Mr. A. J. Arnold

With the Principal, Mr. A. J. Arnold, he was responsible for the introduction of Hockey as a girls' school game in Sheffield.The P.T.C XI was the first girls' team in the city, and the Holly Guild was a senior and leading club in the district.How hard he worked on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at High Storrs, coaching and refereeing.For years he can never have had a free afternoon.Past students will remember the prodigies of skill and valour he performed in the annual Staff Match (and the curious "togs" he wore).

Mr. A. J. Arnold, appointed Principal of the Pupil Teacher Centre in 1899, regarded Miss Paddison as his right-hand man, valuing her real genius in framing time-tables, her uncanny capacity for conjuring up desk space in examination rooms after by the ordinary eye every square inch had been appropriated.