1953BC_0010: Foundation staff
Legend:
Mr EM (Monty) Harris, Miss A M Doehring, Miss EC Walmsley, Mr WGA Mears
1953BC_00014: College Official Opening: Methodist ministers with BP foundation student
Legend:
Rev Ambrose Reeves , Rev Dr J B Webb, Karl Schrader (Class of 1963)
1953BC_0023: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Chapel - view of the congregation from BC upper floor corridor towards the Dining Hall
Sin título1953BC_0024: View across Baytopp playing fields towards BC buildings
Note: This may have been taken in early 1954 as Mountstephens House can be seen in the photo, but the Chapel building is still incomplete.
1953BC_0025: View to the north of the BC Classroom block from the foundations of the Chapel and showing the congregation present at the event.
Sin títuloThe first Rugby team at the College that played St Johns College
TBI - names of individuals to be confirmed.
Legend:
The photograph is likely to have included the following (amongst others):
Ashfield, Miller, Craven, Abraham, Curtis, Wilkinson, Unite, Mercer-Tod, Driver, Swan, Vickers
Woolley, Cruddas, Buchan, Taylor.
1959 BC Sports Day Baytopp NIS 002
Legend:
Sin títuloPhotographs taken at the Heritage Day celebrations 19th September 2018. Special guests to the Chapel Service included Mrs Doreen Read, Mrs Elizabeth 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: Doreen Read, Charmian Kennealy and Elizabeth Dalziel visit the tuck shop at the pavilion and are pictured here with 2018 staff members.
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.
Prospectus produced prior to the opening of the College in 1953. Includes details of the Council members, descriptions of the buildings and grounds, courses of study, fees, games [sports], the boarding department, dress and clothing lists,.
Sin títuloCircular letter inviting old boys to attend the gala performance to mark the opening of Mears Hall.
Sin títuloProgramme of the official opening of Mears Hall by Mr Wally Mears.
Sin títuloMoir provides details of some of the items in the accompanying donation.
Sin títuloItems collected by Lilian Harris and amalgamated into an album presented to the College following the sudden death of E M Harris in 1961.
Sin título1953 Foundation staff photo
Legend:
Left to right: EM (Monty) Harris; Miss Doehring; Miss Walmsley; Mr Wally Mears
1953 HA 004a Founders formal portrait: William Mountstephens
Sin título1953 HA 005 Collins House north west with car Feb 1953
Sin título1953 HA 007a Collins House north view 3
Sin título1953 HA 007g Collins House east
Sin título1953 HA 015b Chapel Foundation stone Rev Reeves addresses the assembly.
Sin título1953 HA 016a Chapel foundation stone assembly looking from the Dining Hall towards the BC buildings.
Sin título1953 HA 016b Chapel foundation stone laying: view across the Chapel foundations 19530811
Sin título1953 HA 017a Chapel foundation stone Rev Webb address
Sin título1953 HA 019c Architects at Dining Hall 19530811
Legend:
Left to right: [unidentified but thought to include CM Paynter and possibly AJ Marshall who were appointed in 1944]
1953 HA 019e Chapel foundation stone assembly 006
Sin título1953 HA 019f BC Administration Building 19530811 viewed across the Chapel foundations
Sin título1953 HA 020 Chapel foundation stone Rev Webb address 002
Sin título1953 HA 021a Chapel construction
Sin título1953 HA 021a Chapel construction 003 view from Collins House.
Sin títuloExtracts 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.
Sin títuloPamphlet issued by Leake in support of his candidacy in the 1920 provincial election: front page
Sin títuloPamphlet issued by Leake in support of his candidacy in the 1920 provincial election. The verso includes his manifesto addressed to the Electors of the Division of Troyeville (Johannesburg) and ends with the words: "I have the honour to be, Gentleman, Yours truly, Chas. H. Leake" indicating that it was only men that were entitled to vote at that time.
Sin título1943 £146,800 in Bequests to Charity by Cornish Pioneer of Johannesburg [NC]
Describes the extent and beneficiaries of the Mountstephens bequest.
1953 Prospectus of St Stithians College for Boys 002: cover. The handwritten notes in this copy differ slightly from those in the first copy.
Sin título1953 - 1956 Stythian magazine [incomplete]
Sin título1959c St Stithians College Prospectus: cover
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.)
1974 21st Anniversary programme: cover
Sin título1983 Letter of thanks J Ivey to Mrs Botha
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