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

LUXURY PRIVATE SCHOOL BEING BUILT AT COST OF £250 000

On 300 acres of undulating, wooded country in Ferndale, St. Stithian's College, which has been described as the last word in modern boarding schools, is being built at a cost of about £250,000.

This luxurious private school has white-tiled bathrooms, a dining-room panelled in imbuia, single rooms with big cupboards for the older boys and six-bed dormitories for the younger.

It has airy, sunlit classrooms was with desks of wood and steel, spacious games rooms and a huge, white-tiled kitchen with every modern device for preparing food.

The fees vary from £50 a year for day pupils in the lower standards to £190 a year for boarders.

None of the capital cost of the building has to be repaid; the was provided for in wills of the late Mr. A.C. Collins and the late Mr. W. Mountstephens, pioneer building contractors of Johannesburg, each of whom left the residue or his estate to found a Methodist school having a background of religious and liberal thought.