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Contents of the magazine for the year 1967.

The articles reflect the day to day life of the College at the time.

The articles reflect the day to day life of the College at the time.
The cover and articles contained in the issue honour the first headmaster of the College, Wally Mears, on his retirement.
Tributes to founder teacher, E M (Monty) Harris, who passed away in July 1961, appear on pages 22-25 of this issue.

Moir describes how the issues of the Chronicles were produced in 1962 at which time he was the editor.

Various publicity items from the album.

1953 HA 004b Founders formal portrait: Albert Charles Collins

Portrait photograph of Rev Dr J R Webb who conducted the service of the laying of the College foundation stone. At the time he was the head of the Methodist Church in South Africa.

1953 HA 014a Leake lays Foundation Stone

1953 HA 018c Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.

1953 HA 019a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.

1956 HA 055a Chapel Harris wedding: bride entering the Chapel. The bride is the daughter of EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel.

Legend:

1953BC_0003: Foundation class Std 6 (Grade 8)
Legend:

Back row: Endenburg, Cook, Neves, Aitken, Wilkinson, Lotter, Ashfield, Lewis, Reeves
Middle row: Kelly, McMillan, Woolley. Westhorpe, Wallis, Mair, Harvey, JF Vickers, Campbell
Front row: Coetsee, Hayes, Taylor, EM Harris, J de W Bennett, Johnson, DH Bennet

1953BC_0006: Foundation class Grades 1 and 2
Legend (as identified by Rob McLaren):
Back row: John Goode, ... , Richard Read, Hamish Gordon, Hugh Laburn, ..., ...., Paul Nash, ..., John Napier, Paul Arnold, Kenny Kay;
Middle row: Norman Tickton, Karl Shrader, ..., David A (Ikey) Lewis, ..., Bruce Joscelyne, Richard Pryce, ..., ..., Rohan Lobb , ...;
Front row: John Lamont , ..., Ian Hampton, Rodney Kable, Andrew Brown, Anthony Miller, Nick Barcza, Graham Thompson, ..., ... .

1953BC_0007: BC Address by Rev Ambrose Reeves at the laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel.

1953BC_0016: BC Address by Rev Dr Webb at the laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel.
legend:
Seated to the left are Mr and Mrs Mears and Rev Ambrose Reeves; to the righ: Mr Gilbert Tucker, Mr Leake, and Rev Arnold J Walker.

1953BC_0017: BC View of the Dining Hall from the Chapel Drive area during construction of the Chapel

1953BC_00019: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - Charles H Leake lays the foundation stone (wide view)

Programme of the event, 11th August, 1953: Cover

First constitution of the PA

Formal group photograph of the 1955 Grade 4 class taken in front of BC reception.

Article describing the College, focusing on what it has to offer and its values.

Printed programme including advertisements that reflect suppliers and College contacts at the time.

1937 Funeral of Mr. Albert Collins [NC October 1937]
Describes th4e significance of the work of Collins and details those present at the funeral.

Deed setting out the founding of the College: cover page

1941 St Stithians College Trust: ledger
Records the investments and other finances of the Trust from the time of its founding to December 1965.

1969 St Stithians College [prospectus]: cover

Letter refers to writings of Benjamin Bennet who had interviewed Collins as a young reporter shortly before the death of Collins in 1937. It provides a revealing description of the simple lifestyle of this College founder.

1983 Letter J Ivey to St Stithians 7th September 1983, with hand-written note detailing the items provided to Mrs Ivey.

1984 Letter C Botha to Mrs Ivey accompanying copy of the will of A C Collins.

1953 College Prospectus containing details of admission, fees, uniforms etc.

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #7, 1983
Contents:
1) NEWSLETTER
2) MEMBERSHIP FORM
3) QUARTET
4) INTRODUCTION by the Editor to a series of four articles concerning the farm DRIEFONTEIN which is of special importance
today as the historical WEBER HOUSE still stands on this farm.
5) FROM 1859 : LANDOWNERS OF DRIEFONTEIN by E. J. Carruthers. The story of the land and its various owners over the 120 years since the first farms were proclaimed in the Transvaal.
6) THE LOST HOUSES OF DRIEFONTEIN by Professor R. J. Mason. Report on an investigation of the site of the 1890 - 1926 Wilhelmi Farm, which remains only as a ruin, carried out by the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand.
7) WHY THE WEBER HOUSE IS WORTHY OF PRESERVATION by Juliet Marais Louw. Mrs. Marais Louw, who spent much of her childhood in what is now Sandton, makes a plea for the old WEBER HOUSE to be saved for posterity.
8) 1908 - THE WRIGHT FAMILY ARRIVE AT DRIEFONTEIN by Juliet Marais Louw. A portrait of some of the people who have lived at
Driefontein.
9) PASSING OF A PIONEER. Poetic Tribute to Mrs. E. Wilhelmi

The albums contain assorted photographs, newspaper cuttings, invitations to formal events and programmes of school productions as well as occasional photographs of sports teams and dramatic productions. For detailed contents see individual albums.
Some albums also contain newspaper articles (NCs) pertaining to the Boys' College as well as the Boys' Prep. However, as the majority of the album contents pertain to the BP, all items are included in this BP collection, with reference made to BC items where relevant.

The albums contain assorted informal photographs reflecting life in the BP.

1969 Stithians Village Church 001

The Collection consists of 2 albums, a box of correspondence and a few loose printed items and photographs. These include:
1) Printed items, particularly those relating to the Rand Aid Association of which Leake was a longstanding chairman and Methodist Churches in Johannesburg. Some brochures refer to Mountcollins House, which was named after Leake's association with the founding benefactors of the College;
2) Monochrome photographs including formal portraits, family photographs and incidental photographs;
3) Newspaper cuttings mostly related to the contribution that Leake made over his many years of involvement in the College, in the Rand Aid Association and the Methodist Church as well as a few social occasions;
4) Artefacts include Leake's passport and cards used to promote his candidacy in a Transvaal provincial election.
5) Correspondence acknowledging Leake's contribution to the development of Johannesburg and the Rand Aid Association.
6) Original certificates and licences issued to Leake and dating back to 1896.
7) Documents of the Wesleyan Church Trust.

Formal portrait photograph of Leake. It is estimated to have been taken prior to the opening of the College in 1953 and relative to later photographs, possibly in the early 1940s.

Digital copy of an obituary published in the SAJS, January 1964

1953 BC Foundation scholars, view looking across what was later to become the suburb of Parkmore, towards the ridge where Sandton City was built in 1973 on Zandfontein Farm.
This photograph illustrates the remoteness of the St Stithians property at the time the College was founded. The property, itself a portion of the original Driefontein Farm, was surrounded by farmland in 1953.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1969.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1975.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1976, pages 1 to 63..

Contents of the magazine for the year 1976, pages 64 to 128..

Contents of the magazine for the year 1977.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1988, pages 74 to 160.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1988, pages 161 to 234.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1989, pages 125 to 187.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1992, pages 1 to 75

Contents of the magazine for the year 1992, pages 76 to 148.

Contents of the magazine for the year 1994, pages 95 to 196.

Physical album:
The Harris album was compiled from photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes etc. sent to Miss Harris and her sister, Mrs Hetty Kingswell, in the United Kingdom by Mr E M (Monty) Harris, a founding staff member of the College. A few further photographs and an introductory page were added by Mr Walter Mears, the first headmaster of the College.
Digital album:
The digital album, for ease of use, has been divided into four items, each of which consists of various parts;
Item 1: Complete pages
Item 2: Multi-page documents that are contained within the album. This item allows one to browse through each document individually.
Item 3: Newspaper cuttings that were folded in the album are expanded here for full viewing.
Item 4: All 115 digitised photographs from the album, listed in the chronological order in which they appear in the album.

Items collected by Lilian Harris and amalgamated into an album presented to the College following the sudden death of E M Harris in 1961.

Noticeboard near the Corlett Gate entrance erected to advertise the opening of the College.

1953 HA 007c View of construction of BC classroom block from Dining Hall, Feb 1953

1953 HA 014b Mrs Mountstephens unveils Founders plaque in the foyer of the Boys' College.

1953 HA 015a Chapel Foundation stone assembly

1953 HA 018a Chapel Foundation Stone

1953 HA 018a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly.

1953 HA 019g Chapel Foundation stone Mr & Mrs Tucker 19530811

1953 HA 021a Chapel construction

1953 HA 021d BC Classroom block construction: view from Chapel Quad.

1956 HA 055b Chapel Harris wedding: Mr & Mrs Hacking. The bride is the daughter of EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel.

Legend:

1956 HA 055d Chapel Harris wedding. The bride enters the Chapel with her father, EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel. The name of the bridesmaid is not recorded.

Legend:

Extracts from letters written by E M Harris (one of four Founder Members of Staff of the College) to his sister, Lilian, in England between January 1953 and July,1961.

1947BC_0003: The board erected near the Corlett Gate advertising the opening of the College in 1953.

1953BC_0001: Photograph of the start of an athletics track event
TBI - names of individuals

1953BC_0008: Collins House

1953BC_0009: View to the north of the BC Classroom block from the foundations of the Chapel and showing the congregation present at the event.

1953BC_0011: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - view of the congregation from BC upper floor corridor

1953BC_00012: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - Charles H Leake lays the foundation stone

1953BC_0015: View of Collins House from the east showing terraces

1953BC_00020: College Official Opening: Congregation at entrance to BC Administration block

1953BC_00021: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel: view from upper BC classroom block towards Dining Hall

1953BC_00020: College Official Opening: Mrs Mountstephens unveils the Founders' plaque

1953 BP Grade 1 and 2 first photo on wagon, believed to have been taken by Miss Doehring. Names of most of the children have been identified as follows:
In the group on the wagon: David Gass, Anthony Miller, Bruce Joscelyne, John Napier, Norman Tickton, Douglas MacGregor, Andrew Brown, John Aubrey, Kenneth Kay, (John?) Donaldson, Karl Schrader, Rodney Kable, Paul Arnold;
On the wagon bar (left to right): Graeme Thompson, John Angus, Roger King, Hugh Laburn, Nicholas Barcza, John Goode, Paul Nash
Three boys were not identified in the photograph.

The content of each issue varies and includes articles of interest to boys at the time, photographs and original drawings, as well as essays, obituaries and tributes and reports on some school events. The Chronicles provide insight into the thinking and interests of schoolboys in the earlier 1960s as well as a record of the life of the school from a boy's perspective.

Items include:
1) programmes of the early events at the BC during the time that Norman was a pupil (1953-1964);
2) early items of the Parents' Association on which Mr J J Tickton served;
3) photographs including those of the first classes at the College;
4) Correspondence including invitations, a Christmas greeting card and a letter

Programme of the event, 11th August, 1953: content

Invitation to the event

Informal group photograph of the Grade 1 foundation class taken in July, 1953, just before Norman Tickton joined the school. The view is towards Zandfontein Farm, the site of the present day Sandton City.

Informal group photograph of the Grade 2 foundation class taken in September, 1953 just after Norman Tickton joined the school. The photograph was taken in the Chapel area and shows construction work and Collins House in the background.

Single issue of a school newspaper produced by Form II (Grade 8) boys. The articles reflect the interests and humour of the boys at the time of publication. Certain boys are named within the publication.

Extracts from letters written by E M Harris (one of four Founder Members of Staff of the College) to his sister, Lilian, in England between January 1957 and May 1961.

Invitation to the event at which Mr Mears performed the official opening at 16h30.

Photographs taken at the Heritage Day celebrations 19th September 2018. Special guests to the Chapel Service included Mrs Doreen Read, Mrs Dalziel and Mrs Charmian Kennealy. All were parents in the 1950s or 1960s and Mrs Kennealy was the first Art teacher at the College (BP and BC).
2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Mrs Doreen Read at the Basil Read Pavilion.
Mrs Read had opened the Pavilion in 1974. The pavilion was named to commemorate the significant contribution of her late husband, Basil Read, to the construction of the College and the playing fields in the 1950s and 1960s.

1937 Last Will and Testament of Albert Charles Collins ref 2528/37: cover page

Programme of the event, 11th August, 1953: Cover

1959c St Stithians College Prospectus: content
The date of this Prospectus is estimated from the contents: it refers back to the opening of the College in 1953 and the fees are still quoted in sterling. (South Africa changed its monetary system from sterling to Rands in 1960 and later issues reflect this.)

Extracts from letters written by E M Harris (one of four Founder Members of Staff of the College) to his sister, Lilian, in England between January 1957 and May 1961.