Staff List
The following QC Staff list is gleaned from ex QC pupil memories - [alphabetical order]
How many Staff can you remember ? - send dates and names plus your memories and stories of them by 'Contacting The QC Webmaster'.
Principal: [1953 - 1965]
Dr. Johnson Ball Ph.D.(Notts.)., B.Sc., Lond.(lst Class Hons.), M.A. , A.M.I.Mech.E., F.R.S.A., A.M.C.T., Chartered Mechanical Engineer. Formerly Principal of Halesowen Technical College [1938-1952]. Sometime Head of Engineering Departments at Warrington and St. Helens Technical Colleges.
Vice-Principal [1963 - 1965]
Mr. Harrold S Beresford [Geography] [Mr H S Beresford was Headteacher of Halesowen County Modern School for Boys in Halesowen from April 1954 to August 1962. The school went on to become Richmond High School for Boys and then Windsor High School and Sixth Form. Mr Beresford was Headteacher when the school celebrated its 21st Anniversary in 1961 and oversaw the building of a new school gymnasium in 1962. ]
Senior Mistress: [1953 - 1965]
Miss D. Fletcher [History] [formerly Mrs D Prater / played the Zither] M.A.( Oxon. ), Cambridge Certificate of Education (Class I). Formerly Head of Modem Languages Department at Runton Hill School, Norfolk, and Lecturer in French and English at the Diocesan Training College, Salisbury.
Miss H. L. Arnold [1953 - 1954 ] [Grammar, Composition and Literature, Mental arithmetic, Geography and Scripture, Nature Study, Games and P.T.] - She was truly old school
Miss Brett Young [ late 1950's ] [lived in Quinton - relative of novelist Frances Brett Young]
Miss M. Bury [1955 - ] [History / Geography / French / Scripture]
Miss J. Dagley [Dagleigh?] [1953 - ] [French / Art] - [married Mr. P. Dann]
Mr. J. B. Dan Reuter [ 1954 - ] [Arithmetic / History / Scripture]
Mrs. Dickenson [1958 - ] [English]
Mr. P. Dann [1954 - ] [Algebra] [married Miss Joan Dagley]
Mr. Don ? [ ]
Mr. Done [ ] [insisted his name was pronounced as in cone]
Mr. J. Edmunds [ ] [Mathematics ?]
Mr. Frank Edwards [ ? ] [nickname 'Rangy'] [previously taught at Stourbridge Grammar Sch ?]
Mr. B. Farmer [ - 1957 ] [Games master] [Full back for Birmingham City 1956-1962]
Mrs. Guest [ 1953 - ] [Kindergarten]
Miss Houghton [ - 1965 ] [Class Teacher]
Miss Howarth [ 1955 - ] [Grammar / Composition]
M[r]s Marjorie Hubbard [ - 1958 ] Penmanship, Arts & Crafts, PE for girls
Miss E. James [1954 - ] [Needlework / Games / Geography]
Miss M. A. Mills [1953 - ] [Elocution]
Mrs. Valerie Partridge [ - 1965 ] [Class Teacher / Art]
Mr. J. B. Dan Reuter [1954 - ] [Arithmetic / History / Scripture]
Mr Ivo Shaw [1954 - 1959] [Art Teacher] [second master at Lincoln School of Art and Grammar School 1904-07; chief assistant L.C.C. Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts 1907-13; and Principal of Dudley School of Arts and Crafts 1913-1947]
Mr. Reginald F Smith [1953 - ] [The school’s Music Master - also principal of his own college in
Bromsgrove] [nick name - Tin Ribs]
Mrs. Anice. Smith [ - 1965] [RE] [Member of the Salvation Army]
Mrs. Vera Smith [ - 1965] [Mathematics / Algebra]
Mr. Nigel Sims [ - ] [Boys Games] - [Nigel Simms - Aston Villa Goalkeeper 1956-1964]
Mr. Gordon. J. Stretch [ 1955 - ] [Writing / Mathematics]
Miss Tissington [ ? - ] [Country Dancing] - [always wore a Gaberdine Mac.] [she also taught Country Dancing at Alexandra House School for Girls in Enville Street]
Mrs. Gwendoline Taylor [ 1958 - 1965 ] [Class Teacher / Infants to 14 year olds]
Miss Nessie Winbow [ 1960's ] [Class Teacher ]
Miss E. J. Whitfield [1953 - ] [Writing, Reading, Spelling and Dictation, Number, History and Handwork]
Mr. Nathanial T. Winkworth [ - 1965] [Science] [after QC closure ran a business off Wordsley High Street]
Secretaries:
Mrs Townsend [ 1950's ]
Miss R M Oakley [ - 1965]
Cooks
Mrs Hewitt [1953 - ] [ruled the kitchen and the dining room]
Caretakers / Groundsmen:
Mr. Reg. Chance [ - 1965] [noted for always having fruit or chocolate available for pupils]