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Highlights from Susan Hartshorne’s Report
to the AGM 2008
Susan noted that many changes had
taken place in the School, and were about to take place. Sadly, we will
say goodbye to Diana Gant as she retires in the summer. We wish her well
in her retirement. Next September we shall be welcoming her successor,
Julie Lodrick.
The School now has a new clerk –
Danielle Palmour. Danielle has a daughter at The Mount and she works in
York as Director of the Friends Provident Charitable Foundation.
Although she is now firmly based in York, she originally came from
across the Atlantic and received her education in Quaker schools in
Pennsylvania. She brings new ideas and energy to the committee.
This time last year we saw plans
for the new College Study Centre. This has now been completed and MOSA
members were most impressed when recently given a conducted tour. The
changes made there will greatly enhance the working conditions of
College students and should certainly benefit the school.
There now is a new editor for the
MOSA section of Portico. She will now take over this job from Dinah
Wainwright. We’re grateful to Dinah for the year she gave to this job.
MOSA is always glad to receive
donations and/or legacies to fund bursaries for girls who would
otherwise be prevented from coming to The Mount for financial reasons.
Many who have already contributed have said how much they benefited from
their education here and how have therefore felt they would like to give
others that same opportunity. Contributing to this fund also helps us to
maintain our important charitable status as it is considered a public
benefit. We are discussing with the school whether it would be useful to
appoint an Alumnae Officer, one of whose jobs would be helping to raise
funds for these bursaries.
Susan concluded by mentioning that
MOSA also has a bursary scheme to give grants to Old Scholars who need
help to embark on further education later in their lives – so, if you
are thinking of making a change of career, remember this fund. We
have been glad to hear from some Old Scholars who have benefited from
this scheme, and you can read what they did in Portico, and elsewhere on
the website..
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