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In which part of London was Jackie Bassett's school located?
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The Bassett's company mascot is Bertie Bassett, a figure made up of liquorice allsorts, which has become a part of British popular culture. The character's origins lie with advertising copywriter Frank Regan, who used the sweets and a number of pipe-cleaners to construct what was the original version of Bertie. One of the sweets in the modern day allsorts mix is a liquorice figure shaped like Bertie. The "Doctor Who" television serial "The Happiness Patrol" featured a villain called the Kandy Man, who resembled Bertie Bassett. Although an internal investigation concluded that the programme had not infringed on Bassett's trademark, the BBC promised Bassett's that the Kandy Man would not appear again. In the 2001 satirical comedy film "Mike Bassett: England Manager" the figure of Bertie Bassett appears in a short scene on a newspaper with the headline "Bassett`s Allsorts". As a publicity stunt, Bassett's staged a mock wedding between actors dressed as Bertie and Betty Bassett, another character made of sweets, at its Sheffield factory, in February 2009. 
's legacy. After Rosa Bassett's career was cut short by her death, the school continued to apply many of the principles of the Plan in the years that followed. The County Secondary School, Streatham was renamed Rosa Bassett School in 1951, in honour of its first headmistress. On the school badge, the initials R.B.S. replaced S.S.S (which were the initials of first Stockwell and then Streatham Secondary School, & which had also stood for "Steady, Straight, Sincere"). It was at Stockwell that the school motto was adopted. One of the Board of Education Inspectors, who was keenly interested in the work of the school, translated Miss Bassett's favourite words from St. Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, "Hold fast that which is good" as Honesta Obtinete. It was always Miss Bassett's way to let the girls speak for themselves, and perhaps, the best indication of what the school meant to her pupils is given in the words of one of them. Sylvia G. Kastell (née Greenfield), who attended RBS 1916-1919, wrote: -"When I ask myself the question, 'What did school do for me?' I find that three things stand out. First it gave me everlasting belief in the value of freedom, freedom to work alone and freedom to organise things for oneself. Secondly I leant the importance of playing one's part in the community, to be a citizen of the world as well as a citizen of the school. I developed a firm conviction that it is those that put most into school life, who contribute most, who get most fun out of it. Most important of all, I left school with an absolute belief that I could surmount mountains, provided I really wanted to, and worked hard enough. "In the early years of the twentieth century, many people thought teaching should be reformed, and were influenced by the ideas expressed by writers like Edmond Holmes in his book, "What Is and What Might Be" (1911). Miss Bassett was one of these educational pioneers, at least fifty years in advance of her time. It was said of a famous English Headmaster that he was so good with the boys, and so good with the parents, that naturally he had no time for the Staff. It was because Miss Bassett was so good with the girls and the parents and the Staff that many people considered her a great Headmistress. A member of the Staff at Streatham, who later had the opportunity to know the English educational world very well once said that, as a Headmistress Miss Bassett was in a class by herself. 
Hunter was educated at Kings School and completed her Bachelor of Science degree and PhD in Psychology at Bedford College, London which is now part of Royal Holloway, University of London. Her PhD thesis was on the psychology of owl monkeys (genus Aotus). 
Bassett was born in Harlem, New York on August 16, 1958, the daughter of Betty Jane and Daniel Benjamin Bassett. Bassett's middle name was given to her in honor of her aunt Evelyn. Bassett's mother lived in New York City with her father's brother and his wife when she met Bassett's father, Daniel Benjamin Bassett. Daniel Benjamin Bassett had moved to New York after living in North Carolina, and he moved to Harlem with Bassett's mother after her pregnancy began. Ten months after Bassett was born, her mother became pregnant and had a second child, Bassett's sister D'nette. Bassett said the pregnancy "only made things harder." Bassett's parents "shipped" her to stay with her father's sister Golden. While her aunt did not have any children of her own, she "loved children, and she was good with them." After her parents' separation, she relocated from Winston-Salem, North Carolina to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she and her sister D'nette were raised by their social worker/civil servant mother. Bassett did not see her father again for several years, when the two both attended her grandmother's funeral. There, Bassett met his daughter from his first marriage. Jean, who at twelve years old, was several years older than Bassett. In her younger years, Bassett was "in love" with the Jackson 5 and dreamed of marrying a member of the family group, stating it would probably be "whoever had the cutest, roundest Afro at the time. In my imagination we would have children and live in a real house." As her interest in entertainment developed, Angela and her sister would often put on shows, reading poems or performing popular music for their family. At Boca Ciega High School, Bassett was a cheerleader and a member of the Upward Bound college prep program, the debate team, student government, drama club and choir. A straight "A" and "B" student for the most part, Bassett got her first "C" in physical education, and tried to get her mother to not feel disappointment in the grade. Bassett called the grade the "average," leading her mother to say that she did not have "average kids." As Bassett described, a "sense of pride" developed in her and she did not get another "C" until college. Bassett attended Yale University and received her B.A. degree in African-American studies in 1980. In 1983, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama, despite opposition from her father's sister who warned her to not "waste" her "Yale education on theater." She was the only member of Bassett's family to have gone to both college and graduate school. At Yale, Bassett met her future husband Courtney B. Vance, a 1986 graduate of the drama school. Bassett was also classmates with actor Charles S. Dutton. After graduation, Bassett worked as a receptionist for a beauty salon and as a photo researcher. Bassett soon looked for acting work in the New York theater. One of her first New York performances came in 1985 when she appeared in J. E. Franklin's "Black Girl" at Second Stage Theatre. She appeared in two August Wilson plays at the Yale Repertory Theatre under the direction of her long-time instructor Lloyd Richards. The Wilson plays featuring Bassett were "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1984) and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1986). In 2006, she had the opportunity to work on the Wilson canon again, starring in Fences alongside longtime collaborator Laurence Fishburne at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. 
  It was Bassett's only title of the year and the 1st of her career.  