International education organisation founded a St Stithians in 1997 to bring together educators from diverse backgrounds. https://globalconnections.org/

The original Treverton Preparatory School for Boys operated on the present Prep School site in from 1939 until 1957 before it closed down. It was resuscitated in 1963 when the property was re-purchased and Derek Hudson-Reed, a teacher at St Stithians, was appointed as its first headmaster in 1964. He later became Rector of Treverton, serving the College until his retirement in 1987.
John Huggett, a Saints alumnus also served as Head from 2017 until 2020.

Newspaper. Successor of The Weekly Mail, formerly The Rand Daily Mail

"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."

Radio station that sponsored an event at the College.

British newspaper.

Boys preparatory school in Pretoria, gauteng.

South African Sunday newspaper

Boys and girls preparatory schools in Paulshof, Gauteng.

Church to which St Stithians College is affiliated.

Johannesburg boys' school founded 1902.

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.

Company of which Charles Leake was Managing Director.
Details of Leake's early history can be found in the following online article from the 1918 Agricultural Journal: https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA0000021_1003

South African government body responsible for the education of white children during the apartheid years.

South African political party

South African distance learning institution

Oldest university in South Africa

UK body responsible for the registering of births and deaths.

South African Rowing club.

South African weekly magazine.
Superceded by Personality magazine 1957 - 1965.

Informal BC Club consisting of parents, staff and boys which organised regular theatre outings.

Original entity established by the Trust Deed in 1941.

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.

Catholic school for girls in Boksburg, with renowned Drum Majorettes who have won the World Championships three times.

South African political party

"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

Charitable organisation founded by Charles Leake.

Merged with the Alliance Building Society to form the Allied Building Society, which later became ABSA Bank.

Photographic studio extant in the 1940s in Johannesburg.

Diplomatic service

Second BC boarding house to be built.

Afrikaans medium high school in Krugersdorp.

Beaufort West Inn

Newspaper
Possibly a supplement to The Star or Sunday Times newspaper at the time.

West Rand co-educational High School.

Methodist co-educational College in Makhanda, Eastern Cape.

Girls' Prep and College in Rosebank, 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.

Association tasked with promoting Johannesburg.

Association formed to organise Johannesburg's centenary in 1996.

Body consisting of mostly Catholic schools. No further details can currently be established.

Methodist School for girls in Pietermaritzburg.

British tabloid newspaper

Association of the Cornish settlers ho came to work the mines of the Witwatersrand.
Dates TBI

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.

Sub-Committee of the Methodist Church at the time it was attempting to become part of the HMC.

Early Methodist Church in Johannesburg.
Demolished 1973.

American Methodist Episcopal publication.

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.)

Company responsible for early aerial photographs.
Possibly Southern African arm of British company.

Government body under apartheid established to run separate education for black pupils.

Extant school in Soweto.

Governing body of the Transvaal Province until 1986. The Transvaal Province was incorporated into various provinces in the new dispensation of 1994, including Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

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.

Self-governing territory under the apartheid government, re-incorporated into Limpopo Province in 1994.

Anglican independent school in Pretoria established in 1963.

South African national broadcasting service.

Premier role in the Transvaal Province during the apartheid era.

Provincial education authority for the former Cape Province.

National Department responsible for education policy throughout South Africa during the apartheid era.

Provincial education authority for the former Transvaal Province.

A South African daily newspaper published in Johannesburg, South Africa. The newspaper is distributed nationally in South Africa.

A daily English-medium newspaper established in 1898 in South Africa's capital city Pretoria.

Local community newspaper in Johannesburg

National Daily newspaper in Afrikaans

Newspaper https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/page/construction
Creamer Media

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.

Touring Cricket side from Chile.

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.

"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.

Body established by Methodists in Johannesburg with the aim of raising funds to build a church.

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.

Former province of South Africa from the time of Union in 1910 up until the eve of the democratic election in April, 1994.

The Union of South Africa was established through the unification of the former Boer and British colonial territories. It was known as the Union of South Africa until it was declared a Republic on the 31st May 1961.

The Union of South Africa was established through the unification of the former Boer and British colonial territories. It was known as the Union of South Africa until it was declared a Republic on the 31st May 1961.

"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/]

A voluntary association of those dedicated to the preservation of the history of randburg and its surrounds.

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,

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."

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.

First official school photographer

Photographic Studio

Photographic studio

Photographic company in Johannesburg in the early 1950s.

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.

First grade of high school, previously known as Form II or Standard 6.

Johannesburg Newspaper

Extra-mural society in the BC.

Entity consisting of alumni of the College

Used where the creation of an item cannot be attributed to an identified single person or group of people.

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.

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.

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.

Established by the Trust in 1953.
Body with responsibility for the overall governance of the College. https://www.stithian.com/content/page/governance

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.

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.

Neighbouring institution: Forest Farm is a specialist care centre for adults with cerebral palsy conditions, and special needs

Photography studio

Sponsoring company

Historic Cape Town high school. Mr Wally Mears was a former headmaster.