attenknown to me in Jaffna.' hanks to thc coaching of

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Mr. Thamotheram, and Petruchio and Rasaman were a wonderfully good supporting Časte also pla
But what a storm c wards Grown-up girls men's parts, and acting i tradlitional modesty. Bu have not become less emerged from the subdue
C
The Guide Compar nings under Miss Creed new life and inspiration f. its Captain, and Miss Sct ness for getting badges were warned that "an nothing without the spiri
In 1925 the livel the attention of all in sc whit, Toowho' for it was was started under the gu the Brown. O wl.
Literary
Mr. J. C. Thamothe formation of the English it first began, it was in class, but later debates, zation, literary readings When he left, it lapsed f in 1929.

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Nirmalam Chanmugam as y Sittampalam as Katherine couple. The members of the ved their parts well.
f condemnation broke afterappearing on a stage, taking 1 public It was against all it the storm passsd, and girls modest because they have :d light into the public glare.
uides.
ly, the story of whose beginy has been related, received rom Miss Pickard who became owcroft its Lieutenant. Keenwas roused, but the Guides armful of badges was worth t.'
y little children attracted hool by their "Toowhit, Toos then that the Brownie Pack idance of Miss Faith Samuel,
Association.
ram was also responsible for Literary Association. When he form of a weekly literary mpromptu speeches, dramati
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Gener
IRcfercnce has alrcady lbc members of the staff durin There were, un fortunately, again. Mr. Thevathasan wh School lost in Dccember 192, M. J. C. Thamotheram who after which he was transscir Point Pedro. Thercafter no appointed. It was felt Vemb, when there were enough wo Girls’ School. Thesc all hac make, and during a difficult rapidly increasing demands f had to tackle work beyond wl do. All honour to thcm
Im 1920 it becomc Inccess to supply for Miss Murgatr Training Schools. Ilappily just at that time and was able High School. Then civil war the ladies to have to leave anc Ceylon. In that way Miss li foundl tlhemselves at Vcimlbadli, term, but the latter for the res That meant she was able to st during which time she gave Mathcmatics particularly as Pickard.
Miss Pickard lost on furlo 4 crowded years of work, sul It was a great blow to hcr v rities turn her down. I Icer gi appointed too for she had cind

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en madlc to som c of the g the period 1923-27.
a good many cha ngcs o taught in the Upper and was succeeded by stay col albout tvvo ycars, cd to II Iartley College, morc men teachers were adi has reached the stage mon available to staff a il thicir contribution to period too, for with thc or greater efficiency thcy nat thcy vvcrc quali sicd to
ary for Miss Scowcroft byd in the Boarding and Miss IRobinson came out to give assistance in the in China caused many of l some of them canc to cnson and Miss Wilson thc formcr for loss than a t of her poriod of service. ay thrco and a half ycars,
valuable help wit ln tlhc cr the departure pf Miss
ugh in August 1927 after ly cxpccting to return. vlhen the medical authols in Vombadi woro discarcd hcr scl s to them,

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as well as to the staff, p: ling qualities. She was enthusiastic about her ings, a capable adminis sincere Christian.
After a short period went out to St. Kitts in of a new Government S been an uplhill One, bu' thoughts often turn bacl with great affection the
In response to a some contribution to t
Pickard has written dow we now quote in full.
Dear Miss Scowcroft an
Your request that I special Centenary Magaz of my most treasured po. ters I have kept concerni you, 1923-27.
I think I can truly s my thoughts at some mo What it has cost me no cannot find words to exp thankful for the exper Teacher amongst you.
It would take far too a (uarter of the things I

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urents and old girls by her ster
thorough in all she did, keen, work, honest in all her dealtrator, an excellent teacher, a
of teaching in England she the West Indies to take charge School. Her task there has t she is happy in it; yet her k to Vembadi and she recalls
fears she spent here.
request that she would send his history of Vembadi, Miss n some of her memories which
Girls' High School, St. Kitts
British West Indies June 26th, 1938
d all at Vembadi,
should write an article for this ine sent me delving into some ssessions, the records and letng the five years I spent with
ay that not a day passes but ment find themselve in Jaffna. tto come back to you al, I press, but I am tremendously ience I had as a Missionary
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tion onc or two which stand cord of repeated inspections, owing to tlh is that an dll the otl Festivals, II Ouse activitics, those birth and loaving C schemes for this and the oth to dra w attcntion to inn ultitu Shall I just mention a sew v
There was the day in Inspector arrived, sat on a v. and said over and over ag. stroke of a pen change t in answer to our relocated a ligh School. No! It took in of any pen-as many of you In tho sa no connoction, lout E. T. Sclby, addressing the Such a change 'oach indivi( Many of you willingly helped
4. The cliced was ceventually can forget when the final an from the then Director of and a most hilarious processi l’rincipal and later upon the Lockwood–declaring that t cciclorating such an ov(it w;
Tho wholo of inny fivo
spent in interpreting that 'st of solid, lhard, un cincling vvorl organized, work in all classes larly inspected, Domestic Sc school games included in thc
time that l’uttur canne so s starting Domestic Science O
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() ut au mongst a long re(emergency arrangements cr, Girl Guide activities, keceping of rccorcls (Oh ! Crtificatcs. . ) making of er subject, stuff mectings des os (letail, and so on. 'ry special memories? |February 1923 when the ry low chair in my study nin, “ Y" ( )u cann ( ot by the lhe school." This was rolu est to loc considcrcd uch mora than the stroko tce; ch (ers will roemncinn bor. l () ing. ; f ( (rı" və rols, tlı (: lo v.. staff, pointed out that in ual has a price to pay.”
to pav that price.
donc, lo vvc vor, a indl who nouncement was received (lticati( ) in—Ml r. Ml;ucr;ne on hurled itself upon the
Chaira 1 - the Rov. A. no only possible way of ; by a hals holiclay.
years seem to ha ve boen 'oke of the pon' in terms ... lovcry subject was remost carefully and rogu – ence bogun and definite iinn c ta lolc. I t was at that plendidly to our aid in right lics. It was a

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Puttur student, workin work who first taught
Household Management I went repeatedly when making my plans for th those recipes and consult that course and how thar so very willingly gave, a
Another of our great Inspector of English Sch came again and again to cise, to advise, and to wil forward, as we realized hi
Teaching methods v given by Principal and members of staff regularl and keenness developed l. Spirit which was the direc the House System in 192. had at those House funct hall or picnics in the cour buses which were always by any chance did. Sol functions in the school ha view over the compout badi seemed to be abroad by all those helpers, T through the years had st they could to 'serve' and of those teachers of whose I reson and Mrs. Lockwoc son herself-of Miss Ho Creedy. It was Miss Ire new to the work and was

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nel pers was the then Divisional ools—Mr. II. S. Perera—who
visit us, to inspect, to critinose visits we grew to look is real interest in our progress.
vere revised and much help Vice-Principal to individual. y. Competitions were planned argely owing to the House :t outcome of the starting of 4. What wonderful times we tions--whether socials in the ntry. How I remember those to come at 6 a. m. and never mehow at those and other l, overlooking that glorious nd, the very spirit of Vem - It was the spirit left there Tamil, and European, who iven their utmost to do what I to "serve by love." I thipk : help in the early days Miss ld often spoke-of Miss Irernby, Miss Lyth and Miss 'son, who, when I was fairly feeling almost in despair and

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doubting if I could accompli. scw words of very pungent c assurance of ln (er undoerstanın dlin mc quictly join in spirit thc r and determine to scrve to the
The opening of the l)c May 1925 stands out very viv know ho vv sitting it was tlh; t Mi as she was in all that perta should declare the 13 lock ope Exhibition we had thcro? I doal of thc things l ha ve her hovince, which were innando lo y y" ( cushion covers, thc cloths, the did as permancint records of hcrc and thcrc. Thorc still li of the Director, "This is right on the right lines. I lerc is the Olh ! tlhosc Donncstic Scienco tion they m cant—what lha rol i for Miss Alphonso and with did we present our currics a poultices and bandaging, () Ncccllcov) rk to the lis)(c('s: cortainly novct can forg intCrest in thc school of the ( how their Secretary but inn ( when hold my first (). (. A. us what to do and we shall clo is more thcy came to our ric vcry gencrous hclp -- hcl !) givic own suggestion. The very of help from onc old girl who watcr laid on, and the splcnd

sh anything at all, by a : riticism and thon by an g and her prayers made anks of my predecessors v cry uttcrm (ost.
mm (estic Scienco l 3 l ( ) clk in idly in my innind. VV'er all | rs. I ,ock wood, interosteol ined to Jaffna women, 1. ) () you roi (mber the still think a very groat in this West Indian »u for the exhibition, the inninia turc pola cards y a ou thc huge ones nailed up vic with line those words This is most assuredly right spirit towards it.' Exams- what reparawork---what connnnissions what scar and trombing ind invalic lishes, our ur inn (incliny a incl y car's
got the genuin ( : 1 (I living Old (irls' Association, on my mottle by saying
innoting, 'Y' ou will toll
it." And they (lid. \\hat scu o mamy ; timo with ın v (oluntai ril v y ın (l a t t ln (bir ractical and costly offer na (le it lossible to ha v C idl os scr t lnc y ma de lautor

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to manage a stall on their o' Fair, are an inspiration to m them. Certainly the Vembadi and I believe your interest ir ways live, however old you gr , The years 1923–27 wei and renovations of furnitur words "Almyrah repaired,' “Window repaired,' 'Windo often in tmy records. I ar Hall platform is firm enoug what had to be used to fill it i better say no more of that
I cannot leave un mentic days. I had been with you only we welcomed Miss Scowcroft, how for years you had been ho Vice-Principal. How patientl stant repetition of the words “ in your welcome song when Tamil There will always be tween myself and Miss Scowct days shared together. I thi Pakkiam Solomon went to Ve mugam to Madras, Retnam Mary Alfred to Puttur and als Thamotheram started upon het Certificate. Then again with giving did Miss Scowcroft and villa to our staff, realising that ora for Vembadi. What a l marked, and ever since, or so i goinc on stepping forward.
You will all remember wil ed the various visits of observa

wn at the Torch-bearers" |e every time I think of O. G. A. was a live body
your old school will alow or however far you go. e also years of renewals e and equipment. The “Almyrah supplied," ws replaced,' occur so in still hoping that the , for when I consider in with. . . . . . . . . I had
ned a few other great about six months when but I had already learnt oping and praying for a y I listened to the conScow croft Amma B. A." understood no more a very warm feeling beoft in memory of those nk of the days when ellore, Nirmalam ChanChelliah to Madras and o of the day when Grace r course for the Drawing n what fervent thanksvelcome Miss Kurut that day began a new pig step forward that t seems to me, you have
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near and far with the a We started quite near h selves at Kandy. To so Sunday School Hymn B land' being 'touched wi might of the sun' will a journey and still another
So much for old me after all, Vembadi mean From its very commenco band of devoted workers nary school work in Ven of our Lord Jesus Christ above all a Christian sch I did when with you, just the work and spirit of a Hymnal has a verse that thoughts:-
Lift every gift that Low lies the best till Low lie the boundin Till, sent from God,
I can only say in co my life I shall thank Go me in letting me work
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m of widening your horizon. ome but we at last found ourme of us that hymn in our ook which speaks of “Cloudh the glory that tells of the lways be a reminder of that
bond between us.
mories chosen at random, but, s much more than all these. ment, it has never lacked a seeking through their ordibadi to show forth the gospel
and spread His spirit. It is ool. I know much better than the difference that makes in school. Our new Methodist
I would like to leave in your
I'hou Thyself hast given ;
lifted up to heaven;
g heart, the teaming brain, they mount to God again.
inclusion that to the end of d for the privilegc He gave for those years with you in
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THIRD P
The third phase of the M last ten years and its histol Miss E. Scowcroft, B. A., M. the name of the head of the s break in policy, for she was sc with Miss Pickard and co-op enterprisses of those years. revicw may be described as O, than of many more changes. Miss l'ickard has been carrie to suit circumstances and a But in reality the two period for the salke of convenience th with the departure of Miss Pi
It has been very gratifyin both in clay school and board risen. For years the number O or less six cd at somewhere bet last two or three years in pa finite rise. At the end of Ma. the roll, not including the Ta ment. That has meant a cons age attei dance, which is enco of economic depression and t ber of teachers allowed becau number ( units of attendanc culty of sinding money to pay by the Department. This rise haus been encouraging for it staff wil i bc on the recognize bcc in circa scd lately so as to school inhore cfficient.
In the Boarding House t for satisfaction. Thirty was t

HASE. Modern Period covers the ty centres chiefly round R. S. T. The change of chool does not mean any ortunate in having worked erated with her in all the
The period now under ne of consolidation rather
All that was begun by d on, modified, may be, s necessity has arisen. Is are one and it is only at a break has been made ckard. g to see how the numbers. ding house have steadily in the roll remained more
wcen 220 and 230. The articular have seen a dey 1938 there were 285 on .
mil Preparatory Departiderable increase in averuraging. With the period he reduction of the numse of the increase of the :e to 20, came the diffi
teachers not recognized : in attendance therefore,
means that soon all the | list. The number has
make the working of the
00, there has been cause he average between 1923.

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WCROFT, B.-A., M. R.S.T.
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and 1927. Since then the nur so that now they stand at loct and fully (ualificd 1nur sce auss departmcnt.
When Miss Pickard wel Miss Scowcroft return col fro1 take charge of the ligh Sc colleague in Miss E. M. Wil s roinn (lina has alre; İy" loor( Over the Mathematics and I) () lost without a teacher. Thc having a specialist on that sic The following year \tiss Scow and Miss Wilson actod as I'rin school was well maintained ca rried out with rega rol t() 3 ments. Miss Wilson remaint when her surlough was (lut "What will happen to the MI; Gnce? " lcr loss was koOnly tln( t (racling of Mint le rinn; t i C: problen (over since.
She was encrgetic ; (I (s position. There was no fear during her lessons She thi activitics of the school, put h( arranged matches with other the Scripture Classes did not discussion of religious difficul On a Woolnesday after noon captaincol the Guide Company good dcal (of attontion to l l (ous
luring the early part of outbreak of Enteric and the

in bers ha ve risen steadily, WVCC in O0 and 7(). A nn tron ist the l'rincipal in this
it home on furlough and the Boarding School to h ( ) ( ol, she foundl a n ablo son M. Sc. vvho so i rrival tin (en ti () () (l. Sly to polk Inn(estic Sciconce that w cerce School was fortunate in le for a fo w more years. Croft went on fur) ough Cip); ). The work of thc in di improvements were ( )a l'(ling || || (ou se arrange(l until to ond Of 1930 '. The problem arose, | tlh S. and l)onne stic Sci
felt a nel pro vision for 3 |. 1 so lo : ( ; scrious
ì cheerful and lively disof girls going to sleep * VV: lh Cros el f in to all tho art into the games and Schools. I'feeling that alway's give scope for ics she started ( i ro ou os s) in sect this inced. She for a year, and gave a
activitios.
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of six of its day scholars owing to so much sicknes before the end of the yea
Miss Wilson return heard of her marriage to knew how much her hear that she would be able years of happy service t with their two children.
says:- Dear Vembadians,
Hearty congratulatic It must be fine to belong tradition and I am glad t in Vembadi, I am entit joicings.
What memories of C to Kayts, school inspect Kandy, wrestling with a Domestic Science kitc classes, tracking with Gu fun. My job has char small sons and a large h ve slhould velcome a visi in our home in Hankow
The school in Irela young days is now collec for a big 'Who's Who' gest such a scheme to V early copy of the volume
With warmest greet the continued prosperity

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ed to Ireland and soon we Dr. R. Bolton. Those that t was still in China rejoiced to return there. After five hey went home on furlough Writing from England she
ons on reaching the centenary
to a school with such a long hat, having spent a few years led to take a part in the re
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lays in Jaffna-school picnics tions, netball team's trip to funny sort of stove in the hen, wrestling with Maths. ides-lots of work and lots of nged since then. I have two usband to look after now and it from any old Vembadi girls if you want to see China.
ind which I attended in my ting material and photographs of former pupils. May I sugembadi ? Please send me an
when it comes out. tings and every good wish for
of the school.
Yours very sincerely,
Eileen M. (Wilson) Bolton.

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On her departure at second European came when furlough time wa absence of Miss Murgatro ponsibility of the two con croft, another colleague v arrived in October 1933, izing in Gcography. Sh{ badi extraordinarily qu nizing the Drill and Gam certainly needcd the a along thosc lincs and it able to tackle thosc subjc
As she had to prepai bility in ni ne months, li showed herself quite equ furlough year of her coll from everyone for her ta her (luiet officiency, tog girls as individuals. Shc had to be hurried away ti in a remarkably short t let nothing slip and cve first Tamil Examination looked forward to havi returned, but alas for the
Retrenchment was it were not equal to the else could be sent out t in Trincomalie and very part with her. It was to return after a year but
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the end of 1930 no other out for three years. Then S approaching again, and the yd in England caused the respounds to fall on Miss Scowvas sent. Miss M. P. Dore B. A.
a trained graduate special2 slipped into the life in Vemickly and was soon re-orgacs of the school. That side Lttention of somconc trained
was fortunate that she was
cts.
e to take over sole responsii fe was very full. But she all to the task and during the eague, won golden opinions ct, her unassuming ways and gcther with hcr care for the 2 was taken suddenly ill and O India for an operation, but ime slhe vas back again. She in thcn managed to pass her very creditably. Thc school ng her when Miss Scowcroft
best laid schemes
the air, funds from England demands upon them, no-one O fill a vacancy that occurrcd regretfully the school had to hoped that she might be able that hope was not realized.
nd on furlough, and sends the cetings and all good wishes

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for the Centenary Celebra continue to give real Ch the new building schemic aided by the loyalty and Vembadi from the inside,
The financial positic another lady was availab October 1936 Miss M. E royal welcome. After th the whole school enjoyed and Miss Barker was thi under happy circumstan settled down and plans w ment and expansion, but Kalmunai Girls' Boardir and Miss Barker had to we hope that it is only for
Herself born in Ceyl aries, she felt at home str; her the spirit of youth anc world of difference to t school in particular, as wi life that will be referred t
From Kallmuna i she se Dear Vembadians, P
With my own good the teachers and girls of ing School. We rejoice en ters the second centu back over the years with difficulties, its devoted se

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utions. May the school cver ristian Education, and may go forward to completion love of all who have known
Margaret P. Dore.
in in England improved and e for North Ceylon, so in B. Barker. B. A. was given a e concert in the afternoon, a teaparty in the compound us introduced to every class ces. Once more the school ere made for further achievehopes were dashed again, for, ng School needed a Principal leave in March 1938. Again
a time. on, the daughter of Missionaightaway. She brought with ladventure and made a whole he Games and Drill of the ell as to other sides of school o in due course.
nds her greetings : ----
ast and Present,
Greetings
wishes may I send those of the Kalmunai Girls' Boardwith you that the school as it ry of its existence, can look hanks ulness, that even amid 'vants kept before them ideals

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worthy of the Master sor wh founded.
I feel I can do no bette motto of my own old school -More Beyond,' We all future of the school, and ifterested in i the new buil letter from England which s; very good birthday presents cause I'm getting old." Ti and Vem badi is a hundlrod y are going to be some very go But the Vem badli of ton than cement and plaster. T and there is more beyond the though we hope the Scihool v demic distinction. May we the schoolgirls of thc commit real life in God. We would the deep joy and vitality of ; with Studdart Sennedy, can
To give and givc, an What Goci la tlh To spendl thyself no To servc right g The God Who gave And all that arc In the great purpose School “More Beyond.' I c
His purpose.
V
The outstanding scaturc has becn the rapidly increasil

) •
ose work the School was
r than pass on to you the in England “L’lus Ultra have great visions for the just now we are all very ding. Yesterday I had a id, “ll scenn to have had his year. It must be beat person is not yet sixty years old, so I hope there od Birthday presents.
norrow consists of more lhere is more beyond that, : a cuisition of knowledge, vill continue to win a cacach clo our part to give ng ycars, a glimpso of the that they should know surroeindlorecl li fo, which, so enthusiastically call us di give again, given t hec ;
Count the cost, loriously all worlds that arc,
to be. s (od there is for this us be instrumcints of
'ours vory sincercly,
Mary 13. Barker. of the years 1928-38
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and the consequent pos. ponsibility for sections of chers now qualified for Senior Cambridge girls Gnanie Supramaniam we: College, and when they c both put into the Lower S were so necessary. The i the consequently better w came apparent. Miss V: has proved her worth by tion to duty. She is now and since the Lower Sch separate building she ha supervising classes up to young teachers recently Miss Wilson's departure, handed over to Mrs. Par Science Block is entirely both rooms are availab greater possibilities open ence Examinations that the subject was introduce revived. Last year 13 ( Next year they will be pr ficate.
Problems of staffin It is now quite Common for higher education a1 cuatic supply of highly (l case a few years ago. Til age of trained teachers. of persuading girls to g securing admission into places are available.

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sibility of handing over resthe school to individual teasuch posts. In 1928 two Selvam Vallipuram and le accepted for the Training ame back in 1930 they were chool where trained teachers improvement down there and ork in the Upper Classes beullipuram is still with us and steady and diligent attena list. Class Traincd teacher ool has been moved into a s been put in charge and is Std. 5. as well as training two taken on to the staff. After the Domestic Science was a manathan. The Domestic - in her charge, and now that le for the subject, there are ing up. The Domestic Sciwere dropped for a time when !d into all classes, have becn out of 15 passed the Junior. esented for the Senior Certi
g have almost disappeared.
for girls to go to College ld hence there is a more adealifical teachers than was the le chief difficulty is the shört
It is not now a question O to Colombo, rather one of Training College, when so few

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EART AND
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One section of the cu creased attention has beer her multifarious duties, M train Grace Thamotherar dard so that she was abl later the 1st. Class Draw She was put on to the sta of the school has improv it has received satisfact Art Inspector. Last ye tered 30 for the Royal Dr and all got honours certif the news not long ago tha to the Glasgow Exhibitio ing has gone II and work. prepared and all these cra
' and cardboard work, ola
book-binding, making of tapestry, cane and raffia rope weaving for stools a dery and lettering. The of this achievement. Bu these crafts have been i been to develop the aes them pleasure in creating of their time is given to enough to things of the course will help in some completeness to life. It that the school parted wi end of the Easter Term, and will be going to live
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rriculum that has received inArt and Handwork. Amongst iss Pickard yet found time to n and get her up to the stane to pass the 2nd. Class and ng Certificate Examinations. ff and gradually the drawing 2d so that for some years now ory commendation from the ar for the first time, she enawing Society Examinations, cates. Three of them received it their drawings had been sent n. Together with thc DrawA syllabus for cach class was fts have found a place-paper, work of all kinds, stencilling, backing papers, fancy sewing, work, Kalatura basketry, coir nd mats, and velvet embroischool has reason to be proud t it is not just as a lesson that introduced. The object has thetic sense in girls and give what is beautiful. Too much D poring over books and not spirit. It is hoped that this measure to give fulness and was with very great regret th Miss Thamotheram at the She has recently married in the Straits Settlements. ) taken place where Guiding rs. Chandra, a trained Guider, ompany. She was followed

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by Miss G. Thamother, a long time its inspiral her fell the honour of Assistant Commissionel deprived of its Captain. lcaving the Rangers, wl: has continued as Capt an All-Island Rally and a Certificate commend the toymaking section. held last year they miss only. Lady Abrahams, wrote in the log book, equipment owned by th paid for themselves. It nice company to visit.' The Brownie Pack having been started by flourish. Miss Chanmug followed her, and since assist the Commissioner nam palam has been Brc The Ranger Compa Mrs. Sandeman, wife Schools. Mrs. Mather Miss Dore have captain under the care of Miss S These are just som volution las come. A m rests on the staff, and th have also helped to deve extent.
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m, the lieutenant, who was for ion and leader. When upon being chosen the first Tamil the 3rd. Jaffna Company was Miss Thomas came forward, ere she was the lieutenant, and ain since. In conncction with Competition the Guides gaincd ng the handwork sent in for In the District Competitions 2d thc first place by two marks visiting the Company recently "I am much struck by the is Company all of which they is a cheerful and particularly
that was referred to earlier as Miss F. Samuel continues to gam, then Miss Thamotheram, the latter has been chosen to with Brownie work, Miss Ponwn Owl. ny was first started in 1931 by of the Divisional Inspector of (Nirmalam Chanmugam) and 'd it for a time, and now it is . Samuel. 2 of the ways along which deuch greater responsibility now 2 House and Prefect Systems lop it among the girls to sóme
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, the Y. W. C. A. in 1930. M largely instrumental in the and since then a different
year has been President ass girls. An impressive Cand held each year when new me
Growing out of this stu Tower Club, a Senior 3ran and old girls. A very pleasi attcmpt now bcing inna do ti Each Friday cvcning, two pany Mrs. Weaver to the Mo Clinic. Sunday School wo Uyarapulam is carrical on an given at Chernia Strect. Fron tunity offers, helf is given wit in the nearby villages or ov. that a deaconess is being a Jaffna area, more of this wor latest development is regular pital every Sunday morning
The week of student eva has been of great value in br the necessity of docision in f; The work of the year is broug and girls from both Chris homes have made their vows worship has been reorganized staff and sometimes the girls ducting of it. A Prayer Roo private devotions and many ( real help. Miss Barker uncle furnishing of it, at the same t contribution towards the dlcv

iss R. Sittam palam was formation of the branch, member of the staff each sisted by a committee of lc-Lighting Ceremony is mbers are enrolled.
dent branch has come the clh intended for toachers ng foaturo is the serious to engage in social work. or tlh rccm cmn locers a cc ( m - or Strect Child Wel sarc rk at Anaipanthy and l some help is also being in timc to time, as Opporh evangelistic work either cr in the islands. Now pointed to work in the k will be possiblo. The visiting in the Civil I Iosafter Church.
ngelism arranged yearly inging home to students ace of the call of Christ. ght to a culmination then tian and non - Christian to follow Him. School so that every member of tako a share in the conim has been sct asido for »f thc boardcrs sind it of took the arranging and imc making a very real elopm cent of the rcligious

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side of life. A weekly P. come into being and the minutes each Monday m influence on the work of
C al
For some time long game of the school. M other Jaffna schools and Mallot brought a team Vem badi had certainly match for Kandy. Durin badi team went to Kand kuru villa. There, the J but some of the effects O by their victory over the team. Needless to say most enjoyable time, an
In 1933 Deck Tenni laid, and there began Games for the Girls' Sc won the cup for sports til ing so on more than one pillai was for two years year Santhiramalar Nile pionship. In Tennis, Ba is need for steady practi out first.
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rayer Meeting for the staff has 2 setting apart of those few horning is felt to have a good the week.
sports.
er, Netball remained the chief atches were played against also against Kandy, when Miss for the second time in 1929.
improved, but was not yet a g the following year the Vemy with Miss Wilson and Miss affna girls were badly beaten, if their defeat were dissipated Peredeniya" Training Colony , those fortunate ones had a d were the envy of the school.
is and IBadminton courts were Inter-Collegiate Sports and hools. Vembadi has not yet hough it has come near to dooccasion. Paransothy VeluSenior Champion, and this es carried off the Junior Chamdminton and Tenniquoit there ce before Vembadi can come
have seen great development edom of girls. Those wishfing selves over to Central College d the number of camps and tend is beyond count. The
strikingly shown in the fact

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"QUALITY STREET"
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– 145 that in 1937 "Quality Street" in Central College, when allt lish costuime of the period, “ was not a murmur of disapi highest commendation from a ence in attitude since the Shřew" ! The credit for the s went to Miss Barker and M for their unwearicd cfforts an talent. The acting was of a cate humour of Barric was ve audience was able to cnter int That was no mean achieveme and Navamany Nagaretnam | sisters admirably, Patına Tam cult part of dashing Captai Amerasingham as the maid pi and was very popular. Vima Ramalingam and Ranie M: neighbours, always in and out the right amount of horror at
miss, and hauteur when at len Miss Patty wore out. The chil. and the other young ladies an room Scene acquitted themsel
Mention must be made that have brought renown to and foremost the election vanamuttu to the State Cou school in 1915 after passing tl
was married the same year. rendered necessary in May Coloinbo North Constituency large majority. She was uns in September, but re-elected
10

Tvas staged by Vembadi he characters wore Eng
men" included. There oroval, nothing but the Il present. What a differlays of “Taming of the uccess of the production ss Satiavathy Tambiah d devotion of time and aigh order, and the deli11 interpreted, so that the () full enjoyment of it. ut! Paransothy Velupillai played the part of the two biah played well the dissin Brown, while Rance Fovicdcd plenty of comedy la Ponnialı, Nagacswary ather were the curious , and managed to convey the ways of the modern gtlı the patience of even :Jren in the School Scene, d gentlemen in the Ballves well. of a few other incidents
· the High School–first
of Mrs. Nesam Saraicil, in 1932. She left ie Junior Cambridge and When a By-Election was 1932 she contested the
and was returned by a ated on a technical point he following inontlh. She

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JAMUTTU, M. S. C.

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continued till the end of the Council, serving on the Exec cation the whole time. At t 1936 she was again returned, ; cil is a member of the Execut She is the first woman in Ceyl tioh and takes her place as or task of procuring for woment service as those allowed to r though a woman's first duty is there is a wider sphere in whic felt if the country is to devel and sane lines.
Amongst those of a yo Supramanian claims a place o Vembadi girl to matriculate a in the whole Island to win Studentship. She took her d first old girl to do that. N. followed in her footsteps in De winning the University Colle now in her first term at Colleg she will do something out of t tically she is the best student for many years.
Satiavathy Tambiah and returned with Madras degrees join the Vembadi staff, the la Saiva Mangayakalasalaya of Principal. Esther Cathiravel the following year and returne(
Special mention must b Daniel Thilliampalam. After with a Senior Domestic Science

list. term of the State utive Committee of Eduhe General Election in and in the present Counive Committee of Health. on to occupy this posile of the pioneers in the he same rights of public men. She proves that, to her home and family, h her influence must be op along well-balanced
unger generation Grace f honour as being the first hd by coming out first the University College egree in Colombo, the agaeswary Ramalingam 2cember of last year by ge Studentship. She is e and it is expected that he ordinary for scholas
Weinbadi has produced
. Nagammal Kasipillai in 1936, the former to tter to join that of the which she is now the u obtained her degree il to Vembadi.
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to go in for nursing. B concerning this professi but persistent refusal to vailed and in 1930 she wer ras, where, during the ne courses in Midwifery and obtained certificates of t
wives Council. Not sati she left for England in in the British Hospita (London) at the close of nation of the Central Bo lege, London, attending t October 1936 to June highest possible qualifica turned to Jaffna and was tendent at the McLeod I
Froim quite early da been on the school curric able to record the increa this realm. Mention wa first to give lessons on tl lessons were never dropp been since then, membe that subject. In 1928 V the school had passed suf make her ready to teach more pupils have come u centage of passes througl far short of 100 %. Even the Trinity College and I minations with eminently

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ecause of the prevalent ideas on she met with opposition, give up the idea at length prent to the Rainy Hospital, Mad2xt four years she completed General Sick Nursing, and he Madras Nurses and Midsfied with these qualifications March 1935 and spent a year l for Mothers and Babies which she passed the examiard. She joined King's Colhe Sister Tutors' Course from 1937. Having obtained the tions in her own line, she refor a time Nursing SuperinHospital, Inuvil.
Music.
ys, the teaching of music has ulum. It is gratifying to be used success of the school in s made of Miss Penny as the he harmonium. These music jed, and there have always :rs of the staff specially for iolet Chinniah, an old girl of ficiently high examinations to others. Since then, more ynd nder instruction, and the perhout these years has not been y year girls are entered for Royal College of Music Exay satisfactory results. Miss

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HWNNÍHO SSIWN ONV HSW O 'SHW HEIM ( ONWId ) STIďnd O|SmW

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Chinniah herself became College, London, in 1931 remarkably good teacher interested in the subject them for an examination
We cannot refer to ing of Mrs. Cash, her tut and personal interest in whom she has taught an the benefiit of the fees) a generally. She has furti gation by taking the Se twice a week. Her servi that she has gone on furl
Miss Pickard used school could not provide That is no longer the cas ther old girl, now has al under her care. We ofte ing passed the First Ci: Training at the Oriental May.
Buildir When Miss Scowcro 1930 it was with the inte Miss Pickard's dream of made as early as 1925 fo the site of the present D to accommodate 50 stud number that seemed suffi children then in residen growth. Those plans we sent home, but nothing

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a Licentiate of the Trinity 5. She has proved to be a - in that she makes her pupils. , and does not merely craim
Miss Chinniah without thinkcor, who has taken a very real - the music pupils (some of 1 allowed the school to have nd also in the life of Vem badi her laid the school under oblinior Singing Class regularly ces will be greatly missed now ough.
to bemoan the fact that the
tuition in Oriental Music. se, for Seetha Retnam, anoDout twenty young violinists r her congratulations on havass Certificate in Teachers' Music Examination held last
ng Schemes. oft returned from furlough in ention of bringing into being
a new hostel. Plans had been r a double-storey building on ining Room and Box Room, lents (as well as teachers) a ciently greater than that of the ace to allow for reasonable ent through Synod and were - happened. There was no

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money. As it turned out, it w plans did not materialize, for risen, and it is now necessar number.
There were other parts o ouring for attention. The firs the Building Fund was made the Torchbearers' Second Fa about Rs. 1,300/- was put into spcnt, and more too, when th end of the school that were to were converted into a spaciol needed Art Room. The bu Principals of the two schools i other rooms that were speedil Owing to this amalgamation of ered homeless, so the April in having erected a row of clas rather untidy and dirty corrido ainly improved the look of the “a temporary measure, for the small and hot. They served
Efforts of one sort and a ment of fees, careful expendi gradually swelled the coffers ol Principal's salary was released that without dloubt has been tlh So while the Home Commit make a grant, yet it has helpe way.
The raising of the whole a building was not the only di urgently required to meet the and it was considered eminent

as a good thing that those since then numbers have y to plan for double that
f the school building clamst effort to raise money for in December 1931 when ir was held and a sum of the fund. It was quickly c little rooms at the top O small to be of much usc us staff room and a much ilding of a house for the n Hospital Road, liberated y used for othc purposes. | rooms, classes were rendholiday of 1933 was spent ss-rooms where once was a r. The new building certCompound, but it was only 2 rooms were of necessity heir purpose nevertheless.
nother, insistence on payture of money, all these F the Building Fund. The
for school purposes, and e biggest source of income. tec has not becn able to cl very considerably in this
mount required for a large sficulty. More land was necds of a growing school, y desirable that the board

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ers should be accommodal Separate from the school. of land along 1st. Cross S mises came on to the ma entirely satisfactory becau: the road. However, the The Home Committee ge peal for the money to do ready for signing the de When Miss Scowcroft wer the scheme seemed as far back more than two days, made again, and at last in was put through after th sooner was that accompli land was for sale and that meant providing more th saved capital to add to an Committee.
Plans were drawn ol then of course the estim beyond the resources of England was available, no after delays that seemed if was granted and the wor were cut down to the mir not be brought within th mum-Rs. 30,000/-. At term, this year, the cont in faith. The building w it is hoped that it may b that, the Principal will re to her appeal, for in addit will be all the new furnit necessary. A sum of R:

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ted in a building and compound Then the inside half of a piece it. adjacent to the school pre: rket-good certainly, but not se it had no outlet of its own to problem was to buy that land. anerously responded to the apso, and when everything was 2eds the offer was withdrawn. ht home on her second furlough off as ever. She had not been
however, when the offer was January 1936 the transaction hree years of negociation. No shed than the outside piece of too, was purchased though it an Rs. 3,000/- of the hardly equal amount from the Home
n a somewhat lavish scale and lates were found to be quite the school. No grant from or was one asked for. At last, terminable, permission to build k begun. Items of expenditure himum, yet the estimate could e original figure set as a maxithe beginning of the summer tact for Rs. 40,500/- was signed ill be finished next March, and e opened free of debt. To do quire a very generous response ion to the actual building there
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from old girls and friends of th 2,000/- has come in so far.
Some people have said, benefit only part of your schola up a new Hall ?' True, that it is impossible to assonn ble til but it is felt that those for w for home should have first coins sirable that thic I lostc] should ll be thc aim of overy parent to er for at least part of her sch training in sclf-reliance, adapt for others, that it is not easy t shc is fitted for the time when s home and depend morc on he Next year it will be possib modation, and those inccessary be provided under cxisting cond is being planned, as that would ation for life, but the incw build portions and will give space an
 

e school. Just about Rs.
“This scheme is going to rs. Why didn't you put is needed very badly, for he whole school together, Iom school is a substitute idlcration Thon it is decricfit overyonc. It should ut her child in as a boardool life, for she receives ability and consideration ) give at home, and thus hic must licavc her parents' "sclif. le to give first-ratc accomConvenicnces that cannot itions. Nothing luxurious not be a suitable preparing will bc of ample prod comfort.

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1937 AND
1937 was a year of fau 10 the story has been told School at Vembadi to P Junior Tamil School was c old gallery hall, the first was condemned as unsal Thus was broken another but of necessity. The pla sent open compound. In compound were handed ov Tamil Preparatory that forthwith attached to the ment. During the April h carried out so as to make Junior and two Preparator dormitory was converted wooden partitions, windov the dining room, and the ones. On the first day of removal. During the ter raise the level of the bott hoped that when the next stand there for months on
The term has been o' tion to the work in this been begun in the new or celebration of the Centena time. For an account C we shall have to turn to a
R
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r-reaching changes. In chapter of the transfer of the Boarding oint Pedro. For one year a arried on and then closed. The school building to be erected fe and razed to the ground. link with the past-regretfully ce on which it stood is at preMarch 1938 the buildings and ver to the High School, and the it was decided to retain, was English Preparatory Departolidays certain alterations were
them suitable to house the y Departments. The upstairs into class-rooms by means of ws were let into the back wall of latrines replaced by modern the new term there was a great m efforts have been made to om of the compound, and it is rains come the water will not
end. ne of great activity, for in addicompound, the new hostel has he, while preparations for the ary have occupied everybody's if those days August 12-14th.
fresh chapter.
Review.
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been a number of English ladli but Miss Scowcroft has rema the link and ensuring an unch
Under her, the modern established, and she has bocon it that Vembadi cannot be t She has bccin its guidling star di ful periods. She has placcd t sound basis, and brought it to condition. Il cr allblo nnanagen school is a tribute to her ad clearness of thought and preci mired by all who come into only instructs girls in matters but also in those relating to th building of character, devotion dition she finds time to give of ers' Association, and has frequ on different school topics. Sh local preacher to occu'ly thc pi thus breaking down the pro women in that capacity.
The length of sc1 vicc of til increased considerably, so that time now for a teacher to stay. factor to keep in rind. In made the division of labour a and the school may justly clai lines. Studics, games, rcligious acsthetic pursuits may all clai of time and attention. Thic ; girls for home life, for service cration of life to God is aimcd achieved.

cs connoctcd with the school incd throughout, forming unging purpose and aim.
school has loccome firmly he such an integral part of |hought of apart from hcr. uring onc of its most fruitho school on a financially an cducationally efficient incint of the finances of thc ministrative ability. Il Ier sion of cxpression arc adzontact with her. Shc not pcrtaining to their lessons, 2 higher plancs of life-the loyalty and duty. In adhcr services to the Teachently helped with lectures c was also thc first woman ulpit of St. Peter's Church, judice of people against
nc nincumbers of the staff haus
five years is cuito a short
That is a most ińn portant reased cualifications have ind responsibility possible un to loce run on dennocratic activitics, social activitics, n to lh:uvc tlhcir fair slharc ill-round development. of to their country, for conscat, and we bclicvc, being

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"For one hundred years badi, learning much more tha paration for whatever life has ing presented to them continu Education without religion is : rations of devoted women, bo have striven to seek first the the children committed to t As we stand at the close of or hold of another, we praise GO ble to accomplish and pray school may be a power for go courage to do the right, with God and their country, and lived in tune with the Infinite.
 

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girls have studied in Veman lessons, receiving a pre
in store for them, and havtally the Lord Jesus Christ. a dangerous weapon. Geneth English and Ceylonese,
Kingdom of God and to lead
heir charge to do the same. he century and on the thresId for what it has been possi
that more and more the od, sending out girls with ove in their hearts to serve
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CHAP
THE CENTENAF
At the end of 1937 th to make arrangements fo mct for preliminary discu: ous sub-com mittecs to be 1 of the work. During the Ea part of the Summer term sent out to old girls and b Malaya. Thcn when ideas plans were talking a definit to Vembadi's children. W Secretaries were busily co of old girls, representative were going out visiting anc expense of entertainment, her children was preparin work, and also her own p the last period cach aftern to relhearsals, at first in form specially constructed peated their parts over anc heard at the farther end of drew near the Entertainn preparations werc imidle and accommodation. Two to decoration and propara on the morning of August
The programme, sc some indication of the var pectCdl.

TER 2.
RY CELEERATIONS.
e special committee appointed r the Centenary Celebrations, ssion and the choosing of variresponsible for different scotions ster term of 1938 and the early i morc than 1,000 lettcrs wcirc oys in all parts of Ceylon and s had become crystallized, and e shape, a second call went out that days of activity they were llecting names and addresses 's in each area in the peninsula l collecting funds to meet the in school cvery teacher with g for the cxhibition of school articular item for the Pageant, oon for a month was given up the hall and then on the platoutside, where the children relover again until they could be the Netball pitch. As August nent Committee got busy and for providing visitors with food days and nights were clevoted tion of all the class-rooms, and 12th. cverything was ready.
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FRIDAY, AUG 6-30 a. m.
TEN 9-30 a. m.
THÁN
(An
BUSI
10-30 a. įm. 12500 Noon 2-4 p. ni. 4-30 p. m. 5-30 p. m.
LUN EXH CENI LAYI
CI 7-30 p. m.
FANC SATURDAY, AI 6-30 a. m.
• •
TEN 8-30 a. m. 10-00 a. m.
TREI RECE
12-00 Noon 3-30 p. m. 5-30 p. m.
by M LUNO Sror PUBI
Sir
H. S
Dr.
Mrs. 6-30 p. m.
PAGI SUNDAY, AU 8-00 a. m.
AssE
-8-30 a. m.
Divi
Rev. (Chair
Miss

GUST 1 2H
NIS
NKSGIVING SERVICE
Mrs. Raju opportunity will be given to
Old Girls to speak) NESS MEETING
President : Dr. P. Solomon
CH
BITION OF SCHOOL WORK "ENARY BIRTIIDAY PARTY N(; OF FOUNDATION STONES
OF NEW HosTEI. airman: Rev. E. M. Weaver CY IDRESS IDIN NIER
U GUST 1 GBH
NIS
E PLANTING CERJEMONY
ElTION OF CENTENARY
OIFIFICRING|S
Iiss Scowcroft & Kg. children
CII
TS AND TEA
L1C MEETING IN SCI IOOL
COMPOUND
Chairтат :
Waitalingam Duraiswamy
s Speakcr, State Council) Speakers :
. Perera Esq. M. A. (Principal, "Training College, Colombo) allamma Satiavagiswara-Iyer Nallamma Tampoe Newman EANT.
GUST 1 4TH
MBLY OF OLD GIRLS AT
SCIIOOL PROCESSIONAL
NE SERVICE AT ST. PETER'S
CIIURCH E. M. Weaver
nam, North Ceylon District)
E. Scowcrost, B.A., M. R. S. T.
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The call of Alma M dren to Veinbadi for tlha day. They came from vest, bringing with then and loyalty. Not a litt prevailed was due to the returned to her, some of a happy reunion of the ol rics came thronging to exchanged with contempo
Two [pandals were o road leading past the s building under a canopy black. The school itself streamers of the saine kir adorned with green Ilcav
minated the whole com and lighting up the trees, a fairyland. These clal) possible by the villing li Central College. These had sat up night after nig On the last night some () putting in the finishing to
vell that one event follow ly. Those who were in cha lized this but those who v
The first meeting, a ivas a Service of Thank It was beautifully conclud iRaju, who lhad been at g sive Service so that all i well chosen address, oth vhcn they were in scho principals of former days.

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north and south and east and n a happy spirit of friendship le of that wonderful spirit that
way in which her old students Ehem after many years. It was El and the new. Joyous memo=one's mind as greetings were oraries. erected, one at caclı end of the chool, and people cntcrcd the of yellow strcamers tingel with
was tastefully decorated with nd, while pillars and walls were cs. At night electric jets illupound, outlining the buildings till the whole place looked like orate clccorations were rendered cly of masters and students of :, with others of the fairer sex, ht preparing for the great event. f them were up till 5-30 a.m. uches. Things were plannel s) Icd on the next perfectly smootharge of things may not have reavere visitors were struck by it. t 9 a.m. on the 12th of August Esgiving, held in the school hall. ted by one of the old girls, Mrs. cat pains to prepare a Responnight join in it. Then after a er old girls spoke of the times ol, recalling missionaries and , and all that they had donc for

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the school. Glowing tributes had brought the school to its Dr. Solomon unveiled a photog
A business meeting, presi mon, the retiring president, f bearers for the ensuing year may be said that so great a s was due to the efficient worki mittee. The outstation old g the fact that for more than a y reminded by the Secretary of t and told what were their plans to revive past memories and all were kept alive.
In the afternoon of the sam tion of school work. The handv in connection with other school History, Art, etc., showed a h ment. Every class had its ( articles were so numerous that rate them all. Special menti coir work the girls had done. operation of the staff in all the could not have been such a gre; had been told to be sure and verily most of them did, judgin that thronged the buildings anc
Then followed the Birthd. to everybody in the Lower S had Vembadi entertained so company. The most promin was the Birthday Cake go large 'V' surmounted the c with a hundred candles, and sul

were paid to those who present standard. Then graph of Miss M. Pickard.
ded over by Dr. P. Soloollowed, and new office were appointed. Here it uccess of the celebrations ng of the O. G. A. comgirls cannot fail to recall car they were constantly he Centenary Celebrations and hopes. This helped |l their feelings of loyalty
e day there was an exhibivork, needlework and work subjects like Geography, igh standard of achieveown work to show. The it is difficult to enumeon must be made of the Without the willing coarrangements, the event at success. The children bring their parents, and g by the crowd of visitors 1 compound.
ay Party. Tea was served chool compound. Never large and distinguished a ent feature of the Party rgeously decorated. A ake which was studded rrounded with yellow and

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BRTHDAY CAKE

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gold trimming, the cynosure vated on a table at thc top of school building. It was cut b distributed to the guests. Til College rendered great scrvice kept very busy seeing that cve
The Reception being ovo the new compound for the Sto dreams of more than ten ye realised on this occasion. Sh and the success of the cvent w her untiring efforts. l’eoplc ( Scowcroft managed to pile up the most crying need of the si still beyond the understanding an old girl, but there it is in steadily rising. The service the hymn :-
1. Christ is the Of the hous l3e its walls And its gate May its thre To thc Lor( May the ho: That shall c
2. Herc may h Learn to lov llcro thcir Unto Thoo Flcre may t In the paths l llcrc with ji Livc thcir d

of all cycs as it stood clothe steps leading into the y Miss Scowcroft, and then e Boy Scouts of Contral on that occasion, and were ryone was provided. r, the company repaired to ne-laying Ceremony. The ars of the l’rincipal were c was thc moving spirit tas in large measure due to often wondered how Miss rupces by the thousand for alhool--a new hostel. It is and imagination of many reality and the building is began with the singing of
foundation
e we raise ;
salvation ways praise. shold lowly l loc dear, rts bc holy inter here.
appy children "c Thy word; carts bc given () l'ord. hey be guided of truth ; by unboundlcd lys of youth.

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3. Here m;
Of Thy Here be From al Here mi Every sc Lifting ** : Into tlhe
4. Here mi Christ th With the Be ador Till the At Thy | And in a Own Th
This was followed by Fanny Thambyrajah, and Weaver, the Chairman, wh all the work of the instit gave a brief and vivid acco the laying of the foundatio gles and fears and disappoi of the attempt to make arri a new hostel. In conclusio had contributed to the sche ing stones, and all those tha before the completion of th
In a short address Mr. business of the gathering, a croft on having thus far su
The next item on the the stones. There were 36

Iбо —
ay every token presence be;
love unbroken l fear set free. ay light illumine iul of Thine, up the human
Divine.
ay God the Father, e Saviour—Son-— 2 Holy Spirit ed as one, whole creation footstool fall, doration ee Lord of all. —Amen.
ADAPTED.
a reading from the Bible by prayer by the Rev. E. M. o invoked God's blessing on ution. Then Miss Scowcroft sunt of all that had led up to stones, the hopes and strugntments that had all been part angements for the building of in she thanked all those who me by making donations, layat had it in their hearts to help he building.
Weaver then referred to the nd congratulated Miss Scowcceeded in her undertaking.
programme was the laying of in all, and as each one stoop

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ed to place the stone in pos dedication were uttered. W laid, everybody joined in the another part of the Celebratic
Here follows a list of the
1. Dr. Pakkiam Solom 2. In Memory of Chel Mrs. Milroy Paul by Dr. l'au 3. Old Girls' Associatic by Mrs. Milroy laul.)
4. Mr. and Mrs. W. behalf by Miss E. Scowcroft.) 5. Miss M. Pickard. ( Vivekanandarajah.)
6. Mrs. H. R. Cornish Rev. H. R. Cornish by Mrs.
7. Miss A. Stephenson. L. Stephenson by Sister East 8. In Memory of Ethcl by Mrs. A. Chellappah.)
9. Mrs. N. N. Thailotl 10. Mrs. C. R. Tambiah ll. Miss Annie I. Symol by Miss I3. II. Alphonso.)
12. In Memory of Mrs (Laid by Miss G. Gnanaprag. 13. Mrs. S. lv. Thanho (Laid by Mrs. Scbastiampilla 14. Mrs. IIolt. (Laid O. Barker.)
15. Mrs. P. W. Thamb
by Mrs. J. W. Arudpragasam
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sition the solemn words of hen all the stones had been singing of the Doxology and ins came to an end.
stones and the donors :-
O.
lam. (Laid on behalf of ll.)
on, Colombo IBranch. (ILaid
Scowcroft. (Laid on their
Laid on her behalf by Mrs.
(Laid on behalf of the Wcaver.)
(Laid on behalf of Miss er IIayden.)
Rosamma Cooke. (Laid
Clʻ3,1 ,
lds. (Laid on her behalf
. A. N. Gnanapragasam. Sam.)
harampillai and family. ..) n hor behalf by Miss M.B.
lah. (Laid on her behalf )

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16. Mrs. R. N. Sam Miss S. Samuel.)
17. In Memory of M by Mrs. S. T. Aseervathan 18. Kindergarten of Duraisamy and Rathiranee 19. Form III of 193( irakula singham.)
20. Miss J. Velupilla 21. In Memory of Pal (Laid by Mr. S. Muttiah.)
22. Dr. C. Supramar 23. Mrs. C. T. Joshu 24. In Memory of A his behalf by Miss R. Valu
25. Creedy House. Captain.)
26. Lyth House. (L Captain.)
27. Hornby House. Captain.)
28. Y. W. C. A. Sch E. P. Cathiravelu-- Preside
29. Std. 4 of 1936. tha mby.)
30. J. N. Arumugam Mother. (Laid on his beha 31. Mrs. S. Rajanay. 32. Miss S. Kuruvilla Mrs. S. E. Selvadurai.)
33. Arulsothy Aiyadu Mrs. Paramanathan.)
34. IIIrd. Jaffna Gui R. Thomas-Captain.)

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uel and family. (Laid by
r. G. S. Subramaniam. (Laid
1.)
1936. (Laid by Poomany Kathiravelu.)
5. (Laid by Blossom Kuma
i. «kiam, wife of S. Muttiah Esq.
niam.
al. ... Valupillai Esq. (Laid on pillai.) (Laid by Rasu Velupillai
aid by Fanny Thambirajah
(Laid by Thevy Hoole
hool Branch. (Laid by Miss
by Jeyamany Pootha
Esq., In Memory of his ulf by Mrs. N. Velupillai.)
agam.
... (Laid on her behalf by
urai. (Laid on her behalf by
de Company. (Laid by Miss

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35. Form I of 1936. () durai.)
36. Std. 3. of 1936. (L i ladu rai.)
That evening the main sc inko a gala room. Every a" brought out and people sat do ous dinner. Many of the old girls were arrayed in fancy c( proceedings with laughter and were at dinner, groups of oth topical songs and provoked mu of the Entertainment Commit stream of guests seemed to loc of revelry and good humour p itself enhanced that feeling, lights transformed the comp was the presence of old boys a ner, and they made thicir con two hours the compound wa merry-making and joyous lau guests departed and silence rei
The second day of the ce again there were signs of busy that of planting trees in mcm the school. IIigh spirits pre and another sang songs or mac days of old. If all thc mission; on that day would they not ha amply rewarded ? For what prevailed there ! When all the Lower School Hall, the short prayer by Mrs. Raju so mango tree on behalf of the w

Laid by Gnanam Sinna
aid by Rctnam mal Chel
lhool compound was turned vailable dining table was wn in relays to a sumptugirls and groups of present stume and cn livcn.cd the
mcrrimont. While some ers entcrtaincd them with ıclh am usement. Metm l)ers toe were kept busy, for the incvcr-cinding, but a spirit revailed. The compound for hundrcds of colourcd pund. Onc novel ficature s well as old girls at dintribution to thc sun. For s filled with the noise of ghter, then gradually the gnedl.
lclorations dawned and once activity. The first item was ory of formcr principals, of vailcd throughout, as one le humorous reserences to tries could have loccin thcre ve felt that their work was appreciation and gratitude nad assic mbled in front of proceedings began with a lowcd by the planting of a prk donc by Miss Stephen

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son. Mrs. Sivagurunathan | tree, on behalf of Miss Iresor which had been built in mer ampillai made a speech abou Miss Lyth and said that just Lyth was firmly implanted it would ever grow, so she ho planting would grow steadily air would find a lodging the the Lyth House girls sang a ed. Mrs. Bartlett, on behalf the Old Girls' Association pl Christian and Mrs. Chanmug a margosa in the name of Mi the memory of Miss Kilne planted by Mrs. David, an o Together with a little group sang an old favourite, "Be a put into the ground. The olc wish to be left out, so on thei sam planted an orange tree a referring to his days in the trees were planted in the Lov remaining two necessitated a School compound. By the si Laboratory, elaborate prepa Dr. Pakkiam Solomon for t tree on behalf of those who since 1920, Miss Creedy, Miss and Miss Scowcroft. A song occasion, was sung by old girl ous ones, each representing a gifts of flowers symbolizing t croft who was seated on a dec of this ceremony, Miss Val

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blanted the next, a margosa , in front of the Sick Room mory of her. Mrs. Sebastit the work and person of as the memory of Miss the minds of her girls and ped the tree that she was and that the birds of the rein. Thereupon some of song and the tree was plantof the Colombo Branch of anted the next tree. Mrs. am planted the next two, ss Penny and a mango to r. A mahogany tree was ld girl of Miss Hornby's. of her contemporaries she hero,' and then saw the tree i boys of Vembadi did not r behalf, Mr. Gnanapragafter making a little speech Junior School. All those ver School compound. The migration to the Upper de of the Domestic Science rations had been made by he planting of a flowering nad laboured in Wembadi ; Murgatroyd, Miss Pickard specially composed for the s of the period, while varidifferent quality, brought hat quality, to Miss Scows orated chair. At the close ipuram planted the tree.

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The last to be planted w school office, by the I Icac of the girls of the present the school choir, after wh and the trice was planted.
3y that time the su and c veryone was glad t time for the next item ;ssom blod in the hall. () and it was with som c di were accommodated on choir took its place on til the Kindergartens were r their duties very seriou brass trays long before stood, two on cach side them, while Miss Scowc and together they receiv of the Trce-planting die on the assembly. Then form sang the hymn 'O sea,' row aster row of O walked solemnly up to ti om thc trays. When all Miss Scowcroft thanked butions towards the Scho dedicatcd the gifts to Go and the givers should bc to declaro: thc tota | tlhcrc whon all had bocn count from those una blo to att that thcic was a sunn of start the fund.
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as a flamboyant, in front of the Girl, Thevy Ioole, on behalf
Anothcr song was sung by ich Thevy made a little speech
un had dispersed the clouds ) get into the shade. It was on the programme, so people ld girls filled it to overflowing, fficulty that the present girls thc vcrandahs. Thc school le platform and tiny tots from eady in good time. They took sly, standing thcro holding people were scated. They , with a large tray between roft stood just behind thcm, cd the gifts. The cxcitement cl down, and a quiet hush fell while the choir on the platLord of heaven and carth and ld girls, teachers and children he front and placed their gifts had got back to their places, them for thcir liberal contrilarship Fund. With this, she d, praying that both the gifts blessed. It was not possible and then of course. Later, cd and gifts received by post ind worc added, it was sound about lRs. 750 with which to
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amusement as well as thc various races. The memb Committee were kept busy
due to them for the splendic through their arduous task.
refreshments of a high stanc
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needs, but they went abou mood, providing entertainm be congratulated for the ma for so many hundreds of pe
Long before the Publ begin, the chairs were rapidl problem was how to seat al never had Vembadi seen when every available chair w more in the town to be hir standing. The audience w open compound facing the in front of which a tempo erected. The Chairman, swamy, and chief speaker, of the Government Trainin their seats on the platform t Mrs. Weaver, two old girl Nallammah Tampoe Newm Scowcroft. Just before th girls marched between row garlands of flowers and lea whereupon the garlands wei at the foot of the platform. form were garlanded and t the singing of a hymn of w music had been specially tenary:-

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ise who took part in the ers of the Entertainment
once more, and tribute is way in which they carried
Not only did they provide lard and serve the physical t their work in such a jolly ent as well. They are to inner in which they catered pple.
ic Meeting was timed to y being occupied and the l the people who came, for such an assembly. Even as taken and there were no ed, many had to remain was seated outside in the stately pillars of the hall, rary platform had been Sir Waitalingam DuraiMr. H. S. Perera, Principal g College, Colombo, took ogether with Rev. E.M. and s-Mrs. Ponniah and Mrs. an-and the Principal, Miss 2 meeting started, the old of present girls holding ves, and took their seats, e brought and laid down
The people on the plathe proceedings began with hich both the words and
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" Vem badi. "
V
 
 

iss V. LTC. O
لے لے لی۔ لي "

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O Lord, the sourc
The fountain Grant un to us in C To serve The
We praise Thec inc For gists of n And all the lovelii
O Lord how
Knowledgc we sce
Thy wisdom And fill not mind With Tlic C
The love that scel Intent on scrv And shares with jo Thy gifts so r
To sce the right, a Our hearts wi Undaunted then w
And fear nor
Within thcsc walls And Christ-lil Let justicc, love a Ín perfect har
The Rev. E. M. Woavc
hc welcomccl Sir Waitali
chair.
Miss Scowcroft was
Centenary Report which wa of the schools at Wcmbadi
Thercupon Mr. H. S.
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:e of love and truth, of all good, lays of youth e as we should.
ow for active limbs, nind and heart, less of things. good Thou art
k; to us impart roinn above, alone, but heart tornal love,
is another's weal ing Thee ; oysul, ready zcal ich und frcc.
ndl dlo it, lord, th courage fill; re heed Thy word pain nor ill.
Thy peace be found, ke charity ; ind truth a bound
mony.
r lcd in prayer, after which ngann ID urais wanny to the s callcd upon to read the is a resume of thc activitics sincc 1834.
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body and a spirit. The l its buildings, the spirit dwelt therein. The spe: pects on which he wished acquiring of knowledge,
ment of character. Know Character was developed fant was nỗt concerned w hood advanced certain p ted themselves. Then tl love and hate, acquired fi and it was essential that weigh those of hate. At s ship was developed, that munalism, caste, race anc pant in the world. Ideal. the other virtues should th as possible. Vembadi ha lopment of ideals and on its past achievements tury and wished it furthe
The Chairman, Sir speaking next, said that t ranged by an expert. M1 first place because he was He was glad that after hi for they would give no find that the blessing of C ning of the proceedings, f He noticed that every ac rected in this same way. of the body of the school a student, Central Colle badi. He exhorted the s up character and become

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body of a school consisted of dwelt in the students that aker said there were two asto speak. The first was the and the second the developledge was obtained at school. in three ways. A small inith any purpose, but as childurposes and interests presennere were the sentiments of rst at home, then at school, those of love should outchool the sentiment of friendlater led to feelings of coml creed. Hostility was rams of friendship, honesty and, herefore be cultivated as much td always stood for the devehe congratulated the school during the period, of a cen
' SUCCESS.
Waitalingam Duraiswamy, che programme had been arr. Perera had been given the a troublesome man (laughter). m there were ladies to speak trouble. He was pleased to God was invoked at the beginor that struck the right note. ctivity of the school was di
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widen the sphere of love a self.
A Tamil Song was very girls from Colombo, after called upon to spcak. Slh piece of Dr. Nallan nnah Sa unable to attond ovving to had to take the place of he privilege to be present ther in thc proceedings, although to be a silent listencr to th brought with her thc good loadi living in NcgOInnl) (), a 1 had been connoctcd with She paid a high tribute to amongst othcr things for ho the girls to sing. She was g the prcscnt could sing well. croft as a dreamer os drca coming true, and was sure t all be translated into reality had just left school she cm) man's chief spherc was in th rclations with tlhcir neig ll) create a sense of friendship ; of striving to excite cnvy an of costly sarees and riding incidentally would help thei concluded by cxhorting all guided by the school motto '
Mrs. Nallammah Tam glowing terms to thc miss who had come out from Eng Missionary Society. They

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ld scrvice and go beyond
tastoefully roeindler ecl llby old which Mrs. Ponniah was 2 was an old girl and the ia vagcs wara - Il y cer, who was illness. She said that she r aunt, but it was a great that cvcning to take part slhc w Oulcl lha vʼ(c 1)rcfcrr cd c specches of others. She wishes of old girls of Veinld of hor own family that Vennba di for Innan y years. the late Mrs. Trimmer, r energetic cfforts to teach lad to sind that the girls of She rescried to Mliss Scowms which were gradually hat besorc long they would Speaking to girls who hasised the fact that woc home, and that by their ours they should scolk to and lo vc for others, insteadl d jealousy by the wearing in finc notor cars. That husbands. (laughter) She girls of Venload to bo Darc to do Right.'
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they owed to Mrs. Trim and character of so many personality was indelibly
those who had gone out tution.
Mrs. Weaver then pri certificates awardcd to th and Necdlework competit in school. Miss Clark anc the entries for the II and Mrs. Naish those for the previous.
The meeting was br posal of a vote of thanks She thanked the speakers and ail those who had he a success. Í n humorous affectionate relationship t of Vembadi and the boys
Then followed a Pag “At School in the Past' (; ed.) ''At School in the after the style of Stephen Present' when the follow ther in unbroken line:-
Tamil Literatu
Kolladdam.
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mer who fashioned the life of the girls of Vembadi. Her imprinted on the lives of all
of the portals of the insti
2sented the Sports prizes and e winners in the Handwork ions that had been organized | Mrs. Selvadurai had judged work, and Mrs. Weaver and Needlework, on the Thursday
ought to a close by the proby Miss Satiavathy Tambiah. of the evening, the old girls lped to make the celebrations fashion she referred to the hat existed between the girls of Central. eant in four Acts depicting a scene from Dickens, adaptFuture' (an amusing fantasy Leacock.) "At School in the ing items followed one ano
le.
ind.
little Mothers.' e Children of Many Lands.' nd Drill.
n History.
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AT SCHOOL IN
CHILDREN OF M
 
 

THE FUTURE
ANY LANDS
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9.
10. 11.
12. 13. 14.
Animated Matl Physical Cultu lPianosorte Duc Guides and Bri
Houses. Violin Orchest
In the last Act, gro musicians, nurses, teacher girls, children of the prese dren knclt before the Sp was filled by Miss Scowcri respective tributes while
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Coming, comi Vembadi's chi All her loving All her childrc They are brin; Un to lhcr this ||
Coming, comi Vembadli's clni Skilsul doctors Life to save a They are bring Un to her this
Coming, comi Vctnn l)a(liʼs clhi A cademic hon Sc(king wisdo They are brin, U in to her this

nematics.
C. .
t.
wnies.
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ups of doctors, graduates, s, cvangclists, mothers, old nt, and spirits of suture chilirit of Vembadi (which role oft) and osserod to her their a chorus sang the following
ng, yos they are, ldrcin incar and far ; sons and daughters, an glad and gay; ging now their tribute estal day.
ng, yes they are, ldren incar and far; , over striving nd pain allay; ging healing power festal day.
Ing, ycs thcy are, ldren incar and sar; ours wearing, m where they may ; ging gens of knowledge
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Coming, coming, Vembadi's childre Skilled in music ar Tune they their ha They are bringing Unto her this festa
Coming, Coming, y Vembadi's childre) Nurses watching O Cheering, driving They are bringing Unto her this festa
Coming, Coming, y Vembadi's childrei Teachers patiently High ideals to port They are bringing Unto her this festa
Coming, coming, y Vembadi’s childrei Servants of our Sa IIe the Life, the T They are bringing Unto her this festa
Coming, coming, y Vembadi's childrei Mothers whose dea Gladly own their l They are bringing Un to her this festa

ycs they are, in near and far; ld in singing rmonious lay; precious talents l day.
’œs they arc, in near and sar; ver sick Ones, Dain away;
loving service l day.
'es they are, n near and far; endeavouring
ray;
education l day.
ves they are, n near and far. viour holy, ruth, the Way; deep devotion
day.
ves they are, n near and sar; r sons and daughters oving sway ;
now their children
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9. Coming, comi Vembadi's chi All her old gir Rallying roun They are brin Unto her this
10. Coming, comi Vennbadi's chi Merry youngs Eager now so They are brin Un to her this
l l. Coming, comi Vembadi's chi Spirits of her On they come They are brin Unto her this Whcin all had taken of Vembadi gave thcm words, 'Welcome, thrice lbadli ! Prccious are your { again and use thcm to th the scrvice of your count Christ Our Lord. Darc to The Curtain came ( Doxology in which the wil
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ng, yos they aro, ldrcn incar and far; ls true and loyal d their homage pay; ging happy memories festal day.
ng, yos thoy a ro, ldren incar and far; ters of the present r work and play; ging happy childhood festal day.
ng, yes they are, ldron near and far ; future students
in glad array; ging hope and promise festal day. up their positions, the Spirit thcir commission in these
wclcome, children of Vomsists in my sight. Take them c honour of your school, for ry und in the name Of Jesus do right ! Darc to be truc! ’” lown after thc singing of tho ole company joinccl.
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TRIBUTES FRC
THE VEM EBAD I
Creative unity was the Pageant. The past and future interwoven into the fantasy The passing show of schoo fitting finish by the varied Vembadi.
After we had been intro background of early Vembadi pedantic school-master dragc in a determined regimentati made to define a horse as a C and the definition lost itself The schoolmaster was not a steam roller. His particular originality he had not yet stil unashamed of his own pride 'students avenged themselve unison of their disagreements and with smug self-satisfacti who most threateningly purp cyclopaedia. The faults in t the generation behind us were girls succeeded in vivaciousl of knowledge without underst assimilating facts without int.
The scene soon shifted t We saw a brave new world not in beauty. There, utility but it also dispensed with

)M OUTSIDE
PAGEANT
keynote of the Wembadi of education were deftly of a schoolgirl's dream. activities was given a homage to the Spirit of
oduccd to the historical , we saw a pom pous and poning his hapless pupils on. The students were uadruped which...... . . . . . in packed polysyllables. Schoolmaster; he was a bugbear was a girl whose |lled ; and he was naively and prejudice. But the s subconsciously by the
IIc was cxasperated, ion employed a teacher Orted to be a walking enlhe educational system of a musingly satirized. The y depicting the futility anding, and the folly of 2r protation.
) a school in the future. where women delighted did away with drudgery, the leisureliness of life.

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Ceography was learnt by cal appreciation was a cl History by swallowing a how the mechanical tend would ultimatcly tond t young. The Sang-froid ( the bewildcred interest of new surroundings, wore ir
It is significant that school were introduced a of Oriental music. In thc tumos and tho langu (orous to creatc the real spirit of feature here was the intro
In a short approciatic do full justice to the the various items. An that the organizer of this alive and kicking. By triangle, a scuare and a r (quick precision. The pr the fast train between &; the audience cxpect an c girls, but up poppod the train was not streamlined l’hysical Culture was and grace. In this item, action, a inimlolomoss of strength which were rare plays of Jaffna schoolgi nodest in formation was loss in gran co.
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means of an acroplane, musihieved by an injection and pill. In this scene we saw lency in the modern world (o influence the li fc (of the of the future school-girl, and the prescint day girl in hcr tolligently portraycd. the activities of the prosent indl also roundlordl off lo y it omms first item the colourful cosi strains of tho voena holpod Tamil I literature. A uniquc oluction ()f th (2 Yal.
on like this it is impossible to competing attractiveness of imatcd Mathematics showed item can make Mathematics drill formation, an isoscelles ectangle wcrc illustrated with oblem of thc slow train and linkesantura i and l”; llai nadc laborate arrangement of the answer 'Mocsalai.' The fast
s a happy blending of agility the girls showed an case of 1m () von ('1nt and a hala ince of among physical culture disirls. The pyramid, though si rinn in excecution and essort
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The Ilomage to Vembat integral part which the past tribute towards the building and its effect on life.
The Pageant as a whole thể various aspects of Veml rich in originality, efficient it monious in expression.
I. PONN
(
The Pageant, though not coming at the end of the l speeches, appeared rather long difficulty was to sind a suitab exit. I know some, who sat in get home early, decided to leav but could not because there wa
Yes, that was the first bea scene followed another and onc rapidity that one had hardly ti It speaks very highly for the ments. Those who have ha management, therefore, will Vembadi on this first beauty of
The next beauty was its si note was struck right at the be mother and the vivacious daug celebrations. The average m and her aged mother were depi neckcd, high brow ladyship at

i showed the varicol and und present pupils conup of the School Spirit
successfully portrayed padi education. It was co-ordination and har
AMI PALAM ESQ. B. A.
cntral College.
very long by itself, yet Public Mecting, full of ... But where one found lc moment to make an 2ar me, being anxious to fe at the end of a scene, s no cind till the end
uty of the l’ageant. One act another with such me to turn aside to talk. control of the arrangcd cxpericnce (of stago specially congratulatc the l'agcaint.
Implicity. The correct ginning, when grandma, hter sat talking of the odest mother of Jaffna ited rather than a stiffd her aristocratic Old

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mother full of airs. The the actresses who followc
/\ notlhcr lbeauty of tl; of thc acts. Great origin selection and producing contain cdl a numbcr os it Thosc rcsponsible deservc
Act I introduccd the Centenary Celebrations landmarks lost behind, what the future may hold of one era, they bring you you would like to shade possible into the future, present. Thus the old l: days when she was young ders what the future will 'poles' in Act II, where past and of the future. (uestion 'What are you c teen items told bricfly, wl
This was a wholc overy child had a part t docsn't it? Almost every daughter on thc stage mother must have clapp tlho salko os hcr own chill with brothers, uncles, aul to the Centenary Celebr w:a rinned.
Is that all there is t last, Future, lo resent?
No, that is not all, a
ther beauty of thc Pagea
12

costume and setting of all l were simplc yet charming. c l’ageant was thc sclection ality was displaycd in thc of thcm. Act III specially ems that wcirc qui tc original. to be highly congratulated. l'ageant very aptly. Talk of locs na kc one look back at and also look forward into l. While marking the close to the dawn of another and your eyes and peer as far as lighted by the cvents of the ady thinks of the good old , while the young girl wonbe like. Thus came the two were shown schools of the This naturally raised the loing today? A series of fourhat they arc about today.
school affair, for practically o play. It makes you think, author must ha vc scen his dcar and beamcd; almost every cd once louder than usual for :l, a 1ndl S( ) i t 1nı ust lh;ı v (: loC.(:In its and friends. They all canno
ations and their hearts welc
to bc said about a school
ind that brings me to yet anoInt, Act IV.--thc solemn, nay

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even sacred part of that visio may have obtained distinctio laurels in athletics or not, ma tain or not, may have been j end of it all she knows that
these portals, the spirit of it arid therefore it is that onc
pectfully, on bendled kne offering what she has mi and the Spirit, knowing
all gifts without prefcrc give them back again. T scene touched the hearts of solemn stillness held the pl Vembadi met her children to God-speed in their various v deed a noble picture of the ti school and its students. Th truly live in the minds of tho day.
魏 Then with hearts that
and awed by the majesty of in unison rise and bless We Blessed art thou, Vembadi, a
C. S.

11. A girl when a student ns or not, imay have von ny have been House Capust a student ; yet at the when she goes forth from Ehe school goes with her, day she turns and rese says "Alma Mater," Eide of this mortal life ;
no distinctions, accepts nce, only to bless and Therefore it was that this
everyone present and a Face while the Spirit of
bless them and bid them valks of life. This is inrue connection between a his is a picture that will ose who were present that
are warmed and inspired
that last scene shall we, imbadi ere we depart
nong schools ! 5. PONNUTHURAI, Jassna College,
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The following letter Public Mccting:-
Deur Miss Scowcroft,
Congratulations inna your staff on the wonders The Pageant was splendi of their itcms with a Tamil singing was of a hi homage was most thrillin
May God's blessing l)
Sunday marked the That morning at about 8. and enthusiastic old girls the school corridor read desired to pay their last their homes. The rescin crost started Out und w When the lcalder reach(d to sing "What sh;f In the words of ai () (l revcrcncc not un mixedl W cinterced thc church, roen “When once thy soot on is more there than thou crowd in the church was ship with one another gai

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arrived the day after the
Christ Church l’resbytcry,
Jaffna. 13th August, 1938,
iny times over, to you an ul programme this crvening. d: thc girls went through each really animated spirit; the gh standard. The crowning g und solemn ! QK.
C on Vembadi down the ages
Sincerely yours, J. lR. NAVA RET NA M.
climax of the Celebrations. - 15 a large crowd of students lincd up in double sile along y to go to Church, where all
homage before departing to t students, lccl by Miss Scowerce followed by thc oldl girls.
thc church (loors, all locga in ve o fler ( our y go bol l ord ?''' girl prescint, 'A scoling of ith scar, overtook us as we hinding us of those wortls, ters the church locware, God 1.' The sight of that vast thrilling indeed. Our fellowned a decper significance. It

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gave to many of us a new c. Most of us found ourselves and we saw the church a t Scowcroft touched the core innermost souls when she m that we were all part of a grc We felt that we wore not on but above all of the Infinite ( be thankful for the known pa achievements. When Mr. W should characterize all Our were to blame for thc disuni in our social relationships in the barriers and hindrances on His, came hom c to us as ir realized that they were not willingness but of our un yield the spirit of good will and f the atmosphere during thos , the way for mutual trust in til:
At the close of the servic Communion was administere solemn service for all, and last took Communion in St. were at school more than sist
'When wo look lack oil days of our celebrations wo fellowship we had and the ne that came to us of thc Christ emotion we experienced was togetherness but one so vita drawn incarer to one another

onception of the church. part of a great company riumphant reality. Miss
of Our hearts and Our ado a reference to the fact at company of witnesses. y witnesses of our school, Gol to Whonn wo should st of a cc intury of glorious V ca ver told us that Unity lives we realized that wo on that somctimes cxists
life. The truth that all were on Our side, not upover csore. We further
tlhe barricrs of I l is uningness We hoped that ellowship that pervaded c throe days would pavc e future.'
e, the sacrament of Holy d. It was a great and dspccially for sonne who 'eter's Church when they y ycars ago.
those rich and inspiring remember the happy w and bigger conception ain Lific and Service. The not a mere sceling of getl and real that all felt and to God.'

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A TREBUTE FRO IN CC
It was at the l’ublic ed what it had achicved badi, though it works (u bornc out by the fact that of the Isl; ind was from V has not becin inscribed a ther, not only in the others in professional s world Consi (lors the lhu greatncss of a school is Occupying high position: past pupils that a rc inak spherc. In the eyes of t humblest positions, but acity of purpose, to ma blessing to their own selv truly great has been achi has taught its pupils.
At this meeting the present pupils who gavc musical and other items. markcd by Smartness. (|uick succession, a indl tlh C veryonic look col forwarc physical cxcrciscs, house of the school subjects a the stage. The pupils sl given an all-round cdu Wostern as well as in was true of their master languages. What is v. though they are far awa.

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M TWO OLD GIRLS DOMEBO.
Meeting that Vembadi showand for what it stood. Wcmictly works soundly. This is the first Tamil woman doctor cimbadi. Ior Roll of Ionour nidst pomp und show, yct it is line of cloctors, teachers and heres, but also in what the in blor positions of life. The lot in the number of its pupils s in life, but in those of its ing a success of lifs: in any he world they may occupy the if they are held with a teii. ko the best of lisc and be a ics and others, then something evcd. This is what Vem badi
public was cntertained by the
a splendid programme of
All the performances were Onc item followcd another in ty were so cntertaining that to th(* ın (ext. Mlatlıs, music, craft, in fact sketches of most s taught now, woro show in on lowed that they were being ucation. They were good in Eastern music, and the same y of the Tamil and English 2ry striking is thc fact that " from the fashional olc town

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of Colombo, yet thcy arc
ward movements of the tim all their forward movements but they know where to dra
a case of ultra-fashions and
mere show-theirs is a polic with caution and within re forward policy they still pres city and sincerity. Their ac practical sensc, not vain sho' this spirit of Vembadi may her pupils -
Finally it must be menti did their share in helping to great success. They were ev work that was going on. refreshments, in cloaning u ing people round and in vari not stand aloof like fashional ted lips and pencilled cyclb garb and afraid of soiling the like village damsels (in the their simplicity, offered a h blest of dutics. Only those after several yoars could r modern influences at work til of sophistry, but there was st badi in the girls of the simplicity and sincerity, of S
Wol) donc Vomba (li ! W your Maker, Helper and ric
RANJ 1 AN 1

2
in touch with all the fore. Sincerity prevails in s. They are fashionable, v the inc. Theirs is not blind aping-thcirs is not y of marching forward but asonable limits. In this ;crvc that spirit of simplitions arc marked by sound w. May God grant that be ever kept alivc by all
oned that the prosent girls make the Celebrations a ver ready to help in all thc They helped in scrving thc D the building, in showous other ways. Thcy did ble young ladies with pain| rows, glittering in tinsel 2ir dainty singers, but thcy, best sense of the term) in clping hand in the humwho visitod thc school alize how even a mid the crc was no marked tracc ill that old spirit of Vcmpresent--that spirit of Crvicc and usefulness.
/ith the right hand of God incl, march broast forward.
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L'E
“The carth shall bc the glory of the Lord, as Thus spoke the Lord of h
Thc disciples, thc car who werc compelled to car Christ, had thc vision to c world, a great number" (o! several kinds of organizat
() ur school at Vicimba made and planned a contu implant in the hearts of Kingdom of our Lord Jo this institution as a Go many young girls like ycar to share thc light in other places.
There is always dang Climbing Mount Evcrest thing though it is at the loc one of the greaticst how to walk among men affairs of li fo in al love tha sails, that bclieves all thin
flict us bow Our hoads old prophct, Old and I’rc
"Shino for thy light i Lord is risen upon thcc. cxcellency, a joy to many tol that is already startico bright and chccrsul hot
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lled with the knowledge of the waters cover the sca.' osts, Our God.
ly missionarics from the west ry thc mossago of the Divinc stablish in many parts of the Christian institutions and ions.
di was one of the attempts ury ago, at II is command to pcoplc hero thc scod of the sus Christ. We look upon d-opcncd way along which flaming torches pass cvery thc villages of Jasna and in
er in looking without seeing. is not after all an important present momcnt supposed to achievements. It is learning and women in thc ordinary ut nover lets go, that never gs, and cnclurcs all things.
revcrently and listen to thc scnt Girls of Vembadil
s comic and the glory of the
I will malko tlh cc am ct crnal gencrations.” Thc new hosl, whicn completcd will be a inc for many generations to

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What is the message V for the new era?
What have we learned ing the past hundred years?
There are opportunitic suffering humanity, which t The divinely appointed line are laid down in the book O not to walk in narrow paths. the balance of power for thc woman fails, the world fails.
The prophet Isaiah wo he could see the followers watch women of education, playing endless games, Sce world needs them and their present day safely say, the Esther, not carried away by and to her needy people ar. be used for bettering thc There is a great need befort and find true the saying:-
What I sper What I kept VVlhaut I gav (
One hears the whisperin not only to finish the task, already laid down. 'Thosc having received the promisc, better thing for us that thc made perfoct.'
Let us join togethe of God, in making the King

4.
embadi Girls' School has
in the school of God dur
s for the woman to help le man cannot casily tako. of scrvice for the woman God. The woman inccds
As a mother she holds
Kingdom of God. If thc
uld be much distressed if of fashion or if he could talent, power and leisure, king pleasures, while the
services. Can we at the re we see some Queenly y gaiety, but truc to Godl ld race? Let our talents conditions of humanity. 2 us. Let us bc watchful
t I had ; I lost; * I ι:ινο.
g voice. It is a call for life, but to complete the lives all dicol in thc faith not
God has rescrived som c y without us might not be
in enriching the City dom of God a reality Oil

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carth. This is our task a fore, not with doubt, but remember the lines of the
March we forth in thc With the bann That the light of the May shino thr Fight wo the fight wi To set their c. That the carth na y l)
As tho vvatcers
 

ld inspiring privilege. Therewith confident faith, let us hy min n:-
strength of God cr of Christ unsur ledl ; glorious gospol of truth oughout the world; Ll sorrow and sin ptives frce, c si lleol with thc glory of (Godl cover the sca.
A N ( ) L1 ) G IRL.

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வேம்படி வனிதையர் கழக நாற்றா திரு. J. A. துபைரேத் பாடப்பட்ட
ஆசிரிய @
யாணர்யாழ்ப் பாண நகர் ய யாழினிமை ( யாதெனவு மறியவைக் ரளவிலாக் க பேண நல் லொழுக்கமொடு
பெட்புநிறை ை பேதையர்க ளுயர்தரக் பெற்றிசால் பு சேனகல் தேயத் திருந்துகு செய்ய பொற் சேவைசெயு மாண்பின சேவை ரெய வி காணரிய பல்லூழி காலங் கe கல்வியமிழ் ே கந்த மலி வேம்படிம கதிகருக வே தேனே வருக! மெத்தேடிஸ்ற் மி
கேயாக்கலைமா மகிவருக! தேவேவருக! பானுவொளிக்
சோவேருக! கோகில்லாக் ( மானே வருக! ே | my | i *(ಶ್ರ in,
மங்கை வருக ! மாண் புவ நல் மாயாழபபான f5 sy
மாக போக்க வங்கபெருங் கானே பெருக விழக்தக் கனிய
கன்னே சில்லா மடமாகர் தாமேகமக்கு நிகரென்னுங் ச காக நின்ற கனிவிருங்கே! வரனே பனையா புய்வண்ண முவ வினேயலைந்து @ಗಿರ್ತ(೧ti வாசமல்கு வேம்படியார் மா( மாகர் உலக மேதிகழ வரு

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ண்டுப் பூர்த்திவிழாவைக் குறித்து தினம் அவர்களாற்
பாக்கள்.
பிருத்தம் ாங்கணும் வணிகையர்கள் யோடுகல்வி
காண்டு.நா றென்னுமோ ால வெல்லே பேசரிய நாற்குணப் வைக்க கனியே !
கல்விகற் றேகழையு ற்றமணியே ! ரு யேசுவின் பாகமலரைச் |ண்டு ரை நின்னகத் தேகொ 1ங்க முகிலே! ழைத்திடுமொர்
கவருகவே ருங்கணேயு மாதரசு
வருகவே ! ஷிரைமுக மேவருக ! கேய வஞ்ஞா ன ம்வருக! கேஸேவருக! கலைஞான கொழுந்தேவருக! கானில்வளர் கியா și; GM1, (? tu 1 IT i øs?i, (5t ก 3 g) all மேவருக! நாருண்டு கைமாரஞ் ஞான விருள் ଐf (ty<ଳନୀ
யே கொண்ட கழையுங் தமிழு மாங்கிலமுந் ருக்குக்கொண்டு கற்றிடவிக்
கஞ்சமென்ருே?ர்க் களிகல்கும் 1ந்துகீபா ட் கொண்டவெவர்
விலகுங் கற்பகமே! கேவருக பல்லாண்டு க! விரைந்து வருகவே!

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APF
Members of the St. than one year's service.
188
Mr. T. II. Stockton ,, A. Siltam palam Miss L. Koch ,, N. Margenout Mrs. Stockton Miss II. Benjamin Mr. P. Tamber ,, D. P. Solomon ,, A.IL.lonnampala Miss Mary Kander Mr. S. Eramboe Miss Thangam Sithan para pillai (Mrs. Vce vagoc) ,, M. Murugesu Mr. T. C. Emerson
, A. V. Charles ... , R. N. Sabin Miss E. I’. Per:) » S. Scthamrapillai ,, C. Ponner an Mr. G. Subranh Philip Miss T. Ramu ips Mr. R. S. Mutt-hia Miss M. Valascy Mrs. E. R. Frederick Miss E. G. Eliathaml ,, C. Varithamby

187 -. PENDIX. Els of the (G. 13. S. of not less
ונו
3-1937.
Miss R. Chinnapillai „ 1). M. Vallipuram
L. Chinnialı
A. M. Sinnathainby ,, Emily Supramaniam
C. Saravanamuttu A. Supramaniam
M. Cliellaappalı ,, K. Muttiah Mr. 1). W. Satlıasivam Mrs. Adams Mr. J. S. Kathiravclu Mrs. Emerso11 Miss K. Appakutty
C. Clıcllappalı ,, Grace Kanclappar
3. Vallipuram (G. (allipuram 1. Lopramaniam A. J/ccravagoc M. Murugesu G. Sinnappu
J. K. Nagalingam Mr. Ari P. Venasithafnby
S. Vallupillai , A. Murugesu
N. Kandappu S. M. Elyarchy
ra
: : : : : : : : :
: :

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Miss P. Velupillai
yy
Mrs. Grace Thambu Miss S. Venasithamby
y
y
y
Arul Sinnappu
A. Ezekiel N. Jacob T. Mailvaganam lo. Davis S. Thampoc N. Chellappah S. Walton
Members the Staff of thc
1923
Mr. S. S. G Miss Mary Mr. P. R. P Miss M. T.

Miss N. Morrison
J. Albrecht , G. N. A seervathann
, N. Camagasabai , L. Chclvadurai ,, IV. Tha mbi pillai ,, G. Vadivelu , M. Venasithamby
S. Sinnatham by
Union Training School.
-28.
una nayagam
Williams On nuthurai Veerava goe

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Mlcinnl)crs () f tlhc St;ufI than Onc yours service.
Miss M. Vanzyl ,, J. Al lorocht M1 r. l . M1. (Chella spalh Miss Nitty de Silva
M | ' |'; ll
(Mrs. Tampoc) Mr. R. N. Salba paith y Miss 3. de loodt
A. Kaundler ,, Ml. N;ı tlha 1nicl Mr. S. Rich; rols Miss N. Eliatham by
,, . Christian | , , C. Ricc
, Annammal Williams
R. Alexander , ,. Spittel M1 ir f. || 3. } | : 1 hilo; lsz, Miss I. ( ( )ugg() lR. I l (yn Sinn; in
༡༡
y
Mrs. Sithampa rapillai MT is S | | | ( in Sinn; in
,, A. A. hilips ,, M. ll ”. Sant lia
N. Thampoo ,, J. Sant trukula singhe
, S. M. Margonout , E. T. Winslow

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of the G. I. S. of not less
- 1937.
Miss C. Konamalic
(Mrs. l)avid) l'. Supratmaniam
(Mrs. M. Thampu) l. (lo Silva ,, Ml. (Clhcllapp;uh
(i. Sabapathy pillai , , , ). Thomas ,, la. Mlartinesz , . M. Cooke ,, A. Tha moth crann
OOS I loolo T. Solomon ,, Mi. l )issau na yake
, Ml. Coolkc
A. Kona malic , lva su 3 reckenridge , , ( G. V cora sing hc (. (... John
Ε. , ο οι ) ruιggαι A. J. A scorvatham M. l'onnial , G. Buttory
J. Newton Mr. A runnanayagam Mrs. Berenger | Miss P. Supramaniam
Ranji IBreckenridge Mr. N. S. Samucil

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Miss J. Thamotheram
,, Io. Chelliah K. Watson , Arul Thampoe
,, L. Ponniah ,, E. Chinniah ,, E. A rumugam
, A. N. Sithampara
pillai Mr. R. P. Ponnuthurai
Miss C. Kathiravelu Mr. S. C. Thevathasan Miss R. Aria cutty
, G. Vethanayagam E. M. Ponnialh F. Samuel A. Walton Mr. J. C. Thamotheram Mrs. K. Hoole Miss S. Kuruvilla
E. Gabriel
Mary Thamotheram
 

Miss GraccThamotheram
,, N. Chan mugam
II.G. Subramaniam Mrs. L.P. Paramanathan
,, C. Chandran Miss S. Vallipuram IR. Osborın lR. Ainlkctcll (Mrs. Thambapillai). S. Samuel Mercy Thamothcram
lO. David G. N. Ascervatham P. Murugesu , P. l’on nam palam
V. Clhinnialh S. Vetnam ,, R. Thomas
S. Thambiah E. P. Cathiravelu M. Clough
y

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PRESENT
Miss E. Scowcroft. I. A. S. Vallipuram. Ist. of Lower Schot , S. Tambiah. 13. A. (i , , l. 1”. Cathir, volu.
, M. Thambiah I. A. ,, C. Il Nauju. 13. A. (Mlad| ,, R. Thoinns. 2ncl. ( M 1ʻS. lK. [ || ( ) ( )l(y. | S t. (Cl;n S. Miss 13. Alphonso. 2nd. , l”. I'on na nalain. Mrs. L. J”. l'ara na nath; Miss S. Sa mucl. 3rol. Cl,
,, M. Thannotlha ra nn. ,, l. Samucl.
F. Nalliah. , M. Thambyapillai. , J. de Silva. Uncer
Tamil P
Miss G. Vadivolu. 2nd.
, S. Sinnatham by. T ,, L. Chclva (lurai
M
Miss V. Chinnial. L. T.
, S. Rctnam. 1st. (
, l’. Sittam palam. J

I -
STAPF-.
M. R. S. T. (l'rincipal) Class Train cd. (Supervisor 1) vl;udlr;us)
}. A. (Mil; dr; s)
(l, m (lon)
;S)
liss I; it (i. s Irin ((l Vor 111 Cul I. (;ss (ortific; t . 2nd (lass (crtificato.
n. 3rd. (loss Certificatc. ass lic visional Certificatc.
Sonic Camloridge
y y
y
tific; lo (l.
reparatory.
(Class "l`r;ı il ( * (1. cachcis' 'rolin. Cortificatc.
y
usic.
(. II. (piano)
Class Certificatc. (()ricntal
music)
lighcr local. (Singing)

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Secreta
Miss T. Kan,
Hoste
Mrs. L. M. Selvar , S. Benjamin , S. Samuel. (
Printed by B. Santiag
 

ary.
lgálnaly'aga m
l.
"et namn. (Mlatr(on) ... (Retired Matron) Nurse)
E.
(d
} Sis.
pepillai 890-3S.

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