Jennifer Panther also living in Ottawa, when thanking for the copy of the Magazine, added "This is my final year at College and then I shall be looking for a post. The School Boards come to the College in April to interview prospective applicants and there are not many students left without a position. The teaching shortage here is quite bad. My friends and I have decided that the summer after our first year's teaching we shall be able to tour England and the Continent. So, I will be in to see you."

In a second letter, Jennifer told us of her securing a post, teaching 9-10 year olds at the school of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, quite near her home. Josephine Staddon is a regular and interesting correspondent from Lethbridge, Alberta. She is hoping to go to Calgary in February to train as an X-Ray Technician. Josephine says that she has become accustomed to almost every aspect of the life, "but the one thing I have not been able to accept is the way people travel a hundred miles or so for quite an ordinary event.

For instance, if there is a dance at Calgary, it is quite the thing to drive the 150 odd miles in a car with a crowd of your friends and to think nothing of it." Maria Rosa deCardenas has been doing her National Service when she wrote and was then working as a secretary with her Father. We were very pleased to hear of the strange coincidence by which she met Father Moore this summer when he was in Spain.

Cristina Garcia Astigarraga has written and visited the Convent this year when she brought her sister Immaculada to be a Boarder and another sister will be coming next term. Pilar Gutierrez-Manchon has kept in touch faithfully since her return to Madrid. In her last letter, Pilar sent souvenir cards of her Reception as a Child of Mary. This was a reward for her having given lessons every day to poor girls who are unable to pay to go to school.

She is certainly trying to keep up her English and welcomes any opportunity of seeing an English film. Piiar mentioned having met Teresa and Virginia de Stuyck in the street fine day and how they talked of the time they had spent at Boscombe.

Catherine deLiege was in Boscombe during the summer holidays and she corresponds with Mother Briggs in the course of the year. Edith Loiseau has spent a year in Austria and was at Salzburg when she wrote, saying that she was forgetting some of her English in the effort to learn German.

Now comes the budget from members living in England. Ann Pearce (Keates) sent a letter which gave news of several Past Pupils. For her own part, Ann says: "I always look at the Past Pupils' Section of the Magazine before anything else. I keep in touch with Wendy Farmer and with Linda Thornback with whom I became friendly during Past Pupils' dramatic activities.

Hazel Cherrett and I correspond regularly. You will be surprised to hear that Susan Godfrey is now in Nairobi and is well, happy and warm! !" Ann called later in the year bringing baby Karin with her.

Genevieve Bond early in the year, wrote: "I am enjoying the A.A. School of Architecture and am so pleased I decided to go there. London, too, is rather fun, there is so much to do and see, in fact, too much." Genevieve is working hard to get the Cathoic Students' Society recognised in the School and she told us some of the problems when she stayed here the week-end of the School Dance.

Esme Popplewell has also gone to London University, Queens College, this year, while Chrysogan Bavey is most enthusiastic about her early experiences at the Leeds University. She is doing an Honours English course, with French and Italian as subsidiary subjects, and is also enjoying the full social life, especiay being on the Freshers Committee of the French Society.

Mary is staying on at School to do Advanced Level work and the whole family have settled very happily in Hull. Ann Nolan, who is doing law at Leeds, called here in the summer holidays and was eager to have news of her friends. Joan Briggs let us know that her parents had come to live in Bournemouth. They are hoping that Margaret would return from Vancouver for a holiday in the summer and Joan promised that they would try to pay us a visit then.

Patricia Buck having spent an exciting three weeks' at the winter sports in Austria, gave a full account of her holiday. She mentioned her hope to proceed to the Rotunda, Dublin, when she has completed her training in London. Judith Jones, living in Ruislip, on reading of Miss Thompson's death in the last Magazine, recalled her memories of the early years spent in Miss Thompson's class and little incidents that remain very vivid.

Judith added: "I was glad to see Patricia Ryan's name among the School captains, but as I used to be responsible for taking her out to lunch when she was quite a small junior, it makes me feel very old to think of her being in Form VI."

Perhaps the most unexpected letter of the year was one bearing an English stamp and signed Ronaleen Lee. "Just to let you know that at long last, here I am back in England and very happy to be here. A very unexpected trip however, as I have only been here for a month and will be returning on May 4th to Los Angeles.

There has been much business to see to that I have not been able to get down to Bournemouth. However, I hope to return to England later in the year and will certainly come to the Convent then."

Mary Jones (Smith) sent a letter early in the year, soon after her friend and school companion Shelagh Quinn (McCarthy) had returned to Canada.

Although now living at West Moors, Mary does not come to Bournemouth often, but we now get news of her from her niece Christine O'Donnell who is now a pupil of the junior School. Marie Tarrant (Browne) who lives at Edgeware, remarked in her letter "Nigel, my eldest child has started school and it does seem funny when I have to go and see his mistress as it seems only yesterday that I was a pupil myself, and yet here I am with three children.