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by Jo
Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:22 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: D.R. West's Memorial Service
Replies: 78
Views: 18423

I'm glad it all went off well, and that Hertford OGs were well represented and participated in things. I didn't go, partly because I don't have a great desire to go back to the institution itself (albeit we were at Hertford, not Horsham), but more importantly because we had another CH reunion in Lon...
by Jo
Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:30 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Girl
Replies: 104
Views: 21648

Talking of supervising prep, I learned a really valuable lesson for life supervising 2nd or 3rd form prep on Thursday evenings when I was in the 6th form. It's stood me in good stead ever since. As juniors do, they would try and play up, push boundaries, see what they could get away with - and it wa...
by Jo
Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:19 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Girl
Replies: 104
Views: 21648

Gosh, poor Nutto. I never quite thought of her as Munch and Kay have portrayed her but all of a sudden I feel quite sympathetic. I'm amazed though that she was still around in Caron's day, I'd have said she retired while I was still at Hertford. Munch, I've enjoyed reading your reminiscences too, no...
by Jo
Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:19 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Girl
Replies: 104
Views: 21648

I was just wondering if there's anyone out there who was in 2's mid-70's ish who remembers the name of that mad German woman who use to come in for Lawrie's night off? Nutto von Stetten. She certainly was another eccentric one. Never taught me, but I remember she would occasionally have to supervis...
by Jo
Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:01 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Girl
Replies: 104
Views: 21648

Re: Miss Screen

Kay, Jo, have you ever told this story to a Counsellor or Psychologist? I apologise for making the assumption that you, like many of the rest of us, have been counselled at some time. Funnily enough no, I've never had counselling. It never seemed like bullying at the time, just the sort of daft hol...
by Jo
Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:35 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: School Needlework
Replies: 218
Views: 53448

Precisely how she struck fear into our hearts is hard to recall at this distance. With my clients, I always encourage them to try to go beyond what they think and feel and identify what actually HAPPENED to provoke that response in them, and honestly that is very difficult in this case. I can remem...
by Jo
Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:52 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Girl
Replies: 104
Views: 21648

Hi Kay - as you say, we 5's must stick together! This might belong in the housemistresses thread, but do you remember mad Miss Screen (and her fox terrier Sarah?). I was about to voice a very unambiguous opinion but I'd better do that in another posting where I don't mention her by name :P She used ...
by Jo
Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:18 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Girl
Replies: 104
Views: 21648

I remember the "list" before my first term. I can also remember pretty much verbatim the dictat about periods: As the houses are of mixed ages, it is essential that girls know about menstruation. I remember it because it wasn't a word I'd ever encountered before but I had a suspicion it wa...
by Jo
Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:43 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: School Needlework
Replies: 218
Views: 53448

I was grateful for learning to sew, really - I made a lot of my own clothes when I was a poor student, and I still make things like curtains when I see how much they would cost ready-made. But like everyone else, I shudder at the memory of She Who Must Not Be Named. What a monster. I suffered doubly...
by Jo
Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:32 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: House Marks?
Replies: 28
Views: 6974

Thought I'd choose this thread to dive into as a newbie. Jo Sidebottom, 5's 1967-75 (like wot it says in my sig). For my sins, I had 8 years at Hertford because I arrived as a wide-eyed innocent 10 year old but then repeated a year in the Lower IV/2nd year. I remember orders, disorder and conducts. ...