| Description | Selection made from original letter binder (see series level for appraisal criteria):
- References for Grammar School pupils John A.M. Doig.
- Grammar School: Boarding House arrangements; school holiday awarded for school due toperformance of pupils in University Bursary Competition and winning a Balliol scholarship.
- Application for post of infant mistress from Mabel Brown, Isabella Coutts, Clara Duthie, Elizabeth Law, Marion Morrison, Helen Morrison, Barbara Repper, Margaret Stephenson and Martha Watson;
- Torry Intermediate School: missing items from art craft exhibition
- Frederick Intermediate School: pupils wishing to attend Play Centres, to head teacher's disapproval; request to take pupils to performance of Peter Pan;
- Westburn Road School: pupils for cobbling class; teacher training in Speech Therapy (Hilda Bailey)
- Resignation of female teachers due to approaching marriage [Kept as an example to show volume of staff lost due to this policy] (Marjory Bruce, Helen Chalmers, Irene Cruickshank, Wynifred Cruickshank, Edith Dargie, Margaret Dunbar, Elizabeth Dugan, Lizzie Ewen, Isobel Farquhar, Katharine Gauld, Christine Goldie, L.G. Kent, Eveline Mackie, Lizzie Milne, Gladys Martin, Dorothy McLean, Ida Macdonald, Eleanor O'Neil, Olive Smith, Isabel Sinclair, Mary Stewart, Elspet Shirreffs, Maggie Thompson (also follow up letter from South Rhodesia after her wedding plans were cancelled asking if there were any posts available), Annie Wright, Williamina Wright, and Anna Young).
- St Peter's RC School: request for control schedules for Nazareth House pupils who sit their exams at St Peter's;
- Causewayend School: temperature in hall;
- Rosemount School: parent's request to transfer Jessie Caron to the Central Secondary; performance/suitablity for secondary school of Ethel Hall;
- Letter from Canadian exchange teacher Dorothy Chegiven;
- Application for a transfer from reacher at Linn Moor Home School: discusse "very mixed natures of the children who are constantly coming and going" (Helen Dey).
- Middle Intermediate School: controlling trade in biscuits at school gates;
- Application to be considered for training in teaching "mentally defective" children (from several teachers);
- Letter explaining conduct (mental health problem) from Margaret Galbraith;
- Lettter expressing willingess to be considered for post of visitng teacher to primary schools if salary could be reviewed;
- Queen's Cross RC School: arrangements for Nazareth House pupils;
- Application for post of French assistant/French Student Teacher at High School for Girls from Renee Jolly and Albert Maillet (with application form and photograph);
- Ruthrieston Intermediate School: comments on Holburn Street Cookery Centre;
- Pension arrangements of teacher Annie Adams;
- Letter of thanks from teacher for abeing allowed to do a foreign exchange in Stettin [then part of Germany, now Poland?];
- Request to continue paying salary of deceased art master at Aberdeen Grammar (C.R. Leslie Millar);
- Enquiry about the work of the Juvenile Advisory Committee;
- St Mary's R.C. School: disobedience of pupil [DPA];
- High School for Girls; recommendation of Williamina Williamson for post of Junior Mistress; Art Scheme; permission and questions re. syllabus; questions value of attendance awards; proposed extension of school for ill child (Jean Moir) whose father was affected by gas in the First World War; case of pupil with sight problems (Dorothy Ogden); permission for pupil (Evelyn Mathieson) to work as governess for German family in Switzerland for five months;
- Request from teacher (Elizabeth Symons) for year's sabbatical to go to Canada for the League of Empire;
- George Street School: conduct of pupil [DPA]; permission to take pupils to Peter Pan;
- Sunnybank Intermediate School: reference for Charles Robertson. |