- Entidad colectiva
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Radio station that sponsored an event at the College.
Radio station that sponsored an event at the College.
The Adventurers Club was one of the first Clubs to be established at Saints. The Club conducted three to four trips per year for College boys accompanied by staff members to the Magaliesberg, Drakensberg, Malawi and Zimbabwe as well as to Botswana. Accounts of these trips can be found in the Stythian magazines available here.
First Afrikaans-medium high school in South Africa, located in Pretoria.
South African branch of AFS International student exchange organisation.
Company responsible for early aerial photographs.
Possibly Southern African arm of British company.
The Church's Doris Elaine Leake Memorial Hall honoured the daughter (deceased 1923) of Charles Leake, founding St Stithians Trust chairman. Three of the church's founding members were also members of the first St Stithians Trust.
The church was demolished in 1961 to make way for the widening of Harrow Road. (See https://johannesburg1912.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/wesleyan-church-yeoville.jpg for further history and photographs of the church.)
St Stithians College was founded in 1953 and consisted at the time of the founding BP and BC classes. In 1995, with the advent of the girls' schools on campus, the entities serving the boys became known as the Boys' College and Boys' Preparatory schools. Reference to the Boys' College within AtoM indicates the high school years from Grade 8 to Grade 12 for its entire history from 1953 to the present.
St Stithians College was founded in 1953 and consisted at the time of the founding BP and BC classes. In 1995, with the advent of the girls' schools on campus, the entities serving the boys became known as the Boys' College and Boys' Preparatory schools. Reference to the Boys' Prep within AtoM indicates the Preparatory school years from Grade 1 to Grade 7 for its history from 1953 to 1996 and Grade 3 to Grade 7 from 1996 onwards.
B.R.S. Photographers (Pty) Ltd.
Photographic company in Johannesburg in the early 1950s.
Cambourne is a house in the Girls' College. It is named after a Cornish village and parish in line with the Cornish history of the College.
Cape Province. Department of Education
Provincial education authority for the former Cape Province.
Early Methodist Church in Johannesburg.
Demolished 1973.
Established by the Trust in 1953.
Body with responsibility for the overall governance of the College.
https://www.stithian.com/content/page/governance
Committee for European Education
Sub-Committee of the Methodist Church at the time it was attempting to become part of the HMC.
Conference of Headmasters and Headmistresses of Private Schools of South Africa (HMC)
Precursor of the ISC and ISASA, founded on the same basis as the British HMC.
For a detailed history of the HMC see Squelch, J M (1997) Private schools in South Africa: the legal status and management of private schools. UNISA Doctoral thesis. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43175412.pdf
This work refers extensively to interviews with Mark Henning, former Head of St Stithians and of the ISC.
Construction company responsible for the erection of the original school buildings. Company founded by Daniel Fargher Corlett.
Corlett House is named after DF Corlett.
Cornish Association of the Transvaal
Association of the Cornish settlers ho came to work the mines of the Witwatersrand.
Dates TBI
Body consisting of mostly Catholic schools. No further details can currently be established.
Newspaper
https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/page/construction
Creamer Media
Neighbouring institution: Forest Farm is a specialist care centre for adults with cerebral palsy conditions, and special needs
Foundation for Education, Science and Technology
Promoter of Science in schools.
St Stithians College was founded in 1953 and consisted at the time of the founding BP and BC classes. Planning for the girl's schools began in 1994. In 1995, the girls' schools started with grade 0 - grade 3 in the boys' prep buildings which now serve the Junior Prep under the name St Stithians Collegiate. The first senior girls were admitted to the Girls' College in 1996. In 2000 the names of the girls' schools were changed to Girls' College and Girls' Prep and the junior classes (Grade 0 - Grade 2) became part of the Junior Prep.
St Stithians College was founded in 1953 and consisted at the time of the founding BP and BC classes. In 1995, the girls' schools started with grade 0 - grade 3 in the boys' prep buildings which now serve the Junior Prep under the name St Stithians Collegiate. The first senior girls were admitted to the Girls' College in 1996. In 2000 the names of the girls' schools were changed to Girls' College and Girls' Prep and the junior classes (Grade 0 - Grade 2) became part of the Junior Prep.
International education organisation founded a St Stithians in 1997 to bring together educators from diverse backgrounds. https://globalconnections.org/
"Good Things Guy is on a mission to change what the world pays attention to. We believe that there is good news all around us and over 25 million South Africans agree with us. We hunt down and report on the best Good News stories from South Africa, and the World."
First grade of high school, previously known as Form II or Standard 6.
The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa is the largest and oldest association of independent (private) schools in the Southern African region. ISASA traces its origins to the Conference of Headmasters and Headmistresses, originally formed in 1929.
Johannesburg Centenary Festival Association
Association formed to organise Johannesburg's centenary in 1996.
Johannesburg started as a dusty mining camp in 1886, but grew so rapidly that by the following year it established a municipality and appointed a mayor.
Johannesburg. Office of the Mayor
"Johannesburg came into being on 20 September 1886 and took at least 10 years to resemble something that could be called a town. It took another year before the first mayor, a magistrate, was appointed." [Source: https://www.joburg.org.za/]
Johannesburg Publicity Association
Association tasked with promoting Johannesburg.
The Junior Prep is the Gateway to the College. It evolved out of the former Grade 0 and the Grades 1 and 2 classes of the BP and GP. It started functioning specifically as the Junior Prep in 2001.
Methodist co-educational College in Makhanda, Eastern Cape.
Self-governing territory under the apartheid government, re-incorporated into Limpopo Province in 1994.
Newspaper
Possibly a supplement to The Star or Sunday Times newspaper at the time.
Newspaper. Successor of The Weekly Mail, formerly The Rand Daily Mail
Former local newspaper for the northern suburbs of Johannesburg.
A loose association of parents worked avidly from 1953 to 1957, focusing on raising funds to build a school swimming pool. Thereafter, this loose association was formalised into the first Parents' Association in 1957. For a full history and a list of early office bearers, see Mears, W G (1972) The Early History of St Stithians College, pages 73 - 83.
A daily English-medium newspaper established in 1898 in South Africa's capital city Pretoria.
Newspaper closed down by the government because of its opposition to apartheid.
Rand Provident Building Society
Merged with the Alliance Building Society to form the Allied Building Society, which later became ABSA Bank.
A voluntary association of those dedicated to the preservation of the history of randburg and its surrounds.
Receiver of Revenue (Johannesburg)
"During 1914, General Jan Smuts, in his capacity as Minister of Finance, tabled legislation in the Parliament of the Union of South Africa, introducing income tax in the country, with the Income Tax Act of 1914". [Source: Wikipedia]
Income tax is a tax collected by the Receiver of Revenue, which also had the responsibility at the time for issuing licences.
Rondebosch Boys' High School (RBHS)
Historic Cape Town high school. Mr Wally Mears was a former headmaster.
SA. Department of Bantu Education. Johannesburg South
Government body under apartheid established to run separate education for black pupils.
SA. Department of National Education
National Department responsible for education policy throughout South Africa during the apartheid era.
"Sandton's most important civic organisation, the Sandton Civic Foundation, was also created in response to the Milstein report. The genesis of the Foundation is directly attributable to Mr Eric Gallo, who, together with men such as Mr "Punch" Barlow, established the Foundation on 10 Decelnber 1973 to "...preserve and restore 'indigenous trees and shrubs along the river trails"; "save hundreds of areas' .:. for the preservation of the natural beauty of the area"; and to ensure that "...the town should not attempt to compete with other towns and cities for industries and commercial enterprises...". The Sandton Foundation aimed to keep the area "...in the same way in which we found it". Another objective was to provide social, cultural, and artistic amenities."
Extract from:
Carruthers, E. J. (1982) THE HISTORY OF NATURE CONSERVATION IN SANDTON. Available online: https://repository.nwu.ac.za/
Sandton Historical Association
A voluntary association of those dedicated to the preservation of the history of Sandton and its surrounds. It published a series of annual magazines between 1978 and c.1995 which include a number of articles on Driefontein Farm on which the College was built,
South African Broadcasting Corporation
South African national broadcasting service.
South African Council for English Education
Organisation dedicated to the promotion of the English Language.
South African Journal of Science
"The South African Journal of Science is an open access, multidisciplinary journal published bimonthly by the Academy of Science of South Africa. Its objective is to promote the visibility and impact of South African and African research by publishing high-quality original research from Africa or on African-relevant issues that will be of interest to readers in any discipline and for the benefit of scholars, educators, the general public and policymakers. It also provides a forum for discussion of news and developments in research and higher education." https://sajs.co.za/about
Former social magazine focussing on South African society.
Anglican independent school in Pretoria established in 1963.
Catholic school for girls in Boksburg, with renowned Drum Majorettes who have won the World Championships three times.
Boys and girls preparatory schools in Paulshof, Gauteng.
Archive of the College, formerly established in 2013 to manage the historical physical and digital assets of the College that have permanent value to the institution.
Methodist school founded on a portion of the farm Driefontein by the Trust from the proceeds of the bequests of Cornishmen: Albert Charles Collins and William Mountstephens.
Original entity established by the Trust Deed in 1941.
St Stithians Singers was founded by Walter Macfarlane, Hugh Huggett and the Director of Music, Anthony Lomberg. The choir consisted of parents and staff and eventually grew to 120 members. It later became the Johannesburg Singers.
During its extant years, the choirs put on many successful performances ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to major choral works such as Elijah and The Messiah.
Informal BC Club consisting of parents, staff and boys which organised regular theatre outings.
The founding body of St Stithians College.
The Trust was formed in 1941 with the aim of establishing the College. The founding document is the Trust Deed.
Thandulwazi Maths and Science Academy
First established in 1991, the Saturday School has been providing extra tuition to learners from under-resourced schools for 21 years. In 2006 the St Stithians Foundation established Thandulwazi and incorporated the Saturday School and the Teacher Development Programme.
"The mission of the Thandulwazi Maths and Science Academy is to improve the quality of Maths and Science teaching and learning, among historically disadvantaged South Africans, mainly from under-resourced schools in and around Gauteng, through targeted interventions aimed at teacher training; professional development; and the provision of quality extra tuition to FET phase learners on Saturdays."
A South African daily newspaper published in Johannesburg, South Africa. The newspaper is distributed nationally in South Africa.
South African weekly magazine.
Superceded by Personality magazine 1957 - 1965.