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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.

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

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

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 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, ..., ... .

Unknown

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.

Unknown

1955 BP Grade 4

1955 BP Grade 4

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

Unknown

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

College Chronicle volume 2 number 2

College Chronicle volume 2 number 2

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.

Boys' College

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

Palace Studios

Obituary: Thomas Dennison Hall. Agricultural pioneer

Obituary: Thomas Dennison Hall. Agricultural pioneer

Digital copy of an obituary published in the SAJS, January 1964. The obituary provides details of Hall's working and academic life as well as some information on his professional and other interests.

South African Journal of Science

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

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #15, 1991

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #15, 1991

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #15, 1991
Contents:
1) Message from the Mayor of Sandton
2) Family Tree [Wilhelmi and Weber families]
3) Driefontein Farmhouse - Saved at last by Avril Reid
4) Tribute to Mrs. Elsa Wilhelmi by Juliet Marais Louw
5) Driefontein - 150 Years of Change by Dr. Jane Carruthers
6) Driefontein Land Transactions
7) Adolf and Elsa Wilhelmi: Sandton Pioneers by Dr. Jane Carruthers
8) I knew Freya Weber by Juliet Marais Louw
9) Max Weber (1) - The Man by Avril Reid
10) Max Weber (2) - The Diary 31 by Vincent Carruthers
11) The Restoration of Driefontein Farmhouse by Chris Bester, B.Arch(Pretoria)

Sandton Historical Association

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

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #5, 1981

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #5, 1981

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #5, 1981
Contents:
1) Local history in the Sandton context by Jane Carruthers
2) St Stithians College by Sheila and Jimmy Verner
3) The Brolins of Linbro Park by Juliet Marais Louw
4) Alexandra Township by Maud Goedhuys
5) The Sandton Fire Brigade by Jane Carruthers with information supplied by R.D. Schmidt
6) Newsletter

Sandton Historical Association

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #7, 1983

Sandton Historical Association Annual Magazine #7, 1983

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

Sandton Historical Association