Aberdare Girls’ County School
The Orchestra, 1938
from School Archives
Back Row : Margaret Renfree, Beti Jones, Gwyneth Treharne, Enid Jenkins,
Valmai Phillips, Iris Palmer, Enid Williams, Audrey Thomas,
Moelona Evans, Ceinwen
Griffiths
Front Row : Miss M. Howells, Miss M.B. Williams, Eleanor Sumpter, Gwladys
Williams, Mary Good, Jessie Phillips, Mary Williams, Gladys Davies,
Margaret Edwards, Dilys Davies, Jean Chalmers, Miss K.M. Lewis
[Mary (Mari) Elizabeth Howells, (1900–1974), was one of the three children of musician ‘Professor’ Richard
Howells, (1862–1941), of Dar-yr-Allt, Abernant Road.
Miss Howells was still the peripatetic strings tutor to the two grammar schools
in the mid-1960s.]
