Gladys

Gladys, youngest of the Phang sisters, attended Wolmer's Girls' School from 1916 to 1919.

Daily Gleaner, July 13, 1917

Virtually nothing has been found about Gladys' activities from 1919 until 1929 when she is noted in the Wolmer's Bicentenary Souvenir as studying millinery in Brussels. Since her sister, Mildred, was recorded as being married and living in Belgium, she was presumably staying with her.

However, she was back in Jamaica by 1930 and then returned to Europe, to London and Paris:

Daily Gleaner, January 18, 1930

Per s.s. Carare, yesterday

FOR AVONMOUTH

. . . Miss Gladys Phang.

By the summer she was back on the island and opened a hat shop on Harbour Street:

Daily Gleaner, July 30, 1917

She was also following the family's musical traditions, as indicated by these music exam results

References to Gladys Phang in the 1930s are to her arrivals and departures on trips to Cuba and England. She was still living in Balaclava, but was apparently in England when war broke out; this item was filed on her return:

Kingston, 1930

Daily Gleaner, August 13, 1940

Daily Gleaner, April 26, 1940

Daily Gleaner, August 17, 1940

THIS AFTERNOON at Balaclava comes off the much talked of Fair and Dance in aid of the Bombing Plane Fund. It has been organised by Miss Gladys Phang and will take place at her residence. We predict great success for this function, and by the way it is such a sensible and practical idea to give entertainments at homes instead of clubs. When you do this all the money made goes to the cause you are working for, which after all is what both the promoters and the public desire.

Daily Gleaner, August 27, 1940

Special Drive Bomber Squadron

Amount already acknowledged £11,120 15 11

St. Ann's:

(Thro, Mr. Alec Gordon)

Mrs. Allan Keeling 20 0 0

St. Elizabeth:

Further proceeds

Dance thro. Mrs.L. Segree 12 0 0

Proceeds dance thro.Miss Phang 70 4 6

St. Andrew:

Mrs. R. D. C. Henriques 10 0 0

£11,233 0 5

The 'Jamaica Squadron' was named for the planes purchased with funds raised in Jamaica.

Daily Gleaner, November 8, 1940

THE MAYOR'S AIR RAID SUFFERERS' FUND

Amount already acknowledged -

. . . Mrs. Fernandez 5/-, Misses L. and G. Phang 9/-

In the 1940s and '50s Gladys visited Cuba and England, but was apparently still living in Jamaica. In 1961 this item appeared in the Gleaner:

Daily Gleaner, July 9, 1961

PORT MARIA

HOLIDAYING at her Rectory Hills home is Miss Gladys Phang of Balaclava.

By the mid-1960s Gladys was apparently living in Croydon, with her sister Lucille. According to this item in the Gleaner in November, 1965 -

'Madame Soohih left New York by plane for London where she stayed with her sisters, the Misses Gladys and Lucille Phang, in their flat at East Croydon.' - Gladys was resident in England.