Obituaries

Sadly we have a couple of deaths to report and I would be grateful if Old Girls could write fuller obituaries on them for our next Newsletter.

Dr Aline Black died on 15 January 2025, aged 89. She lived in Frinton for many years and was headteacher of CCHS from 1987 until she retired in1998. She also taught Maths at the school and when she retired she helped with an Archaeological dig in Colchester.

Caroline Pope (Abbott), 1959-1966 died on 4th September this year.

Liz White writes: I remember Caroline as a superb pianist and she regularly played the grand piano at our daily assembly, which the whole school attended. We were all feeling rather mischievous and somehow succeeded in convincing (coercing?) Caroline to play the theme music from the then very popular St Trinian’s Schoolfilms as we marched out of the hall. Sniggers from the girls ensued but little response was evident from the staff apart from amused raising of the eyebrows from the younger members.

Nothing was ever mentioned by the senior staff, even if they recognised the music, or they probably thought ‘Least said, soonest mended!”

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