Showing 222 results

Archival description
College early history With digital objects
Print preview View:
Ascending
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.

Harris, Lilian

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.

Harris, Lilian

1956 HA 055b Chapel Harris wedding

1956 HA 055b Chapel Harris wedding

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-78
  • Part
  • 1956

    • Part of Harris Fonds

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

1956 HA 055d Chapel Harris wedding

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-79
  • Part
  • 1956

    • Part of Harris Fonds

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:

1953 BP Grade 1 and 2 first photo on wagon

1953 BP Grade 1 and 2 first photo on wagon

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.

Unknown

College Chronicle 1960 to 1962

College Chronicle 1960 to 1962

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-002
  • Collection
  • 1960

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.

Boys' College

Norman Tickton Fonds

Norman Tickton Fonds

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-003
  • Collection
  • 1952 - 2006

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

Tickton family

1953 BP Grade 1 with view to Sandton

1953 BP Grade 1 with view to Sandton

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.

Unknown

1953 BP Grade 1 in Chapel area with building works

1953 BP Grade 1 in Chapel area with building works

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.

Unknown

2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Doreen Read at the Basil Read Pavilion

2018 Heritage Day Chapel: Doreen Read at the Basil Read Pavilion

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.

Boys' College

1962 BP School Spring Fair Grade 1 ST p027

1962 BP School Spring Fair Grade 1 ST p027

1962 BP School Spring Fair Grade 1 ST p027. Informal photograph taken in BC D1 when it was the Grade 1 classroom. The Spring Fair was a PA fundraising effort. (Report Stythian 1962, page 27).
Legend:
Pat Dewes, (?) Cox and Graham Woodworth (Class of 1971)

The Star

Leake portrait photograph 001 1920

Leake portrait photograph 001 1920

Formal portrait photograph of Leake. It is dated from the same image as used on his campaign card for his candidacy for the 1920 Transvaal provincial election. At this time, Leake would have been 51 years old.

Unknown

1959c St Stithians College Prospectus: content

1959c St Stithians College Prospectus: content

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.)

St Stithians College

1961c. St Stithians College: A Methodist School for Boys [prospectus] cover

1961c. St Stithians College: A Methodist School for Boys [prospectus] cover

1961c. St Stithians College: A Methodist School for Boys [prospectus] cover
The date of the publication is estimated from the fact that the fees are quoted in Rands. South Africa converted from sterling to Rands in February, 1961. Although the word, prospectus, does not appear in the title, the contents duplicate those of earlier prospectuses.

St Stithians College

1961c. St Stithians College: A Methodist School for Boys [prospectus] content

1961c. St Stithians College: A Methodist School for Boys [prospectus] content

1961c. St Stithians College: A Methodist School for Boys [prospectus] content
The date of the publication is estimated from the fact that the fees are quoted in Rands. South Africa converted from sterling to Rands in February, 1961. Although the word, prospectus, does not appear in the title, the contents duplicate those of earlier prospectuses.

St Stithians College

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #2, 1978

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #2, 1978

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #2, 1978
Contents:
1) Editorial 1
2) How Sandton got its Water Supply by R. I. Louttit.
3) When Ouma wrote to the School Board by Juliet Marais Louw.
4) Witkoppen School by Agnes Kulenkampff.
5) Panner' s Lane - the story of a road by Muriel E. Fisher.
6) St Mungo' s Church Bryanston by W.R. Hedding.
7) Newsletter

Sandton Historical Association

Early History of St Stithians College compiled by W G A Mears

Early History of St Stithians College compiled by W G A Mears

Early history of the school containing information on the foundation of the College and its Cornish origins, the starting of the College and milestones from 1952 to 1968, the Parents' Association and the Old Boys' Association.

Mears, Walter George Amos (Wally)

College Chronicle volume 3 number 1

College Chronicle volume 3 number 1

The articles reflect the day to day life of the College at the time.
Three copies of each issue were produced of which the Archive holds parts of a second copy. In the 2nd copy of this issue, page 8 contains a different original drawing. Page 8a in the digitised version includes the 2nd drawing.

Boys' College

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,.

Boys' College

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.

Harris, Lilian

1953 HA 003b Foundation staff

1953 HA 003b Foundation staff

  • ZA ZAR STS 2019-001-01-04-02
  • Part
  • 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
  • Part
  • 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]

Unknown

Results 1 to 100 of 222