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Prospectus of St Stithians College for Boys, Johannesburg

Prospectus of St Stithians College for Boys, Johannesburg

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,.

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Harris Album [multi-page documents]

Harris Album [multi-page documents]

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

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1953 HA 003b Foundation staff

1953 HA 003b Foundation staff

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-02
  • Deel
  • 1953

    • Part of Harris Fonds

1953 Foundation staff photo
Legend:
Left to right: EM (Monty) Harris; Miss Doehring; Miss Walmsley; Mr Wally Mears

1953 HA 019c Architects at Dining Hall 19530811

1953 HA 019c Architects at Dining Hall 19530811

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-30
  • Deel
  • 1953

    • Part of Harris Fonds

1953 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]

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1954 BC Rugby teams at St Johns TBI

1954 BC Rugby teams at St Johns TBI

The 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.

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2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Doreen Read, Charmian Kennealy and Elizabeth Dalziel visit the tuck sho...

2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Doreen Read, Charmian Kennealy and Elizabeth Dalziel visit the tuck shop at the pavilion

Photographs 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.

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Chas. H. Leake. Unionist candidate for Troyville. Provincial Council election: verso

Chas. H. Leake. Unionist candidate for Troyville. Provincial Council election: verso

Pamphlet 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.

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1959c St Stithians College Prospectus: cover

1959c St Stithians College Prospectus: cover

1959c 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.)

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Harris Fonds

Harris Fonds

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001
  • Collectie
  • 1953

The Harris Album - a visual record of the early history of the school.
The Harris letters - printed and bound copies of the letters sent by EM Harris to his sister in England describing the day by day events that took place in the first eight years of the College.

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Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazines 1978 - 1991

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazines 1978 - 1991

  • ZA ZAR STS 2023-003
  • Collectie
  • 1978

Five volumes of the complete collection have been digitised as they each contain articles referring to the College or Driefontein Farm, a portion of which was purchased by the Trustees in order to build the College. These articles together form a significant part of the history of the College property from c. 1880 onwards.

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Boys' Prep albums 1962 - 1982

Boys' Prep albums 1962 - 1982

  • ZA ZAR STS 2021-001
  • Collectie
  • 1953

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.

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Leake collection

Leake collection

  • ZA ZAR STS 2022-004
  • Collectie
  • 1970

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.

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Leake portrait photograph 002

Leake portrait photograph 002

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.

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Hall collection

Hall collection

  • ZA ZAR STS 2022-005
  • Collectie
  • 1964

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

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1955 BP Grade 4

1955 BP Grade 4

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

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1953 HA 011 Rev Dr J R Webb

1953 HA 011 Rev Dr J R Webb

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-16
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  • 1953

    • Part of Harris Fonds

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.

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1956 HA 055a Chapel Harris wedding

1956 HA 055a Chapel Harris wedding

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-77
  • Deel
  • 1956

    • Part of Harris Fonds

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.

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1953 BP Grades 1 and 2 Class ST 1953 p020 1953BC_0006

1953 BP Grades 1 and 2 Class ST 1953 p020 1953BC_0006

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, ..., ... .

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1953 BC Foundation scholars, view looking towards Sandton

1953 BC Foundation scholars, view looking towards Sandton

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.

Harris Album: A visual history of St Stithians College 1953-1961, collected by E M Harris, of the...

Harris Album: A visual history of St Stithians College 1953-1961, collected by E M Harris, of the Foundation staff, preserved, arranged and presented to the College Archives by his sister, Lilian Harris

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.

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Harris Album [complete pages]

Harris Album [complete pages]

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

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