Students at F. Matthias Alexander Teachers’ Training Course
This listing is based on a type written document in the Walter Carrington archive collection. It covers the years Alexander ran his course, 1931–1955.
The dates specify when the students commenced their training. Most teachers qualified after three years. However, the first intake (of 1931) did an extra year of training (except Marjorie Barstow who went to assist A. R. Alexander in Boston.) Parenthesis indicates the married name where known. An asterisk (*) indicates that the student did not finish their training. A cross (†) indicates that the student later trained or finished their training with Patrick Macdonald. It has not been possible to verify the accuracy of all the names, dates and other details.
1931 Marjorie Barstow, Margaret Goldie, Catherine Merrick*† (the Countess Wielopolska), George Trevelyan, Gurney MacInnes, Jean MacInnes, Lulie Westfeldt, Erika Shumann (Whittaker), Irene Stewart.
1932 Patrick Macdonald
1933 Marjory Mechin (Barlow), Charles Neil
1934 Maxwell Alexander
1935 Miss Stallard*
1936 Walter Carrington, Eric de Peyer, Margaret Dunlop, Elizabeth Falkener, Margaret Lundie*, Harriet Whitcher*
1937 Alma Frank, Gertrude Cox*
1938 Brian Campbell, ‘Lili’ Hellstenius*, Mary McNair Scott, Peggy Saker*, Richard Walker, Elizabeth Walker, M. Boenders*
1939 J. Laing*, M. Nadler*, B. Chaskelson*, Wilfred Barlow
1940 Training course in London paused until 1944.
1940–44 F. M. Alexander spent in Boston, U. S. A. Here he and A. R. Alexander trained: Frank Pierce Jones, Helen R. Jones, Richard M. Gummere Jr., Mary Macnair-Scott, Alison Grant-Morris, Philomene Dailey.
1944: Training course in London resumed.
1945 John Bastow, Tom Davidson, Bill Engall*, Douglas Price-Williams, Sidney Holland, Liza Lechstein, Dorothea Bell, Dorothy Drew (Morrison), Dorothy Greaves
1946 Bagnall Godwin, Rome Bell (Roberts), Isobel Giles, Frank Ladbroke, Peter Scott, Duncan Whittaker, Guy Baron, ‘Chile’ Grey (Eagar), Alan Murray, Tom Pilcher*
1947 John Skinner, Hugo Frischauer*, Peggy Nixon (Williams), John Vicary*, Mary Lord, Jim Rawsthorne*, Bertha E. Baertschi*, Alison Morris (Macdonald)
1948 Richard Baldock*, E. Martin*
1949 D. Jones*, Gordon Chadwick*, Marion Richardson*
1950 Arthur Ellens*
1951 Anthony Spawforth
1952 Bill Williams
1953 Anna Haddon*, Goddard Binkley
1954 Stewart Law*, Constance Tracey*, Winifred Dussek
1955 Jean Macklin*, Dorothy Corfe*, Ted Peacock*, Pat Peacock*†, Dilys Carrington.
This listing was published in A Time to Remember.[1]
See also Teacher Training.
