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

NEW COLLEGE TO OPEN IN JANUARY

St. Stithians College, the first Methodist Church School to be established in the Transvaal will open with a limited number of classes and pupils on January 28. Mr. W.G.A. Mears, the principle, told a representative of The Star that about 80 pupils, including about 20 boarders, would join the school for boys. They would be in grades I and II and in Forms I and II (Standards VI and VII). One of the school’s two boarding houses, the dining hall and kitchen would be ready before the end of the year, he said, and the larger rooms in the boarding house would be used as classrooms until the classroom block was ready about August next year. In 1954, he said, the school would open with a full range of classes up from Form III (Standard III).

TO OPEN NEW COLLEGE

The Rev. John Wesley Hunt, President of the Methodist church or South Africa, who will perform an opening and dedication ceremony on Tuesday at St Stithians College, Bryanston, the first Methodist church school to be established in the Transvaal. On Wednesday 89 children – 30 of them boarders - were enrolled at the school, which will be able to take 250 pupils when completed by the end of the year.

89 ENROLLED AT NEW BRYANSTON SCHOOL

Eighty-nine children - 30 of them boarders - were enrolled today at St. Stithians College, Bryanston, the first Methodist church school to be established in the Transvaal¬. An opening and dedication ceremony will take place at the school next Tuesday at 8 am. and will be performed by the president of the Methodist conference, the Rev. John Wesley Hunt. It will not be the official opening of the school which will be held in August when the Synod pf the Methodist Church of the Transvaal District is in session.

Mr. W.0.A. Mears, said the school, an English-medium boys' school, would be completed by the end of 1963. It would be able to take 250 pupils.

NEW SCHOOL DEDICATED

The Rev. J. Wesley Hunt, president of the Methodist Conference, today dedicated St. Stithians College, Bryanston, the first Methodist Church school for boys to be established in the Transvaal. Here some of the 89 scholars already enrolled proudly show the president their school badge.