Johannian 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS
COLLEGE STAFF ......................................................................... 3 HEADMASTERS ADDRESS ............................................. 5 CHAIRMANS ADDRESS...................................................... 9 IEB MATRICULATION RESULTS 2009 ............... 11 PRIZEWINNERS 2010 .......................................................... 12 ST JOHNS ACADEMY 2010 REPORT .................. 14 THE PRESIDENTS AWARD ......................................... 15 THE EAGLE AWARD ............................................................ 16 HOUSE REPORTS.................................................................... 18 Nash House .................................................................................... 19 Hill House ...................................................................................... 21 Clayton House ............................................................................ 23 Thomson House ........................................................................ 26 Alston House................................................................................. 28 Clarke House................................................................................. 30 Hodgson House ......................................................................... 32 Fleming House .............................................................................. 36 Runge House.................................................................................. 38 Sixth Form and Runge House Report ........................... 39 LE SUEUR CUP........................................................................... 42 ACTIVITIES Eskom Science Expo ................................................................. 45 First Aid ............................................................................................. 47 Clubs ................................................................................................... 48 Public Speaking ............................................................................. 51 Debating ............................................................................................ 52 Chess Club ....................................................................................... 53 MDC and Interact ........................................................................ 54 DRAMA ............................................................................................... 55 MUSIC .................................................................................................. 60 TOURS AND CAMPS ............................................................ 67 ART.......................................................................................................... 73 CHAPEL NOTES ....................................................................... 74 SUMMER SPORT ....................................................................... 76 Summer Sport Colours Awards ........................................ 77 Basketball.......................................................................................... 78 Cricket ............................................................................................... 82 Cross Country.............................................................................. 92 Golf ...................................................................................................... 93 Rowing ............................................................................................... 95 Squash................................................................................................. 99 Swimming .......................................................................................100 Tennis ................................................................................................102 Waterpolo .....................................................................................104 WINTER SPORT......................................................................109 Winter Sport Colours Awards.........................................110 Athletics ..........................................................................................111 Hockey .............................................................................................113 Rugby ................................................................................................119 Soccer...............................................................................................128 LITERARY .......................................................................................130 THE OLD JOHANNIAN...................................................135 Regional Representatives .....................................................137 Governing Committee...........................................................138 Chairmans Message ................................................................140 101st Annual Dinner ...............................................................141 Valedictory Dinner...................................................................142 Gaudy Day .....................................................................................144 Eagle Awards ................................................................................148 Reunions .........................................................................................149 Old Johannian Club..................................................................156 Obituaries ......................................................................................158 Farewell ...........................................................................................163 Old Boys in the News............................................................164
Please note that the numbering from 2006 edition should have been as follows:
2006 Vol 16 No 4 (It was marked Vol XVII No 4) 2007 Vol 16 No 5 (It was marked Vol XV No 10) 2008 Vol 16 No 6 (It was marked Vol XVI No 11) S (six in a volume) 2009 Vol 17 No 1 (It was marked Vol XVII No 12) 2010 Vol 17 No 2 (or Vol XVII No 2)
ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010
COUNCIL MEMBERS 2010

VISITOR
The Right Reverend Brian Germond Bishop of Johannesburg
COUNCIL
Bishop Duncan Buchanan (Bishops Representative) Mr Vuyo D Kahla (Chairman of Council) Mr Erik L Hallendorff (Vice-Chairman of Council) Mr Damian Boyce Mr Derek N Carstens Mr John A Gnodde Mr Peter C Gordon Mr Gary J Greeff Mr A Craig MacFarlane Mr Philip J Maxton Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe Mr Graeme Montgomery Mrs Grathel Motau Dr Daniel M Pretorius Dr Mark van der Griendt Prof Ihron L Rensburg The Very Reverend Gerard Sharp Mr Nkululeko Swana Mr Roger D T Cameron (College Headmaster) Mr Patrick Lees (Preparatory School Headmaster) Mr Russell Untiedt (Staff Representative) Mr George Hadjichristos (Head of School)
BUSINESS MANAGER
Mr Alistair Dry
SECRETARY
Mrs Michelle E Rufener
COUNCIL MEMBERS 2010

VISITOR
The Right Reverend Brian Germond Bishop of Johannesburg
COUNCIL
Bishop Duncan Buchanan (Bishops Representative) Mr Vuyo D Kahla (Chairman of Council) Mr Erik L Hallendorff (Vice-Chairman of Council) Mr Damian Boyce Mr Derek N Carstens Mr John A Gnodde Mr Peter C Gordon Mr Gary J Greeff Mr A Craig MacFarlane Mr Philip J Maxton Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe Mr Graeme Montgomery Mrs Grathel Motau Dr Daniel M Pretorius Dr Mark van der Griendt Prof Ihron L Rensburg The Very Reverend Gerard Sharp Mr Nkululeko Swana Mr Roger D T Cameron (College Headmaster) Mr Patrick Lees (Preparatory School Headmaster) Mr Russell Untiedt (Staff Representative) Mr George Hadjichristos (Head of School)
BUSINESS MANAGER
Mr D Alistair Dry
SECRETARY
Mrs Michelle E Rufener
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COLLEGE STAFF ......................................................................... 3 HEADMASTERS ADDRESS ............................................. 5 CHAIRMANS ADDRESS...................................................... 9 IEB MATRICULATION RESULTS 2009 ............... 11 PRIZEWINNERS 2010 .......................................................... 12 ST JOHNS ACADEMY 2010 REPORT .................. 14 THE PRESIDENTS AWARD ......................................... 15 THE EAGLE AWARD ............................................................ 16 HOUSE REPORTS.................................................................... 18 Nash House .................................................................................... 19 Hill House ...................................................................................... 21 Clayton House ............................................................................ 23 Thomson House ........................................................................ 26 Alston House................................................................................. 28 Clarke House................................................................................. 30 Hodgson House ......................................................................... 32 Fleming House .............................................................................. 36 Runge House.................................................................................. 28 Sixth Form and Runge House Report ........................... 39 LE SUEUR CUP........................................................................... 42 SENIOR CUP ................................................................................. 43 ACTIVITIES Eskom Science Expo ................................................................. 45 First Aid ............................................................................................. 47 Clubs ................................................................................................... 48 DRAMA ............................................................................................... 55 MUSIC .................................................................................................. 60 TOURS AND CAMPS ............................................................ 67 ART.......................................................................................................... 73 SUMMER SPORT ....................................................................... 76 Summer Sport Colours Awards....................................... 77 Basketball.......................................................................................... 78 Cricket ............................................................................................... 82 Cross COuntry ............................................................................ 92 Golf ...................................................................................................... 93 Rowing ............................................................................................... 95 Squash................................................................................................. 99 Swimming .......................................................................................100 Tennis ................................................................................................102 Waterpolo .....................................................................................104 WINTER SPORT......................................................................109 Winter Sport Colours Award...........................................110 Athletics ..........................................................................................111 Hockey .............................................................................................113 Rugby ................................................................................................119 Soccer...............................................................................................128 LITERARY .......................................................................................130 THE OLD JOHANNIAN...................................................135 Governing Committee...........................................................139 Chairmans Message ................................................................140 101st Annual Dinner ...............................................................141 Valedictory Dinner...................................................................142 Gaudy Day .....................................................................................144 Eagle Awards ................................................................................148 Reunions .........................................................................................149 Old Johannian Club..................................................................156 Obituaries ......................................................................................158 Farewell ...........................................................................................163 Old Boys in the News............................................................164
Please note that the numbering from 2006 edition should have been as follows:
2006 Vol 16 No 4 (It was marked Vol XVII No 4) 2007 Vol 16 No 5 (It was marked Vol XV No 10) 2008 Vol 16 No 6 (It was marked Vol XVI No 11) S (six in a volume) 2009 Vol 17 No 1 (It was marked Vol XVII No 12) 2010 Vol 17 No 2 (or Vol XVII No 2)
COLLEGE STAFF
HEADMASTER RDT Cameron, M.A. (UCT), B.D. (London) S.T.D. (UCT) SECOND MASTER AS Thompson, M. Ed, B Sc., H.D.E. (Witwatersrand) (Easter Term) SENIOR MASTER CW Midgley, B.A.(Witwatersrand), T.T.H.D. (JCE) DEPUTY HEADMISTRESS Mrs AMA Nettleton, B.A. (UCT), PGCE (Oxon) DEPUTY HEADMASTERS M Huysamer, B.A., H.Dip. Ed. (Witwatersrand), Hons B.Ed (SA) R Long, B.A., H.D.E. (Witwatersrand) W Taylor, B.Sc., H.Dip Ed (Witwatersrand) B.Ed Hons (UJ) DIRECTOR OF SIXTH FORM STUDIES Mrs CM Byrne, B.A. (Hons) (London), M.A. de Lettres Modernes (Grenoble) DIRECTOR OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE ACADEMY D Bradley B.Ed(Hons) (Natal ), BSc, H.D.E,, F.D.E (Natal) HOUSEMASTERS Nash: C Bossert, T.H.O.D. (Goudstad) Hill: B Cotterell, B.Sc.(Hons) (Natal, Pietermaritzburg), HDE (Witwatersrand) R Klement, B.Sc. H.D.E. (Witwatersrand) Drama: R Untiedt B.A. Dramatic Art (Hons) (Witwatersrand), H.D.E. (UND) Economic Management Sciences: S Vilakazi, HDE (Business Studies) (Witwatersrand) English: R Clarke, B.A. (Hons), H.D.E. (Natal) French: Mrs CM Byrne, B.A. (Hons) (London), M.A. de Lettres Modernes (Grenoble) Geography: Mrs C Boyd, C.T.H.D., F.D.E. (C.E.S.A.) German: Ms PK Zimolong, BA (UNISA); Hons (RAU); PGCE (RAU) History: W Pretorius, H.E.D. (Free State University) Latin: Mr C MacKenzie, BA (Hons) (UKZN); MA (UKZN) Life Sciences: Mrs L Bradley, HDE Sciences (Natal) Mathematics: Dr SL Sproule, M.Sc. (Witwatersrand), Ph.D. (Fl St.), H.D.E. Physical Science: Dr C Henning, B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., PhD. (Witwatersrand) Physical Education: A Lion-Cachet, B.A. (Hons) (PUK), H.D.E. Zulu: Mrs NB Ndlovu, B.A. (SA), B.Ed. (SA), ETDP (UJ) ASSISTANT MASTERS AND MISTRESSES K Arlow B.A. (Hons) (SA), H.D.E. (PCE) Mrs I Basson, B.A. (Ed), B.A. (Hons) (RAU) Mrs E Bosman, B.Sc. (Ed), B.Ed (Hons) (UP) J Bwasa, B.A. (Hons) I.P.N. (Kinshasa) Mrs S De Witte, B. P.Ed. (Rhodes), C.E.L.T.A. (Cambridge, RSA), B.Ed. (Hons) (Witwatersrand) Mrs J de Souza, B.A., U.E.D. (Natal) P Emant, B.A., HDE (UPE) G Evans, B.Sc (Hons), University of Bristol, PGCE (University of Birmingham) Mrs A George, B.Sc. (Hons) (Witwatersrand) Mrs D Grigoratos, B.Ed (Hons) (RAU), T.T.H.D. (JCE), Dip I.T. (K-Net) Mrs S EG Hale, BA (UCT) Grad CE (University of Zimbabwe) M Heunis, HED (University of Pretoria) Mrs D Horsley, B.Sc. (Hons), H Dip. Ed. (Witwatersrand) (Easter term) Dr B Huntley, B Sc (Hons), HDE,,M. Ed. (Witwatersrand), Ph. D. (Pretoria) Mrs K Jacobs, B.Sc. (Hons), H.D.E. (Witwatersrand) B.Com (UNISA) Mrs R Janse v Rensburg, B.A. (Ed) (Pretoria) J Joseph, B.Sc. (Witwatersrand) E Kamangira, B.Sc. (Rhodes) M Koli, B.Sc. (UCT), B.Sc. (Hons) (Witwatersrand) Mrs SA Laurence, B.A. (Hons) (Witwatersrand), B.A. (Hons) (S.A.), N.H.E.D. (Rhodes), PGCE (Psychology) (Witwatersrand) BF Louw, B.A.(Ed) (Witwatersrand) N MacFarland, B.A. (Hons), M.A. (SA), Dip. Ed. (N. Ireland) L Manthata B. Soc.Sc.(Hons), Witwatersrand) Mrs S Mason, B.A. (Hons) (Birmingham),QTS, Teaching Diploma (UK) Miss SN May, B. Bus. Sci. (UCT; PGCE (UNISA) Mrs S Mparutsa, B.Sc. (Ohio), B.Ed. (Hons) (Witwatersrand), Grad CE (Zim) AD Robinson, B.Sc. (Hons) (Witwatersrand), Nat.Dip. Agric., P.G.C.E. (RAU) Mrs J Royal, B.A. (Hons) (SA). M.Ed (Witwatersrand) Mrs P Sandilands, B.A. DRAMATIC ART (Hons) (Witwatresrand), HED (SA) Mrs A Scarr, B.A (UCT); Hons (UNISA); HDE (UNISA) Mrs SM Scholes, B.A. (F.A.), H.D.E. (Witwatersrand) Mrs N Stocks, B.Sc., H.D.E. (Natal) M Taylor, B.A. (Hons), PGCE (Witwatersrand) B Tobias, B.Ed (RAU), H.D.E. (JCE), Ph. D. (Witwatersrand) WL Young, B.Sc. (Rhodes) Mrs WM Young, B.A. (Rhodes), Grad CE (Zim) MUSIC STAFF Director: Dr BW Oosthuizen, D Mus, M. Mus. (NMMU), B. Mus (SA), B.A. (RAU), B.D. (SA), U.C.L.M. (SA) Head of Brass: R Finlay, N.L.P., B.A. (SA) Head of Piano: Ms I Myburgh, B Mus Hons (UP) LTCL, UOLM, UPLM, UDKM Head of Strings: Ms I Bonnet, B. Mus. (Free State) Head of Woodwind: Dr AC Thompson, PhD (Wits), MA (UNISA), M.Mus (Wits) FTCL Mrs A Carroll, B Ed Hons (NMMU); H Dip Ed (PG); ATCL LTCL Piano Teachers ; LTCL Recorder Performers S Nyamezela, Dip. Music, Adv. Dip. (Ch Conducting) Mrs A Rossouw, B Mus (UOVS), B Mus (Hons) (UP), B Bibl (Hons) (UP), HDB (UOVS) Organist: C Upchurch, B.Mus (Hons), M.Mus. (UDW) Head of Contemporary Music : NB Carter, B. Mus (Hons) (UCT) Personal Assistant to Director: Mrs V Savage SPORT STAFF Director: A Lion-Cachet, B.A. (Hons) (PUK), H.D.E. V Trninic, B. Phys.Ed. (University of Split, Croatia) Development Ofcer: A Norris Director of Rugby: S Lourens Sports Scientist: R van Ginkel Sports Analyst: A Carolan, B.Sc Sports
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Clayton:
Thomson: DL Wentzel, BA(Ed) (Hons) (RAU) Alston: Clarke: Hodgson: Fleming: Runge: RB Venter, B.A. (Hons), H.D.E. (Natal, Pietermaritzburg) CF Bosch, B.Sc., H.D.E (Witwatersrand) S Wilson, B. Ed. (RAU), H.E.D. (Witwatersrand) M Johnston, B.A. (Ed.) (RAU) D Bradley, B.Ed(Hons) (Natal), BSc, H.D.E,, F.D.E (Natal)
CHAPLAINS Fr JG Pretorius, B. Th. (Hons) (Rhodes); Dip CST (SAICS); M. Th (Rhodes) Fr. I Stevens, B.A. (Pretoria), B.A. (Hons) (Cape Town), H.O.D. (Pretoria), B.Th. (SA) HEADS OF DEPARTMENT Afrikaans: Mrs MC Jardine, B.A. (Witwatersrand), T.T.H.D. (JCE) Art: Mrs L Culwick, B.F.A. (Hons) (Rhodes), H.D.E. (Natal) Career Guidance: S Wilson, B. Ed. (RAU), H.E.D. (Witwatersrand) Information Technology: Mrs L Tandy, B.A., U.E.D. (Natal), F.D.E. (S.A.), I.C.T. (Cambridge)
COLLEGE STAFF
Management (Hons), B Com Marketing (Hons) (RAU) TECHNICAL STAFF TH Gunyule, NW Raphulu, T Kubayi, S Manubata TECHNOLOGY Director: P Henning, M.Sc. (UCT) Mrs P Galloway, COBOL Programming (VZAP) B Lou T Bonnet LIBRARY Mrs J Millward, B.A., H.Dip.Lib, Dip O&M (PUK) Mrs A Delport, N. Dip. (Graphic Design) FOUNDATION AND OLD JOHANNIANS ASSOCIATION Director: Mrs HC Cooper B.A. (Hamilton), M.A. (Economics) (John Hopkins) Fund-raising Coordinator: Mrs L Dicks, Dip.(NTTC). Personal Assistant: Ms ZP Kumalo ADMINISTRATION Business Manager: DA Dry B.Com. (UCT), B.Th. (SA). M.M. (Witwatersrand), R.P.P., S.L.D.P. (Manchester) Personal Assistant: Mrs M Roets Financial Manager: Mr N M Norman A.C.I.S. Administration manager: Mrs M Carter Assistant Accountant: Mrs B Fouche Finance Staff: Mrs N Binns, Mrs M Lamb, B. Com. (Rhodes) Mrs B Chamboko C.I.S.; B. Compt (UNISA) Headmasters Secretary: Mrs M Rufener School Secretary: Mrs P Schaerer Reception: Mrs W Modise Assistants: AM Moroane, PM Moshidi, A Buthelezi Sixth Form Secretary: Mrs PA Beauclerk FUNCTIONS AND EVENTS Manager: Mrs C Wiswall Estate Manager: A Duncan Matron: Mrs N Nel, RN., RM. Drivers: J Silimela, P Gumede, S Legou MEDICAL Medical Ofcer: Dr MR Rabie, MB. BCh. (Witwatersrand) Psychologist: Ms L Lamont, M.Ed (Psych), B.A., P.H.E.D., B.Ed. Psych (RAU) Nursing Sister: Sister GB Venter Advanced Diploma in Nursing Science (Natal), RN MARKETING AND PUBLICITY OFFICE Director: Mrs AP Williams, N.Dip (Computer Accountancy), C Accountancy, C. Marketing (Aust) Assistant: Mrs A Delport, N. Dip. (Graphic Design)
COLLEGE STAFF
Back Row: S Wilson, M Carter, A Buthelezi, K Byrne, A Scarr, A Delport, C Wiswall, L Dicks, B Tobias, M Koli, A Carolan, P le Roux, L Manthata, A Lion-Cachet, N McFarland, V Trninic, S Lourens, A Duncan Seventh Row: D Grigoratos, M Huysamer, N Carter, R Janse van Rensburg, N Norman, S Sproule, S Scholes, P Henning, B Louw, J Silimela, P Schaerer, M Rufener, I Basson, A Norris, C Upchurch Sixth Row: B Lou, M Lamb, B Chamboko, K Jacobs, C Midgley, P Emant, R Untiedt, A Thompson, C Bosch, W Pretorius, M Heunis, G Evans, N Stocks, C Henning, C Bossert, B Cotterell, J Bwasa, S de Witte Fifth Row: S Vilikazi, M Coetzee, L Bradley, E Kamangira, J Royal , L Lamont, P Beauclerk, A Nettleton, G Venter, S Hale, W Modise, J Pretorius, S May, J Joseph, Z Khumalo, I Bonnet, I Myburgh, P Zimolong Fourth Row: A Morwane, D Bradley, D Wentzel, I Bosman, B Huntley, C MacKenzie, R Venter, R Cameron, C Boyd, S Fricker, A George, W Taylor, T Bonnet, K Arlow Third Row: G Thomas, M Roets, S Dzanibe, L Culwick, M Jardine, J Millward, I Malan, R Macdonald, R Clarke, M Taylor, N Ndlovu, L Sibisi, I Stevens Second Row: A Mazibuko, R Long, A Dry, J de Souza, R Klement, A Robinson, L Mattiuzzo, S Laurence, W Young, S Mparutsa, T Williams, S Manubata Front Row: P Moshidi, B Oosthuizen, S Nyamazele
HEADMASTER'S ADDRESS
ROGER CAMERON
SPEECH DAY 14 OCTOBER 2010 JOHANNESBURG CITY HALL
Boys and Girls, Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of Council and Staff, Mr Vuyo Kahla Week by week St Johns boys and girls respond during the weekly mass to the following words: Johns and ows out of our founding fathers and our Christian faith. We lift our hearts and give thanks for the staff who serve the boys and girls of this College. It is impossible to identify or list all that the teachers do to ensure that our boys and girls grow in body, mind and character. Every Speech Night, I reect on the extraordinary development of boys who enter St Johns as 6 or 7 year-olds under Mrs Popplewells care in the Pre-Prep, then pass through the hands of the teachers in the Prep with Mr Workman and now Mr Lees, and then for ve years are shaped by the teachers of the College. Recently I visited the Pre-Prep with our 39 Survivors and watched two little violinists play they were just beginning their journey with Ms Bonnet; tonight we listen to accomplished musicians, who have passed Grade 8 with distinction, and we give thanks to the staff who have enabled such accomplishments - so much growth in body, mind and character. Perhaps the most obvious indicator of this development is our Matric results. We can be proud of our success and reputation as the best academic boys school in South Africa: 100% pass; 94% Bachelors entrance to university; 272 subject distinctions. When 53 boys attain distinctions in Mathematics, 21 for English and 24 for Physical Science then our teachers and our boys are denitely getting it right. The Cambridge A-Level results are equally impressive. In particular tonight, we lift up our hearts and give thanks for the service at St Johns College of individual teachers who are leaving us at the end of the year: Mr Craig Bosch The Housemaster of Clarke, Craig leaves us after 12 years. He takes up a post at a school in Perth, Australia. During his time at St Johns, he has taught in the Science Department, run the Photography Club and Outdoor Pursuits Club, but most importantly has challenged the boys in his classes and in his house to be disciplined and to aspire to excellence. Dr Stephen Sproule The Head of Department: Mathematics, Stephen leaves us after 9 years to join the University of Tennessee in the USA. I thank you, Stephen, for your passion for mathematics and your determination to ensure that the St Johns Mathematics Department is leading the pack. Mr Rick Clarke The Head of Department: English, Rick leaves us after 5 years to return to the UK to take up a post at Wellington College. We thank him for his deep commitment and service to St Johns. He has led the department well and has been a wonderful schoolmaster. Mrs Sandra Laurence leaves us after 11 years to return to journalism. We thank you, Sandra, for your commitment to excellence in the English Department and your commitment to organising the Golden Eagle Award, which acknowledges boys involvement in community service. We also thank you for the many wonderful Matric Dances you have organised with the Matric Dance Committee. Ms Lindsay Lamont, our School
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The Lord be with you And also with you Lift up your hearts We lift them to the Lord Let us give thanks to the Lord our God It is right to give Him thanks and praise It is indeed right; it is our duty and our joy at all times and in all places to give thanks and praise.
These are amazing and powerful words. Tonight is an opportunity to lift up our hearts and give thanks. So the very rst thing for which we lift up our hearts and give thanks is that this feeling of gratitude is embedded in the daily life of St Johns College. We remain faithful to our Christian tradition; every day we start the day with worship where we acknowledge God to be the creator and Lord of our lives. Each day we lift up our hearts and give thanks for the life we have been given. I was really touched by Georges nal address as Head of School this morning to the College boys. He afrmed them and thanked them even though it has been a tough year. Carl Jung, the famous psychologist, said Bidden or unbidden God is present. At St Johns we acknowledge His presence in our College and in our lives, and for this we give thanks. This is fundamental to the DNA of St
ACADEMIC COLOURS
Back Row: A Rathugamage, J Nevin, Z Patel, R Fisher, S Kennedy, M Pulford, C Roberts Fourth Row: J Verhagen, A Petersen, , N Surgey, A Fisher, E Wessels, S Lee Third Row: A McFie , C Grose, N Christelis, K Lala, H Newton-Hill, C Black, P Cresswell, R Kolabhai Second Row: G Hopkins, M de la Fargue, R Dalton, J Wood, A Maserow, , D Dullabh, G Varughese, A Cilliers, R Berry Front Row: N Gordon, N Morgan, S Lester, Mr R Cameron, B Walwyn, B Povey
Psychologist, leaves us after 9 years to go into private practice and to work towards her PhD. We thank you, Lindsay, for making a huge difference in the lives of individual boys and families, as well as contributing to the staff development of the College and teaching Psychology in the 6th Form. Miss Sarah May has been a member of the Mathematics Department, both as Teacher Intern last year and Teacher this year. She leaves us to take up a position at Kingsmead. Mr Cullen Mackenzie, Head of Latin, leaves us after only one year to study towards his PhD. It is not many who are offered a full scholarship at several prestigious universities. We congratulate him on this achievement. It is not usual for us to lose so many key personnel in one year, remembering that Mr Alan Thompson was promoted to the position of Rector of St Dunstans earlier in the year. The fact that 5 have either moved overseas or on promotion indicates the standing in which St Johns College is held both here and internationally. We can be proud of their achievements. The reality however is that the year has revolved around advertising, interviewing and making appointments. This has been a challenging time and I am condent that we have appointed good people to replace them. We lift our hearts and give thanks, not only for the service of these men and women who leave us, but also for the many outstanding teachers and support staff who
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will continue to contribute and give of their all to St Johns College. I thank you. The appointment and retention of good staff is critical to the success of St Johns and one of the key strategic challenges recognised by the Council. We have excellent academic staff. They are well qualied, experienced, hard-working and have a real concern for the boys they teach. We lift up our hearts and give thanks. There are a number of other key factors for which we need to give thanks: We have a full school the enrolment from Grade 0 to Matric is healthy. This means that our nances are in a healthy shape and that St Johns College is a school of choice in Johannesburg. The Foundation has initiated an annual fund which encourages everyone in the St Johns Community to make a donation to the school. I am pleased to say that we have 100% support from the Council, OJ Committee and the Foundation Trustees. In fact, we have a donor who will match every donation, rand for rand, up to R1.5 million. Thus far, the Foundation through the annual fund has raised R3 627 405. I encourage parents to participate. For this generosity, we lift our hearts and give thanks. We have a rich extra-mural curriculum with a wide variety of sporting codes, clubs and societies. Our students continue to excel in Drama, Music, Art and Debating. Some highlights of the year have been our annual production: Andrew Bucklands
Feedback and Bloodstream. Our debating team has done well in the SACEE debating competition, reaching the semi-nals and nals, with Michael Macklin being selected as the best provincial debater. On the sportseld, we have played hard and performed well. Our Under 14A rugby team won almost all of their matches; the 1st and Under 16A basketball teams both won the National Basketball Tournaments hosted by St Johns. Our cricket 1st Team reached the nal of the Standard Bank Knockout Competition and had an excellent Michaelmas Week, as well as beating St Stithians by 8 wickets yesterday in the Johnny Waite Tournament. The rowing team earned second place in the South African Championships and Willie Morgan was selected for the SA Under 19 Rowing Squad, which led to his participating in the World Championships. Our 1st Squash Team nished 1st in the Gauteng Schools Super League and were selected to play in the National Schools Championships. The 1st Hockey team reached the nal of the Aitken Trophy and the Under 15A Hockey won the Boden Trophy. On the intellectual front, we are also achieving: of the 13 medals which St Johns won at the Regional Science Expo, 6 were gold - and Schalk Burger and Peter Raney won the award for the top project at the National Science Expo. Chris Grose took 10th place in the National English Olympiad. We have had boys works published in English Alive and many of
CULTURAL COLOURS
Back Row: Z Patel, M Pulford, B Baggott, A OluochOlunya, J Maycock, N Surgey, R Kolabhai Third Row: C Grose, C Black, A Petersen, J Williamson, P Swart, D Jacobs, F Du Plessis, J Coulter, M Cloete Second Row: J Lap, T Bradeld, A Rathugamage, D Dullabh, R Berry, G Varughese, P Cresswell, K Brummer, A Maserow Front Row: A Fox, K Walsh, S Glendinning, Mr R Cameron, N Masipa, T Geffen, B Walwyn
our boys nished in the top 100 of the SA Maths Olympiad. We have enjoyed regular musical events such as Supper and Song, and the Jazz Bands playing at the Grahamstown Festival and at our own On the Night. Tonight our Matric musicians are playing on stage. The level of achievement always astounds me and makes me proud. We organised a wonderful cricket tour to England, an art tour to Europe as well as a rugby tour to Zimbabwe and an adventure expedition to the Okavango. What I have mentioned now is only a sample of our activities and achievements I have not mentioned the Chess Club, Bridge Club, Aviation Club, Rock Climbing Club or any of the other clubs held on a weekly basis, nor the extra-ordinary performances of our choir week by week at Mass.
St Johns has a rich and varied curriculum. The boys and the teachers are involved and committed. For all this we lift our hearts and give thanks.
Eight College Houses and one 6th Form House, nine Housemasters - and all the boys and girls have a sense of belonging not only to a great school but also to a good house. Their identity and sense of place at St Johns College is to a certain extent determined by belonging to a House. I thank the Housemasters, the Heads of Houses and the Tutors because it is through this system that we shape boys in
character, leadership and in moral courage. The leadership programme provides every boy with the opportunity to develop life-long skills and character. It is through the Houses that boys are disciplined, encouraged, challenged and grown from young boys to men of Light, Life and Love. Are we successful ? The answer is yes but by no means perfect. As this school community is aware, we have had boys who were selling and experimenting with marijuana. The consequences of these unwise choices have been tough but there have been consequences and they have had the opportunity to grow from their mistakes. We face another challenge as we deal with serious issues regarding the future health of a handful of our boys who are risking their futures by taking anabolic steroids in order to be bigger, stronger and faster. They are not prepared to wait for natural growth and development; they want an instant solution at the risk of their kidneys, liver, testes and personalities. Our House masters and senior staff are dealing with such difcult situations with rmness, but also with compassion and understanding. We lift our hearts and give thanks, not because boys have made mistakes, but because the school takes the issues of discipline seriously. It is not just the big things like drugs and theft, but also the small things like keeping our grounds clean and not littering, looking good and well groomed, and showing respect and greeting . Our 3 G campaign continues
grounds, grooming and greeting. When we get the small things right, then we get the bigger things right as well. The secret to co-parenting, to educating and forming young men of character is to be consistent and rigorous in our loving and disciplining of the boys. We lift our hearts and give thanks because we have the heart and will to do this. It would be remiss if we did not lift our hearts and give thanks for the extraordinary building and renovation programme that is drawing to a close at the end of this year. I specically thank the Council for their foresight and wisdom in ensuring that we have world-class facilities. I thank Mr Midgley and Mr Millwood for their tireless efforts; Dr Pretorius and the Building Committee for their hard work and commitment. I also thank the teachers and boys who have endured dust, noise and disruption. We acknowledge that it has been difcult, but these are indeed exciting times of building for the future of St Johns College. We lift our hearts and give thanks for the St Johns Academy and Masibambane College. Both are fruits of our belief in Lux Vita Caritas and of our Christian commitment. Both continue to need our support and are extremely exciting ventures which reach out from all that is excellent here to make a difference in our society. Thank you to all boys, staff and parents who have contributed to these organisations. Masibambane starts its rst
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Grade 10 year this year and has over 738 pupils. The Academy has its rst Matric class this year and we wish them well.
SO WHAT IS IT THAT DEFINES AND MAKES A CHAMPION?

I would like to suggest that St Johns College champions are young men and women who do not have a spirit of timidity or fear, but of power and love and selfdiscipline. They are not arrogant and conceited, but humble, acknowledging the source of this spirit. This description of a champion comes from Pauls letter to Timothy. He suggests that the spirit of power, love and selfdiscipline comes from the Spirit of God who dwells in you. So many champions today have clay feet; they are illusory and the media make or break them. At St Johns, we aim to shape and mould true champions . It is not about the honours, the prizes, the ofce but rather about the character. We lift our hearts and give thanks because the boys and girls of St Johns College are called and challenged to be true Champions of the World. I thank the Prefects of 2010 for their contribution to the organisation and smooth-running of the school. It has been a pleasure working with you and with George and Rea.
WE LIFT OUR HEARTS AND GIVE THANKS.

In the heart of every young man is the desire to be a champion. At St Johns, we honour our champions. We give them Honours blazers, Colours blazers and on a night like tonight we give them prizes and certicates. We name the Head of School, Second Prefect and Heads of Houses. We trust that they will be ne examples of true St Johns College Champions. 35 of our Matric boys were awarded the Gold Presidents Award the highest award attainable at the school and comparable to the world-renowned Duke of Edinburghs Award. Many LV boys received the Gold Eagle Award for community service all these are champions. When our 1st rugby team went onto the eld and beat St Stithians they were champions. When our Jazz Band played at the wonderful Parents Association On the Night reworks evening, they were champions. Lewis Pugh, our guest speaker tonight is a champion and we are honoured to have him with us here tonight.
I now take this opportunity to announce the new School Prefects for St Johns College for 2011, knowing that all the Lower 5s will have the opportunity to lead St Johns through the leadership programme and have the opportunity to become prefects in 2011. I thank the following boys for taking on this responsibility. Head of School: Schalk Burger Second Prefect: Jeffrey Long Head of Nash: Peter Raney Head of Hill: Dylan Feldner-Busztin Head of Clayton: Jesse Bulabula Head of Thomson: Markus Trengove Head of Alston: Matthew Diepenbroek Head of Clarke: Paul Malakou Head of Hodgson: Khathu Ramabulana Head of Fleming: Tebogo Lekubu Head of Runge: Marina Ceccarelli Additional School Prefect: Travis Bradeld
CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS
VUYO D. KAHLA
CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE ON SPEECH DAY 14 OCTOBER 2010
Dear Friends I should like to start by thanking the staff for their enormous contribution to the education of our sons and daughters. In particular, I should like to thank Mrs Helen Popplewell, Headmistress of the Pre Prep, and I should like to congratulate Mr Patrick Lees on his appointment as Headmaster of the Prep. As you are aware, I commenced my term as Chairman of the Council of this World Class Christian School in Africa in January 2008, at a time when uncertainty characterised the state of a world troubled by a global economic recession. In one of my addresses, I emphasised that our greatest comfort in such uncertain times lay in the fact that the foundation on which the founding fathers of St Johns College built this great school remains rm and certain that foundation being the Lord God who is Light, Life and Love. St Johns has continued to send forth young men and women rightly trained in mind, body and character to serve God well in Church and in State. For our continued commitment to this established mandate for St Johns College, allow me to honour our Colleges Headmaster, whose vision and foresight makes St Johns an undisputed benchmark for academic excellence premised on faith in Jesus Christ. Mr Roger Cameron is an admirable leader who conducts the affairs of St Johns with the integrity expected of a person in the Light. Mr Cameron completed 10 years as Headmaster in 2008, and as an expression of its unqualied condence in the important leadership role he has played
at St Johns, the Council unanimously decided in 2009 to extend his contract by 6 years. On behalf of the Council of St Johns College, I extend my sincere thanks to you, Mr Cameron and to Dr Anne Cameron, who has been a great support to you and St Johns. We also extend to you the assurance of the supporters of Liverpool YOULL NEVER WALK ALONE! It is appropriate for me to thank Mr Mike Workman for his contribution to St Johns Preparatory School as Headmaster for the past 13 years. We are sad that it is due to ill-health that he has taken early retirement. I wish him and his family all the best in his recovery process. We pray that he will experience good health. I thank Mr John Gnodde, the Chairman of the St Johns College Foundation and the Foundation team led by Mrs Heather Cooper for the fundraising activities they undertake for the sustainability of St Johns. Most importantly, I thank the Foundation team for teaching all of us in the St Johns community to give, through the Annual Fund launched and to which all members of Council have committed to contribute. I also take this opportunity to thank Mr Gary Greeff, Chairman of the Parents Association, and the Parents Association Executive Committee for their hard work and commitment to St Johns. With Fr Michael Arnold, Chaplain of St Johns, having retired at the end of last year, we welcomed at the beginning of this year Fr Jacque Pretorius as Chaplain. We thank Fr Jacque and Fr Ian for the passion with which they attend to what Pope Benedict XVI has characterized as the
most urgent priority to present the gure and message of Jesus in his public ministry, and so to help foster the growth of a living relationship with him. Finances Turning to the nances of the College, I am pleased to report that these remain in very good shape. Thanks to the careful overseeing and conservative approach adopted by the Finance Committee of Council, we will once again break-even at operating cost level. The collection of school fees is carefully monitored and controlled by the Finance Department, and it is pleasing to note that, despite the on-going tough economic environment, the number of defaulters has not risen above the levels of previous years, nor has the incidence of bad debt increased. We should like to acknowledge the sacrices made by many parents, and thank them for their commitment to honouring their responsibilities regarding payment of school fees. Building At the beginning of the year, we held the glorious opening of the Alan Wilcock Vulindlela Centre and its blessing by the Bishop of Johannesburg and Visitor of the School, Bishop Brian Germond. Mrs Margie Keeton honoured us with her presence by unveiling the Foundation Stone. Mr Alan Wilcock together with his wife, Gen, opened the Alan Wilcock Vulindlela Centre. The quadrangle was named after Dr T W Kambule, the famous South African educationist, and the English Centre was named after Mr Michael Marais, who was previously Head of English and served St
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2010 PREFECTS
Back Row: K Wiid, T Louw, L Frewen, B Levendig, A Partt, N Hale, E Vincent, B Streeter, R Goodlace, A Nocton-Smith Sixth Row: Y Singh, D Andrew, S Lee, B Forsyth, C Durandt, J Sam, R Engelbrecht, A Chang Fifth Row: B Thomas, B Marffy, J Hawkins, F Le Grange, T Griesel, M Alletzhauser, F McKinnon, B Joubert Fourth Row: A Petersen, B Dell, B Baggott, M Irvine, G Milasinovich, J Van Der Bijl, R Fisher, A Fisher, D Dullabh, W Verhoogt, Third Row: R Morris, K Walsh, G Hopkins, J Alexander, J Verhagen, J Coulter, N Hock , C Black, J Nevin, C Roberts, S Kennedy, B Walwyn Second Row: A Cilliers, A Maserow, N Morgan, E Wessels, Z Patel, M de la Fargue, N Gordon, H Newton-Hill, C Grose, B Povey, D Jacobs Front Row: M Pulford, S Mokgalong, D Protopappas, N Christelis, G Hadjichristos, R Khumbane, M Bekker, N Surgey, K Moanakoena
Johns for 43 years. Mrs England, who generously contributed to the costs of the building, was honoured by having the auditorium named after her: the Rene England Auditorium. In addition, we have opened a brand new boarding facility for Hill House. The school has enjoyed these new facilities and many have admired the additions to the school. Because of the continued renovation and construction, it has been a difcult year with extensive relocation of classrooms and boarding, and I thank the staff for their patience and forbearance. The end result will be extensively renovated boardinghouses, classrooms and common rooms to be proud of. We will have 260 beds available for boarding in the College and Sixth Form and this will meet one of Councils strategic goals: to increase the boarding component of St Johns College. The Water Polo Pool is under construction and has presented numerous challenges to the Building Committee; I have to thank the parents who have contributed to the funding of this pool. When it is completed it will be a wonderful asset to the school. I thank Mr Midgley, Mr Millwood and the Chairman of the Building Committee of Council, Dr Pretorius, for their time and commitment to all of these tasks. The extensive capital expenditure programme that we undertook in 2008 has almost reached its conclusion. The projects have gone remarkably well and will all be completed under budget. The new facilities
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are signicant developments that will greatly enhance the life of the College in many ways. The capital cost of some R108 million has been entirely nanced from the schools reserves and, apart from a brief period where bridging nance was required, has been done without incurring debt and the servicing costs of such debt. We are indeed in a fortunate position to have been able to do this. Turning to 2011, the Council on Monday night approved the budget for next year. One of the greatest challenges the school faces is the ability to attract and retain top teachers, and so we have prioritised this area in our budget for 2011. We are pleased to report that, after a very detailed investigation and benchmarking exercise by an external consultant, our salaries remain highly competitive. Nevertheless, we need to ensure that we remain an employer of choice for the best academic staff, and so Council continues to pay attention to remuneration, benets and opportunities for the professional development of staff. As staff costs account for some 63% of our expenditure, we are acutely aware of the direct link between salary increases and tuition fee increases. These costs need to be nanced by the parents of a xed number of pupils, as we have committed ourselves to not growing numbers in the school. We are very mindful of the relentless economic pressure that parents face, and so we have worked hard to ensure that expenditure remains tightly controlled and that alternative sources of income are being developed. As a result of this, we are
pleased to report that school fees for the College will be increasing by only 7.9% for 2011, and the development levy by 7.5%. I thank my colleagues on the Council for their commitment to the governance of St Johns College. I have appreciated their wisdom and insight in the discussion around the Council table. All of their time and effort has been given freely to St Johns because we believe that it plays an essential part, not only in the lives of the boys and girls who are presently at St Johns College, but for all of those who come in the future. Without doubt St Johns College is one of the great schools in South Africa and the world, and I am proud to be associated with it. Let me now turn to the 2010 leavers, who will have their Valedictory Mass and Leavers Dinner on Saturday. Youve been trained well and are certain to attain great success beyond St Johns. Be always alert to the solemn truth expressed most memorably by St Jerome: Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. May the Lord God of all encouragement bless you most abundantly in your nal exams at St Johns and in the many great endeavours for which youve been rightly trained in mind, body and character. Finally I express our grateful thanks to almighty God for His blessing on St Johns College and for His guidance on the way forward.
MATRIC RESULTS 2009
IEB MATRICULATION RESULTS

2009
St Johns pupils once again achieved a 100% Matric pass rate, with 94% achieving university entrance at degree level.
1 pupil achieved an average of over 90%. 22 pupils achieved averages of over 80%. 28 pupils achieved averages of over 75%. Awadi Rathugamage, was placed in the top 5% of IEB candidates in 6 or more subjects. He was also placed in the top 1% for mathematics, physical science and information technology. Three pupils were placed in the top 5% of IEB candidates in 5 or more subjects. Nicholas Hoernle was placed in top 1% in geography, mathematics, life sciences and physical science. Bhavin Daya was placed in top 1% in geography. The following pupils achieved an average of over 80% in the examinations: 9 subjects: Awadi Rathugamage 8 subjects: Petrus Venter 7 subjects: Brendan Pryke Danilo Queiros Nishal Robb Bhavin Daya Nicholas Hoernle Bartek Ogonowski
272 distinctions (80% and over) were achieved in the following subjects: 53 of 120 candidates writing Mathematics; 2 pupils achieved 100% 28 pupils achieved over 90% 19 of 39 candidates writing Maths Paper 3 7 of 42 candidates writing Advanced Programme Mathematics 54 of 131 candidates writing Life Orientation 21 of 131 candidates writing English 24 of 114 candidates writing Physical Science 20 of 49 candidates writing Life Sciences 25 of 67 candidates writing Geography 7 of 15 candidates writing Dramatic Arts 3 of 5 candidates writing German 2 of 18 candidates writing French 5 of 19 candidates writing Information Technology 4 of 21 candidates writing Isizulu, rst additional language
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PRIZE WINNERS 2010

REMOVE SUBJECT PRIZES
Afrikaans, English, History, Life Sciences and Academic Certicate Drama, Latin and Academic Certicate EMS, Technology, Zulu 3rd Language and Academic Certicate English Writing and Academic Certicate Geography, Physical Science and Academic Certicate German and Academic Certicate Latin and Academic Certicate Mathematics, Music and Academic Certicate Physical Science and Academic Certicate Visual Arts and Academic Certicate Zulu 2nd Language French, Life Orientation and Academic Certicate Daniel Erasmus Alexander Korsten Zaid Bhayat Luc Feldner-Busztin Travis Hornsby Afrikaans, Geography, History, Life Orientation, Physical Science and Academic Certicate Dramatic Arts English and Academic Certicate English and Academic Certicate French German and Academic Certicate History and Academic Certicate
Schalk Burger Kai Brummer Markus Trengove Michael Macklin Nicholas Jeloneck
Dylan Feldner-Busztin Scott Hunt
Alex van der Hoven George Stanchev Oliver Gnodde Aashish Diayar Marthinus Strydom Abraham Varghese Collin Magagula
Information Technology &Information Technology Programming, Music, Physical Science and Academic Certicate Reshard Kolabhai Information Technology, Music and Academic Certicate Latin and Academic Certicate Mathematics and Academic Certicate Visual Arts and Academic Certicate Zulu 2nd Language Asiri Rathugamage Jamie McGraw Rowan Dalton Ian McBride Tebogo Lekubu
LIV SUBJECT PRIZES

Afrikaans, English, Geography, History, Life Orientation, Life Sciences, Physical Science, Visual Arts and Academic Certicate Gianluca Agostinetto Drama and Academic Certicate EMS and Academic Certicate Siyabonga Mkhize Kyle Lion-Cachet
UV SUBJECT PRIZES
Advanced Programme Mathematics and Academic Certicate James Verhagen
English Reading Young Critics Reading Award, Latin and Academic Certicate Benedict Didcott-Marr French, Mathematics, Technology and Academic Certicate German and Academic Certicate Music and Academic Certicate Technology, Zulu 3rd Language and Academic Certicate Zulu 2nd Language and Academic Certicate Adrian Jennings Jonathan Rogerson Matthew Lillie Merrick Stevenson Sbonakaliso Nene
Afrikaans, English, Information Technology, Latin, Life Orientation, Life Sciences, Physical Science and Academic Certicate Christopher Roberts Dramatic Arts and Academic Certicate French, History, Zulu 2rd Language and Academic Certicate Geography and Academic Certicate German Information Technology Programming and Academic Certicate Mathematics and Academic Certicate Music and Academic Certicate Visual Arts and Academic Certicate Andrew Petersen Callum Black Barry Povey Benn Forsyth Richard Fisher Ben Walwyn Paul Cresswell Adam Maserow
UIV SUBJECT PRIZES

Advanced Programme Mathematics, History, Physical Science and Academic Certicate Afrikaans, German, Mathematics and Academic Certicate Dramatic Arts and Academic Certicate English and Academic Certicate Muhammed French Geography, Life Sciences and Academic Certicate Geography and Academic Certicate Information Technology Programming and Academic Certicate Life Orientation and Academic Certicate Music and Academic Certicate Visual Arts and Academic Certicate Zulu 2nd Language Nabeel Seedat Jacques van Rhyn James Surgey Ismail Bulbulia Alexandre Jelonek Himal Kooverjee Kyle Robertson
LVI SUBJECT PRIZES

Biology Academic Certicate Biology Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Academic Certicate English and Academic Certicate French History and Academic Certicate Physics and Academic Certicate Tobi Adewuyi, Arcene Bampile Frances Steere Sohini Mukherjee Mukuka Mapamba Kirara Sato Toba Adewuyi
Information Technology and Academic Certicate Bhaveen Kalidas Matthew Koevort Mohammed Kaskar Bryan Moore Dylan Potgieter Thobile Ndzimande
UVI SUBJECT PRIZES

Economics an dAcademic Certicate English Geography, Physics and Academic Certicate Mathematics Psychology and Academic Certicate The Academy Endeavour Cup - Quinton Nkala Gamu Chikwanda James Williamson Sarah Lester Gamu Chikwanda Kisiwe Malunga
LV SUBJECT PRIZES
Advanced Programme Mathematics, Life Sciences and Academic Certicate
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Richard Berry
PRIZE WINNERS 2010

SCHOOL PRIZES
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Prize for outstanding achievement in Mathematics Rowan Dalton
WALTER ANDREWES PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, SPORT AND ACADEMICS
Paul Cresswell
Alec Rennie Bell Memorial Prize for most distinguished academic record in Lower V Schalk Burger Gordon Dekker Prize for Current Affairs Christopher Huntley -- Junior Michael Macklin -- Senior
FLEMING PRIZES FOR SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL

Bryan Joubert Ben Marffy Robert Stuart-Thompson Anrie Cilliers
MUSIC
Best Senior Instrumentalist Best Junior Instrumentalist Walter Macfarlane Senior Chorister Award Walter Macfarlane Junior Chorister Award Most Improved Musician Garvey Cup for Musical Endeavour Paul Cresswell Jason Smythe Richard Fisher Brian Moore Jamie Macgraw Kendrick Walsh
OLD JOHANNIAN MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL

George Hadjichristos
THE OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION AWARDS

For excellence in Academics For excellence in Academics Callum Black Christopher Roberts Andrew Petersen Jonathan Van Der Bijl Eugene Manditsera Ben Da Silva Christopher Grose Austen Partt Paul Cresswell Nicholas Hock Michael Irvine
VISUAL ARTS
R P Reynolds Trophy for excellence in Creative Arts Most Improved Art Student Diedie Marais Trophy for Art Practical Parker Craft Award for outstanding use of colour Barry Povey Sam Kentridge Ferdi Le Grange Simon Lee
For excellence in Authorship For excellence in Basketball For excellence in Basketball For excellence in Clay Pigeon Shooting For excellence in English For excellence in Karate For excellence in Squash For excellence in Water Polo For excellence in Water Polo
ORATORY
O.J. Debating Public Speaking Trophy Andrew ODowd Memorial Medal Chilvers Cup for Impromptu Speech Junior Public Speaking Cup - Prepared Junior Public Speaking Cup - Impromptu Andrew Petersen & Michael Macklin Andrew Petersen Andrew Petersen Andrew Petersen Luke Reid Gianluca Agostinetto
THE ALAN & GEN WILCOCK MEDAL FOR COURAGE AND RESILIENCE
Kendrick Walsh
DRAMATIC ARTS
E.K. Lorimer Cup for best Inter-House Play, Clarke House Director: Michael Cloete Andrewes Drama for The Most Sustained and Outstanding Commitment to Drama since Remove Andrew Petersen Mike Stalley Trophy for The Best Actor in any Production In 2010 Nicholas Surgey
PETER BAKER PRIZE FOR THE DUX SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR

Christopher Roberts
BRUCE CURRIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Junior: Adrian Jennings Senior: Richard Berry
Dramatic Arts Trophy for The Most Versatile Actor in Upper V Reabetswe Khumbane
SIR HENRY STRAKOSCH SCHOLARSHIP

Schalk Burger
LAWSON POETRY PRIZE

Amy Mce
GUY BALDERSON SCHOLARSHIP

Not awarded
WALTER WEBBER ESSAY PRIZE

Frances Steere
HA WHITECROSS
Gianluca Agostinetto
JOHN AIREY MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR EXTRAMURAL CONTRIBUTION

Nicholas Surgey
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ST JOHN'S ACADEMY
ST JOHNS ACADEMY
2010 REPORT
The St Johns College Academy commenced its third year in January 2010 and welcomed the 20 Grade 12 boys who made up the inaugural class of 2008, 22 Grade 11 boys and 24 new Grade 10 boys. The St Johns College Academy is an after-school academy for boys in Grades 10, 11 and 12, promoting excellence in Mathematics, English, Science and Computer Literacy. Towards the end of their Grade 9 year, boys are interviewed from three partner schools in the community, namely St Endas, Barnato Park and Athlone Boys, for possible enrolment in the St Johns Academy. The Academy is open daily from 14h45 to 17h00, providing Academy pupils with extra tuition and developing their skills in the four subjects. The boys are to be commended for their commitment and determination, as they continue with their full-time studies in their own schools. The Academy offers full curriculum support and a life skills component aimed at empowering boys for future success; this learning experience takes place in a nurturing, Christian environment on our secure College campus. We are fortunate to have the services of experienced staff members from the College in Mathematics, Science and Computer Studies, as well as those of Mrs Suzanne Mason, who teaches all the English classes . The boys commit themselves to an intensive three-year programme with expectations of outstanding results in all subjects as they prepare for their nal Matric examinations. The Grade 11 boys are taken on a leadership camp in the Magaliesburg which is facilitated by Spirit of Adventure. This years camp was a great success and the boys returned much richer for the experience. Most of the Matric boys have recently submitted their applications for further studies at Wits and UJ next year, with a couple of them having earned full bursaries from Ernst & Young and Impala Plat. St Johns is proud, privileged and humbled by this opportunity to make a difference in the lives of these ne young man. DB
The St Johns Academy on Leadership Camp: making new discoveries
Team-building exercise
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PRESIDENT'S AWARD
THE PRESIDENTS AWARD

adventure trail to wilderness areas in the Pilanesberg or Imfolozi Game Reserves, or to the Okavango. They pursued their sporting and cultural interests with zeal for a period of 18 months and had to provide evidence of goals set and achieved. Most important of all, they completed a demanding programme of community service: 40 hours residential, doing hard, physical labour for a less-privileged community (in this case the TLC haven which St Johns supports on a regular basis) and a further minimum of 72 hours further community service. To t the requirements of this programme into the second half of the LV and the rst half of the Matric study and sports schedules, which are already tight, demands huge commitment. The boys are to be commended on their admirable achievements and it is to be hoped that they will carry forward the lessons they have learnt in responsibility, organisation, compassion and commitment into their adult lives. Their thanks go to Mr Sean Wilson for the effort and commitment he put into organising and supervising the programme at St Johns
WINNERS OF THE GOLD AWARD, PRESIDENTS AWARD SCHEME

Back row left to right: Nicholas Hale, Jonathan Hawkins, Richard Fisher 2nd row left to right: Callum Black, Casper Durandt, Leslie Frewin, Matthew Pulford , Edward Vincent, Andrew Fisher 3rd row left to right: Edwyn Schindler, Bennett Forsyth, Dixit Dullabh, Bryan Joubert 4th row left to right: Matthew Becker, Wesley Verhoogt, William Marchant, Gregory Laxton, Kyle Wiid, Dimitri Protopappas 5th row left to right: Yasthil Maharaj, Nicholas Hobbs, Andrew Nocton-Smith, Ben Walwyn, George Hadjichristos, Nicholas Gordon, Gary Hopkins Front row left to right: Matthew Wilkinson, Christopher Grose, Zain Patel, Richard Goodlace, Huw Newton-Hill, Norman Morgan, Muhammad Docrat
On Friday 23rd September, 37 Matric boys were the proud recipients of their Gold Awards for the Presidents Award Scheme. The presentation ceremony was held at Roedean School and President Jacob Zuma, who is the nominal head of the scheme, was represented by Mr Charles Nqakula. The Presidents Award programme is afliated to the Duke of Edinburghs Award Scheme, which is offered in Great Britain and the Commonwealth Countries. Begun in 1983 as the Gold Shield Award, it was re-named in 1994, when the then-president, Nelson Mandela, was made its Patron-inChief. The objectives of the programme are to provide opportunities and challenges to young people to enable them to be uplifted through self-empowerment and to become involved in making a difference in the community. The Presidents Award Scheme is aimed at young people of both sexes and all races and cultural and social backgrounds. The programme comprises: a community service component
a physical recreation component, a skills or interests component, and an adventure component. Each of these allows candidates to develop their own abilities to their full potential, share activities and ideas with others from different backgrounds with different ideas, learn to work in teams, and become more aware of their roles in the community. The rst stage of the scheme is Bronze and under the guidance of Mr Wilson and other members of staff, every St Johns LIV boy participates in a series of activities and in community service in order to work towards achieving this award. It is not essential to attain the Silver award and so boys are given the opportunity in LV to elect to continue with the programme and attempt to earn their Gold Awards. This nal stage of the scheme follows a programme that is rigorous, but offers wonderful opportunities for service, self development and fun! The 2010 recipients went, in their LV year, on a ve day
WINNERS
Top: Norman Morgan receiving his certicate Below: Leslie Frewin receiving his certicate
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THE EAGLE AWARD
THE EAGLE AWARD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed its the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
With similar thoughts in mind, more than 40 young men and women from St Johns College set out to earn the prestigious Eagle Award during their Easter break. The award in question is communitybased and candidates are required to give services involving hard physical labour to a deserving cause for a period of ve days. The chosen cause this year was the childrens home known as TLC, run by The Love of Christ Ministries. The Love of Christ Ministries was
A few of the little ones at TLC
established by the Jarvis family in 1993 to rescue the tiniest victims from a society in turmoil. TLC is home to approximately 35 abandoned babies, toddlers and small children. Some of these babies begin their lives in dustbins; some are left at the hospitals where they are born; some are handicapped and are handed over by their families who feel unable to cope. They are cared for by Thea Jarvis and her family, supported by many young Christian workers, who give their time on a regular
basis or even extended periods of their lives, to work in the home. Some of the babies are adopted by loving families; others remain in Theas care for as long as she can provide a safe haven for them. The home is housed in a large house with sprawling gardens on a property in Eikenhof, about an hour and a halfs drive south of Johannesburg. At the bottom of the plot is a house which has been turned into a pre-school. Not only does the home offer a sanctuary for vulnerable children, but
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THE EAGLE AWARD

Clearing the ground for a vegetable patch
also for a variety of animals that have been abandoned or maltreated. The community strives to be self-sufcient and grows its own mealies (in a eld prepared by last years SJC Eagle Award candidates) and vegetables, keeps chickens to provide eggs and hopes one day to have its own dairy. The services we provided to TLC were decided by their needs at that time. We completed tasks such as: digging irrigation trenches, painting walls, de-barking logs, varnishing sheds and tending the gardens and vegetable patches. We also spent some time in the nurseries with the babies and little ones - and so realized the full signicance of the work that we were doing. The accomplishment of all of these tasks contributed positively to the functioning of the home. The certain knowledge that we were contributing to a greater good inspired plenty of hard work from everyone and, in the end, we were left with a deep sense of self worth and achievement. We should like to thank Mrs Sandra Laurence and the other members of staff who organized this community service opportunity and who gave up their time during the holidays to accompany and supervise us. It is our hope that St Johns College will continue to contribute to TLCs invaluable existence. Jeffrey Long (LV)
De-barking the logs
Ciaran Raymer and Carl Coetzee: Off to work we go
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HOUSE REPORTS
SIXTH FORM AND RUNGE HOUSE REPORT

ANRIE CILLIERS, HEAD OF RUNGE HOUSE
Results for the Cambridge A Level students of 2009 were published in late January and St Johns students achieved a 99.5% pass-rate at A-Level, with six students attaining a minimum of 3 A Level A symbols.
Three students received awards for the top marks in Cambridge International exams for 2009: Kisiwe Malunga: Psychology AS Level Samantha Botha: 5th in the world for A Level Psychology, top in South Africa for both Economics and Psychology Derin Luwaji: top in South Africa in Biology Sarah Ward: top in South Africa in A Level Chemistry. Sarah Lester in Upper Six was awarded Academic Colours for her excellent academic achievement in Chemistry, Geography and Mathematics. Upper Six students have gone on to study at universities in South Africa and worldwide, including England, the United States, Canada and Australia. We have had 83 students in Sixth Form this year from as far aeld as Pakistan and Nigeria and a signicant South African contingent, both post-matrics and students who moved across at the end of Grade 10. Once again, the group has been both diverse and cohesive and has been ably led by Anrie Cilliers as Head of House. As usual, the rst inter-house event of the year, the inter-house swimming gala, tested new Sixth Formers and this year was especially spirited.
VIth Form Dance Committee
Vith Form Golden Eagle recipients
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NASH HOUSE
NASH HOUSE
Back Row: B Myres, M Abdulla, D Moraba, K Schachat, J Sam, D Hammond, M Dryden, M OSullivan, T Pooe, S Hato, S Lee, T Padi, A Masianoga. Sixth Row: G Campbell, P Swart, D Arnot, B Skirving, L Chinnah, N Reid, K Brummer, R Kolabhai, O Vincent, C Luyckx, M Wolfe, D Theofanidis, D Henson, J Oosthuizen. Fifth Row: O Semunonoka, C Tang, D Mafumu, L Oosthuizen, J Pretorius, I Seeco, G Alexander, G Bowie, M Morojele, C Verwer, J Austin, A Mahomed, K Jansen. Fourth Row: B Jardine, J Cullum, J Luxmore, B Chauke, N Seedat, T Kyagambiddwa, J Brown, A Teixeira, T Tengende, M Holliday, B Vorster, L Jubane. Third Row: S Nene, M Ponoane, A Harvey, L Mako, J Swartz, S Wynne, J Luyckx, A Williamson, K van der Walt, G Harvett, G Jackman, A Tuma-Waku. Second Row: C Hartman, T Miller, T Thomas, M Kolabhai, J Boyce, L Buisson-Street, E Vincent, J McNeil, N Cowen, J Batchelor, C Kaempfer, T Clarke, O Kgosana. Front Row: Mrs I Malan, J Verhagen, A Maserow, J Maycock, Mr C Bossert, S Mokgalong, Mrs D Grigorates, S Tenza, C Henson, J Alexander, Mr M Taylor.
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NASH HOUSE REPORT

SAM MOKGALONG, HEAD OF NASH
At the beginning of the year, no one really knew what to expect on the road ahead but everyone seemed to have his fair share of goals for the year.
Nash had a superb start to the year, winning both Inter-house Swimming and Water polo. The House rallied and many Nash boys came in their Nash colours to support our swimmers all the way to victory. One of our swimmers, James Verhagen, performed superbly well in all his events. Scott Hunt, with his powerful use of persuasive language, led the Nash House Team to victory in the Inter-House Debating Competition. Nash enjoyed a huge improvement from last year in Inter-house Drama. The play entitled Censored, directed by Kai Brummer and Nick Reid, earned Nash an overall third place in the competition. This is a result that can be improved on still further next year. Everyone had huge expectations of Nashs Interhouse Music performance as we earned the highest score ever achieved in last years competition. Led by Reshard Kolabhai, Nash managed to come an overall third place, which is still a result to be very proud of. One of our top musicians was John Marco-Maycock, who was awarded rst place for his solo piece. Then there was Inter-house Rugby. Nash had, arguably, one of the most intimidating teams in the whole college. Led by Ed Vincent, Chad Henson, Kyle Schachat and Senzo Sihle Tenza, Nash managed to demolish almost every senior team that came its way, achieving a comfortable victory in Senior Inter-house Rugby. Apart from inter-house activities, Nash has again produced two of the three college war-cry leaders: Sihle Hato and Edward Vincent. This has denitely been a year to remember. One begins to realize that Nash is more than just a house; it is a brotherhood, and one that I can condently say, I am proud to be a part of.
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Back Row: K Schachat, M Abdulla, D Hammond, S Lee, T Padi Second Row: D Moraba, J Sam, A Maserow, M O Sullivan, J Verhagen, T Pooe, S Hato Front Row: J Maycock, C Henson, E Vincent, Mr C Bossert, S Mokgalong (Head of House), S Tenza, J Alexander
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HILL HOUSE
HILL HOUSE
Back Row: J Beard, K Murning, A Forbes, J Georgiades, D Trninic, G Botha, L Chew, J Eckersley, J Davey, S Christiansen, M Steinhobel Fifth Row: S Boshoff, R Mortimer, P Ontong, M Hlongwane, L Frewen, T Louw, M Lucas, G Harrup, M Manana, G Allsop Fourth Row: M Lane, M Scott, D Erasmus, J Chemaly, N Devonport, B Rabie, C Bellew, D Mauff, F Tonello, J Wakeeld, J Allsop Third Row: J Modi, M Lillie, T Hornsby, M Varachia, L Kahla, A Jada, P Ontong, M Holl, T Mudiwa, C Leesam, B Blose, J Barton-Bridges Second Row: B Forsyth, L Auret, T Beard, L Feldner-Busztin, M Bulbulia, T Geffen, F Bham, K Narotam, K Nair, R Hopkins, A Ozbayraktar Front Row: S Mayekiso, N Hobbs, D Feldner-Busztin, G Hopkins, Mr K Arlow, D Protopappas, Mr B Cotterell, G Milasinovich, R Morris, C Wilton, N Dunkley
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HILL HOUSE REPORT

MICHAEL MACKLIN
Every school year is a cycle with the new Matrics entering their nal year, while the Removes start their rst year in the College. This year was also a fresh start for the house as a whole, as we were joined by Mr Cotterell in his rst full year as Housemaster, as well as a new tutor, Assistant Housemaster and Latin HOD, Mr Cullen Mckenzie.
Hill was also reborn as a boarding house upon the completion of the new Alan Wilcock Vulindlela block, though we only moved in ofcially half-way through the year. Despite our newfound boarding status, we remain one of the smallest houses, but can certainly hold our heads high at the results we achieved in the various interhouse events. Strong showings in the Swimming Gala were followed by enthusiastic (if not technically skilful) forays into the Interhouse Music and Drama competitions, as well as a strong but ultimately disappointing challenge for the Debating Cup. The highlight of the year was our ne showing in Tabloids, Athletics and Cross Country. Our seniors nished rst in the Tabloids, proving once and for all
HILL HOUSE MATRICS
Back Row: S Mayekeso, L Frewen, T Louw Second Row: N Hobbs, N Dunkley, R Morris, B Forsyth, C Wilton Front Row: G Hopkins Mr K Arlow D Protopappas (Head of House) Mr B Cotterell G Milasinovich
that any Hill boy is worth a dozen other College boys; our juniors nished third. Congratulations go, however, to the Removes for having the highest average Tabloid score and to Dylan Feldner-Bustzin, for leading us to third place in Cross Country. Looking back on the year, Hill can be immensely proud of itself. Thanks go to Dimitri and the rest of the Matrics for their leadership of the house and we wish them good luck for next year
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CLAYTON HOUSE
CLAYTON HOUSE
Back Row: Y Maharaj, S Kentridge, , A Partt, B Levendig, B Streeter, A Bhavanbhai, D Andrew, C Bland, R Mackell Fifth Row: J Ireland, C Murrel, I Karlovic, L Langschmidt, T Mathew, J Bulabula, N Mokhobo, G Verheul, I Rekhviashvili, J Verheul, P Bhavanbhai Fourth Row: E Butler, A Fletcher, E Fleisch, L Brooksbank, J Lloyd, A Chiu, P Collins, D Middleton, W Mncube, P Venkatakrishnan Third Row: R Dalton, R Chang, K Swana, D Kane, L Pan, K Phage, C Moses, A Marquis, A Mathew, M Trindade, S Verheul, W Fletcher Second Row: T Daniels, H Mollett, N Makhopela, K Clunies-Ross, M Henderson, B van Staden, N Vallee, H Prag, K Pillay, R Batzon, B Didcott-Marr Front Row: Mr P Emant, A Szpytko, P Cresswell, M Irvine, K Moanakoena, J Nevin, S Lee, E Wessels, Mr M Heunis
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CLAYTON HOUSE REPORT

KATLEGO MOANAKOENA, HEAD OF CLAYTON
The renovations in the school resulted in the closure of the Clayton common room for the year and the House is to be commended for its resilience in coping with the deprivation. I should like to thank both Mr Klement and Mr Clarke (who is unfortunately leaving St Johns at the end of the year), for accommodating us and allowing us to use their sound systems to rehearse for Inter-house Drama and Music, in which we were placed 4th and 5th respectively - both improvements from last year.
Along with the usual annual Interhouse braai, this year the House also went to Coca-Cola Park to watch a Super 14 game between the Lions and Chiefs. This was a very exciting game in which over 80 points were scored, and although Joburgs pride lost, they gained a valuable bonus point, entertained the Clayton House boys and, most importantly, strengthened the bond among the boys in the house. As 2010 was Soccer World Cup year, the boys really showed their patriotism by wearing yellow and green jerseys in the weeks leading up to the tournament andy truly buying into Football Friday. There were a number of successes this year in the House. Early in the year, the junior waterpolo players, under the leadership of Roarke Olver (LIV), won the Interhouse event; they were also placed third in the Interhouse Swimming, which is a success the house owes mainly to the Remove boys who were never scared to step up and take initiative. The House basketball team must be congratulated on a massive win over Hodgson House, which has the majority of the First Team players. Pele Collins (UIV) and Jesse Bulabula (LV) showed tremendous character in that competition and we were placed 4th, which is the best result the House has ever had. Remove: We welcomed nineteen Removes into the house this year: a spirited group of boys who are immensely respectful and eager to become true Johannians, well trained in body, mind and character. I must commend the 800m team of Alistair Fletcher, Rowan Batzon and Hamish Mollet on their victory at Interhouse Athletics. Josh Buchel must be commended on being selected as a member of the South African Cycling Team; along with many others in the House, he also consistently showed great house spirit and a willingness to do whatever was necessary for the welfare of the House. I got to meet these boys and wish them all the best in the remainder of their time at the college. LIV: This group of boys is undoubtedly
CLAYTON HOUSE MATRICS

Back Row: C Bland, A Constas, A Partt, B Levendig, B Streeter, D Andrew Second Row: A Szpytko, Y Maharaj, S Kentridge, A Bhavanbhai, E Wessels Front Row: P Cresswell, M Irvine, K Moanakoena, J Nevin, S Lee
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the most spirited in the house. Boys such as Themba Daniels, Jordi Saunders and Cameron Cunningham-Scott have been regular volunteers and I should thank them for their participation. Roarke Olver is to be congratulated on his selection for the First Waterpolo side, one of the best teams in the nation. UIV: True leadership is beginning to emerge out of the UIV year group. Craig Murrell is one boy in this group who has shown immense character; he has had the toughest year of his life, but still achieved the award of Best U16 athlete at Interhouse Athletics - and goes through each day with a smile on his face! He can only do this, however, as a result of the support he has received from the boys in his group; the camaraderie in this year group has been inspiring. LV: Having the LV boys to assist me has been wonderful. I am condent that these young men will do an excellent job leading Clayton in 2011. Jesse Bulabula has shown excellent leadership in his reign as President of Interact and much initiative has been displayed by boys such as Grant Verheul and Ed Butler, who won Best U17 at Interhouse Athletics. I must also commend Shyam Venkatakrishnan, whose gift for music keeps him so busy that I hardly see him but who is always willing to assist in the House; he has recently achieved Honours for music, been named Deputy Head of Choir and achieved an excellent 2nd place in the solo section of the Music Competition. I thank him and Bryan Moore for their assistance in the Interhouse Music Competition, in which we were placed 3rd this year.
UV: I congratulate Duncan Andrew, Anthony Chang, Mike Irvine, Brendon Levendig, Yasthil Maharaj, James Nevin, Austen Partt, Brent Streeter and Ed Wessels on their completion of the leadership programme and on and becoming House Prefects. I am extremely grateful that I had these young men by my side, assisting me to lead the house - I could not have done it without them. I am also very grateful to Sam Kentridge for writing an excellent piece of satire for the house play in which many boys had an extremely good time performing. Congratulations must go to: Austen Partt for achieving World Number One in Karate; Simon Lee on his attaining his Academic Honours; James Nevin on being selected for the provincial rowing team and Mike Irvine for vicecaptaining the First Waterpolo side. Lastly, Clayton House owes a huge portion of its successes to our housemaster, Mr Klement, who has been a mentor to me. My thanks go, too, to the house tutors: Mr and Mrs Young, Mr Bradley, Mr Clarke, Mr Heunis and Mr Emant. These teachers have given of themselves to Clayton House for years and I extend my deepest gratitude to them. I love St Johns College and Clayton House and wish the boys all the best in the years to come.
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THOMSON HOUSE
THOMSON HOUSE
Back Row: N Vosloo, J van Rhyn, M Kaskar, S Theron, H Bezuidenhout, S Bayley, L Mihos, D Marder Fifth Row: B Jones, B Thomas, K Mather, T Griesel, K Wiid, J Cowper, M Visser, H Marima, N Tennick, C Foster, S Xayiya Fourth Row: J Constantinou, S Mark, S Dasoo, P Loureiro, A Jennings, M Tregoning, A Kuttschreuter, S Wallace, Y Bulbulia, B McNeice, L Reid Third Row: D Gundelnger, M Vyvyan-Day, L Quinn, M Osman, J Rogerson, D Shen, K Singh, G Carroll, N Sayanvala, K Kurji Second Row: A Thompson, T Zeeman, D Stead, L Freemantle, I Rubombora, D Ramushu, A Quinn, M Mcunu, T May, B Joubert, U Farooq, O Gnodde, D Testa Front Row: S de Lacy, Mr A Robinson, N Gordon, Dr B Huntley, Z Patel, Mr D Wentzel, D Jacobs, Mrs L Culwick, T Bradeld, Mrs I Basson, K Lala
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THOMSON HOUSE REPORT

DAVE JACOBS, HEAD OF THOMSON
The brotherhood that is the ideal of Thomson Househas been most evident this year. The House hosted a few braais that were wellorganised by the Thomson Matric group and which created a bond among the boys. The moment which will remain with us was when a swarm of bees ew over our heads while we were playing football; it may sound trivial but the smiles and the will to protect one another sparked a camaraderie among the boys which will stay with them for the rest of their time in St Johns College.
Discipline and good spirit thrived among Thomson boys throughout the year. The juniors played with guts during Interhouse Rugby and managed to secure a third spot. In contrast, our Inter-house Drama entry earned last place, but we chose to regard this, not as a failure, but rather as a learning experience. Thomson has had a great number of people working behind the scenes who must be thanked. Thanks must go to Mr Wentzel for enforcing discipline and upholding the values of the college. The Matrics showed great leadership and, in consequence, there were six prefects inducted during the year. I wish the new house leaders a prosperous 2011 year and the best of luck in leading Thomson House to greater heights.
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Back Row: B Thomas, T Griesel, H Bezuidenhout, L Mihos, K Wiid Second Row: K Mather, S de Lacy, K Lala, D Marder, S Xayiya Front Row: N Gordon, Mr D Wentzel, D Jacobs, Mrs L Culwick, Z Patel Absent: F le Grange
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ALSTON HOUSE
2010 proved to be a challenging yet successful year for Alston House. Even though we were not placed highly in the Le Sueur Cup, the boys were consistently enthusiastic and passionate and always gave of their best. Credit needs to be given to them for using experience as a learning curve, providing opportunities for better results in the future.
ALSTON HOUSE
Back Row :B Joubert, S Reddy, L Nel, G Olivier, J Prior, M Bailey, E Kerr-Phillips, T Marks Fifth Row: M Alletzhauser, M Diepenbroek, T Blanc, J Whittle, N Martin, L Gibson, L Mogale, J Le Roux, M Bantock, J Clacherty, S Nagar Fourth Row: N Greeff, K Schindler, Z Daya, J Savenye-Terblanche, S Mkhize, K Futter, B Sithole, L Dzedze, S de Souza, D Potgieter Third Row: R Graves, D Kronenberg, N Raal, R Jewell, M Dedekind, M Davies, B Francis, C Dry, R Mackie, Z Nkondo, S Lalloo Second Row: E Schindler, E Smit, C Thurling, M Caroline, S Greeff, N Dullabh, W Pfaff, J Wheeler, H Zaidi, A Esplin, M Reed, A Varghese Front Row: Dr S Sproule, L Volpe, W Marchant, D Dullabh, Mr M Koli, M Pulford, Mr R Venter, A Petersen, J Lap, C Durandt, Mrs M Jardine
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ALSTON HOUSE REPORT

MATTHEW PULFORD, HEAD OF ALSTON
Alston was placed second overall in Interhouse rugby, which proves that, in spite of previously poor results, we are a force to be reckoned with. We also did surprisingly well in the Tabloids (2nd place) and Interhouse Athletics (4th place); this was mostly due to good overall participation from the house. The challenge for next years leaders is to improve our performance in major events like Interhouse Music, Swimming and Cross-country. The Alston Removes of 2010 have proven to be assets to the house offering a wide range of talents from academics to music to sport at provincial level - and often a combination of the three. It was evident from the Remove Camp at the beginning of the year that this would be a good group and I congratulate them on the spirit and determination they showed on this camp. This camp was especially valuable for Mr Venter and me as it gave us the opportunity to form a relationship with these boys. The LIVs experienced a highly challenging camp near the Drakensberg and although many of them found this camp extremely tough, I believe that they gained enormously from the experience. They were taken out of their comfort zones and had to contend with challenges like lack of sleep, limited food and gruelling hikes. This group clearly has plenty of initiative and I urge them to channel their energies positively over the next few years. The UIVs have made a great contribution this year and I should like to thank them for their commitment to Inter-house activities. With 2010 drawing to a close, the Alston Matrics of 2011 are preparing to begin their reign as the leaders of the house. There are some strong leaders in
this group and Im condent in their ability to lead the house well. I thank them for their support this year and wish them well for a great 2011. Thanks need to go to my fellow Alston Matrics, whether they were on the leadership programme or not. Special thanks and congratulations need to be given to the seven Alston Matrics awarded prefectship for the effort they put in and the contribution they made to the house throughout the year. George Hadjichristos also needs to be thanked for his contribution to the house, in spite of being
ALSTON HOUSE MATRICS
Back Row: E Schindler, C Durandt, M Alletzhauser Second Row: L Volpe, B Joubert, W Marchant, S Nagar
busy as Head of School. I wish them well with their nal exams and look forward to catching up at Gaudy Days in the future. A nal thank you to Mr. Venter, our Housemaster, for providing a huge amount of assistance to everyone in the house and for allowing his classroom to be used for house periods while the Alston common room, along with the rest of the school, was undergoing renovations. It has been an honour to lead Alston this year and I wish everyone who is a part of this house the best of luck for the future.
Front Row: D Dullabh, M Pulford, Mr R Venter, A Petersen, J Lap
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CLARKE HOUSE
Clarke house has enthusiastically participated in the diverse spheres of the college. The house system is representative of a structure where students are given a more personal environment where relationships can be formed within a group of boys of all different ages, who move through the college together. In order for the system to work effectively, it is necessary for effective communication and respect to occur among all the boys in the house.
CLARKE HOUSE
Back Row: M Buwa, R Dube, D Ramokgopa, V Cloete, P Malakou, A Bashall, S Hussain, R Stuart-Thompson Fourth Row: W Murray, M Koevort, N Lambropoulos, M Vermaak, N McLaughlin, M Mangera, R Kovel, I Mc Bride, M Conway Third Row: S Burger, O Teixeira, D Dartchiev, S Kanjere, L Crouch, N Qobose, A Diayar, M de Barros, K Cloete Second Row: M Carter, A MacKenzie, T Devchand, T Sanyika, G Stanchev, G Arroyo, E McLaughlin, T Ganyane, P Rosenberg, K Prema, M Moema, P Sooklal, K Teixeira Front Row: R Fisher, R Goodlace, B Dell, Mrs L Bradley, N Christelis, Mr C Bosch, B Walwyn, B Baggott, G Laxton, A Fisher
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CLARKE HOUSE REPORT

NICHOLAS CHRISTELIS, HEAD OF CLARKE
The mentorship programme has been effective in building this sense of unity and we have extended the ideas of mentorship to a less structured level, so that boys are constantly integrating with other boys from different grades in the house; this has been effective in drawing the house into a cohesive group of young men. The Clarke house braai gave the boys a chance to get to know each other; on Monday mornings during house period, Clarke House boys have introduced themselves and each has had a chance to tell a story/speak to the house; this has made Clarke a comfortable atmosphere for all the boys in it. The seniors of Clarke have attempted to encourage the house to participate in the many opportunities that the College provides. We formed teams for the interhouse events based on the abilities and desires of the boys to participate in these activities; this policy appears to have earned us a higher level of achievement than we have been accustomed to in the past. The main Inter-house sporting activities for the latter part of this year have been: rugby, hockey and tennis. The junior Inter-house hockey team lost in the nal, placing them in second position; our senior Inter-house hockey team achieved third place. The two Inter-house rugby teams achieved fth place, which was a pleasant improvement from our lower ranking last year. Clarke won the junior inter-house tennis. We provided a strong challenge to the other houses in the other sporting activities such as our soccer, basketball, athletics and cross country. Clarke house won the Inter-house Plays Festival with an original script, written by a LV boy, Michael Cloete. Many of the plays actors achieved awards and commendations: Ben Baggot, Andrew Murray, Nicholas Christelis, Murray Conway and Nicholas Mclaughlin. Our Inter-house Music production was not highly ranked; this was, however, one of the memorable events of the year as the boys in the house enjoyed participating en masse and even commented on how much our house is capable of achieving. The small group who sang the theme song to The Lion King, the instrumental item which was performed by boys from Remove to Matric and the solo item performed by Ben Baggott were all remarkabl e; even though they did not claim rst place, we are all proud of those who were involved. It may be that the inspiration from our house master has given Clarke boys the initiative to lead their lives in a healthy, balanced manner. Mr Bosch has led the House superbly, supervising and guiding
CLARKE HOUSE MATRICS
Back Row: M Buwa, R Dube, R Stuart-Thompson Second Row: R Goodlace, R Fisher, A Fisher, G Laxton Front Row: B Dell, N Christelis, Mr C Bosch, B Walwyn, B Baggott
the boys . We have been educated in the importance of serving other people, through community service. Seven of Clarkes Matric boys used the leadership portfolio to attain their prefectship: Ben Baggott, Bevan Dell, Mohammed Docrat, Andrew and Richard Fisher, Richard Goodlace and Ben Walwyn all genuinely served the house with a sense of servant leadership. Clarke has achieved numerous Colours and Honours blazers in Matric and LV; this is reective of the abundant talent our house has. But I believe that our most important attribute is that of respect, brotherhood and leadership. I believe Clarke has built up a good reputation for itself this year and will continue to do so.
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HODGSON HOUSE
HODGSON HOUSE
Back Row: M Dube, J Tattersall, T Mokaba, B Marffy, J Vasani, M Hubbe, N Hale, S Forbes, B Leaver, A Nocton-Smith, B da Sliva Seventh Row: G Campher, S Brewer, M Combrink, K Leslie, D Fiser, K Robertson, J Tattersall, M Maswanganyi, Y Singh, O Thormeyer, N Ambler-Smith, C Black, J Fletcher Sixth Row: H Richardson, M Du Toit, T Pearce, M Bouguenon, N Mvelase, C Magagula, D Dlayedwa, P Piek, L Mota, B Dunne , P Chanakira, M Piek, A do Prado , E Brownhill, J Du Randt Fith Row: M Temlett, M Barker, K Ramabulana, K Mhlari, A Masvikwa, P Qwabe, D Strydom, D Coundourakis, L Van Rensburg, J Berry, L Bogosi , B Stow, B Stocks Fourth Row: C Kathawaroo, R Warinda, S Nyembe, T Phosa, E Langa, A Mehra, K Whiteld, J Krynauw , K Hellon,C Huntley , J OConnor, J Chabikuli, C Hale, B Rodger, D Gordon Third Row: T Zindi, M Wilson, S Brooks, V Pansegrouw , L Mokgosi, J Burnett, W Malan , A Du Plessis, R Berry, G Van Den Berg, R Brinkman, T Ndzimande, B Lasker, M Dzanibe, C Maciver, T Berry Second Row: Mr. S Lourens, M de la Fargue, Mr. R Untied, J Van Der Bijl, Mr S Wilson, M Becker, Mrs N Stocks, N Hock, Mrs S Hale, W Morgan, Mrs N Ndlovu Front Row: E Balakin, H Marffy, T Kgoadi
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HODGSON HOUSE REPORT

MATTHEW BECKER, HEAD OF HODGSON
2010 has been a year of change: a year of new faces, new ideas and new beginnings. At the start of the year, we welcomed a new housemaster into the mix, as Mr Robert Long was promoted to the position of Deputy Head and a new era began in Hodgson House with the appointment of Mr Sean Wilson as Housemaster.
Mr Wilson promised a vibrant new beginning for the House and, with the help of the Upper Vs, he managed to bring this about. 2010 was not only an immensely successful year for Hodgson in terms of the Le Sueur Cup, but more importantly, we saw the House members grow closer and every boy develop in different areas. The year was challenging as our boarding house underwent renovations and boys were constantly being moved around and found themselves staying in other accommodation under other Housemasters with very different approaches. However, we came through even stronger and now have upgraded boarding facilities comparable with a three or four star hotel. It has certainly been a year of remarkable upheaval and change. As 2010 was also the year in which our country would play host to the FIFA World Cup, an effort was made to show our support of the National Football side and the country as a whole. The rst major House event organized by the Upper Vs was a trip to Orlando Stadium in Soweto to watch an epic clash of two of the South African club heavyweights, Orlando Pirates and Supersport United. This outing replaced our usual house braai, a tradition which was
badly in need of a revamp and rejuvenation. The evening was a memorable occasion and a comment was passed by the senior staff accompanying the boys that the Hodgson boys are, without doubt, the friendliest, most outgoing boys in the College. In dramatic fashion, Hodgson House showed support for Bafana Bafana by attending their nal warm-up game against Denmark at the Laudium Stadium. The aim of the afternoon was to get behind our boys in our green and gold one last time and give them a proper send off to the World Cup nals.
HODGSON HOUSE MATRICS
Back Row: Y Seedat, J Vasani, N Hale, M Hubbe, S Forbes
At St Johns, learning goes beyond the classroom. As seniors, we hoped that we could strengthen the friendships and bonds within the House and that each boy could leave the house in Matric with experiences that would never be forgotten. Each year group hosted an event where it was hoped the group would draw together and the boys could become acquainted with the new housemaster in a non-school environment. This year, we welcomed an enthusiastic group of new Removes into Hodgson. I had the pleasure of accompanying them on Remove Camp, where we learnt a lot
Second Row: T Mokaba, B Marffy, B Leaver, G Van Den Berg, J Tattersall, A Nocton-Smith, B Da Silva Front Row: J De La Fargue, J Van Der Bijl, Mr S Wilson, M Becker, Mrs N Stocks, N Hock
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WINNERS
The winners of the Nick Rowe Junior Sevens: the Hodgson Junior Inter-house Rugby team in action v Alston
about each boy and got to know each one on a personal level. The group is very strong, with many talented boys across all disciplines, and I have no doubt that each boy will, in due course, be a credit to the House in the future. In the second term the Remove group, accompanied by Mr Wilson and Mr Untiedt, attended a Barry Hilton performance. The boys thoroughly enjoyed the evening and it was instrumental in bridging the gap between the day boys and the boarders. The Remove boys have settled very well into the St Johns way of life and hold huge promises for the future of the school. The LIV year group probably best illustrates what it means to be a St Johns boy. They are well behaved, well mannered and have a spirit unrivalled by any other group within the College. There is a bond among all the boys which draws them together to the extent that, as a group, they are one of the strongest age groups within the College. There are many leaders within the group and this was very apparent at the braai which they held at the school, where the boys enjoyed some football and touch rugby. The highlight of the evening was the dance competition, where Chris Huntley outshone all others to win. The UIV boys are a very spirited and strong-willed group of boys. The athletic ability in the group is no doubt their strongest attribute and this helped the House as a whole throughout the year. The group has many emerging leaders and this was shown when a few boys began
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leading the entire House in war cries at the Inter-house swimming event. The UIV boys enjoyed an evening at Tenpin Bowling that proved very competitive and a huge success. As the LV boys take over the running of the House and the College in 2011, I have no doubt that both will only go from strength to strength. This year, the boys all showed leadership as they slowly took over the Matric boys duties. The year group is immensely strong and the Hodgson LV boys are unrivalled on the sports eld as a group in the College. They enjoyed a braai at Mr Wilsons house, where they had the pleasure of welcoming Father Jaques Pretorius into the College family. Special mention must be made of Willie Morgan who recently represented South Africa in The Czech Republic for rowing. Speaking from experience, Matric is the most difcult year in ones high school career as it is, by far, the busiest in terms of volume of work and responsibilities. The Hodgson Matric group has been a pleasure to work with as they have all been willing to take control of any situation and lead the House to the best of their abilities. The successes of the House would have been minimal without the Matrics input at Inter-house events. Always willing to lend a hand to other members of the house, the Hodgson Matrics of 2010 have all added much to the lives of other boys within the House and made my job, as well as that of Mr. Wilson, that little bit easier. Each Matric on the leadership programme has been
in charge of co-ordinating some or other portfolio and as each boy put in maximum effort, it is no surprise that Hodgson is the strongest house within the College. Congratulations must go to Ben Marffy, Nick Hale, Max de la Fargue, Andrew Noctan-Smith, Nick Hock and Jonathan van der Bijl for being made house prefects. The strength of the school is dependent on its Matric body, and with boys such as these, it is no wonder that the College is as strong as it has ever been. A measure of the strength of Hodgson House can be taken from the successes in the Inter-house events. This year Hodgson has enjoyed both highs and lows in the race for the Le Sueur Cup. Traditionally, Hodgson House has never been particularly strong in Interhouse swimming. This year, however, under the leadership of Nick Hock, we did particularly well, being placed second overall. This was achieved through many notable individual efforts and the Matric groups management of our resources. Inter-house hockey was a disappointment, as the senior team let themselves down and did not manage to do as well as they had hoped; the junior side played above themselves, however, and this meant that the house was able to achieve 2nd place overall. One of the Houses highlights of the year was the Inter-house Music Competition. Once again, this is an event in which we have traditionally never excelled. Through a tough performance schedule
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A MEASURE OF THE STRENGTH OF HODGSON HOUSE CAN BE TAKEN FROM THE SUCCESSES IN THE INTER-HOUSE EVENTS. THIS YEAR HODGSON HAS ENJOYED BOTH HIGHS AND LOWS IN THE RACE FOR THE LE SUEUR CUP.
managed by the Matric boys and various individual efforts, however, we were placed 2nd. Our small group rendition of Stand By Me and Beautiful Girls echoed through Big School and was a performance that will not soon be forgotten. Inter-House Drama is a very difcult event as only a handful of individuals are selected to partake and the onus is on each boy to prepare himself. This year the house did extremely well being placed 3rd Congratulations must go to Nick Hock for winning the award for the Best Original Script and to Khathu Ramubulana for winning the award for the Best Actor. Brett Rodger and Kyle Robson blew away all opposition in winning the senior Inter-house Tennis. Although the junior team did not do as well as hoped, Brett and Kyles win was so comprehensive that Hodgson won the overall competition. Veni, vidi vici. We came, we saw and we conquered. Inter-House Rugby was yet another high point for Hodgson this year. The junior team achieved wonders with a most creditable performance; the side showed much air and ingenuity and won their tournament. The senior side were unlucky to nish second. Overall, however, Hodgson was placed rst in this event. Preparation and organization is the key to success in many inter-house events. Although we lost our debate against the Nash side in the rst round, we debated articulately and learnt much from the experience. Inter-house Water polo is the rst event on the school calendar. Hodgson managed to earn second place overall as our senior team ended up losing in the nal and our junior team was placed fourth. This is by far Hodgsons strongest event and this was reected in this years meeting. The House won the meeting comprehensively, beating the second house by over 100 points. Although there were many outstanding individual performances, special mention must be made of Rashard Fuller and Jonathan van der Bijl, both of whom won the College awards for being the Best Athletes in their age groups. A busy and a successful year and one during which I have been proud to lead Hodgson House. I thank all the members of Hodgson for a great year and wish Mr Wilson, the house tutors and all the boys (those leaving and those staying) an even more successful 2011.
WINNERS
The Nick Rowe Sevens Inter-house Rugby Tournament: Hodgson Senior were placed second overall
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FLEMING HOUSE
FLEMING HOUSE
Back Row: M Wilkinson, J, Odgers, F MacKinnon, J Coates, J Hawkins, A de Oliviera, R Engelbrecht Sixth Row: G Kunz, J Strong, J McCulloch, J Wolfe-Coote, J Prinsloo, L Wolfe-Coote, M Grifths, D Bradley, D Zilesnick Fifth Row: R Garratt, N Jelonek, R Cassim, M Pappas, M Lee, A Du Plessis, A Morgan, T Lekubu, D Trollip, J Bonls-Persson Fourth Row: A Morgan, K Motsepe, C Maree, C Du Plessis, M Taylor, J Sulter, L Watt, N Pappas, A Slabbert, C Strong, L Leonard Third Row: R Povey, C Fisher, R MacMurray, K Maseko,W Kohler, J Muller, J-A Deenik, D France, S Bielderman, O Newton-Hill Second Row: S Kennedy, H Newton-Hill, D Munshi, E Engelbrecht, S Minty, J Coulter, Z Bhayat, A Van Der Hoven, R Lavers, L Motloung, G Varughese, F Du Plessis Front Row: K Walsh, N Morgan, J Wood, C Roberts, Mr M Johnston, N Surgey (Head of House), Mr A Dry, C Black, W Verhoogt, B Povey, C Grose
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FLEMING HOUSE REPORT

NICHOLAS SURGEY, HEAD OF FLEMING
Fleming, in its short history, has had a profound inuence in St Johns College. It has been an honour and a privilege to lead Fleming in the exciting year of 2010. The laid-back atmosphere under Mr Johnsons leadership has continued and in light of him stepping down as housemaster next year, I should like to thank him for all of his dedication in creating such a successful house. Without his input, I feel that Fleming wouldnt have reached the height it has in such a short space of time.
The house has had a number of successes in the past couple of months. The highlight for me was winning the prestigious Inter-house Music competition and I would like to thank Kendrick Walsh and Callum Black for the enormous amount of effort they put into making the occasion such a success for the house. Continuing on the cultural side of things, Fleming nished 2nd in the Inter-house Plays Festival and performed an adaptation of John Cleeses Fawlty Towers. We also achieved a number of brilliant individual performances with Jack Coulter winning Best Director, Alex de Oliviera winning Best Cameo role and Jared Kruger winning the Best Supporting Actor. In sport, the highlight was convincingly winning the Inter-house Hockey competition by being placed rst in both the junior and senior sections. In Inter-house Swimming we were also placed second. The important thing for me, however, is not so much the results of all of these, but the way we approached each of them with an ethic of hard work and determination. Apart from all the achievements, it has been a joy to watch how each individual in the house has grown throughout 2010 and there are two groups in particular I should like to mention. The Removes started the beginning of the year as the new boys in the house, but as the year has gone on, their love for the house and school has grown immensely. Each one has matured and tted into his own niche at the school. To the Matrics of Fleming House 2010, I should like to thank each and every one of you who has taken on tasks for the house and, despite the pressure of Matric, has
FLEMING HOUSE MATRICS
Back Row: F MacKinnon, J Hawkins, A de Oliviera Second Row: M Wilkinson, H Newton-Hill, W Verhoogt, S Kennedy, R Engelbrecht Third Row: K Walsh, N Morgan, J Coulter, C Grose, B Povey Front Row: C Roberts, Mr M Johnston, N Surgey (Head of House), Mr A Dry, C Black
completed them to the best of your abilities. I couldnt have wished for a better bunch of guys to help me in running the house. This fact was borne out in that Fleming this year had more Matrics being awarded prefectship than has ever been in the history of the new Leadership Programme. It is now time to hand over the baton to the new leaders of the school and thus I wish the Lower Vs well in the future. To the rest of the house: continue to lead lives of integrity and character that replicate those of a true Johannian.
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RUNGE HOUSE
RUNGE HOUSE
Back Row: C Marais, A Radecki, G Horsfall, I Kruger, E Manzi, C Malan, A Bampile, M Marquis, T Donoghue, J Hough Second Row: A Pretorius, T Eggeling, N Sackey, C Odere, C Odhiambo, T Ngoma, C Grobler, J Seff, T Rukundo, F Mtula, R Adams, D Vosloo Third Row: S Musa-Aisien, L Matthews, A Kaempfer, J Pond, J Domanski, M Kirk, T Adewuyi, K Sato, T Ncala, J Galinga, E Gikonyo, JP Botha Fourth Row: T Adewuyi, M Coombs, F Chiwanga, C Mpundu, S Kopolo, K Malunga, B Louw, B Akatch, B Banda, M Moya, S Hunt, E Creamer, L Mhlanga Fifth Row: K Babshet, A Rosen, F Steere, C Weaver, M Ceccarelli, R Mabika, L Kempel, G Ndhlovu, B Mataboge, M Mapemba, K Priest, J Gayner, S Urio Sixth Row: F Cabral, P Kobuyenje, N Urata, G Chikwanda, E Manditsera, J Williamson, A McFie, M Collins, S Lester, P Nagdee, H Robertson, S Mukherjee Front Row: O Molteno, C Raymer, A Oluoch-Olunya, A Cilliers, Mrs P Beauclerk, Mrs K Byrne, Mrs J Royal, M Kotch, S Glendinning, C Coetzee, N Masipa Absent: S Gore, C Laird
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SIXTH FORM AND RUNGE HOUSE REPORT

ANRIE CILLIERS, HEAD OF RUNGE HOUSE
Results for the Cambridge A Level students of 2009 were published in late January and St Johns students achieved a 99.5% pass-rate at A-Level, with six students attaining a minimum of 3 A Level A symbols.
Three students received awards for the top marks in Cambridge International exams for 2009: Kisiwe Malunga: Psychology AS Level Samantha Botha: 5th in the world for A Level Psychology, top in South Africa for both Economics and Psychology Derin Luwaji: top in South Africa in Biology Sarah Ward: top in South Africa in A Level Chemistry. Sarah Lester in Upper Six was awarded Academic Colours for her excellent academic achievement in Chemistry, Geography and Mathematics. Upper Six students have gone on to study at universities in South Africa and worldwide, including England, the United States, Canada and Australia. We have had 83 students in Sixth Form this year from as far aeld as Pakistan and Nigeria and a signicant South African contingent, both post-matrics and students who moved across at the end of Grade 10. Once again, the group has been both diverse and cohesive and has been ably led by Anrie Cilliers as Head of House. As usual, the rst inter-house event of the year, the inter-house swimming gala, tested new Sixth Formers and this year was especially spirited.
VIth Form Dance Committee
Vith Form Golden Eaglel recipients
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Runge runs for POWA
Our performance in this event was necessarily limited, but our spirit was not and, for the rst time, Runge House had a team of war-cry leaders. War-paint was also a feature! Once again, those girls who were brave enough to compete should be warmly congratulated. Drama and Music were more our forte and this year, thanks to Mr Russell Untiedts support and enthusiasm, the tradition of a Sixth Form play was reinstated. Mr Untiedts production, directed by Philip Sulter, was a huge success and the Sixth Form cast was congratulated on the professionalism of their performance. Several Sixth Formers also took part in the College production, Bloodstream. Honours for Drama were awarded to James Williamson and Susan Glendinng (Upper 6). Colours went to Nthupula Masipa, Olivia Molteno and Aldo OluochOlunya; Half-colours to Sarah Lester, Ciaran Raymer and a re-award of Halfcolours to Matteo Kotch. Merit Certicates were awarded to Julia Domanski, Tammy Eggeling, Kisiwe Malunga, Sohini Mukherjee and Christine Weaver. Kirara Sato was awarded Half-colours for Music. Matthew Collins played in the First Hockey and Football teams and received Honours for hockey. Eugene Manditsera captained the First Basketball team and was awarded Honours. Eugene also played for the Zimbabwe U18 national team. Heather Robertson (Lower Six) has been selected to represent Gauteng Central
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region in both show-jumping and showing. Twenty-two Sixth Formers are currently registered for the Gold Presidents Award. Fourteen of these students participated in an adventurous journey, horse-riding in the Waterburg. The participants were required to ride approximately 160 km over the course of ve days. The experience was challenging for everyone (perhaps the teachers most of all!), but the experienced riders in the group were superb in taking on teaching roles - and all students showed their commitment to the journey by getting straight back onto their horses when they came off mid-canter numerous times. A particular highlight for all those involved was watching the Soccer World Cup opening match in a village and being invited by the elders to dinner. The hospitality of the locals was warm and soon all were wondering how best to help the community; a combined Presidents Award
DRAMA AND MUSIC WERE MORE OUR FORTE AND THIS YEAR, THANKS TO MR RUSSELL UNTIEDTS SUPPORT AND ENTHUSIASM, THE TRADITION OF A SIXTH FORM PLAY WAS REINSTATED.
Runge war cry leaders
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THE 2010 SIXTH FORM GROUP HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY TOGETHER AND MOTIVATED AND THIS WAS PERHAPS BEST SHOWN IN THE FINAL DAYS OF TRINITY TERM IN THE INTERHOUSE ATHLETICS WHERE ALL STUDENTS, FIT OR NOT, PARTICIPATED WITH SPIRIT.
and community service project is being planned for next year. Of the 82 Eagle Award recipients of 2010, 28 were Sixth Form Students. During the Easter Holidays, they worked at TLC Childrens Home as part of their Community Service Initiative. The Runge House Student Representative Committee this year had seven members: Anrie Cilliers was Head of House and School Prefect and was supported by Carl Coetzee, Susan Glendinning, Matteo Kotch, Olivia Molteno, Aldo Oluoch-Olunya and Ciaran Raymer. The 2011 committee will be announced at the Sixth Form Ball in Big School on 11th September. The 2010 Sixth Form group has been particularly together and motivated and this was perhaps best shown in the nal days of Trinity term in the Inter-house Athletics where all students, t or not, participated with spirit. They also took part in the Cross Country event of the last day of term; each Runge House participant obtained sponsorship from friends and family for completing the Cross Country route and proceeds were donated to POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse). Discovery Health kindly supported Runge House efforts. The opportunity to work and walk together for a good cause was typical of the spirit of this years students.
Runge House supporters at the Inter-House Gala
Head of House, Anrie Cilliers and mascot

James Williamson in Bloodstream
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LE SUEUR CUP
N DOUBLE POINTS
Swimming Position Points Position Points Position Points Position Points Position Points Academics Position Points Sub-total 4 10 1 16 2 14 2 14 5 8 7 4 66
CE
HD
8 2 7 4 6 6 7 4 1 16 4 10 42
5 8 5 8 4 10 4 10 8 2 6 6 44
2 14 4 10 5 8 5 8 3 12 2 14 66
7 4 8 2 3 12 3 12 6 6 5 8 44
3 12 6 6 7 4 8 2 4 10 3 12 46
6 6 3 12 1 16 1 16 2 14 8 2 66
1 16 2 14 8 2 6 6 7 4 1 16 58
Music
Athletics
Tabloids Cross Country
NORMAL POINTS
Tennis Position Points Squash Position Points Waterpolo Position Points Debating Position Points Basketball Position Points Hockey Position Points Soccer Position Points Chess Position Points Spraakgilde Position Points House Play Position Points Rugby Position Points Golf Position Points Sub-total Total Position 7 2 2 7 8 1 35.5 101.5 3 2 7 5 4 2 7 36.5 78.5 7 8 1 7 2 5 4 29.5 73.5 8 3 6 6 3 4 5 38.0 104.0 2 1 8 3 6 1 8 49.5 93.5 6 5 4 4 5 3 6 48.5 94.5 5 6 3 1 8 7 2 46.5 112.5 1 4 5 8 1 6 3 40.0 98.0 4 5 4 Did not take place 2 7 3 5.5 8 1 7 2 1 8 6 3 3 5.5 5 4 4 5 6 3 5 3 4 5 6 3 Did not take place 4 5 8 1 4 4.5 5 3 8 1 5 4 2 7 7 2 8 1 2 6 6 3 7 2 7 2 6 3 2 7 1 8 2 7 8 1 1 8 3 6 7 2 2 6 5 4 1 7.5 3 6 2 7 3 6 5 3 7 2 1 7.5 8 1 4 4.5 1 8 2 6 1 8 4 5 6 3 1 8 4 4.5 8 1 3 6 3 6
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SENIOR CUP
N DOUBLE POINTS
Swimming Position Points Position Points Position Points Position Points Position Points Sub-total 5 10 1 18 6 8 2 16 3 14 66
CE
HD
8 4 8 4 2 16 4 12 1 18 54
4 12 5 10 3 14 1 18 8 4 58
2 16 4 12 5 10 5 10 7 6 54
7 6 9 2 4 12 7 6 6 8 34
3 14 7 6 7 6 8 4 2 16 46
6 8 3 14 1 18 3 14 4 12 66
1 18 2 16 8 4 6 8 5 10 56
9 2 6 8 9 2 9 2 9 2 16
Music
Athletics
Tabloids
Cross Country
NORMAL POINTS
Tennis Position Points Squash Position Points Waterpolo Position Points Debating Position Points Basketball Position Points Hockey Position Points Soccer Position Points Chess Position Points Spraakgilde Position Points House Play Position Points Rugby Position Points Golf Position Points Sub-total Total Position 8 2 2 8 7 3 40.5 106.5 2 3 7 5 5 2 8 50.0 104.0 3 9 1 7 3 6 4 39.2 97.2 6 4 6 6 4 4 6 49.0 103.0 4 2 8 3 7 1 9 56.7 90.7 8 6 4 4 6 3 7 54.0 100.0 5 7 3 1 9 8 2 44.7 110.7 1 5 5 8 2 5 5 41.0 97.0 7 1 9 9 1 9 1 29.0 45.0 9 5 5 2 8 3 6.5 8 2 7 3 1 9 6 4 3 6.5 9 1 Did not take place 5 5 6 4 5 5 6 3 4 5.5 6 2 8 9 1 1 9 6 3 9 1 5 3 7 4 6 8 2 2 6.7 7 3 7 7 3 5 5 4 6 1 9 2 8 8 1 9 3 7 7 3 2 6.7 6 4 1 4 6 1 9 2 8 6 3 8 2 2 8 2 8 2 3 7 2 6.7 1 9 4 6 4 2 8 6 4 9 1 4 5.5 3 9 1 7 3 9 1 5 5 3 7 9
Did not take place
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ACTIVITIES
THE BEEKEEPING CLUB CLUB

Left Ahmed Jada, Kavi Nair, Matthew Holl dressed for action. Right: Mrs S de Witte, Aaron Chiu, Craig Murrell, James Clacherty, Mr A Thompson
THE BEEKEEPING CLUB

The Beekeeping Club is a band of enthusiastic, budding beekeepers! This year, we have explored the following aspects of beekeeping: the biology of the honey bee, the intricate, clearly dened roles of bees in a hive; healthy beekeeping management; the impact of the honey bee on our economy, diet and environment.
ROCK CLIMBING CLUB

The enthusiasm of the club members has not agged this year in fact, it has increased! This is due to a wonderful new facility: a bouldering cave. This offers the opportunity for the boys to enjoy an excellent workout of all muscles needed for staying safe on big mountains. Two excellent climbers and members of the Mountain Club of South Africa train our members every Tuesday, and such is the commitment of the boys that there are hardly any absences. Mountaineering activities are for the dedicated few who like to test their bodies and compete against themselves. Mr Brett Nicolson remains in charge of this exceptional group.
JM
It is hoped that the Beekeeping Club will foster: a renewed respect for our environment, an educated awareness...
Activities have included honey tasting and learning about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) which has had devastating effects on the international beekeeping scene, but has not yet hit South Africa. Other natural enemies of honeybees also featured briey. Weve also made beeswax products, such as lip balm, and tasted a variety of honeys from our region. The undisputed highlight, however, has been inspecting beehives in full beekeeping regalia, where boys have overcome their fears and been fascinated by the inner workings of a bee hive. It is hoped that the Beekeeping Club will foster: a renewed respect for our environment, an educated awareness about these fascinating creatures and their vital role in our ecosystem, and enjoyment of the simple, sweet pleasure derived from managing bee hives.
SdW
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ESKOM SCIENCE EXPO

2010 REPORT BY DR COLLEEN HENNING
St Johns College entered 15 projects into the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists this year. The expo took place on 31 July 2010 at Wits Education Campus. The boys had an interesting morning and did very well, earning 13 medals: 5 Bronze, 2 Silver and 6 Gold.
GOLD MEDALS WERE AWARDED TO THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS:
MHD Propelled Motor: Matthew Taylor and Nikita Dartchiev (Remove) The Power of Batteries: Christopher Maree and Jordan Wheeler (Remove) Silver Solutions: Mohammed Kaskar and Nabeel Seedat (U4) Pedal Power: Paul Ontong, Owen Newton-Hill and Wesley Coulentianos (U4) Moringa Seed: Natures Answer to Clean Water in Rural South Africa: Syed Hussain, Ebrahim Mohamed, Ahmad Soni and Chia-Jung Tang (L5) Evapo-Gravitational Generator: Schalk Burger and Peter Raney (L5) The project by Schalk Burger and Peter Raney also won a special prize for the best energy project. The gold medal winners advanced to an elimination round to progress through to the National Expo.
Mohammed Kashkar and Nabeel Seedat
SILVER MEDALS WERE AWARDED TO:

Eddy Currents: Bryan Moore, Jason Smythe and Jacques van Rhyn (U4) The Effect of Bathymetry on Tsunamis: Asiri Rathugamage (L5)
Schalk Burger and Peter Raney
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project showing an awareness and understanding of a current technological challenge and offering an innovative solution. Gold Medals were awarded to: Schalk Burger and Peter Raney for their Evapo-Gravitational Generator. They also won Best Project and have been selected to attend an elimination round to decide if their project will be one of ve to represent South Africa at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Congratulations to all these boys.
Chris Maree and Jordan Wheeler
BRONZE MEDALS WERE AWARDED TO:

A Construction of a Windtunnel: Johann Muller, Mudiwa Tinotenda and Khanya Swana (Remove) A Solar Solution: Christopher Hale and Miguel Neto (L4) Brommer: Jacques Smit and John Whittle (U4) Water Purication: Himal Kooverjee and Kishan Narotam: (U4) Candy Rocket: Laurence Nel and Matthew Wolfe (U4) Well done to all these young men on their excellent achievements.
NATIONAL SCIENCE EXPO: 1-2 OCTOBER 2010

Six projects from St Johns College were chosen to go through to the National Expo held at the University of Pretoria from 1-2 October. Our boys were great ambassadors for St Johns College Bronze medals were awarded to: Chris Maree and Jordan Wheeler (Remove) for Power of Batteries Mohammed Kaskar and Nabeel Seedat (U4) for Silver Solutions Silver Medals were awarded to : Ahmad Soni and Ebrahim Mohamed (L5) for Moringa Seed: Natures answer to clean water in rural South Africa The Kelvin Award was presented to: Matthew Taylor and Nikita Dartchiev for their Magneto-hydrodynamic Motor. This award is presented for an outstanding
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Owen Newton Hill and Paul Ontong
Ahmad Soni and Ebrahim Mohamed

ACTIVITIES
FIRST AID
2010 REPORT BY BRYAN JOUBERT
FIRST AID
Back Row: M Wilson, C Verwer, T Eggeling, L Chew, B Chauke Third Row: C Leesam, C Tang, K Malunga, N Masipa, G Chikwanda, A Mehra, Y Singh Second Row: F Cabral, C Weaver, S Urio, C Mpundu, A Van Der Hoven, A Rosen, R Mabika, G Ndhlovu Front Row: O Molteno, S Brooks, Sr G Venter, B Joubert, W Verhoogt
This year has been very successful for the First Aid team, which has been present at all of our rugby and hockey xtures and whose members have kept their levels of knowledge up to scratch by attending a regular training period.
During the year, 20 pupils have been trained in basic rst aid and a further 8 have completed the Advanced First Aid course. On Saturday mornings, the First Aid team is set up and ready well in advance of the games starting and its members remain on duty until the last of the spectators has departed. Under the watchful eyes of Sr. Geddes Venter and Head of First Aid, Bryan Joubert, rst aiders and equipment are assigned to each eld. This year, our team has grown to 35 members, as we have welcomed the commitment of a contingent from the 6th form who have helped most weekends. The
Saturday morning team has also benetted greatly from the dedication of one of our parents, Professor Dimitri Constantinou, Head of Sports Medicine at Wits University, who is always willing not only to treat any casualties, but also to teach anyone willing to learn. David Brooks has also returned to SJC to continue to help others selessly and Sr Geddes Venter is, of course, the heart of our team, with a wealth of knowledge and experience to share. During the week, the schools rst aiders man the sanatorium which is constantly busy. The san has a morning and evening clinic and Dr Rabie comes in every morning of the week and is seless when it comes to doing that bit extra on a Saturday morning. I should like to thank every member of this ne and talented group of people for their efforts and dedication I am very proud to be a member of SJCs rst rate First Aid team.
HEAD OF FIRST AID:
B Joubert
HEAD OF STRAPPING:
S Brooks
CO-ORDINATOR:
W Verhoogt
MEMBERS:
L Chew, M Wilson, D Lo, K Tang, C Verwer, M Varachia, C Weaver, C Leesam, M Dryden, B Chauke, O Kgosana, T Miller, O Molteno, M Conkic, P Piek, L van Rensburg, N Nagar, A vd Hoven, A du Plessis, Y Sing, F Pieterse, L Buisson-Street, W Fletcher, Z Daya, M Combrinck, B Mataboge, G Chikwanda, J Gayner, M Meamba, R Mabika, S Orio, C Mpunda, G Ndhlovu, C Odhiambo, P Kobuienje.
INSTRUCTOR:
Sr GB Venter
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CLUBS
2010 REPORT
St Johns has a weekly Clubs programme comprising 55 different clubs and offering a wide variety of exciting activities to choose from something for every boy. Here are just a few of them:
THE AVIATION CLUB

The aviation society has matured over many years into an effective activity for a group of boys interested in model aviation. Although each term sees 30 or so curious new recruits signing on for the term, many fall away, leaving a consistent core of a dozen or so boys who remain for the duration of the year. It is fascinating to watch the changing dynamics of the society and how boys of all age groups interact with each other through their common passion. It is also rewarding to witness such boys, often young and immature, gaining skills, condence and absolute joy as they progress to solo-hood. St Johns continues to maintain and offer more than 13 radio-controlled planes and helicopters, from small indoor yers to the large, all-scale Mustangs and Cessnas, the latter powered by twin four-stroke engines. There are different categories of planes in the eet, from basic trainers to aerobatic 3D and scale aircraft, available for different skill levels, and all maintained by the school for the use of the boys as opportunities arise. This offers a real prospect for any boy to challenge himself at whatever skill level he has achieved.
Our only real complaint is the lack of suitable afternoons, owing to sporting commitments, to y out in the South at a formal ying club! The society is, however, vibrant and active!
ADR
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THE BEEKEEPING CLUB CLUB

Left Ahmed Jada, Kavi Nair, Matthew Holl dressed for action. Right: Mrs S de Witte, Aaron Chiu, Craig Murrell, James Clacherty, Mr A Thompson
THE BEEKEEPING CLUB

The Beekeeping Club is a band of enthusiastic, budding beekeepers! This year, we have explored the following aspects of beekeeping: the biology of the honey bee, the intricate, clearly dened roles of bees in a hive; healthy beekeeping management; the impact of the honey bee on our economy, diet and environment.
ROCK CLIMBING CLUB

The enthusiasm of the club members has not agged this year in fact, it has increased! This is due to a wonderful new facility: a bouldering cave. This offers the opportunity for the boys to enjoy an excellent workout of all muscles needed for staying safe on big mountains. Two excellent climbers and members of the Mountain Club of South Africa train our members every Tuesday, and such is the commitment of the boys that there are hardly any absences. Mountaineering activities are for the dedicated few who like to test their bodies and compete against themselves. Mr Brett Nicolson remains in charge of this exceptional group.
JM
It is hoped that the Beekeeping Club will foster: a renewed respect for our environment, an educated awareness...
Activities have included honey tasting and learning about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) which has had devastating effects on the international beekeeping scene, but has not yet hit South Africa. Other natural enemies of honeybees also featured briey. Weve also made beeswax products, such as lip balm, and tasted a variety of honeys from our region. The undisputed highlight, however, has been inspecting beehives in full beekeeping regalia, where boys have overcome their fears and been fascinated by the inner workings of a bee hive. It is hoped that the Beekeeping Club will foster: a renewed respect for our environment, an educated awareness about these fascinating creatures and their vital role in our ecosystem, and enjoyment of the simple, sweet pleasure derived from managing bee hives.
SdW
ROCK CLIMBING CLUB

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SCUBA DIVING CLUB

The St Johns Scuba Club is undoubtedly the schools best kept secret. Why? Because we are so involved in the school and yet few people know of us and our activities. We go on tours, we have lectures, we juggle training and sporting schedules so as to dive - and we still nd time for our day-to-day lives.
The best kept secret may be one that everyone should know about. If you can dive, then come and dive; if you cannot, then come and learn!
The club was inaugurated at St Johns in 2007 by Mr Wentzel and Mr Cotterell, with 10 members. The instructor then, as now, was Rene Kempton. Now it is run by a Chairman, Peter Raney, and Vice Chairman, Alex Masianoga, under the guidance of Messers Wentzel and Cotterell. These two boys do more than just run the club - they organize trips, community service and some of the lectures. Recently Peter Raney organised a trip
to Mozambique for the clubs rescue course. PPB or Peak Performance Buoyancy was the rst speciality course offered in 2009. Prior to that it was required that all divers should have an advanced qualication and an open water qualication. Last August, a St Johns tour to the Red Sea was organized by the club and Rene Kempton. Personalized golf shirts were made which carried the school motto overseas; Lux Vita Caritas was on our badges and in our hearts. The next 10 nights were nights that we would never forget. The diving was exquisite, the food was divine and the memories were endless. We even went to museums and learnt some history - St Johns never misses a chance to teach a child. The best kept secret may be one that everyone should know about. If you can dive, then come and dive; if you cannot, then come and learn! No matter how many times you dive, every new dive is a new experience. Every sh is a new sh, every experience is a new experience. And every memory is a lasting one.
SCUBA DIVING CLUB
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PUBLIC SPEAKING
2010 REPORT
The rst term is traditionally a busy one for public speakers and this term has been little different. The two prestigious senior speaking competitions were held early in the term: The Chilvers Cup for impromptu speaking for seniors was won by Andy Petersen and the ODowd Medal for prepared speaking for seniors was also won by Andy Petersen. The Junior Cup for impromptu speaking was won by Gianluca Agostinetto. Congratulations to the speakers on achieving these awards. The prizes were awarded at Prize Giving later in the year.
The South African College of Speech and Drama holds an annual festival of speaking every year, and St Johns has participated in it for many, many years. The festival is open to every school in the province and attracts about 80 schools. Each school can enter two teams of four speakers in each age group, who speak as a team on a designated topic. This year the following boys participated: Remove: Daniel Erasmus, Aashish Diayar, Kyllian Pather, Robert Brinkmann, Rowan Batzon, Alexander Korsten, Eric McLaughlin, Simon Greeff LIV: Gianluca Agostinetto, Merrick Stevenson, Sbo Nene, Luke Reid, Naeem Vallee, Lulu Kahla, Kyle Lion-Cachet, James Sulter UIV: Mo Kaskar, Nabeel Seedat, Murray Conway, Jacques van Rhyn, Mib Bulbulia, Danny Dlayedwa, Alex Masianoga, James Surgey LV: Simon Trisk, Asiri Rathugamage, Jarryd Wood, Matthew Diepenbroek, Francois du Plessis, Michael Macklin, Scott Hunt, Ben Myers, Thomas Geffen UV: Callum Black, Andrew Fisher, Richard Fisher, Chris Roberts, Kendrick Walsh The prestigious Trophy Team consisted of Markus Trengove, Zain Patel and Reshard Kolabhai. They were awarded an A+. The school was represented in the individual event by Schalk Burger, who spoke on Not all men dream equally Schalk was awarded an A+. The Junior Speaking Competition for prepared speaking was won by Luke Reid (LIV). His entertaining speech, motivated by his propensity for leaving things to the last moment, was entitled Hello, Im neurotic. It was adjudged to be entertaining and well delivered by Mr Rick Clarke who adjudicated the event. Many congratulations to all the speakers and to the members of the English Department who gave up several afternoons to prepare the boys and several evenings to attend these events. Thank you to the parents for their support!
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DEBATING
2010 REPORT
St Johns has once again done well this year, reaching the semi-nal in the senior section of the SACEE Championships, and the nal in the junior section. Both debates were very close, and our boys did St Johns proud. Andy Petersen, Michael Macklin, Gianluca Agostinetto and Luke Quinn were selected for provincial trials. Andy chose not to participate this year, but Michael and Gianluca were both successful and will represent Gauteng in the near future. In the Best Speaker stakes of the SACEE Championships, Gianluca and Luke Quinn were placed fourth and fth respectively, and Michael Macklin was declared Best Senior Gauteng debater.
In United Nations debating, the St Johns team of Mo Kaskar, Mohammed Ismail Bulbulia and Nabeel Seedat participated in the SAIIA competition and received an Honourable Mention. In the Witsun competition, Callum Black and Zain Patel were placed second, and Mo Kaskar and Mohammed Ismail Bulbulia third. The Roedean tournament saw St Johns junior team victorious, with our senior team being defeated in the nal. In the African Schools Debating Championships, hosted again this year by St Johns, we reached the quarter-nals. This House would replace Sepp Blatter with Paul the Octopus was the motion for the light-hearted 2010 Gaudy Day Debate, and it was wonderful to welcome back illustrious debaters Marc de Vos and Lorne Hallendorff, who with their previous mentor, our current coach Phil Williams, took on Johannians Andy Petersen, Michael Macklin and Scott Hunt. In the chair, and in excellent form, was Nabeel Seedat, and as adjudicators, Mo Kaskar and Mr Martin Huysamer had some fun, as did the audience. Our annual debating dinner the fourteenth was as wild and witty as ever, and it was a great pleasure to have with us the senior Pretoria Girls High team, our chief rivals of 2010 but nevertheless good friends. We are delighted that we will retain Phil Williams as our coach next year: he is rigorous, witty and wonderfully encouraging to both practised and less practised debaters. His general sessions reect his knowledge of and insight into current affairs, and his skill in analysis and argumentation sets a superb standard for the boys to emulate. The strength of our results is testament to his ne training of our senior and junior teams. He and Joe Roussos, representing Wits, won the South African University National Championships this year: proof positive of the calibre of his work. In the inter-House Debates, the senior competition was won by Nash and the junior by Thomson. As always, we would encourage everyone to choose debating as an activities option it blends an awareness of the world around us, the intellectual pleasure of good argument and the benets of condent public speaking, and could well be the most valuable component in an education. In addition, theres a place for everyone: those who come to listen and offer an occasional point can benet as much as those whose names go up in lights.
JdS/CM/WMY
DEBATING CLUB
Below: Thomas Geffen Bottom: The Junior Debating Team
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CHESS CLUB
2010 REPORT
The ve-a-side tournament took place in the rst eight weeks of the rst term, but the St Johns team did not make it to the nal play-off.
In the second term, the South Gauteng High Schools League took place in the rst six weeks and the St Johns team played in the Central Zone against Parktown Boys School, Sandringham High School, King Edward V11 School, King David Linkseld and St Marys Girls School. The St Johns team won all its matches and went into the play-off against the winners of the other four zones. In an exciting afternoon held at SJC, some brilliant matches were played. At the end of the play-off, St Johns had won against Jeppe Boys, Barnato Park and St Benedicts; they drew with Crawford College Lonehill, thereby winning the League. I congratulate them on their ne performance. third term and the results are as follows: 1st Clarke 2nd Fleming 3rd Hill 4th Thomson 5th Alston and Nash 7th Hodgson Clarke won the Double Knight Trophy and Neil Viviers won the Gold King Trophy for having won all of his matches on Board 1. The following awards were made for Chess 2010: Colours: Yianni Moustakis (re-award), George Varughese Half Colours: Nick Lambropoulos, (re-award), Matthew Tong, Jonathan Georgiades. Yianni Moustakis will be entering the Vith Form in 2011, so he will continue to captain the St Johns team. I thank him for his hard work in 2010.
MJ CAPTAIN:
Yianni Moustakis
TEAM:
Yianni Moustakis, Jaishil Modi, Neil Viviers, George Varughese, Jonathan Georgiades, Nick Lambropoulos, Matthew Tong, Eric McLaughlin, Hano Prinsloo
COACH:
Mrs Marilyn Jardine and Mr Cullen MacKenzie.
SPECTACULAR ACHIEVEMENTS:
Jaishil Modi represented South Africa in Greece in the Chess World Youth Championship in October and was re-awarded South African National Colours by the South African National Sports Council (4th year in a row). Jaishil came second in the U16 section in the Nationals in December 2009. He has been selected to play for Gauteng South U20 in the Nationals to be held in Pretoria in December 2010. Neil Viviers has been selected to play for the North West Rand U16 section in the Nationals to be held in Pretoria in December. Inter-house chess was played in the
CHESS CLUB 2010

Back Row: N Viviers, J Georgiades, N Lambropoulos, J Modi Front Row: G Varughese, Mrs M Jardine, M Tong
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MATRIC DANCE COMMITTEE & INTERACT

MATRIC DANCE COMMITTEE 2010
Back row: T Bradeld, J Long, Y Bulbulia S Burger, Middle row: S Hunt, S Venkatakrishnan, D Feldner-Busztin, K Brummer Front row: A Rathugamage, C Kocher, M Diepenbroek, M Cloete
INTERACT 2010
Back Row: R Mhlari, A Daya, K Motsepe, T Tengende, L Rensburg Second Row: M Moema,L Mota, Wncube, N Phakathi, M Hlongwane, M Mcunu Front Row: L Jubane, K Ramabulana, JBulabula, Mr S Vilakazi, T Lekubu,Y Bulbulia, M Lee
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SCHOOL PRODUCTION
Back Row: C Huntley, K Maseko, T Tengende, M Maswanganyi, R Mhlari, S Kenjere, N Mclaughlin Fourth Row: B van Staden, D France, E Engelbrecht, A Tuma-Waku, G Carroll, S Nene, L Kahla, A Diayar Third Row: K Phage, J Slter, L Reid, A Masianoga, M Conway, J Fletcher, N Reid, J Whittle, J Barton-Bridges Second Row: N Masipa, R Khumbane, M Cloete, M Dryden, N Surgey, N Hck, J Coulter, A Petersen, K Brmmer, S Lester, S Glendenning Front Row: T Eggeling, C Weaver, C Raymer, J Williamson, Mr R Untiedt, A Olouch-Olunya, M Ceccarelli, K Malunga, J Bulabula
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GROBS
FEBRUARY 2010
The term GROBS appears to have surfaced at about the same time as the cartoonist Don Martin wrote for MAD MAGAZINE. Don regularly produced a series of cartoons featuring Fonebone amongst others. He had a ne sense of the ridiculous and was particularly well-known for his sound effects. Grobs at St Johns started as a variety show during the late 1950s and offered an opportunity for boys and staff to take the mickey out of each other.- CM The tradition of GROBS was rmly reinforced at the College again this year, having been revived in 2007. The Staff, boys and girls of the College and 6th Form did not disappoint the capacity audiences across the two nights performances, delivering thoroughly entertaining skits, dances, songs and short plays with energy and skill. Rea Khumbane and Andy Petersen performed their roles as comperes with aplomb. The Staff were particularly active in this years production: Father Jaques delighted audiences with his rambling, nonsensical sermon; Mr Clarke was masterful in Rowan Atkinsons The Schoolmaster; Messrs Huysamer and Untiedt were hilarious in another of Rowan Atkinsons skits, Fatal Beatings; Messrs Marriott and Martens were exceptionally funny in their musical skit and the many members of staff who performed a reworked version of Pink Floyds The Wall brought the house down. The Rugby Ballet, choreographed by Gail France, was as entertaining as always and the Marimba band was a superb addition. The prots from this years GROBS were donated to funding for the new Waterpolo pool. My thanks go to all who participated.- RU
DURANG AT HIS BEST

REVIEWED BY SANDRA LAURENCE PRESENTED BY THE SIXTH FORM OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE MARCH 2010 DIRECTED BY PHILIP SULTER, RUSSELL UNTIEDT AND JAMES WILLIAMSON.
The plays of Christopher Durang, a controversial American playwright born in 1949, are off-beat one-off monologues, short interludes and socio-political satires that often interrogate issues that society and the establishment would prefer to gloss over. They are relatively unknown and therefore offered a fresh and original
evening of great enjoyment. Susan Glendinning, as the eccentric Arts teacher, Mrs Sorken, presented a picture of the vague but learned person all teachers fear becoming - in swathes of scarves and jewels, even down to her buttery-festooned slippers - and in a complete reversal of roles, the glamorous
socialite in the Noel Coward scene in The Actors Nightmare. She showed a skill and condence in her roles which was impressive. Nina in the Morning was almost too close to the bone to be funny - dealing as it does with a vain woman whose face-lift and life are slipping away from her and
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whose reliance on Foote (Matteo Kotch) is both pitiful and demanding. Olivia Molteno played Nina perceptively, but it was as Lettie Lu in The Book of Leviticus Show where she really shone, literally as well as metaphorically. In a slinky gold jacket and leopard print leggings, she maintained her presence and accent with panache, as did the rest of the cast in this particular satire: Matteo Kotch as Tommy, Kisiwe Malunga as Grandma and Marina Ceccarelli and Ciaran Rayner as the guests. What can one say about the Gym Teacher? At a boys school, this monologue performed brilliantly by Aldo Olouch-Olunya was instantly recognisable, extremely competently delivered and very funny. It was hugely enjoyed by the audience. The Actors Nightmare was probably the most difcult piece of the night and was admirably directed and executed. James Williamson was slick and credible as an accountant who strayed onto a set and was assumed to be an understudy, and the performances of the rest of the cast were also professional, particularly that of Nthupula Masipa (Ellen), who has a lovely voice and stage presence. Ciaran Rayner as the Man in extracts from Seeking Wild was consistent and thought-provoking in a difcult part which he sustained throughout the show.
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The technical side of the production - with cutting edge choice of music and a backscreen video production in The Book of Leviticus Show - was impressive, and mention must be made of Charles Marriott and his backstage crew, as well as the costumes by Wendy Young and props selected by Alison Scarr, which were amusing and stylish.
MAJOR PRODUCTION: ANDREW BUCKLANDS FEEDBACK AND BLOODSTREAM

24-28 MAY, BIG SCHOOL DIRECTED BY PHILIP SLTER AND RUSSELL UNTIEDT
Because of the focus on the 6th Form production in the Easter term, boys in the College were prevented from auditioning and participating in drama in the early part of the year and it was then important to select plays that would allow us to use as many boys as possible. Hence the decision to choose two of Andrew Bucklands plays and, with his permission, to cast all those who auditioned. We found the responsibility of directing these plays both daunting and exhilarating. The nature of the changed term times for 2010 meant that we had a mere ve weeks in which to direct two exceptionally
DRAMA
challenging texts - by no means an easy task. The cast worked tirelessly throughout the rehearsal period to create two productions that attested to the growing power of Drama at the College. The production was unlike any other on which the College has embarked in the past. Physical theatre focuses on the use of the body and voice in combination to create a uniquely energetic and powerful theatrical statement in the form of visual-vocal metaphors. The two Andrew Buckland plays, both originally written to be performed by two actors, served as wonderful vehicles to exhibit this exciting and energetic genre. In addition, the plays make signicant social, political and environmental statements that echo the issues we face currently, both globally and nationally. They are confrontational and, at times, even shocking, but always entertaining. The central theme of Feedback is wastefulness and the impact of monopolies on the wellbeing of the common man. The characters in the play all represent stereotypes in our contemporary society; for example, Dearth represents the capitalist who will stop at nothing in order to grow his company until it is the only one of its kind left. The play incorporates the struggle between the masses and the oppressors and the attempts by the former to escape their lives of poverty and futility. Kai Brmmer [Myrth] and Reabetswe Khumbane [Byrth] sustained commendable performances, while Jack Coulter [Detective Deadly Serious] was exact and highly procient in his role. James Slter as Dearth, modelled on an insane version of John Cleese, and Andrew Tuma-Waku as the mentally challenged Grave, proved an hilarious comic duo and the strength and effectiveness of their performances were evident to all. The leads were ably supported by the rest of the cast who performed their multi-facetted roles with immense skill, most notably Dave Jacobs and Nthupula Masipa. Bloodstream explores issues around democracy and the environment in a manner that is at times crass, at times highly satirical. The blend of different levels of humour offers a denite challenge to both actor and audience, but the journey of the last tree on earth through the Woodcutters body to change his mind about cutting
him down proved an absolute hit with the audience. Nick Surgey [Luke] and Andy Petersen [Erthyr] were exceptional in their roles as the blood cells who chance upon the rogue tree cell, Dimitri, ably performed by James Barton-Bridges. Sekh-fei de Lacy and Murray Dryden delighted the audiences as the left and right testicles and Susan Glendinning was a wonderful Mrs Kidney. The entire cast of 24 were focused, committed and worked as an ensemble to create a memorable performance. Our many thanks go to: Wendy Young for her enormous contribution in terms of costumes; Charles Marriott for his assistance; Alison Scarr for front of house management; the backstage crew and Daniel Buckland and Mongi Mthombeni for their wonderfully creative input during the growing stages of the production. Thanks too to Angie Delport, Megan Carter, Monika Roets, Carol Wiswall and Alan Duncan and his staff for their assistance.
RU & PS
THE FINAL RANKING WAS AS FOLLOWS:

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th Clarke: Summer of 39 Fleming: Fawlty Towers Nash: Censored Runge: Natural Born Killer Hodgson: The Gun Alston: The Green Hill Clayton: The Assembly Hill: Twilight Gossip Thomson: The Jews Lament
AWARDS:
Best Ensemble: Alston Best Original Script: Clarke and Hodgson Best Cameo: Alex De Oliveira [Manuel in Fawlty Towers] Most Promising Junior Actor: James Slter [Fleming] Best Supporting Actor: Jared Kruger [Fleming] Best Actor: Khathu Ramabulana [Hodgson] Best Director: Jack Coulter [Fleming] Best Play: Clarke Many other pupils were commended for their plays and performances. Congratulations to you all.- RU
ANNUAL INTER-HOUSE PLAYS FESTIVAL

RESULTS
The festival took place on the evenings of the 7 and 8 June and was adjudicated by Mr Renos Spanoudes, who was blown away by the high standard of the plays. There was a separation of just 12% between the house placed 9th and the house placed 1st.
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INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLES
WIND
can perform various classical works with panache.

CONTEMPORARY
The College Windband is a large and versatile ensemble which can perform a variety of musical styles, from Classical to Movie music to Jazz to Rock. The leader of the band was Richard Fisher in 2010. Drawn from this larger ensemble are a number of smaller ensembles, including the highly skilled Senior Saxophone Ensemble, the newly improved Brass ensemble, and a Junior Saxophone group, which combine with the senior saxes for some concerts.
STRINGS
Senior Jazz Band: this 18 piece vibrant band has excelled this year with a number of successful outside performances. Junior Jazz Band: this new, largely Remove, band has steadily developed and enjoyed warm reception at ensemble evenings and Gaudy Day. The Jazz Septet: this newly formed band brings together the cream
of contemporary music players who will perform at the Standard Bank Youth Jazz Festival in Grahamstown next year. The Worship Band: this vital band, ably led by Kendrick Walsh has maintained a high standard of performance for the Songs of Praise evenings once a term. The Blues Band: this dynamic new band directed by Oscar Dlamini features some of the top Contemporary music as subject students and is developing from strength to strength.
The College Junior String Ensemble consists of Remove and L4 learners. This ensemble performed their Intermediate String Recital examination for Trinity Guildhall this year. These eight musicians excelled in their playing, with a repertoire ranging from Baroque to 20th Century. The St Johns College Trio Sonata consists of Jamie Mc Graw (piano), Richard Berry (violin), Francois du Plessis (violin) and Bryan Moore (cello). This is the rst Baroque Trio Sonata ensemble in St Johns College. They played the Advanced Trinity Guildhall Recital, including works from various Baroque composers as well as Dvoraks Bagatelles written for the same setting. The College String Orchestra has played various pieces ranging from pop to classical. They performed at various functions including the Jennifer Bolton memorial service, Gaudy Day, various InterSchools concerts, and the Inter-Schools Choir Festival. This 22 piece orchestra has grown into a strong ensemble that
WIND BAND 2010

Back Row: R MacMurray, M Vermaak, T Bradeld, P Swart, K Kurji Third Row: M Davies, R Lavers, S Wallace, J Smythe, M Conkic, W Fletcher, A MacKenzie Second Row: H Mollett, J Lap, K Murning, L v.d. Griendt, M Cloete, L Auret, A v.d. Hoven Front Row: S Venkatakrishnan, B Baggott, R Fisher (Head of Windband), Dr. A Thompson, Mr. J Sasman, J Maycock, P Cresswell, A Rathugamage
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STRING ENSEMBLE 2010

Back Row: J Bonls-Persson, M Conway Second Row: S de Souza, J Beard, A Diayar, G Carroll, J Batchelor, C Huntley, J Whittle, C Bland Front Row: R Berry, B Walwyn, Miss I Bonnet, K Walsh, F du Plessis
SCHOOL CONCERTS
These are held once a term, giving the opportunity for students to display their performance skills in a concert situation. In addition, Music as Subject students are marked for their performance, while many non-subject students also perform. This year has seen some exceptional performances by both seniors and juniors on a wide variety of instruments, including trombone, saxophone, electric guitar, drumkit and double bass. The performance ethos is a vital part of the music departments prole within the life of the school, and the instrumental concerts are an excellent opportunity for parents to enjoy and support their childrens musical development. Another concert is the picnic concert, a fun-lled family affair presented under the oaks in the beautiful setting of the Prep Amphitheatre, and featuring the best of the Music Departments ensembles. This years ensembles included the Recorder ensemble, The String Orchestra, the
Marimba Ensemble, the Concert Wind Band (including the sax and brass ensembles), and the Senior, Junior and Septet Jazz bands. This years Supper and Song, held as usual in Darragh Hall, was a sold-out success once again. With a variety of items from the choir, windband, strings and jazzband, the evening proved the versatility and excellence of St Johns musicians. The windband performed two concerts of Prokoevs childrens masterpiece, Peter and the Wolf, once each for the Prep and Pre-prep pupils. The narrator was Michael Cloete, who entertained the audiences with his dramatic portrayal of the story. Ben Baggott, Paul Cresswell and Shyam Venkatakrishnan all provided excellent instrumental solos as the bird, the duck and the cat resepectively. The Ensemble concert was held in the second term in the Clarke auditorium, and provided an excellent opportunity for the various ensembles to perform. This was also the debut of the Windbands new co-conductor,
Mr Justin Sasman, who led the band in a spirited rendition of a Gershwin medley. Other highlights were the Jazzbands skilled improvisations, and the Senior Sax Ensembles performance of Bizets Farandole. I am certain that everyone who watched our Upper 5 Final Music Recital will agree that it is an annual concert not to be missed. Thank you to all the boys for their hard work and commitment, but especially to the parents for motivating their boys these last few months. The Director of Music, Dr. Oosthuizen and staff greeted 7 talented musicians in the making: Ben Baggott (ute), Paul Cresswell (oboe), Ashton Fox (violin), Julian Lap (trumpet), Jon-Marco Maycock (piano), Kendrick Walsh (violin), and Ben Walwyn (violin). They were all accompanied by Ms Ilse Myburgh.
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COMBINED CONCERTS
On the 17th of February this year the St Johns College music department participated in a musical evening in conjunction with our sister school, St Marys. The concert was played at the school hall at St Marys, which was lled to capacity. The many ensembles and different genres presented resulted in a varied and enjoyable concert. St Johns presented the following ensembles: Saxophone Ensemble - New York, New York. Brass Ensemble - Chameleon Wind Band - Queen String Ensemble - Mamma Mia Jazz Band - Here, there, Everywhere and Born to be wild Our thanks go to the teachers and staff of St Marys for hosting us and providing an opportunity to share our talents. St Johns also welcomed Kingsmead College for a joint concert at the Rene England Auditorium on the 4th of May this year. This was our rst major concert at the Rene England since its inauguration, and was a resounding success. The programme consisted of the following: St Johns Choir - Kyrie from Missa Cum Jubilo and Modimo, Kingsmead Flute Ensemble - Braid the Raven Hair and The Little Negro, St Johns Brass Ensemble - Themes from the Lord of the Rings and Cebell, St Johns Windband - Gershwin Medley Kingsmead Marimba Ensemble - Loop St Johns Strings - YMCA and Havent Met You Yet St Johns Saxophone quartet - New York, New York and Hoe Down St Johns Marimba Ensemble - Goodbye Kingsmead Wind Band - James Bond and Mamma Mia St Johns Jazz Septet - Stompin at the Savoy St Johns Senior Jazz Band - Spinning Wheel Kingsmead Senior Choir - Walking On Sunshine and Joyful, Joyful. Thank you to all the staff involved for organising the event. We eagerly await the next one.
SENIOR JAZZ BAND 2010

Back Row: J Strong, J Smythe, P Swart, D Arnot, Second Row: H Mollett, K Murning, M Twigg, A Rathugamage, R Kolbhai, A MacKenzie, Front Row: S Venkatakrishnan, J Lap ( Leader), B Baggott, Mr NCarter, L Van Der Griendt, J Maycock, T Bradeld.
JUNIOR JAZZ BAND 2010

Back Row: M Kolabhai, S De Souza, M Carter. Second Row: W Kohler, D Erasmus, L Watt, R Lavers, Front Row: K Kurji, H Mollett,P Venkatakrishnan, Mr N Carter, K Nair,A van der Hoven, S Havenga.
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CHOIR 2010
Back Row: S Venkatakrishnan, R Berry, M Cloete, T Bradeld, L Van der Griendt, F Du Plessis, A Rathugamage, P Cresswell, B Walwyn Fifth Row: J Bonls-Persson, C Bland, J Smythe, J Cowper, P Swart, D Arnot, J van Rhyn, R Stuart-Thompson Fourth Row: J Strong, J Wittle, S De Souza, A Korsten, V Pansegrouw, J OConnor, D Erasmus, P Venkatakrishnan, R Kolabhai, M Vermaak, K Murning Third Row: E Fleisch, D Gundelnger, R MacMurray, W Fletcher, M Lillee, M Taylor, S Nene, G Carroll, M Kolabhai, J Bachelor, C Huntley, K Nair, C Du Plessis. Second Row: A Diayar, B Didcott-Marr, H Mollett, M Davies, R Lavers, L Watt, L Auret, S Kanjere, A MacKenzie, T Geffen, K Futter, A van der Hoven, E McLaughlin, R Batzon, K Kurji Front Row: A Fisher, J Lap, C Black, Mr C Upchurch, R Fisher, Dr B Oosthuizen, N Morgan, Mr S Nyamazele, K Walsh, J Maycock, B Baggott. Absent: S Havenga, J Muller, R Nutt, T Mudiwe, A Varughese, J Robinson, O Vincent, B Moore, J Mcgraw, R De Kock, W Morgan.
VOCAL AND CHORAL

EVENSONG, SONGS OF PRAISE AND TAIZE
VALEDICTORY MASS
The regular services of Evensong, Songs of Praise and Taize continued to take place each term on Sunday evenings. They represent the commitment of the College to the riches of the Anglican tradition, with its wealth of church music, as well as the schools acknowledgement of the value of less formal, contemporary forms of liturgy. In each instance the participation of the choir and instrumentalists is the key element in ensuring that these services are musically competent and spiritually uplifting. These varied services mean that congregants have an opportunity to worship in a tradition or style that is signicant to them, as well as exposing them to other liturgical forms.
The music of the Matric Valedictory Mass is an extremely important element of this service that marks a rite of passage for the Upper Fives. The Matrics were consulted as a group and each house submitted particular requests for the music of the day. The most popular choices were used at the Mass, thus helping to create a liturgy in which the leavers played an active part.
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
It successfully brought together OJs and schoolboys in a more meaningful way, rather than the service in which only the L Vs were present. It was very good to expose the College to the dignied music of the ceremony, not least the Contakion for the Departed, which has played such an important part in the musical tradition of the school.
The annual Remembrance Service has always traditionally been held on the Sunday nearest November 11th. It is an opportunity for old boys and current pupils to join together in music-making. This year the service was held on November 11th itself, with the whole College present.
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GLORIA
St Johns College proudly presented Antonio Vivaldis Gloria for choir, soloists (Talita Laubscher, Renette Bouwer) and orchestra and Durues Messe Cum Jubilo for choir of baritones, soloist (Nicholas Nicolaidis- OJ) and organ (Cameron Upchurch) under the baton of conductor Ben Oosthuizen to a packed Chapel on 1 June. The Orchestra that accompanied the choir in the Vivaldi consisted of a mixture of St Johns musicians and professional players. A musical interlude between the two pieces was Louis Viernes Pastorale, masterly played by Reshard Kolabhai (L5) on the organ. Senior members of the College String Orchestra accompanied the choir during the Gloria by Vivaldi at the choir concert and at the senior choir festival.
GAUDY DAY MASS
it is important to state that the presence of young Johanians did not go unnoticed musically. The Duru mass was performed as part of the liturgical setting in the traditional way. The work is written for baritone solo, male choir, and orchestra. The entire style of singing is based on Gregorian chant. The mass consists of ve movements and is written in Latin: 1. Kyrie 2. Gloria 3. Sanctus 4. Benedictus 5. Agnus Dei
2010 CAROL SERVICE
The day begins with a mass for the old boys, their families and friends. The service took place in the school chapel. The college choir and the old boys had worked extremely hard, practising and at the end the results were wonderful and
The festival of nine lessons and carols was held in St Marys cathedral on the 14th of November. The college choir, preparatory school choir, and the lower 2s of the Jolly Choir all joined forces to lead the congregation through the hymns. The choirs were also featured throughout the evening, performing Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, The crown of roses, A babe is born and Torches. They were led by Dr. Ben Oosthuizen, and Mr. Sidumo Nyamezele. On pieces such as the ever popular Ding dong merrily on high, and
Jesus Child, the string orchestra together with the recorder ensemble and percussion provided a charming accompaniment to the choirs. The brass group in conjunction with members of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra joined the choirs in performing the Pinkham Christmas cantata titled Sinfonia Sacra. The brass also accompanied the congregational hymns where the rousing sounds of Mr Cameron Upchurch could also be heard on the organ. Reshard Kolabhai, a student in lower ve, performed the Fugue on the Carillon of the Cathedral of Soissons at the close of the ceremony. The college choir and the old boys had worked extremely hard, practising and at the end the results were wonderful and it is important to state that the presence of young Johannians did not go unnoticed musically.
THIS YEAR HAS SEEN SOME EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES BY BOTH SENIORS AND JUNIORS ON A WIDE VARIETY OF INSTRUMENTS, INCLUDING TROMBONE, SAXOPHONE, ELECTRIC GUITAR, DRUMKIT AND DOUBLE BASS. THE PERFORMANCE ETHOS IS A VITAL PART OF THE MUSIC DEPARTMENTS PROFILE WITHIN THE LIFE OF THE SCHOOL.
JAZZ SEPTET
Back Row: K Murning, M Conkic, P Swart, J Smythe, Front Row: Miss K Borthwick,S Venkatakrishnan, Mr N Carter
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CONFERENCES, COMPETITIONS AND EXAMS
MOORE COMPETITION
Thank you to all the boys and parents involved in this years National P H Moore Music competition. It takes place in August and the students compete for prize money and the honour of presenting the school on a National level. I thank all those involved this year especially Stephen Maycock (clarinet) in the Prep school as well as Jason Smythe (trombone) and Bryan Moore (cello) in the College for playing at this years competition. They were accompanied by Ms Ilse Myburgh.
COLLEGE MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS CONCERT FOR U3 PUPILS
Pre-Preparatory school music is concerned, Anne Carroll gave a very insightful talk on the Musical Building blocks for future budding musicians - teaching music in the Prep-Preparatory school from Grade 0 to Grade 2. Heidi Thompson spoke to teachers about the employment issues surrounding the part time music teachers, and John Walton gave us insight in how band programmes may add value to music departments. St Johns College music department will present another national music conference in 2011 around the topic of keyboard instruments.
INTER HOUSE MUSIC FESTIVAL
This year saw a nail biting festival, with very high standards presented by various houses over two nights. The overall winner of the competition was Fleming with 84.13%, Nash came second with 82.16%, and Hodgson third with 82.09%. The soloist from Nash came rst, Flemings mass choir item as well as small ensemble item took the rst prize. A noticeable tendency was the improvement in the instrumental ensemble items, with ve houses getting more than 80% for their contribution. Thomson house took the rst prize in this section.
PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL MUSIC EXAMINATIONS
At the beginning of Easter the Music Scholarship Holders presented a concert to all music as subject pupils in the Clarke Auditorium. This was attended by several boys from other schools, many of whom played an assessment two weeks later for consideration for scholarships for 2011.
NATIONAL MUSIC CONFERENCE FOR MUSIC TEACHERS SPONSORED BY CASIO
A record number of 62 pupils were entered this year, taking the external board examinations of Trinity and Associated Board of Royal Schools. It was noteworthy that 21 of these pupils played the Rock school examination of Trinity. Thirteen of our pupils played the Grade 8 examination, and many received distinctions and merits. We congratulate the following pupils on results of Grade 7 and higher:
TRINITY RESULTS 2010 MAY 2010 NAME

Jon-Marco Maycock Benjamin McGraw Richard Berry Shyam Venkatakrishnan Lloyd vd Griendt Travis Bradeld Benjamin Baggott Paul Cresswell Julian Lap Reshard Kolabhai
INSTRUMENT
Piano Piano Violin Sax Jazz Sax Jazz Sax Flute Oboe Trumpet Organ
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8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7
RESULT
70 88 84 83 84 87 82 90 80 97
St Johns College music department has been organising a conference for music teachers since 2008 with the sponsorship of Casio. This years conference focused on aspects of creativity in music departments. Mark Mitchell, director of music of Bishops, Cape Town, gave the keynote address, headed Its not what we think, but how we think being creative crazy. He challenged all music teachers to learn to become more creative in solving problems. Tina Sheard shared a practical approach to a foundation that can enrich the life of every pupil in school, whilst Dulcie Brandon-Kirby and Valda Fhr presented an excellent paper on the creative thinking process for beginner piano pupils (and their teachers!). Nick Carter presented a paper titled A practical application for Improvisation at Prep and High School levels, after which Dereck Jackson gave a very insightful talk to teachers on how to handle difcult parents. Isabella Bonnet explained how to start a string programme in the Preparatory school and sustaining it in the High School. As far as
ROCK SCHOOL 2010

Pieter Swart Drumkit 8 94
SEPTEMBER 2010
Asiri Rathugamage Riaan de Kock Travis Bradeld Thomas Geffen Michael Cloete Mohamed Sacranie Marius Vermaak Jazz Sax Piano Recorder Piano Sax Flute Piano 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 93 67 87 73 88 61 73
ABRSM RESULTS 2010 OCTOBER SESSION 2010

Kendrick Walsh Violin 8 120/80
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2010 REPORTS
LV AFRIKAANS CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
I was one of the thirty boys who, during Projects Week, accompanied the members of the Afrikaans Department to Nandini, a venue on the banks of the Vaal River. This has the reputation of being one of the most enjoyable camps offered at St Johns College - and I was not disappointed.
For three days we were immersed in Afrikaans culture. Traditional boerekos, such as vetkoek, mieliepap with braaivleis, babotie, melktert and potjiekos, was served in abundance. We competed in traditional games such as rekskiet, kennetjie, jukskei and rivierswaai in the Vaal River; we also had to complete a gruelling obstacle course. In our free time, we played volleyball and touch rugby - or we just relaxed in the perfect weather. Na n lang uitputtende eerste termyn het ons die pret ontspannende atmosfeer van die beste kamp ooit, geniet .
Jamie McGraw
Darren Lo, Jason Constantionou, Ben Myers, Christian Kocher, Kevin Tang, Kevin Muirning, Roderick Volkerz, Mangezi Maswanganyi
LIV CAMP
The timing and the form of the LIV Camp was changed this year in that the boys went off to the Outward Bound School near Harrismith in March for 12 days and the camp was given a whole new ethos.
The LIV camp had two focal points: To foster the concept of servant leadership, and
To offer the boys the opportunity to make and celebrate the transition from boyhood to young manhood. The rst concept had its roots in the examples of several of the truly great leaders in our world, leaders who led without thought of any benet for themselves, without any desire to be great, but who nevertheless achieved greatness because they led solely for the benet of their people: Jesus, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela for example. One of the tenets of the Outward Bound School is the welfare of the group as a whole, the importance of teamwork, so the venue was appropriate. In addition, a part of each day on the camp was devoted to thinking about servant
leadership so the Colleges expectations were met on this score. The second concept was based on the Colleges recognition that, in our modern society, we are no longer fullling the primal needs of boys going through puberty to be challenged - and to overcome those challenges in order to be formally acknowledged as young men. In traditional societies, the elders (including the father, uncles and other male family members) would take these boys away from the maternal inuence, in particular, and guide them through a process of challenge and achievement that would be their initiation into young manhood. The initiate would emerge with a clear sense of himself as a
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Jon-Luc Robinson, Jean-Andre Deenik, Kyle Lyon-Cachet, Lulu Kahla, James Sulter
young man, respected and acknowledged by the clan or society. In the sophisticated, fast-moving world of the 21st century, this no longer happens. There is no clan; there is, very often, no extended family; in some cases, there is no father-gure present on a daily basis in a boys life. So boys nd it difcult to make the transition and very often become difcult and rebellious at this age. So, how does the idea of a Leadership Camp assist with this crucial transition from boyhood to young manhood? St Johns handed the boys over into the care of a team of elders young men, well-trained in leadership and teamwork, and generally sensitive to the individual needs or difculties of the boys under their guidance. In addition, the College did not abandon them down there for 12 days. Instead, the housemasters and LIV tutors, who already had a strong relationship with the boys, went down to the camp in rotation to spend a day or two sharing their experience and observing their progress. Most of the boys coped with the challenges exceptionally well. This did not mean that they sailed through the experience. Each of them was challenged physically and mentally; a few struggled emotionally with their separation from family and with being in an alien environment; a few others struggled physically because they were unt. But the camp offered each boy the opportunity to face hardships and, with the support of his guide and especially the support of his team of house-mates, to rise above and overcome
his own challenges. Many of the boys grew brilliantly because of the experience. The guides were with the boys every second of each day - but in the background. It was the boys themselves who organised their days. The guides were there as backup, in case of emergencies, and to observe; the visiting teachers were told that they should interact, by all means, but on no account should they comment, or give help or advice. The boys learnt from experience through making mistakes and learning the consequences. Each day, a new group leader was appointed, as well as three cooks for the day. The boys carried rations for four days not individual rations, but a shared load for the whole group. They had to allocate food for each meal for each of the next four days. They had to cope on the minimum of simple food a new experience for each and every one of them! Each group was told where it had to hike to for that night and the boys themselves had to get the group there. The team walked at the pace of the slowest boy, who was often placed in front. There was no separation into smaller groups, with one steaming ahead and a few solitary boys lagging behind and struggling all the time to catch up. And there was acceptance of this; frustration on the part of the more able had to be mastered in the interests of the team as a whole. And all the while, the guides monitored and observed all these personal struggles and the achievements of the boys in overcoming them. And, believe it or not, most of them
had fun! Spirit was generally high and was maintained by bellowing out our SJC war cries. When the group rested, the boys played team games that tested their ingenuity and teamwork. When someone made a mistake, and a foolish fellow ridiculed him for it (as will happen!), the team sat down with the guide to analyse the situation: Was it actually funny? So why did you laugh? How do you think your laughter made the other person feel? Is that what you (other boy) felt?. A great learning experience. They were not only hiking, but also doing a variety of other exciting things: solo time (in total safety) to ponder all the intricacies of life that were suggested by the texts and passages with which they were armed; canoeing; rafting; absailing - and climbing a small mountain (Baba) in time to watch the sunrise or the sunset. At the end of the 12 days, the vast majority felt a tremendous sense of achievement, a great pride! They had grown in independence and condence. There was the luxury of a shower and the wonder of a feast in the boma at a nearby resort where, with a huge re blazing in the centre, their achievement was acknowledged in a formal Rites of Passage ceremony. Lessons were learnt along the way, not only by the boys but also by the staff. As a result, next years camp will probably be different again! But the 2010 LIVs will undoubtedly be talking about this years camp for the rest of their lives.
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alert, every rustle in the grass is a leopard heading your way; every breaking branch is an approaching elephant. That is, of course, until you wake up your guide then, mysteriously, that leopard turns into a genet and the elephant into a bush baby. Our transport for the next few days was by mokoro: traditional tribal boats carved from sausage trees. Each mokoro carried two boys and their bags, as well as the poler, who skillfully poled us through the Okavango for our ve night stay. Each day out in the wilderness was an experience, moving from camp to camp each day. Each day we would go for walks with our guide and a poler, both of whom did a great job keeping a group of eight St Johns boys alive in the bush. On each walk, we would look not only for animals, but also learn more about ourselves and the importance of respect for our environment. We saw lion, elephant, giraffe, zebra, many antelope and an amazing variety of birds, including Pells shing owl. Being out in the wilderness together with your friends really does build even stronger bonds between you. You have to trust each other with your lives. Each individual is responsible for the entire groups safety, and nothing brings boys together quite like an elephant or hippo approaching your sleeping bags! We went to the wilderness and lived deliberately. We went to the wilderness and fronted only the essential facts of life. We went to the wilderness and began to learn what it could teach us. We went to the wilderness and we lived.
Jeff Long (LV)
OKAVANGO 2010
I went to the wilderness because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau
For the Lower Fives, the wilderness was the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Although we undertook this adventure as one of the nal chapters in our completion of the Golden Presidents Award, it proved to be one of the most signicant events of our lives. From start to nish, our trip was an allout adventure, beginning at the excitementlled O.R Tambo, where we ew out on an almost-private jet, right to our nal lunch in the thriving metropolis of Maun. Landing in Maun could in itself be described as an adventure, as we watched our bags being transported from the plane to the collection counter by wheelbarrow, while vehicles waited to shuttle us off to Island Safari Lodge. Upon arriving at the lodge, we were issued with a hiking bag and essentials such as food and a sleeping bag. We were also given one plastic bag for clothes - and by clothes I mean one shirt, one pair of shorts and a spare pair of socks. Things we did not pack included: cell phones and chargers, deodorant, soap and, of course, toilet paper! This was it - we were ofcially leaving civilisation for the true wilderness! Once we were all packed, we headed
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up the delta for four hours on speed boats to where we would spend our rst night on the southern tip of Chiefs Island in the Moremi Reserve. As we headed further and further away from civilization, we began to understand the adventure we were undertaking and if the majestic surroundings were not enough to get hearts racing, the odd elephant and hippo splashing about in the water-lily covered water only a couple of metres from where we sat certainly was. The rst night was to prove an interesting one, with stories of bravery and courage readily shared until it was your turn on night watch! We had all been briefed on the infamous night watch countless times by the boys who had survived last years trip, but you can never really understand the feeling until you have done it. Your senses work on triple
TOURS
TOUR TO RUSSSIA AND VENICE

Some of the tour group outside St Basils in Red Square
ART TOUR TO RUSSSIA AND VENICE
In April, six boys accompanied Mrs Shelagh Scholes on the Kingsmead tour to Russia. This was a wonderful opportunity to explore the art, architecture and music of Moscow and St Petersburg. Our stay in Moscow allowed us to include in our itinerary the Kremlin, once the citadel of the Tsars, then the headquarters of the Soviet Union and now the residence of the Russian president. Inside the Kremlin is a collection of beautiful, golden domed churches, the most important being the Cathedral of the Assumption, dating from the 14th century and the most important church in Moscow. The interior is richly painted and gilded, giving the look of an illuminated manuscript. A visit to the State Armoury gave the group the opportunity to view the wealth accumulated by Russian princes and tsars over many centuries.
We returned that evening to the Kremlin to see a performance of the Bolshoi ballet. Some other highlights of the trip to Moscow included a visit to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, which houses a marvellous collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, the Red Square containing Lenins mausoleum and St Basils
Cathedral. The Tretyakov Gallery gave us all an insight into Russian art. We also did a tour of several Moscow Metro stations, constructed during the Lenin regime and famous for their propagandistic role in Soviet culture. A day visit took us to the Trinity Monastery of St Sergius outside Moscow. This was founded in 1345 and is one of Russias most important religious centres and places of pilgrimage. It was crowded with pilgrims wearing headscarves and lighting candles and provided a stunning window into Russias religious life. St Petersburg, built by Peter the Great in the 18th Century in classical and rococo style and situated on more than 100 islands, is crisscrossed by more than 60 rivers and canals. The Hermitage Museum is one of the major art museums in the world and as it was the private home of Catherine the Great (her winter palace), the building is as much a work of art as the collection of European and Russian art that it houses. St Petersburg has many churches, but I found the Kazan Cathedral one of the most interesting. It was here in 1905 that the protesters against the policies of the Tsar took refuge as they ed from the Cossacks down the main road of St Petersburg, the Nefsky Prospekt. It is an imposing neoclassical structure. Some other highlights of our stay in St Petersburg were a boat trip along the canals of the city and visits to the Summer Palace and Peterhof, which was inspired by Versailles. We spent an evening watching
some contemporary works by the Kirov Ballet Company. Having seen this Venice of the North, we went on to visit Venice itself. We enjoyed the usual delights of this city of canals, too well known and numerous to list here. What was unusual on this trip was a visit to the Jewish ghetto and an evening concert of classical music in a Renaissance Church. A memorable tour for all concerned.
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A Moscow metro station
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Over the course of the camp, we completed several leadership activities. For each activity, we would assign a different leader. Three things struck me as we rotated leadership, the rst being that each member of a house is a leader in his own way. Even the more introverted boys were able to take command with a quiet sense of self-assurance, without being undermined or disregarded by the rest of the house. The second remarkable aspect was the unselsh way in which every boy pulled his own weight and made a genuine effort for the house and for his friends. The aforementioned might not have been possible had it not been for the third aspect: a true sense of camaraderie within the house and, in fact, within the grade as a whole. When someone stumbled, he was offered a hand. When one of us made a mistake, he received words of encouragement. This generosity of spirit in the midst of adversity is an attribute that must continue to dene the spirit of the College. It is the task of the Matric group of 2011 to make that not merely our goal, but our foundation.
Markus Trengove
LV boys at Sun City
LV GEOGRAPHY CAMP
On our geography camp at Maropeng, we examined several aspects of the Geography curriculum in practical and interesting ways. Not only did this create an environment in which learning became enjoyable, but it also allowed us to view geography in a less theoretical and more real way.
On our rst day, we conducted a town study, which included interviewing locals and tabulating trafc. This was followed by an informative visit to the Hartbeespoort Dam where we were given a talk on environmental issues. The second day was most probably the most enjoyable. It started off with a trip to the Waterfall Mall in Rustenburg, where we conducted a mall study. The study made us more aware of the intricate planning involved in running a mall. This was followed by a trip to Sun City, where we had the opportunity to learn about the tourism industry as well as to relax in the Valley of the Waves. The day was concluded with a lecture by an astronomer, but unfortunately the overcast weather prevented us from stargazing. Our last day started with a fascinating visit to Maropeng, where there is an interactive museum aimed at school children, which covers a wide variety of topical issues. Finally, we visited the Walter
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Sisulu Botanical Gardens, which brought to life the geological theory we have learnt. What made the trip special, however, was sharing the above-mentioned experiences with friends. Play and levity were interspersed with learning, adding life to our learning. The L5 group would like to thank the Geography Department for a well-organized trip and a great learning experience.
Markus Trengove
LV LEADERSHIP CAMP
I left for Leadership Camp, ambivalent about the prospect of team building with twelve boys whom I thought I knew pretty well. However, I was surprised at how much more I learnt about my housemates over a weekend than I had learnt in nearly four years at the College.
It might seem clichd, but I was able to see these boys in a new light. The camp might have been toned down slightly since last year, but it still managed to catapult us out of our comfort zones. Rafting across the dam, trekking through the bush and rockclimbing were only a few of the activities that made us depend on each other, give each other support and, at the end of the day, allowed us to share the success of our efforts.
Team building on the go!
ART
ART
2010 REPORT
ANNUAL INTER-SCHOOLS ART EXHIBITION
Our sixth Annual Art Exhibition 2010 was held at the FADA gallery, UJ, opening on the 14th September. It was again organized by the St Johns Art Department, and expertly curated and hung by Eugene Hon from the UJ Art Department. We hosted an excellent turn-out, with more schools than ever participating, and the highest standard of art displayed so far at this prestigious annual public exhibition.
Last year, our guest speaker, worldrenowned South African artist, William Kentridge, encouraged art teachers to emphasise the importance of perceptual drawing still-life, models, etc, rather than only working from photographs. Many art teachers present at this years exhibition felt that the lift in standards was partly due to this salient advice from South Africas most well-know artist. A wide variety of media, conceptual and perceptual art work was represented. St Johns College was proud to have one of its pupils take home one of the three prizes once again: Sam Kentridge was awarded second place for his two large gridded, collaged self-portraits congratulations to him. We can look forward to the growth and continued success of this exhibition in the future, as it is now rmly established in the schools art calendar. - LC
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CHAPEL NOTES
2010 REPORTS
This year of the Soccer World Cup will be etched in the memory of all South Africans and will be spoken of and looked back upon with pride. For the chaplains of St. Johns, 2010 will be a red-letter year for very different reasons. It will be a year that carries forward its impact - not amboyantly with ags, vuvuzelas and spectacular stadia, but with the certainty of a growing in faith.
At the end of 2009, Fr Mike Arnold retired and in January 2010, we welcomed Fr Jaques Pretorius as he embarked on his ministry as the new chaplain. Not only does Fr Jaques bring a different gifting to the ministry, but a different approach to chaplaincy as well. Instead of having a Senior and a Junior Chaplain, or a Chaplain and Assistant Chaplain, we are now operating with two co-chaplains in a ministry where both can use their gifts and establish their roles in the school; this new venture is proving interesting and challenging, but also fruitful. classroom, during chaplains weekends and camps and through the many cell groups he led, he inspired many boys to make a personal commitment of faith. The legacy of his ministry here will live on in the continuing cell groups, chaplains weekends, conrmation camp programme as well as in the lives of boys in the school and OJs out in the wider world. As he steps out of school life into a wellearned retirement, we hope he will enjoy this opportunity to read and contemplate, to write and to catch up with himself. We shall remember him with gratitude and affection, as we continue to enjoy the fruits of his labours at St Johns. the monastic heritage of the Community of the Resurrection. The current size of the school means that we cannot all t into the Memorial Chapel, and so the Crypt Chapel has its own on-going life in tandem with that of its grander partner upstairs. There may be some wisdom in reecting (in a different forum) on what opportunities are presented to us by this reality, given the prayerful togetherness in a particular space that has been the historical focus of community life at St Johns. The week starts with the Monday morning Chapel Service, led by a combination of chaplains, staff and senior boys; hymn practice on Tuesdays starts with the house on duty reading a passage of scripture and praying; on Wednesdays, the College celebrates Mass; on Thursdays, the College attends Amphitheatre, with its own faith-nurturing component, while the Prep and Sixth Form have their weekly Mass; nally, Fridays also begin with a short Chapel service. The weekend ends, and the new week starts with an informal evening service for the boarders. Once a term, each house has the opportunity to worship, together with its families, at a Solemn Evensong, a Songs of Praise Service, or a Taize Eucharist.
CHALLENGE
The change in staff has provided the opportunity for us to shake things up: to challenge what we do, to interrogate our assumptions and ideas, and at the same time to keep things running smoothly and continue our primary calling: to make Christ known and to be Christ in the world. This has not been easy, but as the year draws to a close we have a sense that things are settling down, that the team is beginning to gel - and therefore fumble less and play the ball with increasing condence.
FR MIKE ARNOLD
While there will be a reection on Mike elsewhere in this publication, from the chaplaincys perspective, his impact has been profound. He is an OJ who has more than 30 years of experience in the classroom, working with teenagers in many different contexts. His departure has been keenly felt. Mike was passionate about giving boys the opportunity to discover Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life. Through his ministry in the chapel and the Divinity
OTHER AREAS
While the chapel programme forms the backbone of the faith life of the school, much of the esh occurs in other areas of school life. The weekly Divinity lessons offer an opportunity to explore and discover the Christian faith in the less solemn context of a classroom. Cell Groups continue to meet, now principally under the
ON-GOING FAITH LIFE

While we have been going through this internal transition, and the whole country has experienced the FIFA Rollercoaster, the regular rhythms of the faith life that ground the school have continued. This rhythm is drawn from the hallowed space of the Memorial Chapel and
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ministry of cell leaders, who are guided by both Chaplains at the weekly cell leaders meeting. A couple of times each term, the cell groups and other Christians meet together at Cell Celebration. There have been two chaplains weekends, where boys can draw aside to grow in faith while having fun and relaxing. During Projects Week, about fty boys went off on Conrmation Camp, during which the teaching done in Divinity lessons was consolidated and personalised. This year, we held two conrmation services: one in June for the boys who were prepared in 2009, and one in September for the boys who were prepared this year. The Cell Leaders organised a gathering of cells and SCAs from various schools around Johannesburg, and about 120 boys and girls met in Big School for fellowship, fun, worship teaching and praying together. This event challenged all the teenagers to be prepared to take a stand, to dare to be different, and to side with Christ in their lives. The gathering, which had been billed as The Stand, was so successful, that a follow-up was immediately put in the pipeline for later in the year - and is beginning take shape as I write.
THANKS
While most of this report has focused on the role and inuence of the chaplains on the faith life of the school, the truth is that we are only two of many people who shape the Christian character of St Johns. We need to recognise and thank the many staff members, parents, visiting clergy and especially boys who allow God to use them and their gifts to nurture and extend His kingdom in this place.
CONCLUSION
The leadership of the school was privileged to go on a retreat led by UK academic, Rev. Simon Walker, during which we were challenged as a school to draw aside and nd a more measured pace at which to live life in the midst of a frenetic and driven world. As the new order slowly settles in the chaplaincy, this question will provide a challenge and a focus for us as we rush headlong into 2011.
WHILE THE CHAPEL PROGRAMME FORMS THE BACKBONE OF THE FAITH LIFE OF THE SCHOOL, MUCH OF THE FLESH OCCURS IN OTHER AREAS OF SCHOOL LIFE. THE WEEKLY DIVINITY LESSONS OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE AND DISCOVER THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE LESS SOLEMN CONTEXT OF A CLASSROOM.
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SUMMER SPORT
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COLOURS AWARDS
BASKETBALL
NEW AWARDS:
SWIMMING
PRESENT AWARDS:
WATERPOLO
PRESENT AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Tebogo Lekubu, Jesse Bulabula, Michael Bailey, Matthew Diepenbroek, Geoffrey Allsop, Mudiwa Hlongwane, George Varughese Colours: Nicholas Christelis, Mohlapong Mokgalong Honours: Jonathan van der Bijl, Eugene Manditsera
Team Blazer: Kendrick Walsh Colours: Wesley Verhoogt, Anthony Szpytko

NEW AWARDS:
Honours: Nicholas Hock

NEW AWARDS:
CRICKET
PRESENT AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Sheldon Valjalo, Gary Hopkins, Mohamed Saley

NEW AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Murray Dryden, Paulo Loureiro, Michael Cloete, Murray Bantock,Travis Bradeld, Kai Brummer Colours: Dylan Feldner-Busztin, Michael Pfeffer Honours: James Verhagen
Team Blazer: Simon Brooks, Andrew Forbes, Wesley Antonites, Julian Cowper, Charles Verwer, Andrew Fisher Full Colours: Anthony Szpytko , Lloyd van der Griendt, Michael Pfeffer, Murray Dryden, Alex du Plessis, Travis Bradeld Honours: Michael Irvine
TENNIS
PRESENT AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Edward Butler, Wesley Coulentianos, Huw Newton-Hill, Jeffrey Long, Jamie McGraw, Ben Marffy Colours: Adam Maserow, Max de la Fargue, Nicholas Surgey, Jason Newton
Team Blazer: Anthony Chang, Kirk Bolland Colours: John Alexander

NEW AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Brett Rodger, Nicholas Hobbs, Simon Kennedy
ROWING
PRESENT AWARDS:
GOLF
PRESENT AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Bryan Blair

NEW AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Daniel Trollip, Dipolelo Moraba, Luigi Volpe Full Colours: Jack Coulter, Paul Malakou, Willie Morgan, Dimitri Protopappas Honours: Bevan Dell, James Nevin
Team Blazer: Schalk Burger, Brendon Levendig, Edward Butler, John Newsome, Anurag Kapur Colours: Graham van den Berg
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2010 REPORT
This season we have had a number of successes in the basketball fraternity. Not only have our teams done well in tournaments, but also in our Rainbow Basketball League (RBL) games. The 1st Team won 12 out of the 14 RBL games - an outstanding achievement. This was in addition to winning the annual St Johns College Invitational U19 Tournament. The U16 age group also did us proud by winning the annual St Johns College Invitational U16 Tournament. They also had an outstanding season in the RBL, where they lost only one game throughout the season.
Basketball continues to grow in popularity at St Johns College. This year, for the rst time, we have elded: four U14 teams, all participating in the RBL League; three U15 teams playing regularly and two U16 teams playing regularly. We elded a 2nd Team as well as a 3rd Team, which was composed of players of diverse abilities, some of whom really just enjoyed playing the game. It has also been pleasing to see more senior players in the 1st and 2nd Teams nurturing and encouraging the younger players. This has helped to create synergy among the teams, which has made it easier for the whole basketball programme to move forward.
1ST TEAM THE EAGLES
Back Row: G Allsop, J Bulabula, S Mokgalong Second Row: G Varughese, M Diepenbroek, M Bailey, M Hlongwane Front Row: N Christelis, E Manditsera(c), Mr E Kamangira, J van der Bijl, T Lekubu. Absent: Mr R Garura (coach)
1ST TEAM THE EAGLES

CAPTAIN:
E Manditsera
TEAM:
N Christellis, J Van der Bijl, S Mokgalong, J Bulabula, G Varughese, M Diepenbroek, G Allsop, M Hlongwane, M Bailey, T Lekubu,
COACH:
Mr R Garura The Eagles had a memorable season in the RBL. They won 14 games and lost 2
in a season lled with exciting basketball. The team played with great enthusiasm and spirit throughout, with some keenly contested games. Their perennial rivals, King Edward and St Benedicts College, found the team uncompromising and had to ght hard for their wins The most outstanding players were the senior quartet of Eugene Manditsera, Jonathan van der Bijl, Nick Christellis and Sam Mokgalong. The fantastic four played their hearts out every game and really gave the boys something to cheer for.
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BASKETBALL CONTINUES TO GROW IN POPULARITY AT ST JOHNS COLLEGE. THIS YEAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE HAVE FIELDED: FOUR U14 TEAMS, ALL PARTICIPATING IN THE RBL LEAGUE; THREE U15 TEAMS PLAYING REGULARLY AND TWO U16 TEAMS PLAYING REGULARLY. WE FIELDED A 2ND TEAM AS WELL AS A 3RD TEAM, WHICH WAS COMPOSED OF PLAYERS OF DIVERSE ABILITIES, SOME OF WHOM REALLY JUST ENJOYED PLAYING THE GAME.
ST JOHNS COLLEGE INVITATIONAL U19 TOURNAMENT

This years tournament was a great success with 12 schools taking part. We hosted teams from: Gauteng - King Edward V11 School, Dominican Convent, St. Stithians College and Pretoria Boys High School; KZN - Maritzburg College, Michaelhouse and Kearsney; Western Cape - Rondebosch Boys High School; Eastern Cape - St Andrews College and Kingswood College; Swaziland - Enjabulweni College. Pretoria Boys High and St Johns College met in a hotly contested nal, in which The Eagles triumphed in the last quarter, winning by three points. This tournament is becoming bigger and better each year and this year, Kearsney College, Maritzburg College and Enjabulweni from Swaziland participated for the rst time.
1st Team Players at the St Peters Festival, Michaelmas Term 2009
SPECIAL MENTION
The most outstanding members of The Eagles team were Eugene Manditsera and Jonathan van der Bijl. Eugene was selected to represent Zimbabwe in the FIBA U18 Zone 6 Qualiers, while Jonathan was selected to play for the Gauteng Province U18 Team. Jonathan was also invited by FIBA to participate in the Basketball Without Borders competition held in Senegal from the 3rd to the 8th August 2010. He was one of 3 students invited from South Africa.
RESULTS PLAYED 32 WON 25 LOST 7
OTHER TOURNAMENTS
During the season, the Eagles participated in the St Peters Festival. We won 4 games and lost to Rosina Sedibeng from Pretoria only in the nal. In the St Andrews College (Grahamstown) Festival held post publication of the 2009 magazine in October 2009, we posted a record of 6 wins and 1 loss. We also participated in the Durban High School International Tournament, winning 3 games and losing 3.
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win many games, this age group has great potential that is yet to be tapped. Some among the group have helped to manage and stir the players in the right direction. Robert Wagner-Wittles did an excellent job as captain of the U15A team. He received the Most Disciplined Player award at Gaudy Day. Sean Bayley has come a long way to dominate in the U15A team. He was awarded the Most Improved Player in the U15A age group.
U14
The U14 teams have shown a great deal of enthusiasm for the game. They comprise keen players whom, I hope, we shall be able to mould into ne young basketball players in the coming years. At this level, our main focus is on mastering the rules and skills, as well as enjoyment of the game. For the rst time in many years, we have had four basketball teams (48 players) in this age group! This is testimony to the growth that is taking place in basketball, both at St Johns College and in the country at large. We look forward to nurturing these boys and to supporting them in their attempts to achieve in basketball at St Johns College.
1st Team Players at the St Peters Festival, Michaelmas Term 2009
U16 A
CAPTAIN:
P Ontong
TEAM:
N Kuehnemann, P Collins, M Dube, M Phakathi, G Olivier, C Soal, D Bradley, B Sithole, A Wutamutau, R Mhlari, T Tengende, J Swartz, S Mseleku,
COACH:
Mr R Garura The team was superb and nearly had an unbeaten season. They lost only one game against King Edward V11 School, unfortunately breaking a 12 game winning streak. The most outstanding player was Niels Kuehnemann, who averaged 12 points a game and had double digits in rebounds. Pele Collins also had a great season, displaying unparalleled tenacity and zeal. The organizational and motivational skills of Paul Ontong were key factors in the success of the team.
North West - the International School of South Africa (ISSA); Eastern Cape - St Andrews College; Zimbabwe - St Georges College. King Edward V11 School and St Johns College met in the nals with St Johns College taking the gold. This win was particularly memorable for the boys as King Edwards had broken their winning streak two weeks earlier. The tournament was a great success with Super Sport carrying interviews and results on their Basketball Magazine show. The tournament was also made special by the participation of St Georges College from Zimbabwe.
INTER-HOUSE
As usual, the Inter-House competition was a hive of activity as the different houses jostled to gain maximum points. It was pleasing to notice that the level of competition among the houses has improved signicantly since last year.
RESULTS 1ST HODGSON 2ND 3RD 4TH 4TH 6TH 7TH 8TH 9TH THOMSON RUNGE FLEMING NASH ALSTON CLAYTON CLARKE HILL
U16B
The U16 Bs also had a good season, winning most of their games. Not many schools could eld an U16 B team and this resulted in their not playing many games. On the whole, this is a very talented group of young men who are excited about the game of basketball.
ST JOHNS COLLEGE INVITATIONAL U16 TOURNAMENT

In this years tournament, we hosted 12 schools including St Johns College. These were from: Gauteng - Pretoria Boys High School, Crawford Sandton, Dominican Convent, King Edward V11 School, the American International School of Johannesburg(AISJ) and Bishop Bavin;
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22 POINTS 21 POINTS 18 POINTS 17 POINTS 17 POINTS 14 POINTS 13 POINTS 12 POINTS 8 POINTS
U15
This year we have managed to maintain three competitive teams in this age group. Sibusiso Matsini coached the U15A while Edward Cobbett looked after both the U15B and U15C teams. Although they did not
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Gaudy Day 2010: 1st team players v SJC coaches
GAUDY DAY
This year, all the basketball players at St Johns College participated on this special day, which started with games for the junior players, culminating in the traditional Old Boys v the 2009-2010 College 1st Team. The following awards were also given in recognition of the players efforts during the season:
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER FIRST TEAM AWARDS RESULTS OJA v OJA v ST JOHNS COLLEGE 1ST 27-21 COACHES/PARENTS 31-41
Most Improved Player: Geoffrey Allsop Players Award: George Varughese Most Valuable Player: Jonathan van der Bijl, Eugene Manditsera Captains Award: Eugene Manditsera
We should like to thank all the parents, Old Johannians, St Johns College students and coaches who made this day special.
U14 A U14 B U15 A U15 B U16 A U16 B 2nd Team
G Arroyo M Scott S Bayley J Chabikuli N Kuehnemann D Bradley L Njubane
MOST DISCIPLINED PLAYER
U14 A U14 B U15 A U15 B U16 A U16 B 2nd Team
J Krynauw S Katrakilis R Wagner-Wittles E Langa M Phakathi K Narotam M Maswanganyi

Gaudy Day 2010: OJ players and SJC coaches v 1st Team players
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FIRST TEAM CRICKET

Back Row: B Dial, E Butler, J Mc Graw Second Row: W Coulentianos, J Long, H Newton-Hill, S Valjalo Front Row: J Newton, M de la Fargue (v captain), A Maserow (captain), B Marffy (scorer), N Surgey
CRICKET
2010 REPORT
1ST X1
CAPTAIN:
A Maserow
TEAM:
J Mc Graw, W Coulentianos, B Dial, H Newton-Hill, M de la Fargue, E Butler, J Newton, J Long, N Surgey, S Valjalo
COACH:
Mr A Norris After a slow start at the end of 2009, the 1st XI produced some good cricket as the season progressed into early 2010, with 22 games played: 8 won, 7 lost and 7 drawn. The team was fortunate to attend the Maritzburg College Pre-season Festival, the Independent Schools Cricket Festival held at St Albans College, as well as the inaugural Standard Bank 20/20 competition, in which it reached the nal, only to lose to a very talented King Edwards 1st XI. The boys were exposed to top cricketing schools such as Grey College, Maritzburg College, King Edwards, Afes and the Kings School from the United Kingdom during the season. Although some hard lessons were learnt along the way, the boys stuck to their task well and performed admirably.
The teams batting strength revolved around a number of players. At a very early age, Bradley Dial has shown tremendous maturity and understanding of the game; his innings of 96* against Maritzburg College was the outstanding innings of the season. Adam Maserow grew as the season progressed and played some valuable knocks for the team; at times he made the game look extremely easy, only to let himself down at critical times; his score of 60 against a talented Kings College proved to be a match- winning innings; he also captained the team very intelligently. The middle order was built around Jason Newton and Wesley Coulentianos, both of whom played some valuable innings at critical times. Huw Newton-Hill, Sheldon Valjalo and Jamie McGraw also provided the middle order with stability. Fielding and general cricket awareness was unfortunately not a strength and lapses of concentration proved to be the teams downfall on a number of occasions. The bowling was spearheaded by Nicholas Surgey, who proved to be the undoing of many opposing opening batsmen. His aggression, pace and consistent length were his strengths
throughout the season. Nicholas has the ability to play at a higher level, but will need to work on his tness and core strength. Jamie McGraw grew in condence during the season and his control and guile placed severe pressure on opposing batsmen. These two were well-supported by Huw Newton-Hill, Jason Newton and Sheldon Valjalo whose 6 wickets (including a hat-trick) vs Randburg in the Semi-nal of the Standard Bank 20/20 proved to be the bowling spell of the season. Max de la Fargue was, without doubt, the rock of the team; he kept wicket soundly and efciently and was always willing to put his body on the line for the team; as vice captain, he proved to be a sterling support for Adam Maserow. The team was fortunate to have an efcient scorer in Ben Marffy, who has been committed to the 1st X1 for three seasons and who deserves great thanks for his loyalty. Thanks go to Mr Alan Duncan and his grounds staff for the preparation the elds, as well as the parents for their continued support.
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RESULTS MICHAELMAS TERM 2009
v ST BENEDICTS v WESTVILLE
PRIVATE SCHOOLS FESTIVAL

v ST CHARLES
St Johns 165 all out M Saley 41* St Benedicts 105 all out H Newton-Hill 4 for 9 St Johns won by 60 runs
St Johns 232 all out W Coulentianos 30; J Newton 69; N Surgey 41 Westville 186 all out N Surgey 4 for 28; B Dial 1 for 14 St Johns won by 46 runs
v ST GEORGES
St Charles 240 for 8 A Maserow 4 for 74 St Johns 122 for 8 Match Drawn
v ST ANDREWS
v JEPPE
Jeppe 331 for 5 St Johns 266 for 8 H Newton-Hill 79*; G Hopkins 51 St Johns lost by 65 runs
St Johns 261 for 7 B Dial 102; W Coulentianos 52; A Maserow 55 St Georges 128 for 3 Rain stopped play -match drawn
v ST DAVIDS
St Johns 213 for 9 W Coulentianos 79 St Andrews 214 for 5 St Johns lost by 5 wkts
v PRETORIA BOYS
STANDARD BANK 20/20

ROUND 1 v TRINITY HOUSE
Pretoria Boys 254 all out S Valjalo 3 for 51 St Johns 214 all out B Dial 54* St Johns lost by 40 runs
St Johns 213 for 7 W Coulentianos 76; J Newton 69 St Davids 108 for 4 Match Drawn
v PARKTOWN BOYS v AFFIES
Afes 204 all out H Newton-Hill 5 for 43 St Johns 156 all out B Dial 57 St Johns lost by 48 runs
Parktown 204 all out J Mc Graw 4 for 28 St Johns 136 for 6 B Dial 64 Match Drawn
St Johns 126 for 6 J Newton 52 Trinity House 75 for 5 N Surgey 1 for 4 St Johns won 51 runs
ROUND 2 v KRUGERSDORP
v RANDBURG v ST STITHIANS
St Johns 248 all out A Maserow 60; B Dial 50 St Stithians 214 all out S Valjalo 3 for 34; E Butler 3 for 36 St Johns won by 34 runs
Randburg 214 all out B Dial 3 for 33; A Maserow 3 for 38 St Johns 185 for 9 W Coulentianos 46; J Mc Graw 59* Match Drawn
St Johns 170 for 4 A Maserow 53;J Newton 53; W Coulentianos 34. Krugersdorp 85 for 5 J Newton 2 for 11 St Johns won by 85 runs
QUARTER-FINAL v RANDBURG
v GREY COLLEGE
EASTER TERM 2010

v GLENWOOD
St Johns 226 for 7 B Dial 51, W Coulentianos 61; J Mc Graw 34* Glenwood 82 for 1 Rain stopped play Match Drawn
v MARITZBURG COLLEGE
St Johns 160 for 6 B Dial 34; J Newton 53* Grey 161 for 2 St Johns lost by 8 wkts
St Johns 161 for 4 B Dial 49; A Maserow 45. Randburg 61 all out S Valjalo 6 for 13 St Johns won by 100 runs
SEMI FINAL v JEPPE
v ST ALBANS
St Albans 193 all out J Mc Graw 6 for 60 St Johns 102 for 4 A Maserow 51* Match Drawn
St Johns 137 for 8 W Coulentianos 38 Jeppe 113 all out B Dial 3 for 27 St Johns won by 24 runs
FINAL v KING EDWARDS
Maritzburg College 178 for 8 N Surgey 3 for 17; A Maserow 3 for 40 St Johns 172 for 9 B Dial 95* St Johns lost by 6 runs
v KINGS SCHOOL (TOUR MATCH)
Kings 161 for 9 J Newton 4 for 17 St Johns 162 for 3 A Maserow 67; W Coulentianos 34 St Johns won by 7 wkts
St Johns 102 all out A Maserow 33 King Edwards 105 for 1 St Johns lost by 9 wkts
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UK TOUR TEAM
Back Row: Mr S Wilson, M Barker, J Surgey, B Stocks, J Newsome, Mr A Norris Middle Row: E Butler, J Newton, J Long, J McGraw, S Valjalo, Mr L Mantata Front Row: M Strydom, S Trisk, B Dial, W Coulentianos, J Pretorius
CRICKET TOUR TO ENGLAND: JUNE - JULY 2010

TOUR CAPTAIN:
J. Long
TOURING TEAM:
J McGraw, B Dial, J Newton, J Newsome, M Strydom, J Pretorius, S Trisk, B Stocks, E Butler, J Surgey, S Valjalo, W Coulentianos, L Rensburg (injured), M Barker
TOUR COACHES:
Mr A Norris, Mr S Wilson, Mr L Manthata The planning of this cricket tour began more than a year and a half ahead of departure and at that time, it seemed a distant dream. So when the long-awaited moment nally arrived and we ew from a cold and wintery South Africa to the warm and surprisingly dry summer of England, you could feel the excitement and see the anticipation on every team members face. We arrived at Heathrow at 6:30 a.m. and, almost immediately, we felt like an international touring side, as we were welcomed and transported by a luxury touring bus, which was to take us on our exciting journey across the UK. Our rst day was spent becoming acquainted with our new surroundings. We left Heathrow and headed south on our way down to Canford School where our rst match was scheduled. We spent the rst night in Bath: a very old and beautiful city, steeped in tradition, with the main
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attraction being the Roman baths - and the Calvin Klein clothing outlet, for some! The next morning, we continued on our journey down to Canford - and the excitement and nervousness began to grow with every mile travelled. Upon arrival at Canford School, we again felt like celebrities when we saw large, colourful posters advertising our game against our hosts. They had gone out of their way to make sure that our rst game was one to remember, with music, braais (sorry, barbecues!) and a small but very enthusiastic crowd in attendance. We were determined to impress in our blue 20/20 kit and we did ourselves proud in the rst game of our tour, winning the 20/20 by 6 wickets, thanks to key performances from Jason Newton (3 for 20; 34 not out), Jeff Long (3 for 20) and Bradley Dial (32). That night we were kindly hosted by the families of the Canford team in the nearby country village. We exchanged many stories of our different countries and customs, nding that all boys who play and love cricket are exactly the same. Our second game against Canford School was in traditional whites for the 50 over format. The outcome, however, was the same: a very hard-fought game which resulted in a well-earned win for the boys from South Africa. St Johns bowled Canford out for 193. Key performances came from Sheldon Valjalo (3 for 22) and Bradley Dial (62), ensuring that St Johns won by
A visit to the Rugby Shop
The Roman baths in Bath
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Canford School
4 wickets. That night at our hosts, the conversation was more about the last two days of hard-fought cricket - but we did nd time to watch Ghana progress past the USA in World Cup Soccer, which gave us a little taste of home. From Canford, we travelled into the city to face Kings College, Taunton, a school which is now home to a few ex-South Africans, who played against us in our third tour game. This game was not as satisfying as the rst two as, unfortunately, we lost by 49 runs, despite a valiant effort from the team as a whole and a sterling effort from Sheldon Valjalo, who scored 78 runs. The mood, however, was still upbeat as we left for Milleld School, which we anticipated would be our toughest opposition on the tour. Milleld, too, had the benet of a South African inuence in the form of their coach, Ryan Cook (who had coached the King Edwards 1st Team) and a certain Mr Hawksworth (who used to teach biology at St Johns). The Millleld side was full of condence as they had just walked away with the title of National 20/20 Champions. This did not intimidate us, but rather lled us with a determination to topple them from the throne. This determination was not, however, sufcient and we lost the game to a well-drilled and highly organized Milleld team, who hit the winning runs in the third-last over to win by 5 wickets a well-deserved victory.
Felsted School
The SJC team was still in extremely high spirits, however, and even more determined to turn things around in our fth game against Bradeld. St Johns scored an impressive 216 and won a closely contested game by 8 runs. Star batting performances came from Bradley Dial (50) and Jason Newton (52). Our tour then took us to London, to play against Whitgift School who once again had the hidden advantage of another South African inuence in the form of Greg Gandy, a St Johns old boy. The schools facilities are superb and their 1st Team pitch is the ground used for many county
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games and is also the Surrey home ground. Whitgift boasted three county players in their side and was recognized as being extremely competitive. However, with Jason Newton scoring 100 runs (the only century of the tour) and Martyn Strydom taking 3 for 25, St Johns recorded a memorable 50-run victory. In our next game, the Dulwich College team proved to be valiant cricketing opponents. Dulwich College had arranged to play this game on their Founders Day, adding a momentous atmosphere for what would turn out to be our third (and nal) loss of the tour. St Johns were 190 all out, leaving Dulwich to win by seven wickets. That evening we were treated to a spectacular reworks display, similar to our On the Night celebrations, rounding off their Founders Day celebrations. After six days of hard cricketing, we had a welcome days rest which we spent enjoying the sights of the city of Cambridge. The nal leg of our tour took us to Felsted School in Essex where we participated in their annual Felsted Cricket Festival. Participating teams were Merchant Taylors from Liverpool, the Tommy Hammond Academy Side (from South Africa) and Felsted School. On the rst day, we played against Merchant Taylors, scoring 240 runs, thanks to signicant rearguard action from Jamie McGraw (85) and John Newsome (82). St Johns won the game by 120 runs. The second game of the festival saw us playing against fellow South Africans from
various schools in the Tommy Hammond Academy side. Fortunately, St Johns proved victorious, winning the game by 8 wickets, thanks to Jamie McGraw (3 for 23) and Wesley Coulentianos (66*). The nal game of our tour, which was also dubbed The Final of the festival as both teams were unbeaten at this point, was against the hosts, Felsted, who boasted an unbeaten season. This ensured a ery, closely contested encounter, culminating in victory for St Johns by 36 runs. Our success was largely attributed to Martyn Strydom (5 for 23) - and also to the benets of devouring chocolate croissants! A bonus was the support of three St Johns old boys two of whom also played rst team cricket: Devin Conway, Brendan Pryke and Brett Frans. The nal three days of the tour were spent exploring London, staying at the St
Giles Hotel, and immersing ourselves in the British sporting and cultural heritage. We toured Stanford Bridge Football Stadium (home to Chelsea FC), Lords Cricket Stadium (the home of English cricket), and Twickenham (the home of English rugby). We also saw a production of Grease and shopped for souvenirs, meeting and making many new friends along the way. This tour was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for every boy lucky enough to participate. It was a great showcase of schoolboy cricket and our St Johns players did themselves, their school and their country proud. The tour was made possible only by the efforts of Mr Norris, Mr Manthata and Mr Wilson and our incredibly supportive parents and sponsors. Our thanks cannot be measured.
Jeffrey Long, Tour Captain
Umpires in their garb
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BEING A PART OF THIS TEAM WAS A PRIVILEGE AND ALTHOUGH THE SEASON DID NOT PLAY OUT THE WAY WE HAD HOPED, LONG-LASTING FRIENDSHIPS WERE ESTABLISHED.
2ND XI
CAPTAIN:
E Vincent
TEAM:
and dedication. Being a part of this team was a privilege and although the season did not play out the way we had hoped, longlasting friendships were established. I wish the team all the best of luck for next year.
RESULTS PLAYED 12 WON 7 LOST 5 DREW 0
Jared Kruger: 67 PBHS: 90 for 5 Rain stopped play

ST JOHNS v JEPPE:
B Forsyth, M Docrat, Z Patel, M Bekker, M Saley, G Hopkins, R Khumbane, S Burger, S Trisk, J Wolfe-Coote, J Austin, J Newsome, D Gordon, K Ramabulana
COACH:
St Johns: 125 for 9 in 24,5 overs Richard Goodlace: 75 Jeppe: 126 for 6 in 22,4 overs Sahil Jamnadas: 2-16 St Johns lost by 4 wickets St Johns: 97 for 3 Jared Kruger: 31 not out Waterstone: 80 for 1 in 17 overs Bad light stopped play St Johns: 180 for 6 in 25 overs J Kruger: 68 R Goodlace: 58 Afes: 106 all out in 22 overs J Austin: 2-14 St Johns won by 74 runs St Johns: 110 All Out R Goodlace: 28 KES : 111 for 2 in 15 overs St Johns: lost by 8 wickets St Johns : 181 for 6 in 25 overs S Reddy: 41 J Kruger: 47 Elandspark: 63 all out in 9 overs M Trindade: 2-16 St Johns won by 112 runs
Mr S Wilson This years team consisted of an extremely talented group of players and was potentially a very strong 2nd XI - on paper! The team was, however, unable to put together many consistent performances owing to injuries and, on occasions, a lack of concentration. The season started and ended extremely well, with a magnicent 5 wicket win over St Stithians in the rst game and a comprehensive win over St Albans in the last game. The win over St Albans was the culmination of hard work and determination from the entire team. Sensational cricket was played the entire day and with rain looming, we secured our nal victory of the season. This was a great way to end the season, especially for the Matrics in their last game for the College. Commendations must go to: James Wolfe-Coote, Zain Patel, Simon Trisk and Schalk Burger for their run- scoring abilities; and Zain Patel, Muhammed Saley, Gary Hopkins, Benn Forsyth and Matthew Bekker for their achievements with the ball. Lastly, I should like to thank each member of the team for all his hard work
3RD X1
CAPTAIN:
ST JOHNS v WATERSTONE COLLEGE:
R Engelbrecht/J Kruger
TEAM:
R Goodlace, B da Silva, A Patel, S Reddy, J Austin, K Bolland, E Brownhill, D Coundourakis, M Trindade, S Jamnadas, D Gordon
COACH:
ST JOHNS v AFFIES:
Mr M Padayachy The team started off the season with a very good showing in the Johnny Waite Knock-Out Competition, in which we progressed signicantly into the tournament. Leading run-scorers throughout the season were: Jared Kruger, Richard Goodlace and Sharlin Reddy, and the pick of the bowlers were: Michael Trindade, Kirk Bolland, Arpan Patel and Sahil Jamnadas. With this said, every member contributed to the teams success. The players worked very well together and were a pleasure to coach.
RESULTS ST JOHNS v PRETORIA BOYS HIGH:
ST JOHNS v KES:
ST JOHNS v ELANDSPARK:
ST JOHNS v RANDBURG HOER:
St Johns: 145 for 7 in 25 overs
Randburg Hoer: 82 all out in 21 overs M Trindade: 1-13

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A Patel: 2-23 St Johns: 86 for 4 in 17 overs E Brownhill: 28 not out St Johns won by 6 wickets Won by 59 runs. R Claven: 35; I Laher: 41 S Reddy: 3 for 1; S Venkatakrishnan: 4 for 13
v PARKTOWN:
U/16A
CAPTAIN:
B Stocks
TEAM:
ST JOHNS v ST STITHIANS:
St Stithians: 154 for 5 in 25 overs St Johns: 98 all out in 24 overs St Johns lost by 56 runs
ST JOHNS v ST ALBANS:
St Johns: 106 for 5 in 18 overs J Austin: 52 St Albans: 96 all out in 15 overs J Austin: 3-12 St Johns: won 10 runs
Lost by 5 Wickets. N Hale: 29* v St Albans: Won by 32 runs. N Hale 49*; N. Morgan 2 for 17
J Pretorius, NJ Maree , J Alberts, K Robertson, L Langschmidt, N Tennick, L Chinnay, M Kaskar, M Conway, J Surgey.
COACH:
Mr M Heunes The U/16 A Side of 2010 have produced some magnicent cricket in this short season. Led by a very good captain, they progressed through the season unbeaten. The rst game against St Davids ended in a draw because of rain. St Johns batted rst and scored 146/10. St Davids scored 80/3 when the match was abandoned - a lucky escape for the team! The season continued with a lowscoring, home game against King Edwards. St Johns bowled rst and managed to send all the King Edward batsmen to the pavilion for a mere 109 runs. Bradley Stocks took 3/33 in 10 overs, Jaques Alberts took 3/28 in 9 overs and Kyle Robertson took 2/10 in 4 overs. Then came our turn to bat; the King Edward Boys put our batsmen under severe pressure with some hostile bowling, but we managed to score 110/6 and win by four wickets. St Johns proved to be too strong for the Randburg Youth League team. Randburg were skittled out for 153 runs and with a good team performance, St Johns scored the runs with 5 wickets in hand . The last xture was played at St Albans in Pretoria . This was a truly great day of cricket. Batting rst, St Johns managed to score 214/9. Bradley Stocks top-scored with 45 and Murray Conway batted brilliantly for his 43. Being a declaration game, St Albans took their time, scored 118/5 and forced a draw. Thank you to all the boys for their commitment and special thanks to Mr Jamie Pretorius and all the parents for their support. I wish these ne young cricketers all the best for their future cricket careers.
RESULTS PLAYED WON 2 LOST 0 DREW 2
4TH X1
CAPTAIN:
5TH X1
CAPTAIN:
N Gordon
TEAM:
R Dalton
TEAM:
N Morgan, N Hale, L Frewen, T Louw, B Marffy, R Claven, S Hussain, S Venkatakrishnan, J Ireland, S Reddy, TK Moraba, E Laher
COACH:
B Marffy, L Buisson-Street, D Ramokgopa, D Jacobs, S de Lacey, J Vasani, T-K Mokaba, G Rowan, A Petersen, A Mayakiso
COACH:
Mr D Bradley There were six games scheduled for the Easter term of 2010 but owing to a season of heavy rains, we managed to play only four of them. Nick Gordon captained the side and as a team, we certainly played with commitment and produced some good results. Top bowlers in the team were Shannon Reddy and Shyam Venkatakrishnan. At times, we elded brilliantly taking some outstanding catches, but unfortunately, on occasions, we let ourselves down with the bat. Shannon Reddy and Ibrahim Laher posted good scores agains the Soweto U19 side , but against both Parktown Boys and St Albans, we relied upon Nick Hale to act as anchor man and see us through the innings. We wish our Matrics well as they leave the team to focus on their studies and look forward to welcoming some new players to take their places in the Michaelmas term.
RESULTS: v KES :
Mr K Arlow I am happy to report once again that the boys in the 5th Cricket X1 at St Johns were enthusiastic about the game and turned out faithfully for practices and matches. They interacted well as a team and really seemed to be playing for all the right reasons. Also, as more boys this year took cricket in order to full the Leadership Programmes sporting requirements, dedication meant that the standard of play improved. And, with competition for places hotting up, the boys worked harder on their skills. As far as the results were concerned, Easter Term 2010 turned out to be a bit of a disaster, as many of the matches were cancelled because of inclement weather. However, we managed three games, unfortunately losing all of them. I thoroughly enjoyed coaching this team during the season and look forward to further adventures on the cricket eld at St Johns. - KA
Lost by 111 runs. v Soweto U 19:
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U16B X1
CAPTAIN:
D Fisher
TEAM:
J Schwartz, J de la Fargue, J McCulloch, M Osman, A Daya, M Twigg, C Grant, S Lalloo, S Kalyan, S Reddy, N Ambler-Smith
COACH:
Mr R Clarke After an excellent season at U15 level, this U16 team got off to a slow start. It was brimful with talent, but some complacency and loss of focus in matches cost us games against St Davids and King Edward VII. To compensate, there were some exciting and well-deserved victories against Parktown, Alberton Schools and Lenasia. A tense and controversial limited overs tie against St Albans was a tting end to the season. The team bowled well through the season, with Sharlin Reddy and Marcus Twiggs pace being matched by Shaneel Kalyans accuracy. But it was Sameer Lalloos leg spin that deserves special mention, with two 5-wicket hauls crowning an excellent season with the ball. If our batting had matched our bowling, we could have ended the season unbeaten.- RC
very last ball. I should like to commend the players for their camaraderie, morale and passion for the game. The U 15 A side enjoyed some brilliant performances both individually and as a team. Against St Davids, Matthew Barker and Michael du Toit gave sterling batting performances. The team enjoyed a comprehensive team victory against Randburg Hor, where St Johns scored 142 and bowled out the opposition for 48. Cameron Cunningham-Scott, Jonathan Thurling and Andrew Williamson provided a stable top order. The team enjoyed a strong middle order in the form of Kyle Lion-Cachet, Michael du Toit, Gianluca Agostinetto, and Matthew Barker. Along with our bowling, the middle order proved to be one of our strengths. The bowling attack was led by Dean Maxton, Reegan Jewell and Jonathan Thurling, three talented fast bowlers. They were followed by the spin of Lizo Rensburg, Jason Vermaak and Cameron Cunningham-Scott, who rescued the situation on numerous occasions. Although the team did not perform to its full potential, I believe it has a strong and exciting prospect for the future. Thanks are extended to Mr D Selepe for all the long, hard hours he dedicated to coaching us.- GA
team and I commend him on a job well done. Our batting was the one area where we failed to match our earlier form and we found ourselves having to defend small totals on several occasions. Our bowling and elding, however, were of a very high standard and we were able to put even the best batting line-ups under considerable pressure. An outstanding feature of our attack was the good pace of our opening bowlers, Marcus Twigg and Shannon Reddy. We were also blessed with some good spinners in Sameer Lalloo and Jonty Schwartz. Perhaps the highlight of the season was the day-night match against St Stithians. After winning an important toss, we posted a challenging total; good bowling then ensured an exciting victory under the lights. We were most grateful for this opportunity and would like to thank St Stithians for arranging the xture. I thoroughly enjoyed coaching this spirited group of players and I look forward to watching their progress in the years to come.
U15B X1
EASTER TERM 2010 CAPTAINS:
U15A XI
CAPTAIN:
U15B X1
MICHAELMAS TERM 2009 CAPTAIN:
N Ncala, J Sanders
TEAM:
G Agostinetto
TEAM:
D Fiser
TEAM:
M Barker, J Berry, C Cunningham-Scott, M Du Toit, R Jewell, K Lion-Cachet, D Maxton, L Rensburg, J Sanders, J Thurling, J Vermaak , A Williamson
COACH:
M Antonites, J Berry, J-A Deenik, M Dzanibe, E Engelbrecht, R Hopkins, M Lane, B Rabie, M Tregoning, T van der Bijl, R Warinda
COACH:
N Ambler-Smith, J de la Fargue, S Kalyan, M Kaskar, S Lalloo, J McCulloch, R Mortimer, S Reddy, J Schwartz, M Twigg, M Vermaak
COACH:
Mr R Venter The Easter term ended up being quite a disrupted term as several matches were curtailed or cancelled owing to rain, but the U15B was, nevertheless, able to complete four matches. This was a well-balanced team with a strong batting line-up and a varied bowling attack. When things clicked we were able to record convincing victories but, unfortunately, on a few occasions, poor concentration resulted in defeats
Mr D Selepe The U 15A cricket team enjoyed a wonderful season during which competitive cricket was played against strong opposition. The team showed its expertise, losing just 2 out of 10 games. Throughout the season, the players showed diligence and motivation. The desire to win made them ght until the
Mr R Venter The success that the team enjoyed in the Easter Term was always going to be difcult to emulate as several key players had been promoted to the A team. Nevertheless the players gave a good account of themselves this term, winning a good percentage of the matches played. Daniel Fiser was the new captain of the
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against teams that we should have beaten. Despite these defeats, the team played with determination and spirit at all times and in a manner consistent with the traditions of the game. I believe strongly that there are several future 1st XI players in this team and I look forward to continued involvement with these boys in the Michaelmas term. I thank the team for a most enjoyable terms cricket. I would also like to thank the parents for their enthusiastic and objective support.-RV
RESULTS
PLAYED WON LOST DREW NO RESULTS
I congratulate the boys on an excellent season and encourage them to keep up the good work next term. - RL
U15D XI
CAPTAIN:
D Harryprasadh
TEAM:
B Jones, N Viviers, A Jennings, L van Rensburg, A du Plessis, G Bowie, T Devchand, M Lillie, C Murphy, J Brown, H Hattingh
COACH:
U15C X1
CAPTAIN:
Mr G Bossert It is unfortunate that the D team played only four xtures in the rst term, because of rain or ooded elds, which resulted in matches being cancelled. Consequently, the team did not really get the opportunity to show its skills; nevertheless, the team showed good spirit and commitment and was fairly rich in talent. The boys enjoyed coming to practice and were always keen to learn and improve on the areas in which they were weak. We never had a problem selecting this D team as there were always players very keen to play. The team was unique, as every member could bat and bowl well and it was always difcult to decide who would open. I should like to thank the team for their commitment and the highly enjoyable season. I can see great things for this team in the future. - GB
J Hooper
TEAM:
O Vincent, C Dry, C Bellew, C Hale, S Slabbert, G Volkerz, S Mark, B Jones, M Lane, F Gmeiner, F Elliott
COACH:
Mr R Long Despite a wet and disrupted start to the season, the boys settled down and played some very good cricket. This is a talented team whose members enjoy playing together. During the term, each player focused on improving his individual game, with each boy setting personal goals. The batsmen worked on getting in line better and the bowlers focused on keeping their eyes level and heads still at the point of delivery. It was very pleasing to see how the boys improved during the season and it was even more pleasing to see them enjoying their cricket. This combination saw them unbeaten during the term. Bryden Jones and Stephen Slabbert bowled consistently well up front, while Matthew Lane was the pick of the batsmen, hence his promotion to the B Team during the season. Chris Bellew bowled and batted well, and Chris Hale bowled well and showed potential at number 3. A good wicketkeeper was found in Cameron Dry. Justin Hooper proved to be a powerful hitter in the middle order. Our elding left much to be desired, but fortunately did not lead to disaster.
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U14 A
CAPTAIN:
It has been a very successful season for the youngest cricketers at the College. A tting start to the season was an amazing victory over a powerful combined Alberton Schools team with Martyn scoring his rst century for the school. This was a particularly good innings, as we were chasing, having lost ve wickets early on. This victory was followed by a series of good wins against traditional rivals. We did not play our best cricket against Grey College, but Oliver Gnoddes 68 not out made the difference between our winning and losing that very important game. Oliver proved to be a very gifted no 4 batter with the highest score of 170 against Parktown High school for Boys. Ndumiso Mvelase played a major role as a strike bowler in the team. He completed the term with 3 ve wicket hauls. Walter Pfaff provided variation with his leg spin bowling. Both Ndumiso and Walter have produced some delightful innings in the top and the middle of the order. They are very talented all-round cricketers, with great mastery in spin bowling. The most consistent batsman in the team was undeniably the skipper, Martyn Strydom, who accumulated a total of 400 runs. This young man must be congratulated for leading the team with great distinction and maturity. This is a well-balanced side and I have no doubt that there are great things ahead for them on the cricket eld. There were some superb individual performances, and a combination of good performances with both the bat and the ball resulted in some ne cricket being played. We are probably missing an opening batman to partner Duncan Stead at the top, but I am certain someone will put up his hand in the second team. The real challenge comes in the last term when we go down to Hilton College. I should like to express my sincere thanks to Mr Norris and the sports department for their support.- LM
M Strydom
TEAM:
O Gnodde, M Hamish, K Nair, C Hartman, R Fuller, D Stead, N Mvelase, W Pfaff, K Makhalimele, T Fabio
COACH:
Mr L Manthata
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U14B XI
CAPTAIN:
P Venkatakrishnan
TEAM:
S Greeff, G Harvett, N Cowen, N Nagar, E Smit, R Sullivan, Z Bhayat, T May T Clarke, K Pather, A Fletcher
COACH:
Mr A Lion-Cachet The U/14 B team was a pleasure to coach. Unfortunately, only a couple of matches were played because of exceptionally heavy rains. The results were quite inconsistent and indicate that more dedication and commitment are required for the Michaelmas term. A poor performance against King Edward VII School forced the team onto the back foot in our rst match. The boys bounced back, however, in the very next game and we beat Parktown with a solid team performance. The third match against the Development Team was lost, but SJC once again showed character and determination and forced a draw against St Albans in the last match of the Easter term. - A L-C
season; run rates were very low and our bowlers, though competitive, could never sufciently contain the opposing teams batsmen. The highlight of the season was the good victory over Parktown Boys, where our boys dominated in all three facets of the game: bowling, elding and batting. Throughout the season, the boys team spirit never wavered. Several members of the original team were promoted to the C team on merit, which was always a motivating factor for the others to try harder. I look forward to the commencement of the season in Michaelmas term, knowing that the boys will continue to display the enthusiasm and love for the game with which they started the year. - MH
U14D XI
CAPTAIN:
THERE WERE SOME SUPERB INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES, AND A COMBINATION OF GOOD PERFORMANCES WITH BOTH THE BAT AND THE BALL RESULTED IN SOME FINE CRICKET BEING PLAYED.
M Behrens
TEAM:
S Minty, U Farooq, K Futter, A Diayar, K Pillay, J Burnett, R Batzon, J OConnor, W Kohler, C Leesam, L Feldner-Busztin, H Prag
COACHES:
Mr M Huysamer, Mr J Kuiper, Mr W Davies The 2009/2010 season commenced in very inclement weather, forcing the abandonment of several practice sessions and a few scheduled xtures. Our opening match was against King Edward VII where the team did well not to be dismissed - but in preserving their wickets, played far too cautiously. As a result they posted a very uncompetitive total which the opposition soon overhauled for the loss of only a few wickets. Unfortunately this proved to be the weakness of the team throughout the
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SENIOR WINNERS:
Carl Coetzee, Dylan Feldner-Busztin, Ferdi le Grange, Willie Morgan, Dipolelo Moraba
CROSS COUNTRY
INTER-HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
JUNIORS (FIRST EIGHT POSITIONS)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gareth Harvett, 20:35 Nash Kyle Lion-Cachet, 20:55 Fleming Justin Boyce, 21:30 Nash Christopher Huntley, 21:37 Hodgson Blake Skirving, 22:03 Nash Alastair Fletcher, 22:18 Clayton Kiyan Kurji, 22:32 Thomson Rowan Batzon, 22:32 Clayton
SENIOR RESULTS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hodgson Nash Hill Fleming Alston Clarke Clayton Thomson
OVERALL RESULTS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hodgson Nash Hill Fleming Alston Clayton Clarke Thomson
SENIORS (FIRST TEN POSITIONS)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Carl Coetzee, 16:37 Runge Dylan Feldner-Busztin, 17:15 Hill Ferdi le Grange, 17:26 Thomson Gregory Harrup, 18:23 Hill Willie Morgan, 18:58 Hodgson Dipolelo Moraba,19:08 Nash Bevan Dell, 19:25 Clarke Jody Swartz, 19:37 Nash Kyle Robertson, 19:49 Hodgson Lebogang Mokgosi, 20:01 Hodgson
- BT
JUNIOR RESULTS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hodgson Nash Hill Fleming Clayton Clarke Alston Thomson
JUNIOR WINNERS:
Gareth Harvett, Kyle Lion-Cachet
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GOLF
2010 REPORT
St Johns has had a busy season, playing a large number of xtures, as well as going on tour to Port Elizabeth to play in the North v South Invitational.
SCHEDULED FIXTURES
The C side struggled as it was made up only of LIV and Remove boys, who showed an interest in the sport but did not always have the skill required to win. The side also lacked consistency as boys were often away on other sporting tours when they were also needed on the fairway. They never gave up, however, and were always ready and able for the next xture.
C TEAM FIXTURE
Summit College Helpmekaar Dainfern St Davids A Bye St Stithians B St Benedicts A L L L L 0 0
Brendon Levendig chipping his way out of a bunker
RESULTS
Rained out L L L
SCORE
Rained out L L L
POINTS
1.5 0 0 0
THEY NEVER GAVE UP, AND WERE ALWAYS READY AND ABLE FOR THE NEXT FIXTURE.
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The season was rounded off with the tour to PE, where we participated in the North v South Invitational, and earned 3rd place.
THE RESULTS WERE AS FOLLOWS: DAY 1: INDIVIDUAL BEST 6 OUT OF 8 SCORES:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Nico Malan 173 points Grey 1st team 161 points St. Johns 148 points Grey 2nd team 139 points St. Stithians 136 points
DAY 2: BETTER BALL ALL 4 SCORES TO COUNT:

GOLF FIRST TEAM
Back Row: J Newsome, E Butler. Front Row: B Levendig, (Captain) Mr B Cotterell, G van den Berg
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Grey 1st team 138 points St. Johns 124 points St. Stithians 120 points Nico Malan 112 points Grey 2nd team 103 points Grey 1st team 299 Nico Malan 285 St. Johns 272 St. Stithians 256 Grey 2nd team 242
OVERALL STANDINGS AFTER DAY 2:
The B side managed to draw two of its xtures but it too was forever changing owing to other sporting commitments. These young golfers showed enormous courage and skill, and I look forward to seeing them mature.
B TEAM FIXTURE
St Benedicts B Redhill CBC King David A KES A Central Gauteng Invitational Team
RESULTS
L D L L L D
SCORE
0.5 2.5 1.5 1.5 0.5 2.5 03 03 1.5 1.5
POINTS
0.5 1.5 0.5 0 0 1.5
DAY 3: BETTER BALL ALL 4 SCORES TO COUNT:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Grey 1st team 139 points St. Stithians 139 points St. Johns 135 points Grey 2nd team 127 points Nico Malan 125 points Grey 1st team 438 points Nico Malan 410 points St. Johns 407 points St. Stithians 395 Grey 2nd team 369 points
FINAL RESULTS:
The A side played well, but lost to St Dunstans at Ebotse. This was one of the most exciting xtures of the season, as all 3 games were won or lost on the last hole. Unfortunately, we lost to a brilliant birdie chip in.
A TEAM FIXTURE
Beaulieu King David B Woodlands Parktown St Dunstans
RESULTS
Rained out W W W L
SCORE
1.5 1.5 2-1 3 to 0 2-1 1-2
POINTS
1.5 3 4 3 1
The boys played admirably on all 3 days, but were unfortunately let down by an overall poor individual performance. They really enjoyed the tournament, however, and we look forward to improving our performance next year. - BC
The boys also had the privilege of being invited to stay and play at Leopard Creek. We managed to convince Ian Hutchings to accompany us and coach the boys as they practised and played. It was a superb weekend, during which the boys gained some wonderful experience.
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ROWING
2010 REPORT
CAPTAIN: COACHES:
D Protopappas
VICE CAPTAIN:
J Coulter
BOATMAN:
Mr Gt Dodds, Mr A Fowler, Mr S Mattushek, Mr A Page, Mr N Sokolsky,Mr M Taylor,Miss J Verheul, Mr B Watson.
J Nevin
OPENS:
B Dell, J Coates, P Malakou, D Moraba, W Morgan, B Myers, A Nocton-Smith, P Raney, B Streeter, R Stuart-Thompson, J Tattersall, D Trollip, G Verheul, L Volpe,
U16:
J Beard, J Davey, C Fisher, C Foster, N Greef, M Holliday, J Lloyd, B McNeice, L Nel, J Odgers, D Theofanidis, J Verheul, M Wolfe.
U15:
Carter, M De Barros, V Foccart, S Harley, C Johnstone, E Kerr-Phillips, D Kronenberg, T Maphasa, S Mkhize, A Morgan, M Neto, M Papas, J Robinson, A Scott, E Williamson, S Wynne.
U14:
T Beard, D Chen, M Davies, C du Plessis, B Francis, R Fyall, M Holl, T Hornsby, S Hunt, E Kerr-Phillips, R Lavers, T Marks, T Matthew, J McNeil, T Mohammed, C Nedeljkovic, R Nutt, N Papas, J SavenyeTerblanche, G Stanchev, K Swana, M Taylor, T Thomas, K van der Walt, S Verheul.
FIRST EIGHT ROWING

Back Row: A Nocton-Smith, D Moraba, B Streeter Middle Row: L Volpe, W Morgan, B Dell, P Malakou, D Trollip Front Row: J Coulter (Vice captain), Mr G Dodds (Head coach), D Protopappas (Captain), Mr M Taylor (Master in Charge), J Nevin (Boatman)
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First 8 Boat Race Final from bridge over Kowie River
The 2010 Rowing season was truly memorable: partly because it marked the 10th anniversary of the St Johns Rowing Club; partly because the club grew signicantly (comprising approximately 75 boys by the end of the season); and partly because the club was placed second overall at the 2010 South African Schools Championships. However, this statement does not do justice to the tireless effort made by the boys during the season. My lasting memories are of: of the endless hours spent training at Witbank Dam; of cheering each other on from the banks of Roodeplaat Dam; of the late night war-cry practices followed by early morning water sessions; and of the entire club serenading the only female coach on the staff. As has become a convention, the season began with a rowing camp during the nal week of the August school holidays. Again the camp was held at Witbank Dam and once again, the camp moms ensured that none of the boys went hungry, nor missed home too much. While much fun was had by all off the water, the boys managed to make their training count when it came to racing. The regatta season began rather quietly with two private school regattas in September, while the government schools completed their athletics season. St Johns performed very well in these opening regattas, with crews being placed rst in all age-groups; the momentum generated by these early victories was carried into the rest of the season.
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MY LASTING MEMORIES ARE OF: OF THE ENDLESS HOURS SPENT TRAINING AT WITBANK DAM; OF CHEERING EACH OTHER ON FROM THE BANKS OF ROODEPLAAT DAM; OF THE LATE NIGHT WAR-CRY PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY EARLY MORNING WATER SESSIONS; AND OF THE ENTIRE CLUB SERENADING THE ONLY FEMALE COACH ON THE STAFF.
Unfortunately, the tour to Hilton was cancelled owing to the KwaZulu Natal Rowing Federations inability to organise the event, which meant that the major regatta of the rst part of the season was Gauteng Champs. Over the last couple of years, St Johns has performed very well at Gauteng Champs, and this season was no exception. The U14 age group set the pace, but every age-group contributed to our winning the very closely contested overall points trophy, with St Johns being placed second overall and the U14s winning the age-group trophy.
GAUTENG CHAMPS RESULTS 2009 ST. JOHNS COLLEGE RACE

1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 8+ 4+ 4x 21x 8+ 4x 4+ (eight) (four) (quad) (pair) (scull) (eight) (quad) (four)
POSITION
3 3 2 (B Final) 2 7 (B Final) 8 (A Final) 5 6
U16 A A A A A
8+ 4+ 4x 21x
(eight) (four) (quad) (pair) (scull)
3 3 4 4&7 1 (B Final)
U15A A A A
8x+ 4x+ 2x 1x
(octuple) (quad) (double) (scull)
2 4 4
U14A A A A
8x+ 4x+ 2x 1x
1 1 1&3 1&2
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After Gauteng Champs (held in November each year), the season slows somewhat as most crews have a break until the January camp. In contrast, the 1st 8+ begins to intensify its training in preparation for the annual Schools Boat Race, which is held on the Kowie River in Port Alfred in December. This year saw the rst international school participating in the Boat Race Abingdon School, Oxfordshire who demonstrated the depth and talent within rowing in Great Britain. The Abingdon crew won the Boat Race, setting a new course record in the process, and leaving the South African schools to battle for second place. St Johns eventually nished sixth, losing to St Andrews Grahamstown in a gruelling 6.3km race. Willie Morgan, the 1st eight coxswain, navigated the course superbly, ensuring that the crew was always in touch with the opposition and making for a superb contest. After the Boat Race, the boys nally managed to take a break (albeit for only three weeks) before heading back to tWitbank Dam for the January camp. The training proved excellent and the boys were enthusiastic. At the opening regatta of the season, hosted by Parktown, St Benedicts and St Stithians were not in attendance, and neither was the KES 1st 8+. St Johns took full advantage of this fact and against the likes of Jeppe, Parktown and St Albans, dominated the days racing. It was a fantastic day and a very well-run regatta. St Johns did exceptionally well with the 1st 8+, 1st 4+, 1st 2-, U16A 4+ and U16A 2- all being placed rst; despite not elding an U14 age-group because of the Remove Camp, St Johns won the regatta with the most points overall. The following weekend, 23-24 January, the club participated in the VLUJ Regatta at Victoria Lake in Germiston. This regatta is one of only three on the school calendar which combines school rowing with club and university rowing, creating a vibrant atmosphere and adding to the sense of occasion. The SJC rowing club performed admirably, with wins for the 1st 2-, U16A 2-, U14A 8x+, U14A 4x+ and U14A 1x. The crews that did not manage to win still performed very well, with many crews being placed second or third in their respective events.
Packing for the rowing camp
The rowing club after winning the VLC Regatta
First 8 nishing the Boat Race time trial
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to be admitted to hospital. The severely weakened teams could not maintain the high standards of the Thursday heats, and while the 1st pair of James Nevin and Bevan Dell managed to earn 1st place; the 1st eight managed 6th place. Special mention must also be made of Laurence Nel and Jamie Odgers, who won the U16A pair at the Selbourne Sprint Regatta on Friday. Upon our return from East London, our attention turned to SA Champs. This event encompasses 31 schools and 9 clubs with 900 entries in 199 events over 3 days it is, without doubt, a festival of rowing. From the opening event on the the Friday of the Championships to the nal race on Sunday, the St Johns oarsmen rowed exceptionally. The College was represented in almost every A-nal and, for this reason, we were in the running for rst place overall. Unfortunately, a last minute disqualication for an incorrect crew entry resulted in a crews disqualication and the loss of the 9 points for that race. Eventually, St Johns was placed second to St Benedicts by a mere 6 points. The U14 age-group stole the show, earning rst place in every event in which they were entered, but special mention must also go to the 1st 4+, who were placed third, the 1st 2- who were placed second and the U15 8x+, who were placed second. Bevan Dell and James Nevin were both awarded Rowing Honours at the culmination of the season for their performance in the 1st 2-, while James Nevin and Willie Morgan were selected to represent Gauteng. Willie went on to represent South Africa at the Junior Rowing Championships in the Cech Republic and was awarded Honours in the nal term. Jack Coulter, Paul Malakou, Willie Morgan and Dimitri Protopappas were awarded Full Colours, while Team Blazers were awarded to Daniel Trollip, Dipolelo Moraba and Luigi Volpe. We look forward to another season and another opportunity to compete at the highest level. However, while there is certainly a desire for victory, it is not the sole reason we row. As Rick Clother, USNA Coach, commented Rowing is more than a fast boat on race day. Its a complementary experience to a young mans intellectual development... Rowing, like success, is a journey, not a destination. I tell my oarsmen to have fun, learn and, most of all, grow as individuals. The wins and the losses will take care of themselves.
SOUTH AFRICAN CHAMPS RESULTS 2010: ST. JOHNS COLLEGE RACE

1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 8+ 4+ 4x 22x 1x 8+ 4+ 4x (eight) (four) (quad) (pair) (double) (scull) (eight) (four) (quad)
POSITION
8 3 8 2&4 DNR 5 6 3
Working hard on rowing camp
U16 A A A A A A
8+ 4+ 4x 22x 1x
(eight) (four) (quad) (pair) (double) (scull)
3 3 4 4&7 1 (B Final) 1 (B Final)
At the prize-giving, held at lunchtime on Sunday, the SJC Rowing Club was awarded the Junior Club Trophy for the best U14/U15 age group, the trophy for the Best Boys School (based on most overall points) and the Trophy for Rowing Excellence which goes to the school that shows the most improvement and overall dedication to the sport. This was the rst time St Johns had won a major regatta against all the top Gauteng rowing schools. The following weekend, the annual River Vaal Regatta was cancelled owing to ooding on the Vaal and so the next major regatta on the calendar was the 123rd Buffalo Regatta in East London. This is the oldest regatta in the country and hence the tradition and history associated with the regatta is immense. The coxless fours event for open oarsmen rewards the victors with the most expensive trophy in South African sport. In the heats on Thursday, the teams performed exceptionally well, with the 1st eight, 1st four, 1st pair, 2nd eight, 2nd quad, 2nd doubles, U16 eight, U16 four, U16 quad and U16 pair all qualifying for A nals. The 1st eight and 1st four were the fastest Gauteng schools in the heat and the eight tied with St Andrews Grahamstown in posting the second-fastest qualifying time. Unfortunately, after such a great start to the weekends racing, the party was struck by illness, with three boys having
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U15A A A A
8x+ 4x+ 2x 1x
2 4 4
U14A A A A
8x+ 4x+ 2x 1x
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SQUASH
2010 1ST TEAM REPORT
CAPTAIN: RESULTS PLAYED 26 WON 16 LOST 10
TOP SCHOOLS TOURNAMENT:

v Invitational VI: 6-0 v St Stithians: 5-1 v King Edward VII: 6-0 v St Stithians: 6-0
Z Patel
TEAM:
P Cresswell, G Laxton, O Newton-Hill, B Dial, D Maxton

COACHES:
v King Edward VII: 5-1 v St Andrews Bloemfontein: 5-1 v Parktown: 5-1
-ZP
Mr M Johnston, Mr G Plumstead The 1st Team has had an excellent season and has not only achieved its aims but has surpassed them by far. With 3 UV, 1 UIV and 2 LIV players, the team has trained hard throughout the season and won both the regional and the prestigious Top Schools Squash Tournament. In the latter, it achieved a superb 6-0 victory against King Edward VII in the nal. This advanced the team to the national round of the tournament a level of play which no other St Johns College team has ever attained before. The team conceded a mere 5 matches out of a total of 42. All members of the team are currently playing provincial for their respective age groups, and have national representation in Paul Cresswell (College Number 1), who is rated number 8 in the country Our thanks to Mr Gary Plumstead who coached us, as well as Mr Johnston for all his organisation and support throughout the year.
FIRST TEAM SQUASH

Back Row: B Dial, O Newton-Hill Front Row: P Cresswell, Z Patel (captain), G Laxton
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SWIMMING
2010 REPORT
CAPTAIN:
J Verhagen
TEAM A:
J Chemaly, D Testa, C Strong, B Skirving, D Henson, S De Souza, D Trninic, R Olver, M Stevenson, M Visser, G Baker, R Lindsay, J Cowper, J Tattersall, J Stephenson, W Antonites, C Verwer, M Dryden, P Loureiro, T Bradeld, M Cloete, M Pfeffer, F du Plessis, D Feldner-Busztin, W Verhoogt, K Walsh, J Verhagen, A Szpytko, N Hock
TEAM B:
The vision of taking swimming to a more competitive level saw the employment of a former St Johns Boy and South African swimmer, Kris Matulovich to assist with coaching, Our captain led the team by example, achieving outstanding times in his events, which resulted in his being awarded his honours blazer for swimming.
The boys represented St Johns College for the rst time this year in a tour to Natal to swim the Midmar Mile. This was a much enjoyed tour and hopefully will become a regular event in the swimming community. We thank Mrs S Laurence and Miss M Coetzee for accompanying these swimmers.
S De Douza, S Bielderman, J Terblanche, C Moses, M Papas, E McLaughlin, D Beeton, G Campbell, N Vosloo, N Martin, M Henderson, N McLaughlin, T Miller, M Temlett, S Theron, P Tattersall, C Bland, K Cloete, I Karlovic, M McFadden, T McNeil, J Clacherty, M Piek, K Brummer, L van der Griendt, A du Plessis, T Berry, G Milasinovich, R Fisher, C Roberts, J Kritzinger, A Fisher, H Bezuidenhout
MASTER IN CHARGE:
Mr J Joseph
A TEAM COACHES:
Miss S May, Mr K Matulovich

B TEAM COACHES: SWIMMING
Back Row: P Tattersall, W Antonites, D Trninic, G Baker , P Loureiro Second Row: M Stevens, S Christiansen, C Verwer, M Cloete, J Cowper, K Walsh Front Row: A Szpytko, M Pfeffer, D Feldner-Busztin, Mr J Joseph, W Verhoogt , T Bradeld, M Dryden
Mr R Klement, Mr L Mattiuzzo
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St Stithians College Jeppe Boys High School King Edward VII School CBC, Boksburg Relay Inter- High Inter-High
Relaxing on the beach at Umhlanga
POSITION
6th 3rd 4th 4th 8th 7th
SCHOOLS COMPETING
9 5 5 5 10 10
THE BOYS REPRESENTED ST JOHNS COLLEGE FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR IN A TOUR TO NATAL TO SWIM THE MIDMAR MILE. THIS WAS A MUCH ENJOYED TOUR AND HOPEFULLY WILL BECOME A REGULAR EVENT IN THE SWIMMING COMMUNITY
MIDMAR MILE
On Friday 12 February, 14 boys from Remove to Matric set off for KwaZulu-Natal with Mrs Laurence and Miss Coetzee to swim the annual Midmar Mile. As half of Johannesburg was going the same way and because we had to have dinner half-way, we reached our destination Umhlanga rather late that night, after a few wrong turns which took us to places like the Blue Lagoon. But by Saturday, we had recovered our energy. Saturday was spent on the Umhlanga beach and at Gateway for lunch, whilst in the evening, we were fortunate to watch the Sharks play the Chiefs at the Shark Tank (Kings Park) in Durban. Sadly, the Sharks lost in the last second by a whisker!
On the Sunday, we had to leave early (5.15am) to allow Mrs Laurence and Blake Skirving to swim in the rst race. The weather was overcast to begin with, but improved as the day wore on. All the swimmers nished and although he did not join the tour but swam as an individual, Michael Cloete is to congratulated for swimming his tenth Midmar and being awarded a green number for ten consecutive swims. James Verhagen, who with Wesley Verhoogt, organised the tour as part of his leadership portfolio - attained an excellent time, as did others, and the whole weekend, a mixture of relaxation and some hard swimming, was a great success.
TIMES
Verhagen, James Cowper, Julian Skirving, Blake Verhoogt, Wesley Fisher, Richard Van Stander, Brett Henderson, Matthew Miss Coetzee Walsh, Kendrick Black, Callum Kentridge, Samuel Mrs Laurence Mota, Lebo Alexander, John Levendig, Brendon Leaver, Brian
00.22.52 00.25.48 00.26.32 00.28.24 00.28.54 00.29.21 00.30.30 00.31.22 00.33.41 00.42.54 00.45.32 00.46.34 00.52,57 00.54.43 00.57.08 01.00.47
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TENNIS
2010 REPORT
CAPTAIN:
J Alexander (C)
A TEAM:
J Alexander, S Kennedy (VC), B Rodgers, A Chang, K Bolland, J Wolfe-Coote, N Hobbs

B TEAM:
A Partt, S Koyana, R Dalton, T Pooe, T Griesel, S Mark

C TEAM:
S Venkatakrishnan, N Raal, M Bulbulia, J Schwartz, B Kalidas, G Alexander

D TEAM:
R Batzon, T Clarke, N Cowen, A Quinn, W Kohler, J Wheeler

RESERVES:
O Newton-Hill, W Murray, L Wolfe-Coote, C Grose, N Vallee, M Amod, A Masianoga, S Boshoff, C Murrell, J Barton-Bridges, K Clunies-Ross, R Smith, E Oosthuizen, T Claiborne, R Cassim, A Esplin, E Engelbrecht, A Thompson, C Huntley, S Nene, K Whiteld, L Feldner-Busztin,W Mncube, C Thurling, G Arroyo
MASTER IN CHARGE:
Mr P Emant
STAFF:
Mr W Taylor, Mr B Tobias, Mr C Mackenzie

COACH:
TENNIS
Back Row: N Hobbs, J Wolfe-Coote, K Bolland, B Rodgers Front Row: J Alexander (Capt.), Mr P Emant (MIC), S Kennedy (Vice Capt.)
Mr H Espley-Jones
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We enjoyed a successful term of tennis at the end of 2009, only to be greeted with a most pleasant surprise at the beginning of 2010: our 1st Team was ranked at the top of its league. The rst term of 2010 brought much enthusiasm at practices and a renewed sense of determination. The teams won far more matches than they lost, setting a high standard for the rest of the year. In particular, there are a number of younger players who are playing good tennis which will strengthen our teams in the future. This years captain, John Alexander, and vice-captain, Simon Kennedy, did much in terms of promoting tennis among the younger boys and helped the coach to train them by building their technique and condence. The D Team, comprising solely Removes, has proven to be a most successful innovation, offering these young players the opportunity to play against boys often older (and mostly taller) than they are. It has been a benecial season for them.
Above: Rob Alexander, Gordon Mark, with sons, Stephen and Greg.
GAUDY DAY:
The 2010 Gaudy Day was a particularly momentous day for tennis. It was the rst time in many years that two fathers played their sons. Robert Alexander (OJ 1976) and Gordon Mark (OJ 1989) played doubles against their sons, Greg (UIV) and Stephen (LIV). It was a close match with the fathers narrowly beating their sons. Private Schools Tennis Tournament (Sun City) This year, we entered three teams into the private schools tennis championships. The boys played brilliant tennis and this awarded them top places in the tournament. The rst team was ranked second in the A division of the competition and the second team won the B division. We give thanks to the maintenance and catering staff for their continued support during the course of the year. A special thank you to Mrs Irene Maxton, who organised refreshments for our home games.
INTER-HOUSE RESULTS:
SENIOR:
A TEAM
PLAYED 12 LOST 0 WON 7 NO RESULTS 1 DRAW 4
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Hodgson Fleming Runge Hill Nash Clayton Alston Thomson Clarke
B TEAM
JUNIOR:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Clarke Nash Clayton Thomson Fleming Hodgson Alston Hill
C TEAM
D TEAM
THE FIRST TERM OF 2010 BROUGHT MUCH ENTHUSIASM AT PRACTICES AND A RENEWED SENSE OF DETERMINATION.
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WATER POLO
2010 REPORT
1ST TEAM MICHAELMAS TERM 2009
CAPTAIN:
A Jones
VICE CAPTAIN:
S Rudling
TEAM:
crowned the Top South African Water Polo Team. David du Plessis, Andrew Jones, Jason Mostert and Nick Hock were all selected for the Gauteng U19 A team which went on to win the U19 A section at the SA Schools Water Polo Tournament. They beat Natal in a very one-sided nal, with David du Plessis
scoring 7 of the teams 11 goals. He was also, once again, named as the player of the tournament and selected for the South African U19A team. David du Plessis was a solid rock in defence and lethal in attack. Every opposing team feared his presence in the water because of his big frame and deadly eye for scoring goals.
J Mostert, D du Plessis, B France, J Woods, R Sin, M Irvine, L Van Der Griendt, M Dryden, A Szpytko, A Fisher, A du Plessis, T Bradeld, N Hock, M Pfeffer
COACH:
Mr V Trninic As expected, the 1st Team continued to impress with further evidence of the form shown earlier in the year. The season kicked off with the prestigious SACS National Water Polo Tournament, where the 1st Team went through unbeaten and cemented St Johns position as the top South African Water Polo school with an 8 1 drubbing of King Edwards in the nal. David du Plessis was voted Player of the Tournament and Andrew Jones, Jason Mostert and Nick Hock were all selected for the Tournament Team. This tournament was the last of the major National tournaments held in 2009, and with St Johns now holding both titles once again, the 1sts were
WATER POLO
Back Row: W Antonites, D Trninic, R Olver, A Kuttschreuter Second Row: C Verwer, D Henson, T Bradeld, J Cowper, A Forbes Front Row: J du Plessis, M Irvine, Mr V Trninic, N Hock, Mr P Le Roux, M Pfeffer, M Dryden
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Jason Mostert was also selected for the South African U19A Team. His punishing left-handed shot and versatility as a player made him one of the best nishers of the game in South Africa in 2009. Unfortunately, Andrew Jones missed the SA Schools Tournament because of a severe illness. He was an important role player in the success of the St Johns 1st Team and would have added great value to the Gauteng Team, had he been t and well to play. Ryan Sin was also selected for the Gauteng U19A team. His positive attitude and keen eye in the pool made him a reliable player and developed his keen understanding of the game. Brett France was selected for the Gauteng U19B team, along with team mates Jason Woods and Anthony Szpytko. They all played very physical and passionate water polo, many times scoring the goal or making the defensive decision to win a game.
Pierre Le Roux
EASTER TERM 2010

CAPTAIN:
N Hock
VICE CAPTAIN:
M Irvine
TEAM:
L Van Der Griendt, M Dryden, A Szpytko, A Fisher, A du Plessis, T Bradeld, N Hock, M Pfeffer, A Forbes, S Brooks, J Cowper, W Antonites
RESERVES:
D Henson, J Stephenson, C Verwer After the SACS Tournament, all Grade 12 boys leave the 1st Team and the 2010 team starts its season. With high expectations from their supporters, the team members did well to keep the name of St Johns Water Polo high; with some impressive performances at school xtures and at the Saints Tournament, they showed great potential for 2010. Nick Hock took over as captain in the rst term of 2010. The team struggled at rst to nd a rhythm, but managed to remain unbeaten, with victories over Parktown, Saint Stithians and Pretoria Boys High School. Nick Hock and Alex du Plessis were both selected for the King Edwards Tournament Team, with St Johns
nishing third in the tournament. As the captain and only player with international experience, Nick Hock was under considerable pressure to perform. Despite a slow start to the season, he managed to show some of the form that made him one of the top players in 2009. He was selected for the SA U19B Team at the SA Schools Tournament. Michael Irvine has had a fantastic season. His impressive performance at SA Schools for the Gauteng U19B Team led to his selection for the SA U19B team. Unfortunately, his illness prior to the King Edwards Tournament prevented him from performing at 100%, which was a big disappointment for the St Johns team. Lloyd Van Der Griendt was undoubtedly the most-improved player for this season. With the powerful shot of a senior National Team player and a keen understanding of the game, Lloyd was the player to watch in 2010. Michael Pfeffer, Alex du Plessis, Travis Bradeld and Murray Dryden have all shown pleasing improvement and greater maturity in the water. They all represented Gauteng in 2009 in their respective age groups. Andrew Fisher has had a good, consistent season and with his clear and focused mind, he has the ability to balance well, an asset in any sport. Wesley Antonites, Simon Brooks, Andrew Forbes, Charles Verwer, Julian Cowper and Jarryd Stephenson were all new members of the 1st Team this season. All these boys represented Gauteng in 2009 and have shown continued improvement throughout the 2010 season.
Pierre Le Roux
Nick Hock
v St Davids: won 5 1 v St Albans: won 6 2 v Fourways: won 13 1

SEMI FINALS
v King Edward VII: lost 4 - 6

EASTER TERM 2010
v St Peters: won 12 2 v St Davids: won 16 3 v King Edward VII: drew 9 9 v Crawford: won 20 1 v Parktown: won 7 5 v Pretoria Boys High: won 13 8
PBHS NATIONAL FESTIVAL
v Redham: won 9 2 v Clifton: won 9 5 v Kearsney: won 13 7 v Afes: won 12 2 v Grey College: won 17 7
KES NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
v Durban High School: won 20 4 v SACS: won 10 6 v Jeppe: won 15 6

QUARTER FINALS
RESULTS
MICHAELMAS TERM 2009
v St Andrews: won 12 10 v St Benedicts: won 12 2 v Jeppe: won 15 3 v King Edward VII: lost 4 6 v Pretoria Boys High: lost 3 7 v St Peters : won 7 1 v St Stithians: won 8 1
SEMI FINALS
v King Edward VII: lost 14 17

3RD AND 4TH PLAY-OFFS
v St Stithians: won 11 10
PLAYED 30 LOST 4 WON 25 GOALS FOR 314 DRAW 1 GOALS AGAINST 138
ST STITHIANS 1ST TEAM WATER POLO TOURNAMENT
v Clifton: won 7 1 v Pretoria Boys High: won 6 5 v St Peters: won 5 0
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v Parktown: lost 6 7 v Pretoria Boys High: lost 8 9
U 16 A
CAPTAIN:
W Antonites
Murray Dryden defending the goal
TEAM:
side; they gave nothing away on defence and proved to be very dangerous on attack. Devon Henson, still an U14, is one of the most amazing prospects at St Johns; he even made the Tournament Team, which shows the unbelievable potential that he has. Keegan Leslie had a good season in the goals and he can be proud of his performance throughout the year. Murray Steinhobel and Ivan Karlovic played good supporting roles in the side, whilst Matthew Koevort, Samuel Theron and Daniel Zilesnick had a good season and gained experience throughout the year.
JMD
2ND AND 3RD TEAMS

CAPTAIN:
A Fisher
TEAM:
J Cowper, J Stephenson, M Conkic, C Verwer, K Leslie, M Steinhobel, M Koevort, S Theron, D Zilesnik, D Trninic, A Kuttschreuter, R Olver, N Vosloo, D Henson
COACH:
RESULTS
C Henson, D Hammond, R Fisher, H Bezuidenhout, T Berry, H Richardson, R Kovel, B Lasker, N Jelonek, J Verhagen, G Hadjichristos, S Christiansen, K Schachat, W Verhoogt, K Brummer, O Thormeyer This team has enjoyed its social status and has played very good water polo. With some big, classy members, who played some very entertaining polo at times, the team always had fun. Many of these players have shown good work at training, although attendance was irregular at times owing to other school commitments. Several players have reached the borderline for 1st Team selection and with hard work, might still reach that team. It is very positive to see such a big squad of good players for the 2nds and 3rds, showing that water polo at St Johns is growing and that the level of play is improving.
Pierre Le Roux
Mr J-M De Carvalho The U16 A side had an extremely eventful and fruitful season, during which they played with determination, enthusiasm and 110% effort. This group of boys has gelled to form a superb team that is not reliant on one player to pull them through each game. There were times, however, when they were under pressure and lost focus. This led them to rush their play and forget about basic skills. These lapses in concentration seemed to happen only during the seasons weekly xtures, but the team really pulled together and played with supreme balance and poise during the Wynberg Tournament, which they won, in October. They played with condence and control and looked like winners from the word go. Wesley Antonites is a wonderful talent. He made the Tournament Team at the Wynberg Tournament and is now a regular member of the 1st Team. Julian Cowper had a brilliant season, made the Wynberg Tournament side and was named Defender of the Tournament; he is also a regular member of the 1st Team. Jarryd Stephenson was possibly the strongest and ttest player in the side and these attributes will mould him into a great player. Charles Verwer played very well this year, while Milan Conkic is a great prospect for the future. Dan Trninic, Roarke Olver, Alex Kuttschreuter, and Neil Vosloo (all U15s) proved to be valuable members of this
v St Benedicts : won 6 3 v Jeppe: won 8 6 v King Edward VII: won 7 4 v Pretoria Boys High: won 9 5 v Crawford: won 15 2 v Afes: won 5 4 v St Peters: won 8 3 v St Stithians: lost 2 3
EASTER TERM 2010
v St Peters: won 11 4 v St Davids: won 15 0 v King Edward VII: won 6 3 v Parktown: won 11 2 v Pretoria Boys High: lost 5 9
WON 11 GOALS FOR 108 DRAW 0 GOALS AGAINST 48
PLAYED 13 LOST 2
RESULTS:
v St Benedicts: won 15 2 v Jeppe: won 12 2 v Pretoria Boys High: won 9 5 v Crawford 1st Team: won 5 2 v Afes: won 12 2
EASTER TERM 2010
v St Peters: lost 5 7 v St Davids: won 12 1 v King Edward VII: lost 4 5
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U15 A
CAPTAIN: GREY COLLEGE U14 NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
Neil Vosloo
TEAM:
D Trninic, R Olver, N Martin, N McLaughlin, M Henderson, B Van Staden, A Kuttschreuter, G Botha, G Campbell, P Piek, J Fletcher, R Lindsay, D Henson, D France
COACH(ES):
v Glenwood: won 10 - 2 v Rondebosch: won 7 - 3 v St Albans: won 14 - 2 v Grey College B: won 20 - 0
QUARTER FINAL
v DHS: won 16 - 1
SEMI FINAL
formidable; with two games played and two won, they remain unbeaten in 2010. Many of the players have shown potential and have the ability to play for the A team in 2010. Continued hard work and dedication to their training have produced great improvement in all players. Their positive attitudes and exciting style of play have resulted in some interesting games.
Mr P Le Roux, Mr D Flatscher The U15 A team has had a season of mixed fortunes. While undoubtedly the top local school, St Johns has had some serious challenges nationally, closely losing to Grey PE at the end of last year, losing the National Grey Bloemfontein Tournament and (with an extra time) losing to Rondebosch in the Final of the Indigo National Tournament . The continued dedication shown by all the boys has been the reason for the more positive results. This has also resulted in the majority receiving provincial call-ups and playing for the age group above them in school. Dan Trninic, Roarke Olver and Neil Vosloo have been instrumental in the teams success and are in a class of their own, continuously showing dedication to training and passion in playing the game. A special mention must be given to the fringe players who have also pulled their weight, which was most evident in the Final at the Indigo Tournament, when we lost two of our key players early on. All these boys have shown greater understanding of the game and, with continued hard work and dedication, I believe this team and its individual members have the ability to go far in this sport.
v Grey PE: lost 6 - 9 after extra time

3RD AND 4TH PLAY-OFF
RESULTS
v Clifton: won 5 - 2
EASTER TERM 2010
v St Benedicts: won 10 2
EASTER TERM 2010
v St Peters: won 15 0 v KES: won 15 2 v Parktown: won 11 0 v PBHS: won 22 5 v St Davids: won 19 0
v KES: won 11 5 v Parktown: won 7 4

INDIGO TOURNAMENT
v Selborne: won 5 2 v Clifton: won 11 7 v St Albans: won 12 - 7

QUARTER FINALS
v PBHS: won 9 5
SEMI FINALS
v Saint Stithians: won 9 8

FINALS
v Rondebosch: lost 6 9 after extra time

U 15 B
CAPTAINS:
RESULTS
G Campbell, G Botha
TEAM:
v St Benedicts: won 9 0 v Jeppe: won 21 - 0 v KES: won 11 - 2 v PBHS: won 13 - 2 v Michaelhouse: won 14 - 0 v Crawford: won 15 - 3 v Afes: won 9 - 3 v St Peters: won 16 0 v St Stithians: won 6 1
J Fletcher, P Piek, A Jennings, M Dasoo, N Raal, D France, R Graves, J Cutifani, R Buchanan

COACH(ES):
Mr P Le Roux, Mr D Flatscher The U15 B team did not have many games against teams in its own age group and usually had to combine with the U16 B team to ensure a competitive game every week. In the games they did play against opponents of the same age, they were
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RESULTS
v King Edward VII: won 22-3 v Parktown: won 15-0 v Pretoria Boys High: won 14-0
KEN SHORT U14 TOURNAMENT
RESULTS
v KES won: 8-1 v Crawford : lost 4-6 v Parktown: won 5-0 v PBHS: won 7-3
Anthony Szpytko
v St Benedicts: won 7-3 v Grey College: won 8-2 v Maritzburg: won 7-0 v Afes: won 7-0 Quarter-nal v Michaelhouse: won 10-1 Semi-nal v Bishops: won 5-4 Final v Clifton: won 3-2
PLAYED 4 LOST 1
U14A
CAPTAIN:
PLAYED 10 LOST 0
D Henson
TEAM:
J Buchel, C Strong, J Chemaly, C Moses, B Skirving, D Testa, E Mclaughlin, S de Souza, C Thurling, R Mackell, J Gooch, J Wakeeld
COACHES:
U14B
TEAM:
D Flatscher, C Icely With the New Year came new players: an exciting bunch of boys from many different schools. We were lucky with the talent we gained, and these highly motivated boys began to put in the hours needed for a successful season. Many of them thought weekly training would merely comprise some practice games, but they quickly found out that much effort was needed to play in the A team. Early morning sessions of swimming and tness and afternoons of leg and ball work saw them rapidly develop into far more focused players, with some boys attending up to 8 training sessions a week. We had a strong starting seven and some reliable players on the bench, so our regular xtures were no test for the boys. Our star player, Devon Henson, was excellent throughout the season, easily the best U14 in the country, even earning himself some game time in Mr Trninics legendary 1st Team. Congratulations go to all the boys for their brilliant performances in the National U14 Ken Short Tournament, where, as a result of some magic from our goalkeeper, Joshua Buchel, in the Final v Clifton, we claimed a well-deserved victory after all the seasons hard work. Thank you to the boys for making our coaching job a worthy one!
- DF
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D Kane, J Prior, R MacMurray, D Beeton, S Bielderman, C Hellon, P Rosenberg, A van der Hoven, A Jada, K Kurji, K Van Der Walt, G Kunz
COACH:
Mr D Flatscher, Mr C Icely This year, we were lucky enough to have the numbers to make 2 full teams, a treat we havent had for many years. Hopefully this is a sign that the sport is still growing in the College. At some sessions, we had up to 30 U14s, which is a very positive sign. Most members of the team had previous experience at their respective prep schools, and with some proper training and a couple of early morning sessions, these boys arrived at their school xtures much better-prepared than their opposition. A talented goalkeeper, David Kane, made the team solid. When all the boys underperformed v Crawford, they quickly realized that the feeling of a loss was not one they enjoyed, and they bounced straight back winning the rest of their xtures convincingly. I hope all these players will continue with their efforts in the 3rd term, and Im sure that, with dedication, there will be a few of them knocking on the door of the A team.
- DF
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WINTER SPORT
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WINTER SPORT
COLOURS AWARDS
HOCKEY
PRESENT AWARDS:
ATHLETICS AWARDS
PRESENT POSITION:
ROWING AWARDS
NEW AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Simon Kennedy, Richard Goodlace, Gary Hopkins Honours: Matthew Becker
NEW AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Ferdi Le Grange, Brendon Levendig, Dylan Feldner-Busztin Honours: Senzo Tenza
NEW AWARDS:
Honours: Willie Morgan
Team Blazer: John Newsome, Jonathan Austin, Rea Khumbane, Jonathan van der Bijl Colours: Huw Newton-Hill, Ben Walwyn, Rob Morris Honours: Nicholas Surgey, Matthew Collins
Team Blazer: Willie Morgan, Dean Gordon, Jesse Bulabula, Nicholas Jelonek Colours: Edward Butler, Honours: Jonathan Van Der Bijl, Katlego Monakoena
SOCCER AWARDS
PRESENT POSITION:
RUGBY
PRESENT AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Jean-Pierre Meyer, Heinrich Bezuidenhout and Sheldon Valjalo

NEW AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Sandile Xayiya Honours: Matthew Becker

NEW AWARDS:
Team Blazer: Thomas Berry, Nicholas Hale, Ben Baggott, Kyle Schachat,Brett Rodger, George Hadjichristos Colours: Jason Newton, Dave Jacobs, Senzo Tenza Honours: Gareth Milasinovich, Chad Henson
Team Blazer: Rea Khumbane, Dylaan Mafumu, Toby Ndzimande, Ethan Brownhill, Pele Collins,Tebogo Lekubu,Wesley Coulentianos, Jared Kruger, Matthew Collins, Zain Pat Colours: Paulo Loureiro, Sheldon Valjalo, Jason Newton, Dave Jacobs, Senzo Tenza
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ATHLETICS
2010 REPORT
CAPTAIN:
S Tenza
VICE CAPTAIN:
J van der Bijl

INTER HIGH TEAM:
R Fuller (U14 200m & relay), G Harvett (U14 1500m), Y Essop (U15 relay), Z Nkondo (U15 high jump), G Harrup (U16 1500m & relay), P Tattersall (U16 100m hurdles), J du Randt (U16 shotput) C Murrell (U16 discus), D Gordon (U17 relay and 100m hurdles), J Bulabula (U17 relay), N Jelonek (U17 800m), K Monakoena (open relay), D Feldner-Busztin (open 1500m), W Morgan (open 1500m), S Tenza (100m, 200m, long jump & relay) and J van der Bijl (open high jump & shotput) The 2010 athletics season kicked off during the last week of the Trinity Term after the exams had been written. The rst of only three inter-schools meetings was a quadrangular meeting hosted by Parktown. We ran against Jeppe, Parktown and St Benedicts. As the team was reasonably unt after the holidays, the result was disappointing. Jeppe won the meeting convincingly, with Parktown Boys taking second place, St Benedicts third and St Johns fourth. St Johns hosted the annual Independent Schools meeting the following week. This evenly contested meeting was the highlight of the season with many good performances. Jonathan van der Bijl set a new school record in the high jump with a height of 1.95m. St Benedicts won the
meeting for the third year running, with St Albans in second place, St Stithians third, St Johns fourth and St Davids fth. The Inter-High A and B meeting was also run as a combined meeting, hosted by St Albans at Hoerskool Menlopark in Pretoria. It was agreed, for the rst time ever, that the Independent Schools could select a combined team for this meeting, although St Benedicts opted not to join
forces this year. This combined team turned out to be very successful. All the athletes selected from St Johns put on outstanding performances. Jonathan van der Bijl won the open shotput event and came 4th in the high jump. Senzo Tenza broke the school records for both the 100m and 200m sprints respectively. Gareth Harvett ended 3rd in his 1500m event, being pipped at the post by a Jeppe runner.
ATHLETICS TEAM
Back Row: D Gordon, C Murrell, J Durandt Second row: G Harvett, D Feldner-Busztin, N Jelonek, P Tattersall, G Harrup, W Morgan Front Row: K Moanakoena, S Tenza (Capt), Mr A Lion-Cachet, J Van Der Bijl (V Capt) J Bulabula
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I should like to thank everyone involved for making the season a success: all the athletes who participated with enthusiasm and wore the school colours with pride the coaching staff and grounds staff, without whose support athletics would not take place. Senzo Tenza and Jonathan van der Bijl for their leadership and dedication to athletics over the years and particularly this season. Mrs Irene Maxton and the mothers from the LEC.
INTER-HOUSE TABLOIDS AND ATHLETICS RESULTS TABLOIDS:

JUNIORS
SENIOR TROPHY
INTER SCHOOLS MEETING RESULTS:

363 273 255 234 175 165 165 153 82 Clayton Clayton Hodgson Nash Hill Hodgson Clarke Clarke Nash Hill Hodgson
INTER SCHOOLS MEETING 8 SEPTEMBER
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Nash Alston Hill Hodgson Thomson Fleming Clayton Clarke Hill Hodgson Nash Alston Clayton Fleming Thomson Clarke Runge Nash Alston Hill Hodgson Thomson Fleming Clayton Clarke
Hodgson Clayton Alston Nash Hill Thomson Fleming Clarke Runge
1st 2ND 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 6TH 8th 9th
Jeppe Parktown St Benedicts St Johns
473 418.5 260 213.5
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MEETING 15 SEPTEMBER
TEAM RACES
SENIORS
800 m Team Race U/14 800 m Team Race U/15 800 m Team Race U/16 800 m Team Race U/17 800 m Team Race U/19 1500 m Team Races U/14 1500 m Team Races U/15 1500 m Team Races U/16 1500 m Team Races U/17 1500 m Team Races U/19 3000 m Open Team Race U/14 Relay U/15 Relay U/16 Relay U/17 Relay Open Relay Thomson Alston Hodgson Hodgson Nash
St Benedicts St Albans St Stithians St Johns St Davids Afes Pretoria Boys King Edward Jeppe Ind. Schools Team St Benedicts Parktown
1st 3rd 2nd 4th 5th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
270 247 193 181 76 481 427 410 298 253 234 231
INTER HIGH A MEETING 18 SEPTEMBER
RELAY RACES
- ALC
JUNIORS
BEST ATHLETES IN EACH AGE GROUP
ANNUAL INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

OVERALL RESULTS
Hodgson Nash Clayton Alston Hill Thomson Fleming Clarke
1st 2ND 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH 8th
548 438 383.5 366 326 322 313.5 235
Best U/14 Athlete, Rashard Fuller Getliffe Floating Trophy (U/15), Siyabonga Mkhize Best U/16 Athlete, Craig Murrell Headmasters Trophy (U/17) Edward Butler Geoffrey Cherrington Cup (Open) Jonathan Van Der Bijl WHA Allen Open House Cup, Hodgson Phillips House Athletics Trophy, Hodgson
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HOCKEY
2010 REPORT
1ST X1
CAPTAIN:
M Becker
TEAM:
S Kennedy, M Collins, H Newton-Hill, R Morris, N Surgey, J Austin, J Newsome, B Walwyn, R Khumbane, J van der Bijl, G Hopkins, R Goodlace, K Bolland, J Wolfe-Coote.
COACH:
we won four games and drew one against tough opposition. Our discipline on the pitch had also improved to the extent where we were receiving congratulations from umpires on our behaviour. This translated into better performances and fewer mistakes. Clearly Mr van Ginkel had a denite plan in mind for the highlight of our season, The Aitken Cup. We were drawn in the round-robin stage against eventual
winners, Parktown, who were lucky to sneak a draw against us. We ended up playing our arch-rivals, KES, in the semi nals. The team was up to the challenge on the day and defeated KES 1:0 in a hard, tough encounter. Unfortunately the match must have taken more out of us than we realised and we went down to St Benedicts in the quarter nals. We faced St Davids (who had beaten us earlier in the season) in the play-off for third and fourth places.
Mr R van Ginkel The 2010 hockey season was always going to be long and tough. Unlike previous years, our team did not have any superstars and very few club players. It is often in situations like this that character comes through and in this regard, we did not disappoint. It was, however, a roller-coaster of a season. After a fairly good start with a victory over Pretoria Boys, we disappointed ourselves at the Festival of the Saints. Then a good victory against Jeppe was undone by a below-par performance at the Glenwood Festival and a slow start to the Nomads Festival in Bloemfontein. Thanks to the dedication and hard work of our coach, Mr Robin van Ginkel, the penny nally dropped and we realised that in order to succeed, we would at all times have to give 110%, train hard, be disciplined and limit our mistakes. We ended the Nomads Festival on a high note and followed up our improved performance there with a credible KES Festival, where
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Back Row: J Wolfe-Coote, K Bolland, J Van Der Bijl, S Kennedy, J Newsome Second Row: R Khumbane, M Collins, H Newton-Hill, J Austin, R Morris, B Walwyn, R Goodlace Front Row: G Hopkins, Mr A Lion-Cachet, M Becker, Mr R Van Ginkel, N Surgey
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his perseverance. I think the season was summed up in our last game against St Albans, in which the team came together and played some of its best hockey.
3RD XI
CAPTAIN:
L Volpe
TEAM:
D Andrew, R Berry, Y Bulbulia, J Clacherty, R Dalton, C Grose, E Laher, C Laird, A Masianoga, M Maswanganyi, S Reddy, K Tang, S Trisk, K Walsh, M Wilkinson
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St Johns First Hockey Team placed 3rd out of 48 teams in the Aitken Cup Tournament
Mr S Dudhia This season, the 3rd XI experienced a very tumultuous campaign. This did not help with condence, and the loss of the captain mid-season proved to be a major turning point. Having said this, the captain showed great leadership and set a ne example to the rest of the team with regard to commitment and the desire to do well. This was most evident when he led training sessions in the coachs absence. Most valuable player of the season goes to Rowan Dalton who, from being a defender, transformed into an imposing offensive centre link. Well-earned victories over St Sthithians, St Andrews and St Albans were played with vigour. I should like to thank the team for an enjoyable, if turbulent season and wish them well for the future.
- SSHD RESULTS PLAYED 14 WON 4 LOST 7 DREW 3
After conceding two early goals, the team rallied and at full time, the score was 2 all; we went on to secure third place in a penalty ick-off something to be proud of. This game illustrated how far we had come during the season: from virtual no-hopers to a team that played more than competently. A further highlight was a hard-fought victory away against Michaelhouse. Again, we conceded an early goal, but as before, the team fought back to carry the day. At the nal whistle, there were a number of players at on their backs, having given their all. Several team members were selected for various Southern Gauteng teams, with Matthew Becker being selected for the A side and Huw Newton-Hill for the B side. It was a privilege to lead a team that never gave up. Mr Van Ginkel never stopped believing that we were up to the challenge and, with his coaching skills and tactical acumen, he managed to motivate the team to achieve beyond its wildest dreams.
- MB RESULTS PLAYED 33 WON 18 LOST 10 DREW 5
2ND XI
CAPTAIN:
M Diepenbroek
TEAM:
M van der Hoven, A Kgoadi, D Ramokgopa, R Volkersz, R Claven, A Patel, M Bailey, L Buisson-Street, S Lee, T Griesel, N Hobbs, J Verhagen, F Pieterse.
COACH:
Mr P Rowney This was undoubtedly one of the toughest seasons many of the boys will have had during their school careers. Many had not played together before and initially battled for cohesion in both attack and in defence. There were, however, some highlights,and our win against St Davids was easily one of our best games. Having experienced a defeat the week before, and in miserable conditions, the boys played some well-structured hockey to win 3-1. When the boys kept to structure in defence and attack, and when they built play up through close-linking passes, they created many opportunities and frustrated their opponents with their control of the game. Simon Lee was outstanding in defence; a move to links by Michael Bailey opened up some good opportunities for attack; and Nicholas Hobbs was relentless in
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4TH X1
CAPTAIN: RESULTS PLAYED 4 WON 0 LOST 3 DREW 1
they are more than ready for the step up to senior hockey next season.
F le Grange
TEAM:
M Alletzhauser, A Petersen, K Moanakoena, M Buwa, R Dube, S-F de Lacy, J Vasani, S Mayekiso, J Alexander, A Maserow, N Chan, B Leaver, D Ramokgopa, S Kentridge, D Dullabh, B Povey, B da Silva
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U16A XI
CAPTAIN:
L Langschmidt
TEAM:
U16B
CAPTAIN :
Mr M Padayachy This team worked together very well throughout the season and was affectionately known as the Sockey team. We challenged most of the teams we faced, even though they were often other schools 2nd or 3rd sides. The boys showed commitment throughout the season and having coached them all for 2 years, I have seen considerable improvement in their attitudes and commitment. I hope they will carry on with the sport after school.
- MP RESULTS PLAYED 8 WON 0 LOST 7 DREW 1
D Fiser, G Harrup, M Kaskar, S Kalyan, S Lalloo, R Mhlari, O Newton-Hill, K Robertson, B Stocks, N Tennick, A Tuma-Waku, T Zindi,
COACH(ES):
J de la Fargue
TEAM:
S Burger, K Cloete, H Kooverjee, C Soal, N Greeff, J Lloyd, J Chang, M Dedekind, J Cowper, M Vermaak, S Reddy, C Foster
COACH:
Mr A Carolan, Mr C Lesia After a slow start to the season, which included a frustrating draw to St Benedicts and a few patchy performances during the Easter Nomads Festival, the team started to come together nicely. With the emphasis on developing the teams tactical understanding to ensure they can take the step up to senior hockey next year, progress was fairly steady but sometimes frustrating. Bradley Stocks, Luke Langschmidt, Kyle Robertson and Mohammed Kaskar developed into a solid back four platform during the season (well marshalled by Andrew Tuma-Waku), with Shaneel Kalyan doing a good job covering across the back. The mideld of Thabo Zindi, Owen Newton-Hill and Sameer Lalloo improved steadily, with Owen Newton-Hill being rewarded for his efforts with a place in the Southern Gauteng U16A team. Up front, Nick Tennick, Greg Harrup, Rivo Mhlari and Daniel Fiser showed that strikers are not only about scoring goals, but also about defensive performances. Good wins over Jeppe, Parktown, St Davids and St Stithians and a one-all draw against King Edward VII (conceding in the last minute) showed that the team had come a long way over the season. A 0-1 loss to Michaelhouse and 0-0 draw to Pretoria Boys highlighted the fact that the team still lacked the goalscoring ability they need to develop into an excellent 1st XI over the next two years. The team was rewarded for its hard work during the season by playing as the 1st XI against both Trinity and CBC Boksburg - and in both games, showed that, with a little work on their goalscoring,
Mr L Leoto This season started off on a positive note as the boys showed a great deal of enthusiasm and determination. The team discipline was something to be proud of and the boys demonstrated a powerful team spirit. They were a group of talented players who always wanted to learn more and become better players. The boys played well throughout the season and had no problem sticking to the game plan set at the beginning of every game. They were able to grasp the concept of team playing with ease, moving the ball in an exciting fashion, creating many opportunities for us. Our major weakness throughout the season was our nishing. We focused on it and showed reasonable improvement towards the end. I was very proud of the boys and their performance, and with some hard work and determination, two or three of them could earn themselves a spot in the 1st Team in the future.
-LL RESULTS PLAYED 12 WON 6 LOST 3 DREW 3
5TH XI
CAPTAIN:
I McBride
TEAM:
A Rathugamage, S Hussein, R Kolabhai, S-J Wallace, Y Singh, S Venkatakrishnan, D Ramoakgopa, M Lucas, A Bashall, H Prinsloo, A Fisher, R Fisher, T Geffen, S Hunt, M Hlongwane, J Wood, H Marima, J Bonls-Persson
COACH:
Mr M Padayachy The 5th team, like the 4th team, struggled with results, but this did not dent the players commitment or positive attitude towards practices and matches. They tried throughout the season and they can be very proud of all their efforts - even though the results they desired were elusive. Towards the end of the season, however, the team began to gel and most of these boys will be pushing for the 3rd side next season. Good luck for next year, boys.
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U16 C and D XIs
CAPTAIN:
U15A XI
CAPTAIN:
C Fisher
C TEAM:
A Williamson
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Provincial side. I should also like to commend Matthew Barker for making the A team, even though this was his rst year playing hockey.
RESULTS: PLAYED 22 WON 19 LOST 1 DREW 2
J Van Rhyn, G Alexander, M Mangera, K Narotam, E Oosthuizen, R Smith, S Boshoff, J James, N Seedat, B Moore, J Verheul
D TEAM:
S Bailey, K Lion-Cachet, G Agostinetto, J-A Deenik, J Hooper, J Thurling, N Raal, M Barker, J Sanders, R Wagner-Wittles, M Tregoning, S Slabbert
COACHES:
P Bhavanbhai, A Mehra, A Chiu, K Schindler, O Semunonoka, M Bulbulia, L Mokgosi, R Povey, D Middleton

COACH:
Mr S Wilson, Mr M Workman This year, our U15A hockey team had an extremely exciting and successful season. The key to our success was the fact that we had many strengths, the rst being that the boys played as a team and not as individuals, enabling us to score the number of goals that we did. Another strength was our sweeper, Matthew Tregoning, who is an exceptionally clean striker of the ball. This showed in many of our shorties and 16 yard hits. Matthews strength was a major positive, as it was very easy to get the ball out of the back. He was also very effective in the shorties, as, whenever he hit the ball, it was amazingly quick. Nevertheless, his hard-hitting had its disadvantages, one of which was when the opposition was able to intercept the ball and surprise us with a counter-attack. This was when our third strength came into play: our defence. Our back four were solid and they proved this whenever they opposed these counter-attacks. This was probably the main reason we didnt give away too many goals this season. One thing I appreciate about this group of sportsmen is its will to win. We didnt like to lose, so we kept ghting - and the results took care of themselves. This was the case in our biggest match of the year against King Edward VII. The boys showed enormous heart and managed to come out on top, winning by 3 goals to 2. What made this victory even more exciting was the fact that we were one of only three teams to beat King Edwards in either rugby or hockey - and we were the only hockey team to win. Later in the season, we won 6 out of 6 matches to lift the prestigious Boden Trophy. These two matches were the highlights of our season. I should like to commend Kyle LionCachet on his selection for the U16B
Mr M Workman The U16 C and D teams had a reasonable season this year; the teams have been enthusiastic and it has been a pleasure having boys turn up at practice and matches, eager to participate and give of their best, even though we invariably faced opponents who were older than our age group. The up-side of this is that it felt great when we beat a certain schools third team. As far as results went, we had a mixed bag of wins and losses, but I feel that we won the important ones, which is all that I could ask for. Team spirit was positive throughout the season and grew stronger towards the end. This spirit and the neversay-die attitude kept the team together and led to excellent hockey being played. I should like to congratulate the boys on great sportsmanship and team play and thank each of them for turning out regularly to practice and for games; your enthusiasm and positive approach to hockey is highly commendable.
- KA RESULTS: U16C PLAYED 5 WON 2 LOST 3 DREW 0
v St Benedicts: Won 1-0 & 2-0 v Jeppe: Lost 2-0 v Fourways: Won 5-0 v King Edward VII: Won 3-2 v Krugersdorp: Won 6-1 v St Davids: Won 2-0 & Drew 0-0 v St Stithians: Won 3-0 & 1-0 v Parktown Boys High: Won 2-1 v Noordheuwel: Drew 0-0 v St Andrews (Bloem): Won 3-1 v Crawford Lonehill 1st XI: Drew 0-0 v Michaelhouse: Won 1-0 v Trinity U16A: Won 4-0 v Pretoria Boys High: Won 2-0 v CBC Boksburgs U16A: Won 2-1 v St Albans: Won 4-0 & 1-0
RESULTS: BODEN TOURNAMENT:
v St Benedicts: Won 1-0 v St Dunstans: Won 5-0 v Benoni High: Won 8-0
QUARTER FINAL:
v Northcliff: Won 7-0

SEMI-FINAL:
v St Davids: Won 0-0; 2-1 on penalty strokes

FINAL:
v Parktown Boys High: Won 2-1

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U15B XI
CAPTAIN:
T Devchand
TEAM:
RESULTS: U16D PLAYED 6 WON 1 LOST 4 DREW 1
A Matthew, C Naidoo, D Harryprasadh, C Cunningham-Scott, T van der Bijl, M Stevenson, B Jones, P Sooklal, V Moyo, M Vyvyan-Day, C MacIver, M Visser, D Dartchiev
COACH:
Mr R Clarke The U15B team enjoyed a very good season this year. They won a number of hard-fought games, notably against Krugersdorp and Helpmekaar. The lowest
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couple of matches on the trot, and then developed into an outstanding team, playing for each other while maintaining a superb structure. This was no more evident than when, after being beaten by Michaelhouse 6 - 0 at the beginning of the season during the Nomads Festival at Maritzburg College, they beat the same team 2 - 0 in a very convincing display during the annual xture later in the season. This was testimony to every individuals ability to listen and willingness to work hard and stick to the game plan, all the while applying the ve fundamentals the team set out to achieve every time they took to the eld. Memorable victories were those against: Jeppe, St Stithians, St Andrews, St Albans and the 3 - all draw to Pretoria Boys; but the highlight was undoubtedly the win against Michaelhouse. Congratulations to Walter, Hamish, Alistair, Marthinus, Thami and Gareth on being selected for provincial teams, and also to Walter for captaining the side with much commitment and maturity.
- A L-C RESULTS PLAYED 23 WON 9 LOST 11 DREW 3
A triumphant St Johns U15A Team with the prestigious Boden Trophy
point of the season was a 2-6 loss to King Edward VII, a result that by no means reected the usual hard work the team put in. The team was ably led by Tejis Devchand, whose pace and knack for goal-scoring troubled all the defences we played against. Our defence was particularly strong this year, with Dilkash Harryprasadh standing out as a player of real quality. Matthew Vyvyan-Day controlled the mideld and our skilful, pacy forwards ensured that no opposition team could relax. These players will surely go from strength to strength in the next few years.
- RC RESULTS PLAYED 13 WON 4 LOST 2 DREW 1
enthusiastic and all made an effort to uphold the name of St Johns and to play to their full potential. Our team seemed to mature as hockey players during the season. Although we lost three games at the beginning of the season, if we had played those same teams at the end, I am sure that we would have won them. The hockey season was a huge success and produced talent from various players who will be knocking on the door of the B team next year.
- JJ RESULTS PLAYED 7 WON 4 LOST 2 DREW 1
U14 B XI
CAPTAIN:
C Thurling
TEAM:
U14A XI
CAPTAIN:
U15C XI
CAPTAIN:
W Pfaff
TEAM:
N Dartchiev, A Van der Hoven, M Taylor, K Pather, K Van der Walt, A Harvey, S Pascoe, N Mvelase, L Freemantle, T Ganyane, N Cowen, P Wynkaat, J Boyce, D Beeton, Z Bhayat
COACH:
J Rogerson
TEAM:
L Auret, C Dry, A du Plessis, N Dullabh, F Elliott, A Esplin, M Henderson, B Jones, J Modi, J Vermaak, M Lillie, N Vallee, V Mistry, A Mathew
COACH:
N Nagar, C Hartman, F Tonello, J Chemaly, A Fletcher, H Mollett, T May, M Strydom, G Kunz, K Nair, J Krynauw, I Rubombora, C Kathawaroo
COACH:
Mr N Dube The team showed determination on and off the eld. Most of our wins came because of the teams hard work, positional play, discipline and remembering the basics. The team sometimes could not compete physically against their opponents, but this did not stop them from producing superb play and good results. The most memorable game was against Parktown; both teams were eager to win, but with our superb goal
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Mr A Lion-Cachet The U/14A team enjoyed an extremely successful season. This is not measured by the number of matches they won, but rather the way in which they started off as a very average bunch of players, losing their rst
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keeper (Nikita), solid defence (especially Alex), good mideld and super strikers (Justin, Lennox and Ndumiso), we forged ahead to a 2-0 victory. Another outstanding result came when we beat the favourites, Michaelhouse, in a breathtaking game. Michaelhouse played their hearts out during the rst half and managed to take a 1-0 lead. During the second half we instituted certain positional changes which completely changed our play. We implemented all the necessary tactics and managed to win the game 2-1. The greatest overall achievement was that we played 15 games and lost only 1. This gave us a superb win rate. I hope that in the seasons to come, the players maintain their team spirit and determination, while improving their basics, as well as their individual and team play, so that each one develops to the best of his ability.
- ND RESULTS PLAYED 15 WON 14 LOST 1 DREW 0 RESULTS PLAYED 11 WON 3 LOST 7 DREW 1 RESULTS PLAYED 2 WON 0 LOST 1 DREW 1
U14 D
CAPTAIN:
PROVINCIAL GAUTENG HOCKEY SELECTIONS 2010

SOUTHERN GAUTENG SCHOOLBOY TEAMS:
M Reed
TEAM:
M Behrens (GK), K Kurji, S da Silva, A Mackenzie, S Minty, A Teixeira, B Francis, U Farooq, E Kerr-Phillips, R Batzon, K Singh, D Mauff
COACHES:
Mr W Davies, Mr B Tobias It has been a pleasure to coach these boys this year. The hockey season was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Some notable performances were given by: Sameer Minty, who kept the mideld intact for most matches and Umar Farooq, who led the forwards well and kept on encouraging the team to perform better. Team spirit was always on a high. Thank you, Boys, for your dedication and enthusiasm and good luck for next year.
- WD RESULTS PLAYED 5 WON 0 LOST 4 DREW 1
U/14 A Walter Pfaff U/14 B Marthinus Strydom, Zaid Bhayat U/14 C Gareth Kunz, Hamish Mollett, Thami May U/14 D Alistair Fletcher U/16 A Owen Newton-Hill U/16 B Kyle Lion-Cachet U/16 C Kyle Robertson U/16 D Nicholas Tennick U/18 A Matthew Becker U/18 B Huw Newton-Hill U/18 C Matthew Collins, Jonathan Austin U/18 D Richard Goodlace, Gary Hopkins, Rea Khumbane, Ben Walwyn, Roland Claven
U14C XI
CAPTAIN:
K Makhalimele
TEAM:
W Kohler, N Devonport, K Whiteld, C Maree, M Carter, K Prema, K Pillay, J Wheeler, M Varachia, D MtiziraNondo, B-D Joubert, G Arroyo, R Batzon, H Prag, Z Daya
COACH:
U14E XI
CAPTAIN:
A Diayar
TEAM:
Miss S May The team this year was captained by Kgotso Makhalimele, who did a sterling job of motivating the players and leading from the front. He was one of the leading goals scorers too, followed closely by Muhammad Varachia. Although we won only 3 of our games, we played to a high standard and with much enthusiasm, no matter how early and cold it was in the morning. Our greatest victory was in our last game: 4-0 against St Albans College, which made a great end to the season. It was a pleasure coaching the boys and I am certain that some of them will be playing in the B team next year.
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M Behrens (GK), J Gooch, D Gundelnger, A Jada, M Kolabhai, C Nedeljkovic, A Ozbayraktar, V Pansegrouw, G Stanchev, D Erasmus, S Sacranie, L Leonard, K Futter
COACH:
Mr W Davies I have enjoyed coaching this team and the season was enjoyed by every one of the boys. Ahmed Jada deserves particular commendation for his enthusiasm and dedication, but all the boys showed great team spirit. Thank you, Boys, for your enthusiasm and good luck for next year.
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2010 REPORT
1ST XV
CAPTAIN:
C Henson
VICE CAPTAIN:
G Hadjichristos
TEAM:
C Wilson, JP Meyer, G Milasinovich, T Berry, N Hale, B Baggott, H Bezuidenhout, K Schachat, B Rodger, S Tenza, J Newton, S Valjalo, D Jacobs, E Brownhill, P Raney, J Kruger
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will stand out as the highlight of the season. The forwards and the back line linked very well and the game plan came together. What was pleasant to see was that the set pieces were really good, from scrums to lineouts and planned backline moves. After that game, in broken play, we needed game breakers and rugby players with skill, which we lacked. However, we did well with the limited resources we had. It was encouraging to see how the boys
developed as the season progressed. The team showed lots of guts and passion and the boys were always proud to wear the 1ST XV rugby jersey. Overall, this team showed that they could play winning rugby, but a lack of concentration and self-belief hampered them. In conclusion, the 1st XV would have wanted to do better, but could still be proud of what they achieved. Rugby at St Johns looks promising.
Mr S Lourens, Mr M Heunes The rugby season for the 1st XV rugby squad started in October 2009 with a pre-season programme involving gym and work in the eld. The boys attended these sessions regularly and showed great discipline. This was followed by a rugby camp prior to the opening of the Easter Term. Going into the 2010 season, some of the boys were well conditioned, but not on par with our local opposition. The skill level of our boys was also not up to standard. This would haunt us during the season. The 1st XV wanted to play a total brand of rugby; this would mean that the backs should be able to ruck like forwards and the forwards should be able to run with the ball like the backline players. The 2010 season was one of mixed fortunes: games we were expected to lose, we won, and games we never should have lost, we lost. The game against St Stithians
FIRST TEAM RUGBY

Back Row: T Berry, B Baggott, N Hale, B Rodger, H Bezuidenhout Second Row: S Valjalo, P Raney, E Brownhill, J Kruger, G Hadjichristos, K Schachat Front Row: G Milasinovich, S Tenza, Mr M Heunes, C Henson (Capt), Mr S Lourens, D Jacobs, J Newton
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The photo says it all!
I would like to thank the following people: Mr Alan Duncan for preparing the elds Ms Lindsay Harris, Dr Dimitri Constantinou, Sr Venter and the First Aid team Mrs Irene Maxton for organising teas and refreshments Mr D Wentzel for organising referees Mr R v Ginkel for team conditioning Mr A Carolan: for video analysis All the boys for the dedication, discipline and commitment they showed during the season Last but not least, all the coaches.
The following teams participated in festivals: 1st XV: St Johns Easter Festival and the ISRF in Zimbabwe 2ND XV: H/S Monument Easter Festival U/16A: H/S Linden U/16 Rugby Festival U/15A: ISRF been played at Uplands College
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First Team Captain, Chad Henson, breaking through the line
Gareth Milasinovich charging towards the St Albans line
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War cry time!
The annual Rugby Dinner was held at The Johannian Club on Thursday 30 September and was attended by Mr Roger Cameron, the rugby coaches and the members of the First Team along with their fathers, as well as the recipients of several special awards for rugby and their fathers.
THE JUNIOR AWARD WINNERS WERE:
U14 Player of the year: Devon Henson U15 Player of the year: James Eckersley U16 Player of the year: Thomas Workman
1ST XV AWARDS:
Forward player of the year: Chad Henson Backline player of the year: Jason Newton Player of the year: Gareth Milasinovich
First team dinner
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The team in front of the Shangani Memorial at Worlds View, Matopos
1ST XV RUGBY TOUR TO ZIMBABWE

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS RUGBY FESTIVAL 16TH TO 22ND JULY 2010
On the 16TH July, the 1st XV gathered at OR Tambo Airport to y up to Zimbabwe to play in the Independent Schools Rugby Festival, hosted by Falcon College, a private boys boarding school out in the bush, about 50 km from Bulawayo. The spirit in the team was high, and everyone was keen for the tour, as, for some of the boys, it was their rst opportunity to wear The Blues jersey, whilst for others, it would be their last chance to play for the SJC 1st Team. Arriving in Bulawayo, we were shocked to see that the airport is merely an old hangar. The roads are also very poor as there are many potholes and the houses and buildings of the small city are in a state of disrepair. Driving out to the school, we passed through a police checkpoint and a toll plaza a plastic table and chairs set in the middle of the road, manned by revenue ofcers who charged cars US$1 and our bus US$5 to pass through! The
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dilapidated state of this country made us realise how privileged we are in South Africa. We were given a warm welcome at Falcon College. We had arrived two days before the festival started so that we could practise and build some team spirit. This, however, did not help us in our rst game against St Andrews (Grahamstown), a very strong, accomplished team - and we lost to them by a large margin. They were an outstanding team and well-deserved to win.
THE DILAPIDATED STATE OF THIS COUNTRY MADE US REALISE HOW PRIVILEGED WE ARE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Our second game was against the host school, Falcon College. This was a hard, physical game played in good spirit. Unfortunately there were many strange decisions, which left our team depleted
Gareth Milasinovich ghting off a tackle in the match against Uplands
Four of the ve Matric players in action in their last match for the Blues.
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during ten extra minutes of play - and the rather absurd outcome was that we lost a game we denitely should have won by one point. Gareth Milasinovich was named Man of the match. The last game was played against Uplands College from White River. After the two previous losses, the younger players in the team realised what its like to play at this level. We all lifted our game, as this was the last SJC match ever for the Matrics in the side. This was an open game and we ran the ball from every corner of the eld. In the end, we left the eld as comfortable winners.
ON THIS TRIP, WE ALSO SAW BUSHMEN PAINTINGS IN ONE OF THE CAVES, LEARNED ABOUT CECIL JOHN RHODES AND PAID A VISIT TO HIS GRAVE ON ANOTHER OF THE GRANITE HILLS CALLED WORLDS VIEW.
On our one day-off, we were treated to a day out in the magnicent Matopos Hills just outside Bulawayo. On this trip, we learned a great deal from our excellent guide about bushcraft, how to survive in the bush, the animals found in the area and the history of this famous World Heritage site. We climbed a huge, sacred rock mountain; some of us struggled to get to the top, as it was a really steep climb, but the effort was well worth it: from the top, we had an amazing 360 degree view of the granite rocky outcrops that stretched for miles and miles. On this trip, we also saw bushmen paintings in one of the caves, learned about Cecil John Rhodes and paid a visit to his grave on another of the granite hills called Worlds View. We picnicked beside the beautiful Maleme Dam and had a really enjoyable day. We should like to thank our coaches, Mr Lourens, Mr Heunes and Mr SchlarChik, our physio, Ms Lindsay Harris, and some of the parents for accompanying us on this memorable tour.
- Thomas Berry & Khathu Ramabulana
Team-talk at half time in the Uplands match
Climbing the sacred mountain in the Matopos Hills
After the nal game
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2ND XV
CAPTAIN: COACHES:
Mr D Bradley and Mr B Cotterell E Vincent

TEAM:
J Constantinou, K Ramabulana, P Raney, K Wiid, J Kruger, L Frewen, I Kruger, J Lap, J Coulter, M Berry, T Blanc, D Coundourakis, E Brownhill, M Trindade, D Moraba, R Kovel, M Pfeffer
COACHES:
Mr D Wentzel, Mr J Sklar-chik The 2nd team of 2010 showed much potential and played outstanding rugby at times. Unfortunately the results do not reect the effort and progress made during the season. There were some hard-fought battles won, such as our 8-7 victory over King Edward School and our 11-0 victory over Parktown Boys. Although we were not always successful on the score sheet, every single player developed and improved through the season. At the end of the 2010 season, the Twos were a family of players. I should like to make special mention of a few players who performed consistently well throughout the season: Jack Coulter for an outstanding season and his big tackle against St Andrews; Kathu Ramabulana for making the most tackles I have ever seen a schoolboy make on a eld; and Dino Condourakis for his never say die attitude. In addition, every single player worked hard and must realise that ones efforts cannot always be measured by results.
- DW RESULTS PLAYED 13 WON 4 LOST 7 DREW 2
The 3rd XV of 2010 was truly a team worth being part of. Every team has its ups and downs, but Im pleased to say that we grew substantially in spirit, skills and tness, resulting in great camaraderie and close friendships both on and off the eld. The season on the whole was a good one, though the results werent always satisfactory. However every boy played a crucial role in the team. I thank each one of the team members for never giving up and always showing true College spirit. I wish the boys the best of luck for the 2011 season and truly hope theyll continue to give of their best and move from strength to strength. I should like to thank the boys for an entertaining season. We worked hard but unfortunately, on occasions, we let ourselves down, and in 4 games lost by less than 7 points. I believe that more often than not, it was a lack of self-belief that cost us. We tended to lose games late in the second half when we had previously dominated both possession and territory. To those players coming back next year, it is crucial that you are t by the time the season begins and certainly, if you have aspirations of playing in either the 2nd or the 1st Teams, you will need to be ready early in the year! It was pleasing to see the number of players who moved up to the 2nd Team during the season.
-DB&BC RESULTS PLAYED 8 WON 2 LOST 6 DREW 0
and ready to give their all. There were some excellent combinations formed: the mighty locks (L van der Griendt and N Hock), as well as some lovely links between our two expats, B Marffy and M de la Fargue. We should like to take this opportunity to thank the boys for their wonderful commitment and spirit.
- W V & L vdG
5TH AND 6TH XVS

CAPTAIN:
SQUAD:
M Bantock, A Bhavanbai, C Bland, K Brummer, Y Bulbulia, J Coates, M Cordes, J Cullum, S Dasoo, B Dell, M Dryden, C Durandt, S Forbes, A Fox, C Grant, S Hato, J Hawkins, M Hubbe, J Ireland, M Irvine, N Jelonek, L Jubane, C Kocher, B Lasker, M Lee, S Lee, C Louw, J Luxmore, M Macklin, Y Maharaj, B Marffy, J Maycock, T McNeil, L Mogale, S Mokgalong, N Morgan, J Nevin, F Mtula, T Padi, M Piek, T Pooe, H Prinsloo, N Ried, C Roberts, G Rowan, J Sam, B Streeter, R Stuart-Thompson, P Swart, B Vorster, J Wesseloo,
COACHES:
Mr A Norris, Mr R Nguru, Mr G Heidt, Mr M Taylor It was Michael Green who commented that rugby is a game played by approximately fteen a side, at least half of whom should be totally unt. Unfortunately the members of the 5th and 6th rugby teams took this to heart, as their attendance at Tuesday afternoon tness sessions was rather poor in comparison with their attendance at Thursday afternoon skills sessions! The majority of last years squad found themselves representing teams of greater import and a new string of participants arrived to ll their shoes (some still not convinced that rugby was actually a good choice for a winter sport). A few of the stalwarts did return, however, and the presence of Robbie The Punisher StuartThompson and Brent Twigs Streeter certainly bolstered the squad. The 5th team managed some convincing performances against our traditional rivals, securing victories over St Davids, St Benedicts and St Albans. Notably, the 5th team was the only open
4TH XV
CAPTAIN:
3RD XV
CAPTAIN:
W Verhoogt
TEAM:
B Forsyth
TEAM:
R Kovel, P Malakou, J Bulabula, J Lap, W Marchant, J McGraw, D Protopappas, D Trollip, M Berry, C Grobelaar, B Meyers, A Nocton-Smith, N Lambropoulos, I Kruger, N Gordon, M Sullivan, W Verhoogt, C Grant, R Engelbrecht, M Kirk, T Louw
F Mtula, S Christiansen, C Durandt, N Hock, L van der Griendt, E Wessels, B Streeter, B Marffy, M de la Fargue, B Dell, M Dryden, T Lekubu, C Marais, S Xayiya, J Nevin The 4ths were unlucky this year, struggling to put together a winning game plan. The team chopped and changed owing to the number of injuries higher up, but still managed to run out onto the eld excited
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team to beat St Davids on a rain-soaked, bitterly-cold morning in Illovo. Regrettably, the 6th team failed to win a game this season, but they did manage to chalk-up the greatest losing margin (against Pretoria Boys High School), leaking 88 points in an abbreviated game on D Rugby. For all that the victories did not come our way, we out-performed the Springboks in this years Tri-Nations - and a memorable season was had by all!
RESULTS: 5TH TEAM PLAYED 7 WON 3 LOST 4 DREW 0
opponents, but they played with their hearts on their sleeves and produced some gutsy performances, particularly against St Albans and St Benedicts . They also played good rugby against Northcliff, St Andrews and Parktown. The same thing cannot be said for the B team, as they had the size but lacked discipline, structure and the will to win. Good luck next year, Boys, in the senior age group. Use the lessons you have learnt well, and we look forward to seeing you compete for the coveted Blue Jersey.
RESULTS: A TEAM PLAYED 13 WON 4 LOST 9 DREW 0
them to work as hard in the future. I look forward to watching this young team reaching its full potential in the years to come.
- WP RESULTS
RESULTS: 6TH TEAM PLAYED 7 WON 0 LOST 7 DREW 0
RESULTS: B TEAM PLAYED 9 WON 0 LOST 8 DREW 1
v Jeppe: lost 12-29 v Michaelhouse: lost 14-19 v Kearsney: lost 6-32 v Uplands: won 7-0 v KES: lost 16-24 v St Davids: won 24-0 v Parktown: won 17-0 v St Andrews: lost 5-15 v St Stithians: lost 7-23 v Michaelhouse: lost 14-15 v PBHS: lost 0-69 v St Albans: lost 10-12
U16A/B
A TEAM CAPTAIN:
U15 A XV
CAPTAIN:
T Ndzimande
TEAM:
J Eckersley
TEAM:
P Qwabe, A Testa, M Phakathi, W Murray, NJ Maree, W Antonites, G Olivier, T Workman, W Coulentianos, D Potgieter, B Jardine, M Conway, J Swartz, T Phosa
COACHES:
J Reinecke, L Rensburg, R Lindsay, I Seeco, J Fletcher, M Papas, B Dial, M Dzanibe, Ncala, T Kyagambiddwa-Nyanzi, M du Toit, M Antonites, N Sayanvala, Y Essop, H Hattingh, D Maxton, N Vosloo
COACHES:
Mr N McFarland, Mr A Norris
B TEAM CAPTAIN:
Mr W Pretorius, Mr T Ntene Rugby is about commitment, passion and choosing the right options at the right time. It is about a steely pride in ones defence, refusing to allow ones line to be crossed. Above all, it is about determination, concentration and mental toughness. The 2010 team did embody these character traits and it was a privilege to be associated with the squad of boys. Regardless of their results, they gave 100% and maintained a wonderful team spirit all season. As the season progressed, they grew in condence and started to become involved far more physically. This is a side with a never say die attitude and a willingness to learn and improve. Throughout the season, they have shown great heart and character in victory and in defeat. I thank the boys for their loyalty and dedication and should like to encourage
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T Tengende
TEAM:
M Temlett, J Schwartz, J Durandt, J Odgers, K Leslie, D Theofanidis, M Wolfe, S Theron, D Bradley, L Mako, N Ambler-Smith, I Meyer, K Maseko
COACHES:
Mr N McFarland, Mr A Norris As in previous years, the expectation at the beginning of the rugby season was high. Results, however, will not come without hard work, regular practice and the will to put ones body through the pain barrier. A strong work ethic was certainly a feature of the A teams dynamic; unfortunately, what they had in will power, enthusiasm and team spirit, they lacked in size, skill, pace and air. The A team players were often dwarfed by their
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U15Bs tussle for the ball v King Edward VII
U15B lineout v Jeppe
U15B XV
CAPTAIN:
D France
TEAM:
M Antonites, J Brown, M de Barros, E Engelbrecht, Y Essop, V Foccart, C Hale, H Hattingh, R Hopkins, P Kalian, T Kyagambiddwa-Nyanzi, M Lane, N Martin, N Mokhobo, M Neto, R Olver, D Trninic
COACH:
we had held the lead for most of the game; nevertheless, the boys had every reason to feel proud after a superb effort. I take this opportunity to thank the boys and their parents for a most enjoyable season.
- RV RESULTS PLAYED 9 WON 2 LOST 6 DREW 1
Mr R Venter It was a real pleasure to be involved with this talented and determined group of boys. Having been closely involved with this team last year, it was extremely gratifying to see the vast improvement in results on the whole. While the win/loss ratio was not much better than last year, it is the margins of defeat that one needs to look at. In many cases, the team experienced narrow, even unlucky, defeats against teams which had beaten them by 50 points or more the previous year and, were it not for injuries to key players, these losses could easily have been converted into victories. This dramatic improvement can be ascribed to a greater mental toughness on the part of the boys. I rmly believe that they are now well-placed to enjoy an excellent season in their U16 year. A highlight of the season was the away game against Michaelhouse, who had thumped us the previous season. After a pulsating game, the teams ended up locked together on 22 points each. We were a little unlucky not to come away with a victory, as
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U15C & D
U 15 C CAPTAIN:
G Bowie
TEAM:
D Ramushu, E Langa, B Blose, L Motloung, G Campbell, L Chew, N McLaughlin, B Rabie, J Dodkins, R Warinda, T Maphasa, M Ponoane, O Khosana, G Botha, G Jackman, R Buchanan
U 15 D CAPTAIN:
W Fletcher
TEAM:
S Harley, J Berry, C Louw, D Ramushu, S Wynne, L Kahle, N McLaughlin, C Johnstone, D Kronenberg, R Graves, R Jewell, A Morgan, S Nene, A Jennings, B Van Staden, E Williamson,T Claiborne
COACH:
Mr L Mattiuzzo The U15 C and D season was fairly
successful and was enjoyed immensely by the players. Both teams showed remarkable improvement which was made possible by the outstanding commitment of the players who formed the core of the two teams. As a result we were able to eld two teams that were able to play a solid game of rugby throughout the season. The C team elded a powerful scrum that the opposition found tough to keep back and this strength, together with the prowess of Thulani Maphasa, our formidable scrumhalf, ensured possession of the ball at the breakdown. Thulani, together with Ryan Graves, the D team scrumhalf, demonstrated admirably that size and strength arent everything when it comes to playing rugby. Both backlines, led by Grant Bowie and Jack Berry respectively, enjoyed running the ball. While we needed to improve our defensive line, the back lines of both teams demonstrated their attacking prowess to great effect and really enjoyed taking the game to their opponents. While there were some disappointing losses in the middle of the season by both teams, the C team managed to end the season on a positive note with a fantastic win in their last game against St Albans College. The D team, despite their lack of victories, will be remembered as a side that never gave up. The players in both teams, have shown some remarkable talent and have demonstrated that they are able and willing to be coached and moulded into competitive teams.
- LAM
SPORT
U15C RESULTS PLAYED 8 WON 3 LOST 5 DREW 0
U15D RESULTS PLAYED 7 WON 0 LOST 7 DREW 0
U14A XV
CAPTAIN:
the boys for their loyalty and dedication, particularly my captain who played and led from the front. I thank my fellow coaches for their positive input and support during this great season. I should like to encourage the players to work as hard in the future and never take success for granted. Lastly, I should like to thank the parents for their loyal support of the coaches and their sons. Without them, the team would not have been as successful .
- CB RESULTS PLAYED 16 WON 14 LOST 2 DREW 0
my fellow coaches for their positive input and support during the season. I should like to encourage the players to work as hard in the future and never take success for granted. Lastly, I should like to thank the parents for their loyal support.
D Testa
TEAM:
L Pan, N Papas, A Marquis, R Nutt, A Scott, C Strong, R Brinkmann, D Henson, O Gnodde, C Moses, R Fuller, T Zeeman, W Malan, D Stead, T Sanyika
COACHES:
U14B XV
CAPTAIN:
Mr C Bossert, Mr F Romijn
MANAGER:
P Rosenberg
TEAM:
Mr G Bossert What a season! What a team! It was a great pleasure and honour to coach the U14A team this year. To have a team like this is every coachs dream. The boys have a great deal of talent, but they did not rely purely on that. They worked very hard, were committed at every practice and even more during the game. This is a team with a never-say-die attitude. The pre-season highlights were: winning 6 out of 6 games at the Parktown Easter Rugby Festival, beating teams like Hilton, Pretoria Boys High School, Jeppe and Saints. It was good to have a team that was never scrummed back and never lost a ball in its own line-outs. Having very quick back line players, who made their rst-time tackles, and a forward pack which always gave us go-forward ball made it easy to win games. The only disappointments this season were losing to Jeppe in our rst game and losing to Pretoria Boys in the last minute. The highlight of the season, however, was beating KES 10-9 on their home soil and playing the best rugby of the season when we beat St Andrews 62-0. The boys grew in body, mind and character and we could see it as the season drew towards its closing stages. This is a team to watch in the future! I wish them the best of luck with their College rugby careers and hope to see them as a mighty First Team in 2014. I thank
J Swanepoel, J Savenye-Terblanche, L Mota, L Dzedze, S Bielderman, D Kane, K Motsepe, G Harvett, S Greeff, N Makhopela, K Swana, B Skirving, T Mudiwa, T Clarke, S Verheul, K Teixeira
COACHES:
Mr C Bossert, Mr F Romijn
MANAGER:
Mr G Bossert The season started off quite badly when we lost our rst match against Jeppe. The boys were nervous and some were so scared they would make mistakes that they were too cautious and did not give their all. They worked hard during the following week and came out tops against St Benedicts College. We received a few hidings: from King Edward VII School, Michaelhouse and Pretoria Boys High School, but the team never gave up and always came back to the practice eld with renewed energy. One could see that the game plan was executed better and better with every game they played. The structures fell into place and the boys really enjoyed the rest of the rugby season. We ended the season by beating St Albans quite comfortably. I wish all the boys luck with their College rugby careers and hope to see some of them playing for the First Team in 2014. I thank them for their loyalty, dedication and wonderful spirit and I thank
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SOCCER
2010 REPORT
Overall the season was very productive. Football is still very young at St Johns but is growing, as this year we elded: four U14, three U15, two U16 and three Open teams. Despite their varied commitments in other areas of the school, which made it difcult to keep a structured programme in place, the boys turn-out at trials, early season practices and matches was very pleasing. The effort put in by the boys was magnicent throughout the season. The 1st XI, brimming with condence, produced football of high quality and managed to reach the semi-nals of the highly regarded St Davids Tournament and the last eight of the St Peters Festival.
16B 15B
I Meyer, B Tsele, L J Chinna, L Langschmidt, P Qwabe, S Reddy, L Gibson, L Mokgosi, B Sithole, T Tengende, L Mako, C Soal, N Phakathi, F Bhavanbhai, J de la Fargue, B Stow, M Mangera, O Semunonoka.
15A
J Sanders, G Agostinetto, A Williamson, M Tregoning, J Hooper, M Dzanibe, S Slabbert, T Devchand, T KyagambiddwaNyanzi, S Mkhize, N Ncala, Y Essop, S Ontong, M Vyvyan-Day, J Eckersley, M Ponoane.
D Ramushu, D Harryprasadh, R Warinda, L Kahla, G Bowie, M Antonites, J Modi, E Langa, Z Nkondo, D Dartchiev, J Chabikuli, S Nene, J Thurling, C Cunningham-Scott, M Lane, V Mistry, O Vincent, G Jackman, O Kgosana, V Moyo, L Quinn, M Dasoo, N Dullabh, B Jones, R Graves.
TEAMS
1ST XI
M Becker(Captain), S Valjalo, J Newton, P Loureiro, D Mafumu, R Khumbane, S Tenza, D Jacobs, S Xayiya, T Ndzimande, E Brownhil, T Lekubu, J Kruger, W Coulentianos, M Collins, P Collins, Z Patel.
2ND TEAM
E Creamer, S Reddy, M Cordez, A Kogadi, M Maswanganyi, A Patel, E Laher, K Ramabulana, L Jubane, T Adewuyi, A Bampile, E Gikonyo, J Seff, C Odere.
16A
N Ambler-Smith, N Kuehnemann, P Ontong, K Maseko, T Zindi, M Morojele, D Fisher, A Tuma-Waku, Jody Swartz, M Dube; R Mhlari; T Phosa; B Jardine; M Conway.
FIRST TEAM SOCCER

Back Row: J Kruger, J Newton, E Brownhill, Z Patel, T Lekubu, P Collins Second Row: T Ndzimande, W Coulentianos, R Khumbane, D Mafuma, M Collins Front Row: P Loureiro, T Senza, M Becker(captain), D Jacobs, S Xayiya
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14A 14C
F Tonello, M Strydom, D Henson, L Pan, Z Bhayat, T Sanyika, R Fuller, D Testa, C Moses, N Mvelase, O Gnodde, L Crouch, S Greeff, K Makalimela, T Zimmerman, T May.
14B
W Kohler, I Rubombora, N Makhopela, L Mota, K Pather, G Arroyo, L Freemantle, T Mudiwa, C Magagula, C du Plessis, J Wheeler, A Fletcher.
14D
S Pascoe, Z Daya, D Zondo, K Swana, A Quinn, C Leesam, G Kunz, R Brinkman, K Motsepe, J Krynauw, G Harvett, J Boyce, J Chemaly, S Katrakilis, L Felder-Busztin, L Dzedze, T Clarke, K Nair, C Kathawaroo,
M Behrens, C Hartman, N Dartchiev, S Minty, R Mackell, N Nagar, S Sacranie, S Bielderman, K Pillay, D Kane, J Prior, B Francis, H Prag, K Prema, A Texeira, A Jada, N Cowen, K Singh, U Farooq, C Thurling, M Reed, J Swanepoel, S Kanjere, J Burnett
THE EFFORT PUT IN BY THE BOYS WAS MAGNIFICENT THROUGHOUT THE SEASON.
RESULTS
TEAMS 1ST 2ND U16 A U16 B U15 A U15 B U14 A U14 B U14 C U14 D
v St Davids v St Albans v St Benedicts v KES v Parktown v St Peters v St Stithians
0-0 0-1 2-2 2-3 3-2 n/a
2-1 4-2 0-2 0-6 n/a n/a 2-6
2-2 4-4 0-0 3-2 0-3 2-1 0-2
1-2 3-2 1-0 0-0 n/a 2-0 6-2
1-2 3-2 2-1 1-2 1-3
2-3 2-1 2-2 0-3 n/a
2-2 7-1 2-0 2-5 8-0 1-1 3-3
1-3 2-0 1-3 1-7 n/a 5-0 3-0
0-3
0-2
ST DAVIDS FESTIVAL
TEAMS ST DAVIDS BENONI NORKEM PARK ST ALBANS ST STITHIANS CORNWALL HILL KES
1st team
1-3
ST DAVIDS
3-1
ST ALBANS
2-0
CORNWALL
1-0
BENONI HIGH
3-0
NORKEM PARK
0-0
ST STITHIANS
1-2
U15 A
0-1
ST DAVIDS
2-3
ST ALBANS
2-0
ST PETERS
2-3
BENONI HIGH
0-2
NORKEM PARK
0-3
ST STITHIANS KING EDWARD
U14 B
0-4
3-3
5-1
2-0
4-2
3-1
0-1
BATTLE OF THE SAINTS (ALL TEAMS)

TEAMS U16 A U16 B U15 A U15 B U14 A U14 B
v St Stithians v St Benedicts v St Davids v St Peters
1-0 0-1 0-2 1-1
1-0 1-1 0-0 3-1
1-2 1-0 0-0 1-0
0-0 1-1 0-1 1-1
0-0 1-0 1-3 0-0
0-1 1-0 0-4 4-1
ST PETERS FESTIVAL 1ST TEAM

TEAMS ALAN RIDGE ST ALBANS DAINFERN SUNWARD PENRYN ISSA
1st team
2-0
2-0
3-0
0-2
4-0
0-1
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LITERARY
ADAM AND STEVE
In the beginning there was the bucket, Adam and Steve. The oversized bucket contained the unwritten history of the world that was to be. Adam was, contrary to common belief, a miniature turkey. Engaged with a single occupation, Adam ran. He ran ever-faster circles around the huge bucket. Steve, the androgynous mystic rapper, released existential angst by rapping to the beat of Adams footsteps: Who am I? What am I? Where am I going? What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to be?... These were some of the lines Steve used to torture Adam. But that was before the beginning. Soon after what seemed like a beginning-withoutend to Adam, the miniature turkey could no longer endure the monotony of his running and Steves rapping. He stopped. He stared at Steve with evil intent and screamed at him in his high-pitched voice: What kind of a rapping name is Steve? After this brief moment, that essentially marked the beginning, Adam continued his incessant revolutions around the bucket, since he knew no better. But everything had changed for Steve, who saw no point in rapping any longer. Like the philosopher who runs out of questions, Steve enraged, hopeless and disgusted kicked the bucket. The tumbling bucket slowly started to spill its contents, and it would have emptied had it not been for the miniature turkey. Adam, his existence threatened, positioned himself to contain the spillage, carrying
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the heavy object on his shoulders. But the unwritten history of the world had started to drip out second by second, minute by minute, hour after hour and soon the years rushed out like rain onto the world to be. Still now every second a little bit of history trickled out of the bucket, lifting some of the burden off Adam. Steve started rapping again.
Luc Feldner-Busztin Remove
VARIATIONS ON A CROWN
Stupid crown. So much fuss over a crown. Why all this fuss? Its not even that nice anyway, hardly ts on my head, weighs a couple of hundred tons and is for some reason worth more than the royalty I naturally possess. Its got diamonds on the side that they imported from Southern Someplace and North-East God-knowswhere, all cut to complete perfection. Down to the last inch. To the last millimetre. If it broke, no-one would really care that Im the Queen. Maybe thats what I should do then. Good idea, actually. Break the crown. Two birds with one stone. Both birds dead on their backs, of course, spread-eagled, stonecold deceased: being the queen lifeless as you like; wearing this crown pushing up the daisies. Ill make it look like an accident. Lean over casually to one side, jerk the neck so that it falls on the oor, then accidentally trample on it a few times so that it snaps. Can gold snap? I dont imagine its very malleable. But brittle wouldnt be the right term either. Most people would say solid. And you cant snap it if its solid. Now I have to get ready. Stupid photograph. Not even a photograph; cameras arent invented. A portrait. Me and my sons. Except son implies youth. These are just two men who once came out of my womb. Both want this crown, incidentally.
Maybe I should just give it to them. Except I dont really want to. A young girl, around twenty-ve that is young, isnt it? is pulling off my clothes. Arms up as my undershirts get pulled over my head. Stockings down to the ground, left only in my hefty plus-sized lingerie. I now don a brown, rufy dress. Pretty, actually. Not like what Im used to. I put on new shoes. Never really liked doing that. Old shoes have always been more my thing. Now shes ushering me through the door. Silly girl, doesnt she know? I cant go out of my room without something on my head. Cant she see that Im bald? I decide that she cant see Im bald. Probably because Im not bald. But my hair is thinning. I cant let people see me like this. A Queen needs to look respectable. Another idea. Go out without my crown. Dont wear it. Break the mould, ght the power, no to the man. If I break it theyll hang me up by my drawstrings and shoelaces. If I give it up, my idiotic sons will become the new heroes of inbreeding. So rather dont wear it. My ofcial portrait, a family shot, small grandchild crawling on my left leg, and Im not wearing my crown. Brilliant, Vicky. My mind made up, I make to follow the girl out of my room, but a sideways glance at a mirror ares my dormant vanity. Thinning hair. Its grey too. I scatter things around till I nd something. A oral headdress. Fits like a glove around the top of my head. Perfection. I walk down the stairs, happy. The garden is set up neatly. A white chair for me to sit on. My sons, looking mortied at the sight of me, frame me from behind, while my youngest grandson Simba paws me affectionately. The artist, all French and moustachioed, examines and begins. I turn my head away from him. No-one says anything. Im the Queen. And Im not being rude, but if Im to sit on a white chair for the rest of the afternoon, I want to be comfortable. Besides,
this way he captures my good side. My other cheek has the hint of a beard growing. My thoughts are entirely with me. A crown not on my head, Im free. A tune runs through my mind. A concerto. Bach, or Beethoven, or Vivaldi, or someone. It has a steady tempo that brings a smile to my lips. My head sways slowly, in time with the movement of the music. Words of a poem come to me. The verse of a sonnet. Whether its of my own creation, or if its a fragment of a long-forgotten, now-remembered stanza, I cant quite tell. And I dont quite care. I sing aloud a tune that I make up on the spot. Im tone deaf, so Im sure it sounds horrid. And its probably not the appropriate thing to do when Im being drawn. But Im more-than-enough years old, so I think Ive earned the right to do what I like. Walking on a dream How can I explain? Talking to myself Will I see again?
Andy Petersen UV
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WITNESS CHAIR
I push open the door and step into the familiar hallway. Even before my eyes have adjusted to the dim light Im drawn by the familiar aroma of smoke, from the camphor block and incense sticks next to the murti. I expect to see you sitting on your rocking-chair, coiled ngers enclosing a cup of chai, while you witness the beauty of nature. I expect the usual greeting of your heartwarming smile, tight hug and trademark kiss on the cheek. Yet I see and feel nothing nothing but dust motes twirling timelessly in a beam of sunlight. In the kitchen, the row of glass bottles on the windowsill, lled with your handmade athana, splashes a mosaic of colours onto the wall. Almost everything stands where it was like the old frying pan, now empty of the hot rotli that, with a deft ick of your wrist, you would ip neatly into place. How we teased you about liking your rotli soaked in ghee. There next to the pan stands the AMC pot once lled with succulent chicken biryani. You used no recipes, but seemed to know naturally when to add a touch of salt or a dash of masala. I move through to the sittingroom where your coffee-tanned rocking-chair stands, perfectly positioned for a view through the window. You liked to know all that was going on. You would give an accurate report-back to my parents in the evening on how the gardener and our domestic worker wasted their time talking on their hand phones. Your witness chair is now faded to a mushroom fawn colour by the stretched arms of the sun. Those few stains, from my tangled eating of beetroot, still remain noticeable. You tried to scrub them away using your faithful Handy-Handy while you gave me a death-stare. I can almost see you sitting there now, your brown wrinkled skin contrasting with your white cloud of hair. Sitting in the rocking-chair I lean back and close my eyes. I start to recall the many memories of story-telling as a child. We sat spellbound listening to tales of Lords Vishnu and Krishna. I would rest my head against your chest to be close to the comfort of our heartbeat, hearing the faint whistles as you breathed, giggling at the vibrations when you spoke. Its so different now your chair
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rocking irregularly with the dancing wind, witnessing unaccompanied the beauty of nature; the carpet now bare without your footstool. You spent most of your time sitting on this very chair gazing through the glass into the garden you created, witnessing a whole new world of endless beauty. Today, I sit, rocking- chair facing your picture, witnessing the endless beauty of my life. Yes, the curtains will fade, the bottles of athana will disappear and even this very witness chair will die a quiet death. But your memory lives on, Ba.
Shaneel Kalyan UIV
up and down when we reach for the sky then delve deep into a pool of immovable thought. Happiness is creating nothing speaking silence emoting unfeeling. To conjure is to destroy. Happiness is the self-defeating, ironic paradox not.
Thomas Geffen LV
BUTTERFLY, DO YOU HEAR ME?

I never stalked you but I never denied being a wolf. Cradled in the centre of this four-posted enclosure clasped are my arms around your silk cocoon. The melody of respiration, whispers of my sweet nothings, is all that can be heard. My urge for howling comes as I look to the moon. For I was once a stalker in the woods of temptation bushy-tailed and sharp-eyed for anything I could sink my teeth into. Now you have me caught in a snare of disbelief. How can I be loved by this gem, when I am just a thief? Now I steal these precious moments to watch you evolve for shortlived is your magnicence once those sheets are removed. To love, half a century is insufcient thats if you could be wooed by a wolf struck by the beauty of what he never thought to pursue. Gracefully you awake a sigh, the sign a smile, soft and supple as your form. I press my lips to the esh of your cheek woven ecstasy when our ngertips meet, uttering If only I had words to describe this rich, rich harlequin. Buttery, do you hear me?
Razeen Adams LVI
HAPPINESS IS...
Like the indusial breath of a comma, its not really there until you pause to realise its gone. A climax were hunting something someone else is getting a shadowy memory of the past the treasure lost where we buried it Philosophising until our entire world becomes joyful never pausing to realise it would take a melancholic global famine to induce our gluttony of bliss. When were the only person sitting at the banquet happiness never gatecrashes. In that beatic explosion of ecstasy we dont encounter an epiphany or a sudden revelation which makes us leap for joy Its not that moment when nothing happens and the world stands still as we oat. Its not a chemical reaction inside our heads when we release endorphins like prisoners of war. But there is still a war fought to seek out that happiness which we believe is entrenched on the other side of impossibility where our ripples serve only to reect our motion a continuous path of no magnitude leading
LITERARY
BHANGRA
I remember it well. Without warning the music began. Chalie! I heard: the Indian cry to unite. Lets go! I was whisked into the writhing throng of bright saris and dazzling jewellery, and instinct overtook me. My hands shot into the air in response to the music pounding at my ears; my legs pushed me into the air, as if they were suddenly possessed with the same Indian spirit that surrounded me. Bright lights and colours blossomed as streamers, reworks and heavily decorated musicians ew about me in the purest expression of joy and celebration: bhangra. After two months in this country I thought Id seen it all and learnt enough, but that night was the one Id never forget. The acrid smell of gunpowder from the masses of bright owering reworks caught in my throat. My ears screamed at me Whats happening?; my mind screamed back Let go! My friend and guide through this strange wonder that was India joined me and we danced together, he and I, entirely unaware of the main attraction, which was the groom. He rode through the convulsing swarm of rapturous people upon a white horse, its body adorned with garlands of fresh white and red owers, thick paint and strings of extravagant jewellery. His head was engulfed in a huge red turban, tied specially for the event. His every limb was mottled with great rubies, and diamonds which blinded the eye. Bright lights dazzled me as the video cameras were swung around by fevered amateur cameramen. Wildly embroidered umbrellas whizzed overhead to add to my mindset: Im truly far from home. My thoughts of alienation were scattered as my hosts family joined me in the dervishlike dancing to the loud beat of brass and drum. The crowd moved slowly toward the giant entrance of the ceremonial tent; the groom oated elegantly towards his marriage. Crimson powders wafted in the air, launched by people holding vast pots of bright chalky rangholi. Suddenly everyone screamed as they recognised a loud voice above the passionate sound of traditional music. The thick Punjabi song lled the air and seemed to blend with those innumerable reworks. My vision began to blur as the sweat dripped from my
decorative turban, past my kurta pyjama and onto my eccentric, curly-toed Punjabi shoes. The smells of delicious butter chicken, naan and sweet jelebis wafted through the vibrant atmosphere. As we neared the end of our ecstatic dance I could feel the buzz of elated celebration begin to calm and allow for the more serious part of the ceremony: the meeting of the families. A sudden silence consumed the air around me as the grooms father eyed the brides. He launched himself at the man and wrapped him in a hug only an Indian could produce. The music blared back to life and the other family members ran out to greet each other. I remember that feeling. Being part of a family so unlikely and foreign. This was my India.
Alistair Bashall LV
IN THE SILENT MOMENTS

Its in the silent moments of the day, when Im alone, that the events of that night relive themselves. Its in these odd yet cruel moments, that I register fully the hostility that I experienced. To nd peace every day, is to nd joy in a world that can triumph over this kind of hostility a hostility that changes and challenges us. When it happened, I felt oblivious both to the invasion that I was undergoing and to the violation of my own security. When Im not oblivious, is when Im sitting in a silent
place, recalling the events of that night. The night was young, casting a golden light over the coffee shop, and illuminating the mood of the evening. The people around me were loud and glowing and the atmosphere at our table was chilled exactly the vibe I was looking for after a taxing week at school. The night was a great one, without any feeble expectations or silly games. It was about eleven oclock when we decided to go home; people were starting to leave and the mood was withering. My friend (lets call him Jim) was taking me
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home that night as he usually did on a Friday, and when his parents arrived I was tired and glad that the evening was drawing to a close. They dropped me off, as usual, just outside the small complex where I live. From there I would walk to my house which is situated at the very back of the complex. It was halfway down the winding little road leading to my house that I realised something was not quite right. There were no lamps in the complex and the night was especially dark and looming, which caused my eyes to distort objects that were usually most recognisable; and it was owing to this that I may have led myself to misrepresent the three objects in front of me until they started moving. Moving almost effortlessly, they advanced on me. I didnt understand what was happening. Two of them hurled themselves at me, knocking me to the ground, where the gravel was rough and harsh against the skin on my face. I was panicked and horror-stricken: the strength of my assailants was overwhelming, and I knew that my best chance at survival was simply to lie there and co-operate. There was something deeply disturbing about the following minute, in which they gagged me and forced me up. Memory blurs. They were faceless and menacing, pushing and forcing me to the end of the complex where I was not sure what would happen. Then, suddenly, I snapped. It was as if an alarm switch had
been set off in my brain: I ung my arms in every direction and hurled myself at the open space between the two that were holding me from the front. I was free from their clasp. In that second I acted quickly and yet dangerously. I pulled the gag from my mouth and started screaming, in the hope that someone anyone would hear me. The indistinguishable and horric gures were startled by the loudness, and they took action immediately. As they ran, I could feel hope creep into the situation, a situation in which I felt undeservedly the victim of an immensely violent act. But at that point, as I ran and let myself into my home, I knew that I was protected. Its in the silent, unprotected moments of the day that these memories creep into my mind and infect my thoughts. Luckily, I nd some comfort in the thought of a higher justice, in which people who have inicted such atrocities have to answer for their actions. But truthfully, there is no consolation. All that there is, is the promise of a future in which we can rejoice and know that one day well look on our lives and recount our memories in the silence.
Ian McBride LV
PLAYGROUND WARFARE
Sneaky snipers stalking through the weeds and shrubs Somewhere someone screams Then all is still again. Soldiers swing on wings of swings or spitres Dodging Jungle Jim HQ Come, men, mount the ridge! top the to way the Nervous feet obey all Attack! and down the other side of the slide Comes the battalion at adrenalin-pumping speed Victory, victory is ours! The buccaneers have ed, the reserves have arrived The ground is crimson with autumn leaves, The stronghold park? is safe
Benedict Didcott-Marr LIV
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THE OLD JOHANNIAN Regional Representatives ........................................................................................................................................................137 Governing Committee .............................................................................................................................................................138 Chairmans Message ...................................................................................................................................................................140 101st Annual Dinner ..................................................................................................................................................................141 Valedictory Dinner .....................................................................................................................................................................142 Gaudy Day ........................................................................................................................................................................................144 Eagle Awards ...................................................................................................................................................................................148 Reunions ............................................................................................................................................................................................149 Old Johannian Club ....................................................................................................................................................................156 Obituaries .........................................................................................................................................................................................158 Farewell ..............................................................................................................................................................................................163 Old Boys in the News ..............................................................................................................................................................164
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A WORLDWIDE NETWORK OF OLD JOHANNIANS 2010
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
AUSTRALIA
ROBERT JOHN HIRSH
SOUTH AFRICA
KWAZULU NATAL CLIVE SCOTT HENDERSON
UNITED KINGDOM
KIMON DE RIDDER
P.O Box 514 Brighton SA 5048 Australia h (0961) 8 8298 2941 w (0961) 8 8295 5090 f (0961) 08 8295 5299 e dress@specialsize.co.au
PHILLIP LOOTS
PO Box 1096 Pietermaritzburg 3200 w 033 345 2508 f 033 345 2515 c 082 458 4335 e clive@henderson.co.za
4 Jubilee Gardens Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 2BJ United Kingdom w (00 44) 20 7853 1973 c (00 44) 78 1005 1994 e Kimon.deridder@ge.com
NEW ZEALAND
MICHAEL HAWARDEN
Apartment 5 254 Rokeby Road Subiaco 6000 Western Perth WA 6005 Australia w (0961) 8 92819702 c (0961) 4 00246851 e philip.loots@westnet.com.au
TIM LE ROY
WESTERN CAPE GLENN BABB
31 Lavidge Street Ashwood Victoria 3147 Australia t/f (0961) 3 9807 0052 e timleroy@optusnet.com.au
PO Box 121 St James Western Cape 7946 h 021 788 8363 w 021 788 7069 f 021 788 6273 e babrius2@mweb.co.za
PO Box 36-382 Merivale Christchurch South Island New Zealand 8030 e mhawarden@attglobal.net
GUY KERR PHILLIPS
EASTERN CAPE HAM HARRISON
CANADA
JOHN FULTON
132 E Rockland Road Upper Lonesdale North Vancouver Canada BC V7N 1R6 h (091) 604 986 7581 c (091) 604 377 3187 e johnpfulton@shaw.ca
PO Box 1903 Plettenberg Bay 6600 t/f 044 533 0373 e bajim@telkomsa.net
49 William Gable Drive Fernbank Albany Auckland New Zealand 1311 w 0964 442 5086 e guyp@clear.net.nz
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GOVERNING COMMITTEE
GOVERNING COMMITEE
THE OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND HONORARY AND EMINENT ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
President: Vice-President: Chairman: Hon Secretary: Hon Treasurer: Honorary Life: RDT Cameron TH Bothwell, CW Midgely, AS Thompson, AH Wilcock, MG Workman, D Yates AC MacFarlane AJ Futter AJ Duvenage RJH Baillie, MW Carter, MP Dietrich, FR Else, AMD Gnodde, JH Gordon, RJ Harris, WE Harrison, BB Henderson, R MacFarlane, SG Morris, JL Petyt R England, EA Lawther, ENG McDonald
Eminent Association Members:
OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION OFFICE

Ofce Staff: Website: E-mail: Telephone Number: Heather Cooper (Director), Lauren Dicks (Development Ofcer: Events and Sponsorship), www.oja.co.za info@oja.co.za 011 648 9303
GOVERNING COMMITTEE 2010

Chairman: Hon Secretary: Hon Treasurer: Elected Members: A C MacFarlane(1970 Clayton) A J Futter(1993 Alston) A J Duvenage(1999 Alston) E P R Ward(1996 Thomson) D J Boyce(1981 Nash) SG Raney(1974 Nash) DJ Patricios (1998 Clayton) M C vd Griendt(1974 Alston) D A Dry(1979 Alston) R J D Bradeld(1981 Thomson)
Co-opted Members:
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A C MACFARLANE
1970 Clayton
A J FUTTER
1993 Alston
A J DUVENAGE
1999 Alston
D J PATRICIOS
1998 Clayton
E P R WARD
1996 Thomson
D J BOYCE
1981 Nash
SG RANEY
1974 Nash
M C VD GRIENDT
1974 Alston
D A DRY
1979 Alston
R J D BRADFIELD
1981 Thomson
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participating in a provincial tournament and therefore unavailable to play on Gaudy Day. What was most encouraging about the sport played on Gaudy Day was the amount of interest shown by the Old Johannians with regards to participating in the various OJA sports teams, in particular from the younger Old Boys. This resulted in a few older Johannians having to step aside and let the younger Johannians take the eld and represent the Association. The increase in interest expressed by the younger Old Johannians can be attributed to the improved communication on the part of the Association, which includes the use of Facebook, and the marketing undertaken by the College, in particular the efforts of Martin Huysamer. Also, the improved scheduling of the events of the Gaudy Day weekend and the recent success of past Gaudy Days has also contributed to increased growth of the day as a whole. The results from Gaudy Day were as follows:
Soccer Team
GAUDY DAY RESULTS

SPORT HOCKEY
Some team spirit
Participants Score Participants Score

SPORT
1st XI 1 2nd XI 1
BASKETBALL
v College 1st XI 1 v College 2nd XI 3
Participants Score
SPORT
OJA 36
SOCCER
v College 20

SPORT
1st XI 3 2nd XI 2
RUGBY
v Prep 1st XI 3 v Prep 2nd XI 3
Participants Score
Old Johannian XV 12
v Old Edwardian XV 44
All sport on Gaudy Day was played in a fantastic spirit. All Old Johannians participated enthusiastically and produced some ne performances, although the Prep soccer players seemed to have been inspired more by the World Cup than their older opponents, who struggled to match their high skills level! It was wonderful to see such a range of Old Johannians take to Burger Field for the game against the Old Edwardian XV. This saw the likes of Owen Nkumane (1994), James Henry (1994) and Graham Green (1995) playing alongside Old Boys fresh out of school. Special mention must be made of the way in which all of the rugby players approached their game: it exemplied the celebration that is Gaudy Day. Thanks must be extended to the Old Edwardians for turning out on the day and producing such a brilliant performance.
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OBITUARIES
DECEASED
ALAN GRANT 8 October 1985 to 30 September 2010 DOROTHY YATES 22 July 1926 to 6 April 2010 RICHARD FOWLER 7 October 1941 to 24 June 2010 AGB HOOK 5 August 1916 to 30 June 2010 ATHOL JOHN WOOD 30 January 1912 to 26 April 2010 EAMON ANTHONY (CHUCKS) WYNNE 11 November 1921 to 22 September 2010 JOHN (JOCK) CLAUDE DICKSON 7 August 1942 to 15 November 2009 DEREK MAGGIE ALLEN CLARK 28 May 1928 to 19 April 2009 REVD. DAN STEPHENSON LE CORDEUR 8 January 1949 to 11 August 2010 GLEN GALLAGHER 11 November 1935 to 10 April 2010 RICHARD THATCHER Born on 31 August 1943 LAURENT PEYREMORTE 3 March 1971 to 22 September 2010 DR G. NICOLAS FRERICHS 7 March 1940 to 23 July 2010 DENNIS AINSLEY ANDERSON 30 September 1924 to 21 December 2008
THE REVD DAN STEPHENSON LE CORDEUR

8 JANUARY 1949 TO 11 AUGUST 2010
Dan le Cordeurs sixty-one years span some of the most monumental social and political changes Southern Africa has known. Born in colonial Botswana to cattle farming parents, Dans childhood home, Bonnington, is now a suburb of Gaborone. Dan was the last-born of ve children, the only son of Daniel and Rene. As with most children of farming stock, Dan lived away from home from the time he was six: rst, at Makeng Convent (1955) and then, at St Johns Prep and College, Johannesburg from 1957. Until recently, Dan rarely spoke of those years with affection. The combination of an institutionalised childhood and tumultuous transition from adolescence to adulthood whilst trying to make sense of a South African National Education contributed signicantly to Dans tendency to smile somewhat benignly at, and then often to ignore, convention. After training at UCT as a Marine Engineer (1967), Dan took to the seas for eight years and saw the world from the deck of a SAFMarine container ship. He eventually jumped ship long enough to fall in love with Patricia Geoghegan. The bohemian newly-weds took to the road singing Give Peace a Chance and searching for meaning in a world hell-bent on war. Dan and Trish eventually found steady jobs and established a home in Hout Bay where James, William and Matthew were born. Dan was increasingly challenged by the visibility of poverty on his own doorstep. Dans spiritual journey was sparked by Ben,
a bergie from Hout Bay, who invited him to church. Increasingly Dan wanted to contribute to structural change in South Africa but felt he lacked a mandate. In 1986, while Archbishop Tutu was advocating for sanctions across the world, Dan, Trish and the boys left Hout Bay to live at Maria Linden Mission Station in rural Transkei in order to work with the Matatiele Development Centre. These were years of spiritual renewal for Dan and Trish and they emerged convinced of his calling to the priesthood. A year after Mandela was released (1990) Dan, Trish and boys moved to the Federal Theological Seminary in Imbali (1991) and then to St. Josephs Scholasticate in Cedara (1993) where Dan trained for the priesthood. Dan was selected as a special election monitor assigned to cover rural hot spots that were expected to erupt into violence during SAs rst democratic elections (1994). Bishop Geoff Davies ordained Dan in 1996, and he worked in uMzimvubu Diocese before moving to St Anns Diocesan College (1998) where he was Chaplain for ve years. During this time he developed strong relationships in Mpophomeni and became the rst chairperson of Umgeni AIDS and then its director (2004), before taking up a position with the Childrens Emergency Relief Institute (2008). Like many who have contributed to the transitions of the last two decades, Dan felt increasingly marginalised by the very institutions that most claimed to champion the voices and rights of the poor. While Dan maintained a lively relationship with local
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congregations, and especially St Michaels, Boston, he lamented the loss of the prophetic voice of the community of faith. Dan grew weary of having his opinions categorised, rather than heard. South Africa doesnt silence prophetic voices by stoning them. We will hopefully never again detain the outspoken, or imprison our Mandelas. Dans concern however, was that in our democracy, we so readily put probing voices into passive perspective and the effect is the same: unholy silence. In this, his rst year of retirement (2010), Dan increasingly looked to spend time in the places where his inuence could be more practically felt: Trishs Hilton Pharmacy, renovating their home, their family and friends and planning a future together. It was while Dan was meditating on such possibilities that lay ahead that his life was cut short, leaving us bereft, wanting more. Dan is survived by his life partner, Patricia, and three sons, Matthew, William and James.
- The Revd. Dennis Bailey
DOROTHY YATES
22 JULY 1926 TO 6 APRIL 2010
Dorothy was born into a wellestablished family; she would have felt at home in the company of royalty. This said, she did not elect to follow such a life style; rather she chose to marry the man she loved and to accompany him wherever his missions took them. As we know this brought them, in 1954, to St Johns College and this is where they remained for the next seventeen years. These were very good years for the College and were wonderfully fullling years for Deane but they were severe and effacing years for Dot. It was in these years that Dot had anticipated and expected to have and to raise a family. This was simply not to be. Greater things, or things that they together made greater, lay ahead. From their lovely home at the top of Munro Drive which commanded a magnicent view of the Magaliesberg, Deane and Dot moved to live, albeit temporarily, in a tent on the then outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana where taking a bath became the pleasure of the week! Maru a Pula School was in the
making. It was at Maru that Dot came into her own and ourished. She taught and played an active and leading part in the schools community service. She was the girls house-mistress, was with the man she loved and she played a loving and full role in the lives of the children who surrounded her every day. There was a moment in Gaborone when Dots English heritage was satised. I remember it well! It was when Deane received the OBE. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Dots shoulders stretch back as she stood proudly to attention. Deane and Dots Maru a Pula time spanned ten years. During these years they had founded a family as well as a school. Dot never looked back. They returned to Johannesburg where they both built on their Maru a Pula experience, and where Dot brought something fresh and exhilarating into St Andrews School, Bedfordview. It was, however, in their home that Dot and Deanes life showed its greatest change. No sooner were they in it than it became a wonderfully rich and warm family home. Dot continued to be the mother she was destined to be and Deanes peace was no longer as quiet and restful as it once had been. Dot had enriched it! There are many parts of Dots life which I have not mentioned; this was inevitable; certainly her greatest strength lay in the depth, love and sincerity of her faith in God. In this, she was matched by Deane. They were a wonderful couple. All who knew them were privileged. Dots nal year was spent in poor health. The vivacity and generosity that belonged to her were gone. Her departure came as a welcome release. Deane was at her side. May she rest in peace.
- David Matthews
GLEN GALLAGHER
11 NOVEMBER 1935 TO 10 APRIL 2010
Glen Gallagher, a respected and wellknown architect and founding member of GAPP Architects and Urban Designers, sadly passed away on 10 April 2010, aged 74. He was born in 1935 to Dorothy and Norman Gallagher. Glen grew up in
Johannesburg and went to prep school at St Johns College and for senior schooling to Hilton College in the Natal Midlands. He studied architecture at Wits University and went on to work as an assistant architect in London and in New York City. He completed his masters degree in Architecture under Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania. Three years ago, the University of Pretoria awarded him an Honorary Doctorate acknowledging his contribution to the forming of the South African built environment. Renowned for his thoughtful, caring and sensitive intellectual pursuit of the discipline of architecture, his output and inuence on the profession has been immense. Playing a signicant role in architectural and urban planning affairs as a member of numerous committees, in particular those concerned with housing and education, Glen served as President of the Transvaal Provincial and South African Institutes of Architects, Alternate Councillor of the World Council of International Union of Architects, as a member of its Habitat Working Group and acted as an advisor to academic and government institutions and other professional bodies. As a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), he defended South African interests during the years of isolation and through his initiation and chairmanship of RIBAs South African Bursary Fund, he ensured that South African students, disadvantaged by apartheid, received support. In 1976 he produced the lm Ikhaya for the International Union of Architects (UIA) which dealt critically with housing problems for low-income people in South Africa. Shown at international conferences of the UIA, the Commonwealth Association of Architects and the Habitat Conference of the UN in Vancouver at a time when South Africa was excluded from the UN, it won second prize at an international lm festival for housing and planning lms, held in Geneva. Glen, who was awarded the Sophia Gray Laureate at the University of the Free State, made a direct contribution to the education of young architects as a design lecturer and visiting critic and external examiner at local and international universities. He published widely on aspects of the
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FAREWELL
ROB BAILLIE
OJ (1953-1963), ORGANISER OF THE OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION
Rob Baillie retired at the end of March 2010. Rob served on the Old Johannian Governing Committee for 30 years, serving as Organiser of the Old Johannian Association for eleven years. He was chairman of the OJA Governing Committee from 1993 to 1997, Chairman of the Johannian Club for six years, served on the St Johns Council for six years and was a trustee of the St Johns Foundation for nine years. He was also a member of the St Johns Parents Association for three years. As chairman of the OJA, he and his committee were responsible for the purchasing and rebuilding of the Johannian Club, Runge House and the Tim Woolcott Centre in 1996. In 1984, Rob also initiated the 1963/64 Old Boys Bursary Fund. We wish Rob every happiness in his retirement.
Father Michael and Jill Arnold
FATHER MICHAEL AND JILL ARNOLD

Father Mike Arnold retired from St Johns College, where he had been the School Chaplain for 10 years, at the end of 2009. An Old Johannian himself, he was dedicated to the spiritual welfare of the boys and welcomed them into his home as part of his cell group programme. He also welcomed them into his home whenever possible on a purely friendly basis - and his wife, Jill, would often tell the delightful story of a L11 pupil asking, when told that Mike had been a pupil at St Johns, Oh, did you have Mrs Haupteisch as your teacher, too? He is remembered with great affection by so many of his pupils, in whose lives he has played a signicant spiritual role, Mike is a larger-than-life gure who, during his years of passionate service to the St Johns community, was never afraid to stand up for his beliefs, and in so doing, was not afraid to encounter the enmity of others who disagreed with his understanding of the truth. Mike and Jill spent the rst year of his retirement in Johannesburg, with Jill continuing to teach at St Johns Prep. Soon after, they retired properly to the Cape to be nearer to their family. The good wishes of the whole community goes to Father Michael.
KIM HAW
SECRETARY OF THE OJA
Kim left the association at the end of December 2009 to pursue her interests in the Johannian Club on a full time basis. She loyally served the Association for nine years, during which time she formed many friendships with Old Johannians. Her efforts in building up the Associations electronic network, tracking lost Old Johannians, assisting with communications and reunions are greatly appreciated and we wish her every success with her endeavours at The Johannian Club.
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AUSTRALIA
ROBERT JOHN HIRSH
SOUTH AFRICA
KWAZULU NATAL CLIVE SCOTT HENDERSON
UNITED KINGDOM
KIMON DE RIDDER
P.O Box 514 Brighton SA 5048 Australia h (0961) 8 8298 2941 w (0961) 8 8295 5090 f (0961) 08 8295 5299 e dress@specialsize.co.au
PHILLIP LOOTS
PO Box 1096 Pietermaritzburg 3200 w 033 345 2508 f 033 345 2515 c 082 458 4335 e clive@henderson.co.za
4 Jubilee Gardens Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 2BJ United Kingdom w (00 44) 20 7853 1973 c (00 44) 78 1005 1994 e Kimon.deridder@ge.com
NEW ZEALAND
MICHAEL HAWARDEN
Apartment 5 254 Rokeby Road Subiaco 6000 Western Perth WA 6005 Australia w (0961) 8 92819702 c (0961) 4 00246851 e philip.loots@westnet.com.au
TIM LE ROY
WESTERN CAPE GLENN BABB
31 Lavidge Street Ashwood Victoria 3147 Australia t/f (0961) 3 9807 0052 e timleroy@optusnet.com.au
PO Box 121 St James Western Cape 7946 h 021 788 8363 w 021 788 7069 f 021 788 6273 e babrius2@mweb.co.za
PO Box 36-382 Merivale Christchurch South Island New Zealand 8030 e mhawarden@attglobal.net
GUY KERR PHILLIPS
EASTERN CAPE HAM HARRISON
CANADA
JOHN FULTON
132 E Rockland Road Upper Lonesdale North Vancouver Canada BC V7N 1R6 h (091) 604 986 7581 c (091) 604 377 3187 e johnpfulton@shaw.ca
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PO Box 1903 Plettenberg Bay 6600 t/f 044 533 0373 e bajim@telkomsa.net
49 William Gable Drive Fernbank Albany Auckland New Zealand 1311 w 0964 442 5086 e guyp@clear.net.nz
GOVERNING COMMITTEE
GOVERNING COMMITEE
THE OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND HONORARY AND EMINENT ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
President: Vice-President: Chairman: Hon Secretary: Hon Treasurer: Honorary Life: RDT Cameron TH Bothwell, CW Midgely, AS Thompson, AH Wilcock, MG Workman, D Yates AC MacFarlane AJ Futter AJ Duvenage RJH Baillie, MW Carter, MP Dietrich, FR Else, AMD Gnodde, JH Gordon, RJ Harris, WE Harrison, BB Henderson, R MacFarlane, SG Morris, JL Petyt R England, EA Lawther, ENG McDonald
Eminent Association Members:
OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION OFFICE

Ofce Staff: Website: E-mail: Telephone Number: Heather Cooper (Director), Lauren Dicks (Development Ofcer: Events and Sponsorship), www.oja.co.za info@oja.co.za 011 648 9303

Chairman: Hon Secretary: Hon Treasurer: Elected Members: A C MacFarlane(1970 Clayton) A J Futter(1993 Alston) A J Duvenage(1999 Alston) E P R Ward(1996 Thomson) D J Boyce(1981 Nash) SG Raney(1974 Nash) DJ Patricios (1998 Clayton) M C vd Griendt(1974 Alston) D A Dry(1979 Alston) R J D Bradeld(1981 Thomson)
Co-opted Members:
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THE OLD JOHANNIAN.....................................................................................................................................................135 Governing Committee .............................................................................................................................................................139 Chairmans Message ...................................................................................................................................................................140 101st Annual Dinner ..................................................................................................................................................................141 Valedictory Dinner .....................................................................................................................................................................142 Gaudy Day ........................................................................................................................................................................................144 Eagle Awards ...................................................................................................................................................................................148 Reunions ............................................................................................................................................................................................149 Old Johannian Club ....................................................................................................................................................................156 Obituaries .........................................................................................................................................................................................158 Farewell ..............................................................................................................................................................................................163 Old Boys in the News ..............................................................................................................................................................164
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A C MACFARLANE
1970 Clayton
A J FUTTER
1993 Alston
A J DUVENAGE
1999 Alston
E P R WARD
1996 Thomson
D J BOYCE
1981 Nash
SG RANEY
1974 Nash
M C VD GRIENDT
1974 Alston
D A DRY
1979 Alston
R J D BRADFIELD
1981 Thomson
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CHAIRMANS MESSAGE
CRAIG MACFARLANE OCTOBER 2010
This past year, the Associations Committee has faced a number of challenges and introduced changes in day-to-day operations that have been in place for many years. These changes have allowed us to focus our efforts on the communication and administration aspects of the Association, and, at the same time, rationalise and obtain benets through shared resources with the College.
Heather Cooper and Lauren Dicks have taken on their new roles at the Association, and we are already seeing the benets of having people dedicated to performing these new specic roles. The Annual Dinner, held the evening before Gaudy Day, is testament to these changes. We had, according to all reports, the best dinner in many years, attended by over 140 people. Owen Nkumane, St Johns only Rugby Springbok, was the guest speaker and the evening was great success. Gaudy Day, following the new format introduced a few years ago, continues to grow in popularity and support, and we are most appreciative of the efforts put in by the whole of the St Johns community to welcome all the Old Johannians and their families to celebrate Gaudy Day at the College. One of the main focus areas of the Association is to be able to grow the bursary support we give through the College Bursary Committee, and we hope, in the next few years, to increase the value
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of bursaries granted through revenue generated by projects such as the Seattle Coffee shop at the Johannian Club. The Association Committee is made up of a small group of Old Johannians who have the best interests of the Association and of St Johns at heart. We would really like to invite more OJs, especially those who have left in the past ve to ten years, to become part of the committee. This would ensure that we stay abreast of all developments, as well as being able to represent the whole spectrum of the Johannian community. Please contact any one of the committee members to take this further. I would particularly like to thank the following people: Andrew Duvenage, our treasurer, for all the hard work to ensure that our accounting records, income and expenses are well managed; Anthony Futter, our Honorary Secretary; Mark van der Griendt, the Chairman of the Johannian Club; Edward Ward, for the signicant improvement in our communications; and Dave Patricios, for all the support given to the Old Johannian sports clubs. Also thanks to Damian Boyce for his involvement in completing the Seattle Coffee buildings next to the Club which, with the support of the community, will generate additional income that we plan to add to the bursary fund. All the members of the committee play a vital role in helping us remain focused and objective in the work done by the Association. I thank all of you for your
dedicated and seless contributions to the Association. It is important to the Old Johannian community and the College that the Old Johannian Association remains active and relevant and your Association Committee seeks to achieve both. Your continued support is sincerely appreciated and vital. We welcome any feedback you may have which can help us to maintain a vibrant and viable Old Johannian Association.
101ST ANNUAL DINNER

OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION ANNUAL DINNER
The 101st Annual Dinner was held on 16 August 2010 at the Old Johannian Club. This years dinner saw a great turnout with 140 guests attending.
We were pleased to see a wide range of classes represented, from the most recent Matrics of 2009 all the way back to the Matric class of 1957. The atmosphere at the dinner was very festive. The evening started with drinks and music, followed by dinner and dessert. One of the highlights of the evening was the guest speaker, Mr Owen Nkumane. We were very fortunate to have Owen with us that evening, and everyone enjoyed his words. The dinner continued late into the night, as many guests moved into the Boars Head Pub to continue reminiscing. Thank you to everyone who attended this great event. We look forward to seeing you all next year.
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VALEDICTORY DINNER
VALEDICTORY DINNER
CRAIG MACFARLANE, 16TH OCTOBER 2010
I began preparing my speech for tonight some weeks ago; however, due to some recent developments, I have changed my words to ones I feel are more relevant to a group of young men leaving St Johns after Matric. in the press. The point I am making is that in both instances, there were choices made, actions taken and inevitable consequences. First, the rhino poacher was shot and killed. The poacher knew full well what he was doing, and paid the ultimate price. The second incident involving suspected kingpins in poaching and while this is still all tied up in the courts, once again we have a clear example of people making a conscious decision to do something illegal. The last, and in our case here the saddest, is the case of boys being expelled from this wonderful school because of the choices they made. We are not here to debate those issues, but I stand here tonight painting a picture. Every day in our lives, we have to make decisions: some easy, some difcult. team that is St Johns College, and you will soon join the ranks of a new team, that of the Old Johannians - a team that stands ready to welcome you all into a new chapter in your St Johns life. Most of you attended the Gaudy Day service in the Chapel in July this year. I was privileged to be there, and it was a tting beginning to a fabulous day hosted by the College. The combined choirs were the best we have enjoyed for years; the service was led by Bishop Duncan Buchanan, himself an Old Johannian. There was great spirit in the sporting and cultural events, topped off by the lunch in the marquee and then nally dare I mention it? - Old Eds beating the Old Johannians. Tonight, you will all be presented with your Old Johannian ties. I remember noticing in past years Matrics taking off their old school ties, and replacing them with the new ties. I see this as a very symbolic act, as today you effectively nish your formal school days and become Old Johannians, so it is tting that you make this change tonight. We at the Association welcome you into our ranks, and we look forward to seeing you at Gaudy Day in years to come, as well as many of the other fabulous events, such as the Rugby Festival (where you can now legally enjoy a cold beer) and On the Night, to mention just two. Make these events into mini-reunions; meet up with friends from this year and years gone by; it is a fun way to keep those friendships alive and to remain a part of the College community. Lastly at the beginning of this year the new Alan Wilcox Vulindlela Centre
It all has to do with the choices and decisions we make in life and the outcomes or consequences that result from our choices.
Two issues troubled me particularly. The rst issue I should like to deal with is the terrible slaughter of rhinos in SA. I was privileged to be in the Pilansberg Reserve a few weeks ago and enjoyed seeing some of the magnicent rhino in the reserve. One morning, we were stopped, looking at a lion and lioness, when a Parks Board vehicle with a number of very military-looking men on the back raced past us, almost scaring the lions away. We were a bit put out as they raced past, but later that evening we forgave them, as we heard on the news that they had been responding to a rhino poaching incident. In fact, in the re-ght that ensued, one poacher was killed. The very next week we heard that four more rhino had been poached in the Pilansberg, The BIG poaching story was probably the arrest of eleven people, including vets and game farmers all allegedly linked to rhino poaching. The second issue was the very sad incident regarding St Johns boys, and the selling of drugs at the school. This really saddened me, as I always hoped that we would not see this type of incident reported
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The real sadness comes when we make decisions that put us in conict with the law and with society as a whole.
You are all aware of the Lead SA project which is, coincidentally, headed up by Michael Spicer, an Old Johannian. I ask you - no, I implore you all - not to make decisions on the spur of the moment that may have very serious ramications for your life in the future.
Stand up for what is right! Turn away from, and if possible report, that which you know is wrong!
Tonight, you end the formal day-to-day part of your St Johns College years, and prepare to face the Matric exams. You have been part of the ever-growing, successful
VALEDICTORY DINNER
TONIGHT, YOU END THE FORMAL DAY-TO-DAY PART OF YOUR ST JOHNS COLLEGE YEARS, AND PREPARE TO FACE THE MATRIC EXAMS. YOU HAVE BEEN PART OF THE EVER-GROWING, SUCCESSFUL TEAM THAT IS ST JOHNS COLLEGE, AND YOU WILL SOON JOIN THE RANKS OF A NEW TEAM, THAT OF THE OLD JOHANNIANS - A TEAM THAT STANDS READY TO WELCOME YOU ALL INTO A NEW CHAPTER IN YOUR ST JOHNS LIFE.
was opened. This was the culmination of a massive project, built at huge cost to the school. Projects such as this are not possible without nancial and other support from, amongst others, the Old Boy Community.
OJA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE 2010

SPEECH DAY, 14 OCTOBER 2010
This is the Association of which you are now becoming a part. I urge you to use it in years to come, to facilitate friendships and contacts, and hopefully, in your own way, to contribute to the ongoing growth and development of St Johns College.
This will allow us in the words of the School Prayer, To send forth many rightly trained in body, mind and character, to serve Thee well in Church and State. I should like to end with three quotes: The rst is from Albert Einstein, who said: Education is what remains, long after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. The second is from Charles Darwin: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. The third is simply an old, but very relevant African Proverb: Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Good luck with your Matric exams, and as you leave us, go out into the world and make us proud of all of you!! Goodbye! Good Luck! Hambani kahle!
Andrew Peterson Callum Black Christopher Roberts Nicholas Hock Michael Irvine Paul Cresswell Austen Partt Jonathan van der Bijl Eugene Manditsera Ben Da Silva Christopher Grose
Authorship Academics Academics Water polo Water polo Squash Karate Basketball Basketball Clay pigeon shooting English Olympiad
OLD JOHANNIAN MEMORIAL PRIZE

FOR LEADERSHIP 2010
George Hadjichristophis
(Head Boy)
VALEDICTORY DINNER
19 OCTOBER 2010
J C De Kock Award
Benjamin Marffy
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GAUDY DAY
WELCOME FROM THE HEADMASTER
Welcome to Gaudy Day. I do hope that your return to St Johns will bring to mind fond and happy memories of your time spent here.
Gaudy Day provides an opportunity for all of us to give thanks for Gods many blessings on St Johns College. It also provides an opportunity to renew old friendships and make new ones. We are delighted with the positive comments we received regarding last years Gaudy Day, and we hope that this years will be equally enjoyable. Since Gaudy Day last year, we have had the opening and blessing of the new Alan Wilcock Vulindlela Centre, The Michael Marais English Centre, The TW Kambule Quad and The Rene England Auditorium. We have also re-established Hill House as a boarding house and are in the process of renovating Nash, Hodgson and Runge boarding houses. We have refurbished the kitchen and we are building a new water polo pool. These exciting developments will add huge value to St Johns College. It means that in the College we will have 258 beds available for boarding in 2011. There is a big demand for weekly and termly boarding and we anticipate that boarding will be full. This is a huge change from 10 years ago when boarding numbers had dropped to 54. I am delighted with this progress and encourage you to have a look at the new boarding facilities in Hill House, and the new accommodation in Hodgson and Runge.
St Johns College continues to produce excellent academic results, both in the nal National Senior Certicate (IEB) and in Cambridge A-Levels. On the sports eld we continue to do well. I should like to thank all those who have worked very hard towards making this day a success, and I thank you for taking the time to come and share it with us. I wish you a wonderful day and I look forward to meeting you. Roger Cameron
GAUDY DAY
The 2010 Gaudy Day celebration took place on 17 July 2010. The event was wellattended with over 500 Old Johannians
and other guests participating in the Sung Eucharist and Commemoration of Benefactors held in Memorial Chapel, watching the cultural and sporting events held throughout the morning, and enjoying another superb lunch in the marquee. During the service held in the chapel, Roger Cameron presented Eagle Awards to Mr Dru Gnodde (OJ 1946) and Mr Selwyn MacFarlane (OJ 1952) for their signicant contribution to South African society through their championing of Christian education. The 2010 Gaudy Day sport involved the Old Johannians competing against the College and Prep in ve sports. Unfortunately, the College squash team was
Rugby Team
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participating in a provincial tournament and therefore unavailable to play on Gaudy Day. What was most encouraging about the sport played on Gaudy Day was the amount of interest shown by the Old Johannians with regards to participating in the various OJA sports teams, in particular from the younger Old Boys. This resulted in a few older Johannians having to step aside and let the younger Johannians take the eld and represent the Association. The increase in interest expressed by the younger Old Johannians can be attributed to the improved communication on the part of the Association, which includes the use of Facebook, and the marketing undertaken by the College, in particular the efforts of Martin Huysamer. Also, the improved scheduling of the events of the Gaudy Day weekend and the recent success of past Gaudy Days has also contributed to increased growth of the day as a whole. The results from Gaudy Day were as follows:
Soccer Team
GAUDY DAY RESULTS

SPORT HOCKEY
Some team spirit

SPORT
1st XI 1 2nd XI 1
BASKETBALL
v College 1st XI 1 v College 2nd XI 3
Participants Score
SPORT
OJA 36
SOCCER
v College 20

SPORT
1st XI 3 2nd XI 2
RUGBY
v Prep 1st XI 3 v Prep 2nd XI 3
Participants Score
Old Johannian XV 12
v Old Edwardian XV 44
All sport on Gaudy Day was played in a fantastic spirit. All Old Johannians participated enthusiastically and produced some ne performances, although the Prep soccer players seemed to have been inspired more by the World Cup than their older opponents, who struggled to match their high skills level! It was wonderful to see such a range of Old Johannians take to Burger Field for the game against the Old Edwardian XV. This saw the likes of Owen Nkumane (1994), James Henry (1994) and Graham Green (1995) playing alongside Old Boys fresh out of school. Special mention must be made of the way in which all of the rugby players approached their game: it exemplied the celebration that is Gaudy Day. Thanks must be extended to the Old Edwardians for turning out on the day and producing such a brilliant performance.
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EAGLE AWARDS
EAGLE AWARDS
ANDRIES MICHAEL DRURY GNODDE
Dru Gnodde was born on the 24th September 1928. He started school at St Johns in 1937 and nished in 1946. After completing his Matric, he went to the University of Cape Town to study for a BA from 1947 to 1949. In 1950, he furthered his studies at Wits doing an LLB part-time. He obtained an MA LLB First Class Honours degree from Christs College Cambridge in 1955. In 1955, he joined Goldelds of South Africa until he retired as the deputy chairman at age 60 in 1988. He continued to serve as chairman of ve listed companies and of the Rand Water Board. St Johns College appointed him to Council while Deane Yates was headmaster. He was also appointed as Chairman and served for fourteen years, before retiring at the end of 1987. Mr Gnodde served on the Transvaal branch of the Association of Private Schools, acting as chairman for six years. During this time, he led the negotiations with government to allow private schools to admit pupils of all race groups and to make grants available. Mr Gnodde was married to Mary in 1956 and in 1997 was sadly widowed. He has four children, David, Richard, Gillian and John, and eight grand children.
WILLIAM SELWYN MACFARLANE

Selwyn MacFarlane was born in Johannesburg on 17th July 1935. Mr MacFarlane matriculated after ten years at St Johns Prep and College, with three Matric form prizes. He graduated in Theory of Accountancy C.T.A at the University of the Witwatersrand, and is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa). He was also awarded honorary life membership in recognition of service to the profession. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. In 2005 he graduated cum laude as a Bachelor of Theology through the University of South Africa. In 1953 he wrote articles of clerkship for Aiken & Carter (professional accountants). He became Financial Manager for Union Liquid Air (industrial gases) from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 he joined the Simba Quix Group, a food manufacturer and marketing group. Between 1970 and 1974, he worked as a Financial Director for Toyota South Africa. He later joined the South African Breweries as a Group Financial Manager and was then appointed Group Financial Director in 1980. In 1994 was appointed Group Deputy Chairman of the SAB Group. In March 1999, he retired from all executive involvement and later in that year, was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited (Edcon), a post he held until 2007. Mr MacFarlane has served on numerous boards and committees throughout his life. His education related responsibilities have included the following positions:
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Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership Member of the Council and of the Board of Trustees of the University of South Africa Chairman of the Foundation Board of Trustees of Youth for Christ in Southern Africa and Chairman of its YFC Hekpoort Training Centre Board Chairman of the Chartered Accountants Educational Endowment Trust (for the training of disadvantaged accountancy students) SAB Group representative on the Board of Trustees of the Masibambane Trust Member of the Board of The African Leadership Forum Associate member of the S.A. Institute of Management; Chairman of its student body Chairman of the Brescia House Girls School Parent/Teachers Association and member of its Board of Governors Member of the organising committee of the St Johns Centenary Venture and Chairman of its Primary Donors sub-committee Founder member of the revived Old Johannian Boars Head Ceremony choir and subsequent support conductor. Selwyn married Ruth in 1961 and has been blessed with three children and eight grandchildren. He has interest in all sports, music and wildlife. He is also a member of the River Club, Bryanston and Plettenberg Bay Country Clubs.
REUNIONS
REUNIONS
60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1950 MATRIC CLASS OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE
The reunion was held at the Old Johannian Club in the College grounds on Saturday 9 October 2010 and began with a one-hour tour of the school led by Jarryd Wood and Reshard Kolobhai (Lower V). Back at the Club, we reminisced and chatted with very old friends, their wives, children, grandchildren, sons-inlaw and a family dog called Sausage. We were honoured to have with us Kim MacFarlane, Ursula Watts and Colleen Dodson, as well as Linda Whyte. A number of guests had travelled from as far as Plettenberg Bay, Durban and Pietermaritzburg for the anniversary. Heather Cooper, Director of the St Johns Foundation, captured pictures for the day. Some of the Old Boys had embarked on their school lives at St Johns in 1939 and 1940, whilst others had entered the school later in their school careers, but all were members of the Matric year in 1950. Photographs displayed showed the classes, sporting teams and houses, whilst a set of snaps taken at the 2000 reunion created great interest. The well-appointed dining room of the club provided the venue for a delicious lunch and many more opportunities for reminiscence reunion.
- Colyn Else (Reunion organiser)
Peter Theron, Francois Theron, Celia Petyt, Jennifer Meyers, Ursula Watts, Barbara Formby, Freddy Theron, Sausage, Francois Theron, Jennifer Else, Angela Harrison, Aisne Jacobs, Kim MacFarlane, Ann Munro, Colleen Dodson, Barbara Kempis
Tony Meyers, Peter Formby, John Petyt, Keith MacMullen, Ted Jacobs, Ham Harrison, Basil Munro, Colyn Else, Bruce Kempers.
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Alston House 1960

The 1960 Matric Class was one of the few that had never had a reunion and so we decided to remedy this on the occasion of our 50th. After 50 years and with classmates scattered all over the world it was no simple task to nd them all. The planning started 18 months ago and culminated in an outstanding formal dinner held in Darragh Hall on the 18th September 2010. 20 Old Boys and their wives attended not bad out of a class of 59, of whom 17 had died and 12 could not be accounted for. Darragh Hall was beautifully decorated and the owers were magnicent. The school choir sang a wonderful repertoire of African songs; this was followed by the Boars Head Choir procession and carol the boars head was carried in by two Old Boys, Robin Sussman and Garth Daneel. Then followed a short welcome speech in which it was mentioned that there were men present who had had sons at the school and even some who now had grandsons at the school. Roy Fury proposed the toast to St Johns. A superb dinner was served and afterwards the Headmaster addressed the Old Boys and brought them up-to-date on what was planned for the future of the school.
Over port, numerous informed and humorous contributions were made by Old Boys reminiscing about events and friends during our 10 years spent at St Johns. The evening concluded at nearly midnight with the unanimous agreement that this class had been a group of young men who were extremely privileged to have attended St Johns College.
- Roy Fury (Reunion organiser)
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Clarke House 1970

Twelve members of the class of 1970 managed to make it back for the Old Johannian Annual held 40 years after matriculating. Name tags were not necessary as most of those present have been in touch on and off, although there have been some slight changes in hair styles and colouring and, for some, a noticeable change in size from wing three quarter to front row forward. An excellent informal gathering was enjoyed by all with the hours passing by just as quickly as at similar occasions over the last 40 years. In spite of the late evening, all were present for the Gaudy Day Mass which brought back many happy memories and a tear or two. The rest of the morning was spent walking around remembering days and friends gone by and admiring the splendid new buildings. A full programme was laid on for those wishing to debate, play/watch sport or listen to the excellent music provided by the various ensembles. Lunchtime once again provided one with the opportunity to compare notes with old friends and enjoy being part of the Johannian family. Without fail, those present commented on how similar, yet so different, things were, with all concluding that they hoped to
Richard Wear, Michael Semple, George Whittle, Andrew McNae, Antony Scott, Biff Lewis, Darryl Morris, Craig MacFarlane, Mike Evans, George Gordon-Bennett, Peter Norton, Rob Spargo
return again next year. Special thanks to: the OJA for organising an excellent dinner; the school for a wonderful Gaudy Day; Alan Hancox and Biff Lewis for coming up from Cape Town and Peter Norton, who has not been well lately, for attending. Apologies and best wishes were received from Archie Taylor-Smith, Chris Gross, John Pope, Mike Jennings, Anthony
Russell, Eric Berg, Michael Hampton, Thomas Taylor, Timothy Pearce, Michael Green, and Quentin Green. For those who could not make it, pencil in the 50th anniversary in your diaries.
- George Whittle (Reunion organiser)
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ATTENDANTS AT THE 2010 30TH REUNION OF 1980 MATRICULANTS WERE:
A Gorham, R Blankensee, M Morris, B Dinner, B Hoffman, B Jackson, C Lenferna, M Clark, D Adams, R Fertig, D Law, G Lukan, J Constantinou, S Bocken, D Boyce, E Manolas, J Popper, A Kinghorn. Apologies: T LeRoy, R Hyde, J Comitis, A De Fay, J Ellingham, G Papageorgiou, S Asher, S Rowson, J Macauley, I Austin, R Forrest. Following numerous requests for a 30th Reunion, the organisers of the successful 25th reunion (Russell Blankensee, Andrew Gorham and Mark Morris) enjoyed an extended lunch and tackled the task of compiling 1980 Matriculant and VIth Form class lists in an attempt to locate every individual. This time, with sufcient time in hand, we imagined we would be more successful than we were for the 25th Reunion - which still had a good turnout, in spite of the limited organisation time. Nevertheless Kevin Keely proved impossible to track down, although his whereabouts are known, communication in some remoter parts of SA still proving to be impossible. Invitations to a Golf Day on the Friday and a Dinner on the following Saturday night were despatched and replies rolled in. Apologies were received from Tim LeRoy in Melbourne, Guy Kerr Phillips (Oz), Richard Forest (London), and Macauley (London). A surprise email was received from Sarah Constantinou, wife of John Constantinou, from Zambia. The golf held at Kyalami Golf Course was a resounding success despite Jean Comitos and Adrian de Fay having to pull out at the last minute due to business commitments. Brad Dinner was also a late withdrawal from the Golf Day having suffered a judo injury during a return to the mat after a 30 year absence providing all of us with a sobering reminder that we were no longer the young daredevils we imagined ourselves to be. Our numbers were made up by some 1981 leavers Stuart Blankensee, Ian Jacobs and Mike Kritzinger. The format and days events were handled with military precision by Russell
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3 Brads
Blankensee and the resultant headaches the following day were a testimony to Russells fondness for the nes of Jaegermeister. The Saturday evening event was held at the OJ Club located at the College. Some OJs strolled around the lovely building and grounds, indicating to bewildered partners the nooks and hiding places of their childhoods. For many of us who were boarders, the return to the prep was like returning to your childhood home and old memories ooded back of carved acorns trees that now stand tall, but were once saplings that bent and swayed as you scaled their heights. There were shouts of joy and hugs as OJs greeted each other and friendships were renewed after decades of no contact. There was some difculty in recognition, but on the whole most OJs were recognisable. Ricky Fertig, Gavin Lukan and John Constantinou were representative of the number of boys who lived up north, but had attended school in Johannesburg. George Papageorgiou and Nic Plewman were two who sent late apologies and their absence was felt by those hoping to reconnect with them. The three Brads attended. Stephan Bocken engaged us with stories of cultural differences in Germany reminding us of the relatively relaxed business environment in South Africa. Damian Boyce, now involved with SJC, attended, as did James Popper, who, at our last gathering, kept us entertained with his excellent mimicry of Mandela, Ali Bacher, and many great rugby and cricket commentators. His hidden talents discovered at GROBS, reminded us of the
importance of events such as the informal GROBS which allowed boys to discover and nurture hidden talents. Mark Morris toasted the school and called for a few moments silence for those who had passed away Stephen Pon and Rory Boyes-Varley. The evening ended after midnight with old friendships renewed. On Sunday morning Mark Morris received a phone call from Mark Singer wanting to know what time the reunion was! He had travelled from the Gold Coast (Oz) for the reunion and had somehow got his dates mixed up. A mini reunion was arranged for the following Friday and was attended by Mark Singer, Steve Murray, Nic Plewman, Mark Morris, Brad Dinner, Brad Hoffman, Ricky Fertig and Damian Boyce. Mark Singer, after accepting his ne, purchased memorabilia from the Association, and everyone enjoyed a thoroughly pleasant afternoon in the gardens of the club.
- Mark Morris (Reunion organiser)
FOR MANY OF US WHO WERE BOARDERS, THE RETURN TO THE PREP WAS LIKE RETURNING TO YOUR CHILDHOOD HOME AND OLD MEMORIES FLOODED BACK OF CARVED ACORNS TREES THAT NOW STAND TALL, BUT WERE ONCE SAPLINGS THAT BENT AND SWAYED AS YOU SCALED THEIR HEIGHTS.
REUNIONS
Matrics 1985

In April, the Matric and Post-Matric class of 1985 gathered for their twenty-ve year reunion weekend. 33 Matrics, eight Post-Matrics and a few brave partners attended the various gatherings. The reunion was long overdue, as over the years, the class has favoured informal get-togethers in various disparate locations. The gathering was initiated by Crispian Swarbreck, who co-opted the assistance of Andrew Henwood, who in turn co-opted the assistance of Guy Braun. The festivities commenced on Friday evening with glamorous drinks on the terrace at the Westcliff Hotel and concluded with a lazy Sunday lunch at Moyo at Zoo Lake. It was a fabulous weekend lled with much storytelling, reliving of memories and exuberant imbibing of beer, wine and whisky. Given that we nally left the Johannian Club at 3am on Sunday morning, there is no doubt that the weekend was a great success. Thank you to all who attended. Particular thanks to Paul Firth, who ew in from Boston for the weekend, Rob Bolton from Newcastle, Ross Milroy from Miami, Douglas Campbell-Pitt from Hong Kong, Jacqui Cryws-Williams from the UK and those from Cape Town, KZN and Kruger who braved a weekend in Johannesburg!
Academic Ties 1985
Cultural Ties 1985
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ATTENDEES:
Matric class: Trevor Ahier (Jhb), Murray Bolton (Jhb), Robert Bolton (Newcastle, UK), Robert Bowden (Jhb), Guy Braun (Jhb), Douglas Campbell-Pitt (Hong Kong), Richard Cooke ((Jhb), Christopher Dienst (CT), Yusuf Dockrat (Jhb), Niels Ellefsen (Jhb), Craig Ferguson (Kruger Park), Paul Firth (Boston, USA), Simon Gibb (CT), Mark Green (Jhb), Paul Hancock (Jhb), Andrew Henwood (Jhb), Kevin Heydenrych (Jhb), Paul Janisch (Jhb), Dean Joubert (Jhb), John Kullmann (Jhb), Gavin Leong (Jhb), Dion Libera (Jhb), Michael Manolas (Jhb), Ross Milroy (Miami, USA), Grant Moodie (Jhb), Orde Munro (Pmb), Gregory Paulson (CT), James Stride (Jhb), Crispian Swarbreck (CT), Sean Tucker (Jhb), Guy van den Berg (Durban), Nigel Walker (Jhb), Robert Walsh (Jhb),
Choir 1985
Post-Matric class: Jonathon Gratch (Jhb), Teresa McNeill (Jhb), Christopher Primos (Jhb), Vanessa Quan (Jhb), Sarah
Roberts (Jhb), Jacqueline Crwys-Williams (UK), Louis Seeco (Jhb), Vicky Rasin (Jhb)
-- Andrew Henwood (Reunion organiser)
THE FESTIVITIES COMMENCED ON FRIDAY EVENING WITH GLAMOROUS DRINKS ON THE TERRACE AT THE WESTCLIFF HOTEL AND CONCLUDED WITH A LAZY SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOYO AT ZOO LAKE.
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House Prefects 1990

The Class of 1990 held its reunion at the OJ Club on Saturday 17 July. We had 39 attendees, including a few from overseas, of the 96 graduates from the year. Also included in that number were 14 survivors from the 1979 Grade I class! The evening followed Gaudy Day and an entertaining time was had by all, catching up with long lost mates, laughing at the expanding waistlines and receding hairlines and raising a glass in honour of classmates no longer with us, all in celebration of what it means to be an Old Johannian.
- Doug Jones (Reunion organiser)
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OLD JOHANNIAN UPDATES & REPORTS

OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION REUNIONS 2011
The following reunions are scheduled to take place in 2011. If you are interested in being an organiser for the event, please contact Lauren Dicks at the Old Johannian Association on 011 645 3016 or e-mail her at lauren@oja.co.za
Year
1951 1961 1971 1981 1986 1991 2001 Jon Patricios Andrew Dietrich Greg Tait Nic Spicer jpat@mweb.co.za ajdietrich@lantic.net greg@godrst.co.za nic@bsgms.com or spicynic@tiscali.co.za John Woolcott Basil Teubes Rob Barrie woolcott@webafrica.org.za bteubes@gmail.com rbarrie@uwc.ac.za
OJ UPDATE
OJA REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS
Organiser
Contact details
In order to close the communication loop, it is important for the OJA Reps to communicate with the OJA ofce regarding their respective regions so that we can pass on information to the greater St Johns College community. These annual reports can be posted in The Johannian Magazine to complement the current section on Old Boy News, as well as on the OJA website. Photographs of events held around the world can also be posted on the OJA website, as well as on Facebook. If you are interested in becoming a regional rep, please contact the OJA Ofce for more information.
OLD JOHANNIAN CLUB

2010 REPORT
The rst half of the year was dominated by the focus on the Soccer World Cup. As that took place during extended school holidays, after that, the club was quiet until the start of the new term.
Behind the scenes, The Johannian team does a superb job with their catering and functions and we as a community are grateful for their ongoing dedication. The club has a new coffee machine that serves a great cappuccino and we urge parents and Old Boys to pop in for a superb meal and a delicious cappuccino. The Seattle Coffee Shop has found its place on the Tee Lane side of the club terrace. It seems to cater well to the pupils and parents. Fortunately the Seattle van will no longer be parked outside the entrance. It will still be used at school events down on the elds at sporting or social events. Maintenance is still ongoing. The interior and exterior of the club needs attention, especially in regards to painting; this will be our next project. The roof has recently been waterproofed and repainted the awaited rains will hopefully prove this! We shall be concentrating on the grounds in the near future. The large patches of sand where the grass does not grow will be partly paved which will also help in the rainy season with marquees and functions. New garden furniture and umbrellas will be on the list for the future as these need replacing! If anyone in the school community has access to garden umbrellas we would be keen to discuss replacement. These are some of the projects planned for the end of the year and early next year.
- Mark van der Griendt, Club Chairman
WATER POLO
OJ EAGLES WATER POLO CLUB 2009/2010 SEASON
The season started well with numbers increasing sufciently to reintroduce the Mighty Seconds into the leagues. After one year out of competitive water polo, they were put into the third league. The rst team remained in the rst league. The season started slowly with only a couple of wins between the two teams but picked up dramatically towards the end. There were some nail-biting games, particularly when the second team was ghting for promotion to the second league and the rst team was ghting from relegation. Both teams remain in their respective leagues and the nal results were as follows:
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First Team came 7th in the rst league The Mighty Seconds came 3rd The nances of the club are in a healthy position due to a donation from the Old Johannian Club and the two very successful parties organised by the Gurus of Good Times. The rst party was the Very Sexy Halloween Party which saw over two hundred guests all dressed in various Halloween outts. Needless to say everyone had a good time and useful money was raised. The second party organised was in the second half of the season and, based on the success of the previous party was named the Very Sexy Back to School Party. The number of guests doubled and more money was raised. The money raised will go to buying new equipment which the club desperately needs.
- Peter Frlich, Chairman OJ Eagles Water Polo Club 2008-2010
HOCKEY
OJ EAGLES HOCKEY
The OJ Eagles Hockey Club has enjoyed another tremendous season in 2010, and continues to be a powerful force in Southern Gauteng hockey circles. The club consists of roughly 80 players spread across
one womens and four mens teams. The mens A-side (Fugitives) nished a respectable 7th in a hotly contested 1st League. The mens B-side (Apprentices) unfortunately did not fare so well this season, and nished at the bottom of the log in the 4th league. The mens C-side (Nappies) did us proud by nishing 2nd in the 5th league and might be up for promotion in the 2011 season. The mens D-side (Blitz) outshone the rest by winning the 6th league with some phenomenal hockey, which also puts them up for promotion next year. The ladies A-side (Coyotes) had a sterling season with a 2nd position nish in a hard-fought 4th league. They will also be up for promotion in 2011. While there were many key players throughout the season, the most outstanding were Alex Kennard (Mens Player of the Year), Mathew Dunn (Most Improved Mens Player), Leanne Watson (Ladies Player of the Year), Bianca Meyer (Most Improved Ladies Player) and Terence Malan (Top Goal Scorer). I should like to thank the Old Johannian Association for all the support over the years, as well as Mr Roger Cameron and St
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Johns College for the use of the astro-turf. We look forward to continuing to grow the club in the future and to making it the club of choice for all hockey players in Johannesburg!
- David Martin, OJ Eagles Hockey Club Chairman
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DECEASED
ALAN GRANT 8 October 1985 to 30 September 2010 DOROTHY YATES 22 July 1926 to 6 April 2010 to RICHARD FOWLER 7 October 1941 to 24 June 2010 AGB HOOK 5 August 1916 to 30 June 2010 ATHOL JOHN WOOD 30 January 1912 to 26 April 2010 EAMON ANTHONY (CHUCKS) WYNNE 11 November 1921 to 22 September 2010 JOHN (JOCK) CLAUDE DICKSON 7 August 1942 to 15 November 2009 DEREK MAGGIE ALLEN CLARK 28 May 1928 to 19 April 2009 REVD. DAN STEPHENSON LE CORDEUR 8 January 1949 to 11 August 2010 GLEN GALLAGHER 11 November 1935 to 10 April 2010 RICHARD THATCHER Born on 31 August 1943 LAURENT PEYREMORTE 3 March 1971 to 22 September 2010 DR G. NICOLAS FRERICHS 7 March 1940 to 23 July 2010 DENNIS AINSLEY ANDERSON 30 September 1924 to 21 December 2008
THE REVD DAN STEPHENSON LE CORDEUR

8 JANUARY 1949 TO 11 AUGUST 2010
Dan le Cordeurs sixty-one years span some of the most monumental social and political changes Southern Africa has known. Born in colonial Botswana to cattle farming parents, Dans childhood home, Bonnington, is now a suburb of Gaborone. Dan was the last-born of ve children, the only son of Daniel and Rene. As with most children of farming stock, Dan lived away from home from the time he was six: rst, at Makeng Convent (1955) and then, at St Johns Prep and College, Johannesburg from 1957. Until recently, Dan rarely spoke of those years with affection. The combination of an institutionalised childhood and tumultuous transition from adolescence to adulthood whilst trying to make sense of a South African National Education contributed signicantly to Dans tendency to smile somewhat benignly at, and then often to ignore, convention. After training at UCT as a Marine Engineer (1967), Dan took to the seas for eight years and saw the world from the deck of a SAFMarine container ship. He eventually jumped ship long enough to fall in love with Patricia Geoghegan. The bohemian newly-weds took to the road singing Give Peace a Chance and searching for meaning in a world hell-bent on war. Dan and Trish eventually found steady jobs and established a home in Hout Bay where James, William and Matthew were born. Dan was increasingly challenged by the visibility of poverty on his own doorstep. Dans spiritual journey was sparked by Ben,
a bergie from Hout Bay, who invited him to church. Increasingly Dan wanted to contribute to structural change in South Africa but felt he lacked a mandate. In 1986, while Archbishop Tutu was advocating for sanctions across the world, Dan, Trish and the boys left Hout Bay to live at Maria Linden Mission Station in rural Transkei in order to work with the Matatiele Development Centre. These were years of spiritual renewal for Dan and Trish and they emerged convinced of his calling to the priesthood. A year after Mandela was released (1990) Dan, Trish and boys moved to the Federal Theological Seminary in Imbali (1991) and then to St. Josephs Scholasticate in Cedara (1993) where Dan trained for the priesthood. Dan was selected as a special election monitor assigned to cover rural hot spots that were expected to erupt into violence during SAs rst democratic elections (1994). Bishop Geoff Davies ordained Dan in 1996, and he worked in uMzimvubu Diocese before moving to St Anns Diocesan College (1998) where he was Chaplain for ve years. During this time he developed strong relationships in Mpophomeni and became the rst chairperson of Umgeni AIDS and then its director (2004), before taking up a position with the Childrens Emergency Relief Institute (2008). Like many who have contributed to the transitions of the last two decades, Dan felt increasingly marginalised by the very institutions that most claimed to champion the voices and rights of the poor. While Dan maintained a lively relationship with local
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congregations, and especially St Michaels, Boston, he lamented the loss of the prophetic voice of the community of faith. Dan grew weary of having his opinions categorised, rather than heard. South Africa doesnt silence prophetic voices by stoning them. We will hopefully never again detain the outspoken, or imprison our Mandelas. Dans concern however, was that in our democracy, we so readily put probing voices into passive perspective and the effect is the same: unholy silence. In this, his rst year of retirement (2010), Dan increasingly looked to spend time in the places where his inuence could be more practically felt: Trishs Hilton Pharmacy, renovating their home, their family and friends and planning a future together. It was while Dan was meditating on such possibilities that lay ahead that his life was cut short, leaving us bereft, wanting more. Dan is survived by his life partner, Patricia, and three sons, Matthew, William and James.
- The Revd. Dennis Bailey
DOROTHY YATES
6 APRIL 2010
Dorothy was born into a wellestablished family; she would have felt at home in the company of royalty. This said, she did not elect to follow such a life style; rather she chose to marry the man she loved and to accompany him wherever his missions took them. As we know this brought them, in 1954, to St Johns College and this is where they remained for the next seventeen years. These were very good years for the College and were wonderfully fullling years for Deane but they were severe and effacing years for Dot. It was in these years that Dot had anticipated and expected to have and to raise a family. This was simply not to be. Greater things, or things that they together made greater, lay ahead. From their lovely home at the top of Munro Drive which commanded a magnicent view of the Magaliesberg, Deane and Dot moved to live, albeit temporarily, in a tent on the then outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana where taking a bath became the pleasure of the week! Maru a Pula School was in the
making. It was at Maru that Dot came into her own and ourished. She taught and played an active and leading part in the schools community service. She was the girls house-mistress, was with the man she loved and she played a loving and full role in the lives of the children who surrounded her every day. There was a moment in Gaborone when Dots English heritage was satised. I remember it well! It was when Deane received the OBE. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Dots shoulders stretch back as she stood proudly to attention. Deane and Dots Maru a Pula time spanned ten years. During these years they had founded a family as well as a school. Dot never looked back. They returned to Johannesburg where they both built on their Maru a Pula experience, and where Dot brought something fresh and exhilarating into St Andrews School, Bedfordview. It was, however, in their home that Dot and Deanes life showed its greatest change. No sooner were they in it than it became a wonderfully rich and warm family home. Dot continued to be the mother she was destined to be and Deanes peace was no longer as quiet and restful as it once had been. Dot had enriched it! There are many parts of Dots life which I have not mentioned; this was inevitable; certainly her greatest strength lay in the depth, love and sincerity of her faith in God. In this, she was matched by Deane. They were a wonderful couple. All who knew them were privileged. Dots nal year was spent in poor health. The vivacity and generosity that belonged to her were gone. Her departure came as a welcome release. Deane was at her side. May she rest in peace.
- David Matthews
GLEN GALLAGHER
1935 TO 10 APRIL 2010
Glen Gallagher, a respected and wellknown architect and founding member of GAPP Architects and Urban Designers, sadly passed away on 10 April 2010, aged 74. He was born in 1935 to Dorothy and Norman Gallagher. Glen grew up in
Johannesburg and went to prep school at St Johns College and for senior schooling to Hilton College in the Natal Midlands. He studied architecture at Wits University and went on to work as an assistant architect in London and in New York City. He completed his masters degree in Architecture under Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania. Three years ago, the University of Pretoria awarded him an Honorary Doctorate acknowledging his contribution to the forming of the South African built environment. Renowned for his thoughtful, caring and sensitive intellectual pursuit of the discipline of architecture, his output and inuence on the profession has been immense. Playing a signicant role in architectural and urban planning affairs as a member of numerous committees, in particular those concerned with housing and education, Glen served as President of the Transvaal Provincial and South African Institutes of Architects, Alternate Councillor of the World Council of International Union of Architects, as a member of its Habitat Working Group and acted as an advisor to academic and government institutions and other professional bodies. As a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), he defended South African interests during the years of isolation and through his initiation and chairmanship of RIBAs South African Bursary Fund, he ensured that South African students, disadvantaged by apartheid, received support. In 1976 he produced the lm Ikhaya for the International Union of Architects (UIA) which dealt critically with housing problems for low-income people in South Africa. Shown at international conferences of the UIA, the Commonwealth Association of Architects and the Habitat Conference of the UN in Vancouver at a time when South Africa was excluded from the UN, it won second prize at an international lm festival for housing and planning lms, held in Geneva. Glen, who was awarded the Sophia Gray Laureate at the University of the Free State, made a direct contribution to the education of young architects as a design lecturer and visiting critic and external examiner at local and international universities. He published widely on aspects of the
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discipline, in particular on the subject of providing less privileged members of society with equitable habitation in urban settings. His work has been repeatedly honoured by the profession through peerreviewed awards of merit as well as many other awards, including the Silver Medal of Excellence of the South African Institute of Architects. As a founding member of GAPP, a practice renowned for its commitment to architecture of quality, no matter the scope or scale, he and his partners received innumerable accolades and distinctions. On retiring, he was made a Director Emeritus of the rm and was admired for his decorum, integrity, sense of fairness and agile understanding of architectural principles and philosophy. His wisdom and far-sightedness extended far beyond the commissions of the practice he spearheaded; he was a loyal friend, an honest man and a good listener whom many consulted for advice. He is remembered for his professional legacy, his sincerity and his sense of fun.
- Mrs Gallagher
EAMON ANTHONY (CHUCKS) WYNNE

11 NOVEMBER 1921 TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2010
Chucks was born in Johannesburg on 11 November 1921 to Nicholas Cooper and Anna Katerina Cornelia Wynne. He had an older brother, Owen, and two older half-brothers, Walter (Bull) and Eric. He was educated at St Johns College and was studying Engineering at WITS University before joining the Transvaal Scottish during the Second World War. He fought in North Africa, was captured at Tobruk and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Italy. On his return to South Africa after the war, he married Pam Taylor-Smith and they had their rst child, Gavin in 1947. He resigned from his job as a clerk at the CNA and they moved to Rhodesia, where he worked as a surveyor on the mines. Their daughter, Janet, was born in Que-Que in 1952. Not long afterwards, they returned to Johannesburg where he joined his father and father-in-law in the newspaper publishing business. He spent the rest of his working career in the same business. He had a brief spell in Port Elizabeth from 1967 to 1969 working as a manager
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for Allied Publishing, after which he returned to Johannesburg where he remained until after the death of his second wife, Dolores. Chucks moved to Cape Town to join Dolores widowed cousin, Lee, with whom he remained until they became too frail to care for each other. He returned to his family in Port Elizabeth about 18 months ago. Chucks was a music lover; he especially enjoyed Gilbert and Sullivan and knew all the words to every song! He also greatly enjoyed poetry and had a prodigious memory in this regard too. He liked to keep his brain active and would solve mathematical problems just for fun. In his youth he enjoyed horse riding and had a horse called Cloraign, of whom he was particularly fond. Chucks was a good sportsman and, in particular, enjoyed tennis and cricket. In later years he enjoyed watching sport on TV. He was a member of the Old Johannian Sports Club for about 70 years! He was quite a ladies man and could charm the ladies with his good looks and witty repartee. Chucks had ve grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Chucks Wynne died in St Georges Hospital on Wednesday 22nd September 2010 at the age of 88, after a brief illness.
- Gavin and Janet Wynne
DR. GN FRERICHS
7 MARCH 1940 TO 23 JULY 2010
Nic Frerich was born in Aberdeen on 7 March 1940 of mixed Danish and Scottish ancestry. His father was the riding master at Gordonstoun School and his mother, the headmasters secretary. Nic was always proud of his family connection with the school, which he attended, as did his son, Andrew. When he was very young, his family moved to South Africa, where he had his early schooling at St Johns Prep in 1951 and where he gained his interest in both animals and cricket. He was a good opening batsman and also developed an intellectual interest in the vicissitudes of cricket as a model for real life. He returned to Gordonstoun for his college education. On leaving Gordonstoun, he studied veterinary medicine at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary School, graduating in 1965,
and that is where he met his rst wife, Coral. Together they went into practice in various parts of England before his intellectual capacity directed him to a scientic career and he joined the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge. There, he worked as a microbiologist in the Biological Standards Department, while Coral became the veterinarian in charge of experimental animal production. It was the rst time Nic realised the seriousness of the Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy which he had from birth. When it stopped him from playing his beloved cricket he became an umpire and started to take golf more seriously, but gradually the insidious nature of his condition stopped this also. He and Coral wished for a change. She took early retirement and Nic applied for a post at the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling. This was a risky thing to do as the post had no tenure and while the prospects of continued funding were good, they would be very performance-related. They bought a large, run-down castle, Gart House, in Callander near Stirling and while Nic built a new career, the indomitable Coral re-built the castle. Despite his handicap, Nic was an immense help to her. Although the use of his hands and legs was severely limited, he still managed to contort his body amazingly to do things others would despair of. At this time, the UN put together a mission to investigate the possibility of resolving the issue of the pandemic disease of rice eld shes. Nic was appointed microbiologist in the team and with the help of Stuart Miller, he mounted a remarkable series of eld virology and bacteriology expeditions into the jungle villages of Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh and India. His more important work, however, which is only now being appreciated, was his development of a new cell line from a diseased striped snakehead sh which he obtained in North East Thailand. Nics progressive condition meant that he was eventually forced into early retirement in 1996. In 1998 Coral, on whom he was so dependent, was killed in a tragic car accident. In 2001 he married Barbara, who, having been a nurse in her working years, helped Nic along with her love and
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companionship, and comforted and cared for him in his nal years. Nic died peacefully, eventually overcome by the insidious progression of his disease. In his own quiet, efcient way, he had meticulously arranged everything for his funeral which was very moving: the music, the poems, every detail. He would have been amazed at the number of admiring colleagues who attended from all his places of work, as well as the many friends he had made - it was all quite overwhelming. We never realised that among his many scientic experiments, he had created a culture that is now used worldwide in the treatment of cancer. He was a ne scientist and a proud father to his children, Andrew and Beth, and grandfather to their children.
- Ron Roberts
JOHN (JOCK) CLAUDE DICKSON

7 AUGUST 1942 TO 15 NOVEMBER 2009
Jock was one of the unfortunate children who were struck down by poliomyelitis during the 1947 outbreak. He was aficted badly, and following a lengthy partial recovery, he was left with a lame left leg. In his early years he wore a calliper which gave him some mobility and allowed him to attend Parkview Junior School, where his Standard One teacher was none other than Mrs Jeffrey, the wife of Doug Jeffrey, Second Master at St Johns during the 50s and 60s. Jock entered St Johns in Lower Two and had an amazingly successful and fullled career at the school, despite his disability. He certainly never allowed these apparent limitations to hold him back and would, for example, actively participate in PT displays in his Prep School years. When he entered the College, he upgraded to a pair of crutches, which gave him considerably more mobility and provided him with a pair of lethal weapons - which certain individuals discovered to their detriment. Nothing held Jock back and his strong will and tenacity came to the fore repeatedly. He insisted on participating in Cadets and ran the armoury for years. He was the scorer for First XI and went on tour with the team. His scoring career culminated in his selection as scorer for the Nufeld XI in 1960. Jock read for his BA and Honours
in Economic Geography at Wits and, after completing his teaching diploma, was appointed to General Smuts High in Vereeniging. Among his many achievements at the school was the introduction of rowing. He left to join St Stithians a few years later where he again launched the sport. Today Saints ranks amongst the most powerful schools in the country and has produced many Springbok oarsmen. In the early 70s, Jock accepted an appointment from Deane Yates to the then edgling Maru a Pula (MAP) in Botswana. Yet again, Jock had a remarkable career at MAP and today there are many eminent Botswanans who were inspired by Jocks passion, drive and remarkable example. He was a character, and he certainly left his mark on that country. For a while, Jock left MAP to teach in a state boarding school but returned to MAP to see out his teaching career. He retired at a fairly early age owing to his reduced mobility and the effects of arthritis in his shoulders, arms and wrists, which plagued him in his later years. During this time, he concentrated on his farm - his rst love - and for many years, he supplied several leading retailers in Gaborone. In the end, he was conned to a wheelchair and had to sell his beloved farm. His last years were very hard for him, but his passing was premature and a great shock to all who knew him. He will be remembered for the outstanding role he played in the lives of so many people and the extraordinary example he set in demonstrating what could be achieved in the face of adversity.
- Bruce Dickson
DEREK MAGGIE ALLEN CLARK

28 MAY 1928 TO 19 APRIL 2009
Derek Allan Clark, affectionately called Maggie, entered St Johns College in 1941. He progressed through the school in the A classes, and wrote Matric in 1945, gaining a 1ST class pass. It was said that he had the highest IQ in the school. He excelled in rugby, cricket, athletics and swimming. He also took the part of Victoria in a school play. He was appointed as a prefect in his nal year. He represented the 1St Teams in rugby and cricket and excelled
at both. He took 22 wickets, which was the second highest number in 1945. He bowled a prodigious leg break and could be unplayable on matting. One could play only one winter sport, either rugby or hockey, so he played rugby. The rugby reports in the Old Johannian make frequent mention of his brilliant performances, and he could go down as one of the best loose forwards St Johns has ever produced. He broke his leg in 1944, which put him out of sport for the remainder of the year. In 1945, in his Matric year, the coach changed him from wing to ank forward in a very good First Team. He was awarded full colours. There were only ve caps awarded that year. Rugby was played on Saturdays and hockey on Sundays, so in 1946 he started playing hockey for Old Johannians. He played there till 1951 and during this time ,he was selected to play for Johannesburg v Pretoria. He represented Johannesburg in 49, 50 and 51. He was selected to play for Transvaal in the Durban Inter-Provincial Tournament in 1951; Transvaal won the tournament that year. He captained the Old Johannians First Team for a couple of seasons thereafter. Having left school in 1946, he played rugby for Old Johannians. When the Old Johannians and Old Eds amalgamated under The Old Jeds in 1947, he joined the Under 19 side. He played two seasons of open rugby in 1948 and 1949. He entered the engineering department at Wits on leaving school. He then entered a family business. Culturally, he and his wife, Sheena, followed plays at the Reps, and music at the City Hall. He played cricket occasionally for his fathers team The Oval Cricket Club. It was suggested that he join Old Johannians where there would be more opportunity. He soon got an opportunity to play for the First Team. In 1950, in the last year of his university career, he was selected to play for a development Transvaal cricket side to tour the Rhodesias. The team was away for two weeks in March and played in Bulawayo, Salisbury, Gatooma and NkanaKitwe. He produced the best performance of his cricket career in Gatooma, taking eight wickets. He moved to George in the early 50s, where he bought an engineering sales
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business, spending the remainder of his life there. He started playing cricket again for the veterans, representing Southern Cape in two national tournaments in Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. In the 1950/51 season he played for Transvaal under Eric Rowan and they won the Curry Cup. From then on, he was in and out of the team up to 1954. He participated in a 9th wicket partnership with Tony Pinkerton, scoring his best rst class score of 79 runs against Griqualand West. This Transvaal record stood for about 20 years. We can only wonder what, if fellows like Maggie had put in the countless hours which modern day cricketers do, they would have achieved. Nets, once or twice a week was all they could manage. Maggie was a very keen yachtsman, and built his own boats. He was a prominent and long standing member of the Island Yacht Club at Sedgeeld. It was a tting end to his life that he died, while bringing his yacht ashore. He leaves his wife Sheena (nee Harcourt) and children Gavin (who attended St Johns), Sally and Penny. It was good to have known him, and we are the better for it.
- Bob Bell
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FAREWELL
ROB BAILLIE
OJ (1953-1963), ORGANISER OF THE OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION
Rob Baillie retired at the end of March 2010. Rob served on the Old Johannian Governing Committee for 30 years, serving as Organiser of the Old Johannian Association for eleven years. He was chairman of the OJA Governing Committee from 1993 to 1997, Chairman of the Johannian Club for six years, served on the St Johns Council for six years and was a trustee of the St Johns Foundation for nine years. He was also a member of the St Johns Parents Association for three years. As chairman of the OJA, he and his committee were responsible for the purchasing and rebuilding of the Johannian Club, Runge House and the Tim Woolcott Centre in 1996. In 1984, Rob also initiated the 1963/64 Old Boys Bursary Fund. We wish Rob every happiness in his retirement.
Father Michael and Jill Arnold
FATHER MICHAEL AND JILL ARNOLD

Father Mike Arnold retired from St Johns College, where he had been the School Chaplain for 10 years, at the end of 2009. An Old Johannian himself, he was dedicated to the spiritual welfare of the boys and welcomed them into his home as part of his cell group programme. He also welcomed them into his home whenever possible on a purely friendly basis - and his wife, Jill, would often tell the delightful story of a L11 pupil asking, when told that Mike had been a pupil at St Johns, Oh, did you have Mrs Haupteisch as your teacher, too? He is remembered with great affection by so many of his pupils, in whose lives he has played a signicant spiritual role, Mike is a larger-than-life gure who, during his years of passionate service to the St Johns community, was never afraid to stand up for his beliefs, and in so doing, was not afraid to encounter the enmity of others who disagreed with his understanding of the truth. Mike and Jill spent the rst year of his retirement in Johannesburg, with Jill continuing to teach at St Johns Prep., soon after they retired properly to the Cape to be nearer to their family. The good wishes of the whole community goes to Father Michael.
KIM HAW
SECRETARY OF THE OJA
Kim left the association at the end of December 2009 to pursue her interests in the Johannian Club on a full time basis. She loyally served the Association for nine years, during which time she formed many friendships with Old Johannians. Her efforts in building up the Associations electronic network, tracking lost Old Johannians, assisting with communications and reunions are greatly appreciated and we wish her every success with her endeavours at The Johannian Club.
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OLD BOYS IN THE NEWS

OJS CONQUER IRONMAN TRIATHLON
On 25 April 2010, the following OJs completed the gruelling IRONMAN Triathlon in Port Elizabeth: Andrew Delmont (Matric 1996) - IM South Africa 2009, 2010 Bryan Hellon (Matric 2004) - IM South Africa 2010 Greg Kockott (Matric 1997) - IM South Africa 2010 Mike Bleyenheuft (Matric 1996) - IM South Africa 2009, 2010 Nick Irvine (Matric 1997) - IM South Africa 2008, 2009, 2010 PJ Delmont (SJC 1994-1996) - IM South Africa 2008, 2009, 2010, IM Australia 2009 The event consists of a 3.8km swim in the sea, a three lap 180km bike leg and a 42.2km standard marathon run to nish. A record 1800 athletes from around the world and South Africa participated in this years event, making it the largest and most competitive IRONMAN South Africa to date. The swim was incredibly choppy and many competitors battled on this section, but thereafter the race conditions were ideal and the athletes could settle into a decent rhythm. The cut-off for the race is 17 hours (midnight) and all OJs nished the race with plenty of time to spare. By completing IMSA, Greg Kockott won a substantial bet with another OJ and shed a paltry 32kg during training. Four-time IRONMAN, PJ Delmont, who is ranked in the top six in the 30-34 age group in the country over Ironman distance,
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was the seventh South African home this year. He was also chosen to represent South Africa, together with Mike Bleyenheuft (who subsequently had to withdraw), at the International Long Distance Triathlon Championships taking place in Germany in July 2010. Another OJ, Michael Davidson (Matric 1995), is ranked as one of the top three
Olympic Distance triathletes in the country. Triathlon is one of the fastest growing sports in South Africa, generating great camaraderie - and is an awesome way to stay t. If anyone would like to learn more about getting involved in triathlon, please contact PJ Delmont on 072 699 0444 or pj_delmont@hotmail.com.
Bryan Hellon
Greg Kockott
Mike Bleyenheuft
PJ Delmont

BRUCE DAVIES (NASH 1970)
Bruce sold his USA and UK companies to a public, international technology group in January 2010. The businesses controlled most of the global market in technology for designing and manufacturing intra-ocular and contact lenses, trading in about 45 countries. This has provided much more time for tennis, golf and cycling. The climate in Florida USA is ideal for these activities. Bruce went over to Scotland and played a number of the links courses right after the British Open this year.
Bruce Davies from St Andrews, Old Course
STUART LOW (HILL 1977)

Stuart married Diana Lowman (Daughter of Michael Lowman 1947) in 1985, so 2010 was their silver wedding anniversary. They have two children and are currently living in Durban, where Stuart is involved in a helicopter operation called Acher Aviation, with bases in Durban and Richards Bay harbours. This operation takes ships pilots to and from vessels entering and exiting these harbours. It also provides services to vessels off the East Coast of South Africa. Stuart is an active helicopter and aero plane pilot. in Grantham, twenty minutes from work and with almost ve hectares of land largely hardwood forest. They enjoyed the peak of the colourful autumn foliage all around them and were looking forward to snowshoeing and cross-country ski-ing once winter came. Dwights brother, John (also Clayton 1964) and his wife both retired in 2010, and have moved to the house they built a few years ago in Sanford, North Carolina. Ryan Warther (all class of 98), and Jerome Passmore (93). Anne is the editor of an online newsletter, The Fix Edition, and Ryan is a management consultant.
RODNEY J DENNIS (NASH 1969)

Rodney retired from being the UKs largest fund manager in this late 40s. He still serves on several investment company boards in London and Australia. He lives in London and also has a home in Kalk Bay, Cape Town. His most recent pursuits include ying his single engine plane from London to Cape Town as a fund raiser, touring the Mongolian plains on horseback, and a month of off-roading around Namibia, Botswana and the Western Cape in his Land Cruiser.
KIMON BOYIATJIS (NASH 1979)

Kimon was featured in a recent news article (September 2010) which was written by Mr Stafford Thomas and published in the September 24, 2010 edition of the Financial Mail. Please visit www.nancialmail.co.za to read the full article.
Ryan and Anne Thorp, got married on March 20th on the Molenvliet Estate in Stellenbosch
DIMITRI BOYIATJIS (NASH 1983)

Dimitri was also featured in a recent news article (September 2010) which was written by Gwyneth Roberts and published in HedgeNews Africa. See www. hedgenewsafrica.co.za for full the story.
RYAN THORP (ALSTON 1998)

Ryan and his new wife, Anne Day Thorp, recently returned to SA to be married on March 20th on the Molenvliet Estate in Stellenbosch. Ryans wife is American and they live in New York, but as both of their fathers grew up in the Cape, it was the place they have most in common and where their histories intersect - and it is simply beautiful! A number of OJs were in attendance: Georg Kahle, Chad McLintock, Tim Osborne, Ryan Otto, Warwick Reeves,
DWIGHT WILDER (CLAYTON 1964)

In the past year, Dwight became Executive Director of a small private school in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire, on the opposite (west) side of the state - quite a change from working at a regional high school and going from more than 1600 pupils to less than 100. In May, after some fairly intensive house-hunting, he and his wife moved to a delightful home
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ED CUTTEN (THOMSON 1966)
Another year achieved running a terric, self-catering lodge or B&B (Bishops Cove) on the coast between Eersterivier and the unique Klaasies Cave. It is very tranquil and private and in the heart of the Tsitsikamma. Ed is married to Sally and they have two daughters, Penny & Cath, both working in SA. They invite any OJ to pop in for a cool glass of wine.
JOHN LABAND (ALSTON 1965)

Since 2002, John and his wife, Fenella, have been living in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. John is a Professor and Chair of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
DUMISANI CHIUME (RUNGE 2002)

Dumisani graduated from St Johns in 2002 (Runge House and A Level, 6th form). He took a gap year and went to Malawi, before going to the University of Cape Town to study a Bachelor of Business Science (Finance Honours). Upon graduating, he joined Investecs Graduate Programme (JHB) and rotated round the bank learning in the different divisions. After the programme, he was positioned in the Wealth Management division. Since then, he has changed roles from a research analyst to a stockbroker. (So all old Johannians can contact him if they need a stockbroker). On the family side, he is now an uncle to his brothers son, Russell.
JONATHAN SWART (CLARKE 1990)

Jonathan was working for Comair as a First Ofcer on the Boeing 737, but started his new position as a First Ofcer at Emirates Airline on the Boeing 777 in January 2011 and so relocated to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He has been married to Bronwen for the past six years and has a two year old boy named Christopher, with another child due in March.
IAN MITCHELL (ALSTON 1968)

Ian Mitchell (Alston 1968) has been living in Moscow for the last four years. He is writing a book about Russia and the Rule of Law from a historical angle. He is contributing editor to Passport Magazine (www.passportmagazine.ru ) and has recently started working as the Presenter of Russian Book World on the Voice of Russia (http://english.ruvr.ru/ radio_broadcast/ ). He maintains close contact with Scotland, where his book about sailing round the Hebrides, Isles of the West, is still, ten years after publication, a best-seller.
ANDREW CRICHTON (NASH 2003)

Andrew is currently undergoing Young Ofcer training at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines in Lympstone, Devon. The Batch began training at the end of August 2010 and is due to pass out in December 2011.
IAN FRASER (NASH 1992).

When Ian was at St Johns College, he had the surname Kokkinn. So you will see his details as an OJ under Ian Kokkinn. In 2002, he changed his surname to Fraser, which is what he prefers to be called now. His working name for radio is IanF. Ian is currently in Media and specically radio. After working at 5FM in South Africa for 15 years, he went travelling for two years to Europe and then came back to settle in Johannesburg. He is a radio consultant/voice over artist and is starting a new internet radio network in the coming months. In 1999, he received the South African Music Award. He is married to Jane Fraser with a child on the way.
NJABULO HLANZE (RUNGE 2001)

Njabulo was one of the few girls who attended SJC 2000 2001. She went on to UCT and completed a B.Com Economics and Finance and Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management. In 2007, she moved to Johannesburg and started working for The Nielsen Company in the BASES department as a research analyst. She is currently Senior Research Analyst and is still enjoying the job. She is currently an associate member of the Southern Africa Market Research Association. She stays in touch with a number of SJC alumni, including Irene Nyirenda, Tumo Senaoana, Sihle Fakude, Thobo Mosinyi and Thato Molapisi.
GLENN POLEY (HILL 1990)

Glenn is currently a Senior First Ofcer for SAA, ying Boeing 737-800s with 13 000 hours experience. He was one of the countrys youngest Boeing 727 pilots when he converted to the type at the age of 21 years. In 1998, he joined SAA. He married Hayley Melton in 2005, and welcomed a son, Andrew, into the world in May 2009. He moved down to the Cape two years ago.
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He serves as a lay minister. He ies gyroplanes for recreation.
GLENN BABB (THOMSON 1961)

Glenn has been living in Cape Town where, since resigning from the Department of Foreign Affairs, he runs his own business support rm. The rm, Babrius, was contracted to write the report The Future of the African, Caribbean and Pacic Group of Countries for the EU (ACP) which he and his wife nished and published in English and French in 2006. The rm represents the Fairs of Milan and Verona in Southern Africa and was instrumental in the dairy rm, PARMALAT entering and investing in South Africa. In 2008, he was appointed as a sworn translator (French/Italian/Afrikaans) by the Department of Justice for the Cape courts. He remains (appointed in 1998) Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Turkey and wrote a monograph Abubakr Effendi among the Young Turks in Afrikaans published in 2010 in the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa (Vol 64 No 1). Glenn married Tracey Dibb in 2003, who bore him a daughter, Beatrix, in 2008. He has three other children, the eldest of whom matriculated at St Johns in 1983 the fourth generation of his family to attend the school.
PETER MICHAEL KURZEWSKI (NASH 1982)

Peter is currently a business owner in construction, road construction and domestic fencing. He has been happily married to Caren for 15 years and they have a daughter, Megan-Lee (13yrs) and a son, Michael (10yrs). He maintains contact with some old boys and has attended Gaudy Day etc. Their class of 1982 is now approaching its 30th Anniversary and they hope to put on a great reunion as they did for their 21st and 25th reunions. Surprisingly, most of their class is intact but fairly well-scattered around the world. Peter is qualied in Marketing and Business Economics from WITS, but very happy in his own business.
DES OGILVY (ALSTON 1944)

Des left St. Johns after Matric in 1944. He was in Alston House and Rev Clarke (The Nob) was the head master. He graduated from Wits in 1949 with a BSc in mechanical and electrical engineering. For the next nine years, apart from a year back in South Africa, he worked in the UK and because of this, he lost touch with many of his school friends. He says it would be great to hear from any of them and exchange news. He is married to Maura and they live at Garden Grove Retirement Centre in Durban.
STANLEY TROLLIP (THOMSON 1963)

Stanley retired from Capella University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States in 2003. Since then, he has been writing mystery novels set in Botswana. He writes with a friend, Michael Sears, using the pen name of Michael Stanley. The rst novel is called A Carrion Death, and the second is The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu. The third, Death of the Mantis, is due out in June 2011. A Carrion Death was one of the Los Angeles Times Top Ten Mysteries for 2008 and was short-listed for four awards in the United States. The website is http://www.detectivekubu.com. Stanley splits his time between Minneapolis and Knysna. He has a B.Sc. from Wits, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
GERARD SCHEURLEER (THOMSON 2007) AND ANDRE CLOETE (NASH 2002)

In October 2010, Gerard and Andre both qualied as A-Reservists in the SAPS.
HUGH SOLOMON (ALSTON 1965)

Hugh is still working for Skandia International (part of the Old Mutual Group) in the Isle of Man where he has been living since 1998. The island is a beautiful, peaceful and safe place to live and is ideal for children growing up. Marjorie and Hugh spend as much time as possible with their two grandchildren Georgia and Oliver, enjoying all the island has to offer.
DAVID NOEL PARKS (HILL 1964)

David was born in the UK and immigrated to SA with his parents in 1953. He joined SJ Prep in about 1958, matriculated from SJC in 1964, read architecture at Wits and joined the architectural practice Rinaldi, MacDonald and Crosby in 1972. David married in 1970 and he and his wife have three sons. They moved to Durban in 1979 when he joined the multi- disciplinary practice of ZAI. The reason for our move to Durban was partly due to the wish to go sailing. He bought a RCOD (Royal Cape One Design) 30 one class racer with a friend and so satised his wish to go sailing. Through the
NEIL CALLIE (ALSTON 1957)

Neil and his wife Gail relocated to Sydney, Australia in 2007 to be reunited with their family. Earlier this year, they moved to Perth, and are now happily settled in that delightful, friendly citythe most isolated major city in the world, they are told. They still support the Boks, but sadly have not had much to shout about recently.
MICHAEL GREEN (THOMSON 1970)

Michael is currently engaged by South African Airways as a Senior Captain ying Airbus 340 series aircraft. Much of his free time is actively spent in the Champagne Valley below the majestic Drakensberg Mountains enjoying a multitude of pursuits.
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yachting fraternity, he was lucky enough to crew on Elevatronic and took part in the 1st Mauritius to Durban race in 1985, achieving 1st Durban boat home! In 1986, he moved from Durban to Melmoth to start the architectural branch of ZAI in the then KwaZulu region. David was instrumental in building a small ofce for the practice in Ulundi and worked out of this ofce in Northern KwaZulu for the next 10 years. He was active in the Northern Natal Chapter of Architects, together with colleagues from Vryheid, Newcastle and Empangeni. While living in Methmoth, he was invited to become a chartered member of the Rotary Club of Melmoth Ulundi, sponsored by the Eshowe club, and was active in the club until his return to Durban. He returned to Durban and the Durban ofce of ZAI in 1996 and was involved with the designs and bid for the casino licence in Durban until returning to the UK in 1998. He joined the Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust in London and has worked as a programme manager to date, working on the estate strategy for the Trust. He is married to Kim and between them, they have ve sons and three grandchildren all living in the UK. Kim and David live in a terraced house with a lovely small garden in Bromley. They have been lucky to have been able to travel regularly both to Europe, the States and Africa. Other interests include walking in the English countryside and visiting the numerous country houses of the National Trust. They had their rst sailing holiday with friends in the Lonian Sea last year and are planning the next for 2011.
Department of Surgery at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He has served as President of two Plastic Surgery Societies: the Ivy Society and the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons and was recently elected a director of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. His son, Duncan (the Pre-prep old Johannian), completed his undergraduate degree at Duke University where he was an AB Duke Scholar (full tuition scholarship). After graduation, he worked in Chicago for the nancial consulting rm Bain and Co. for two years before seeing the light (as far as his dad is concerned). He is a rst year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Michael are always pleased to see any Johannian contemporaries and suggest that they should get in touch if they are in that part of the world.
MARC TURNBULL (AKA: MARC LAWSON TURNBULL) (NASH 1974)

Marc is an owner of The House of Chemistry in Parktown North, Johannesburg, a gift shop, art and design centre. He can be contacted on contactus@ chemistrycorner.co.za
AWADI RATHUGAMAGE (THOMSON 2009)

Awadi started at USC in 2010 and things are going rather well! He says his classes in general arent too difcult, and contain quite a bit of what helearnt at SJC, and at WITS. Apart from academics, he is enjoying student life, the Californian weather (when its not 36C), and he has met some really interesting people. The residence and food are also good. And he says there is nothing to worry about... he hasnt married an American girl yet!
MICHAEL BEET DIETRICH (NASH 1949)

Michael has now been retired for 15 years, of which the last 14 have been spent living with his wife, Glen, in the earthly paradise called Plettenberg Bay. Major activities there are such onerous things as golf, bowls, a bit of work like serving on the committee of their local retirement village, Formosa Garden Village, where heis currently in his fth term as Chairman, and most importantly, singing in the choir of St. Peters Church, together with another OJ, Bill Ham Harrison (1952). The unforgotten skills they learnt from Stompy Iverson give them a great deal of pleasure at this stage of their lives. There are quite a number of OJs in the area and they occasionally get together to celebrate some or other Johannian event. Ham and
DON MACKAY (CLAYTON 1970)

Don matriculated in 1970, qualied as a dentist at Wits in 1976 and as a doctor also at Wits in 1980. He completed training as a Plastic Surgeon at Wits in 1987 and went to Penn State University in 1988 for some additional training. He returned to Johannesburg in 1990 and was head of Plastic Surgery at Wits until he nally emigrated to the USA in 1991. During that time, his eldest son, Duncan, attended St Johns Pre-prep. Don is currently the head of Plastic Surgery and Vice Chairman of the
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CAMERON WILSON (RUNGE 2009)
Cameron is currently studying Sociology/Anthropology, dealing with Atrocities, Political Science and German, a language in which he is already gaining prociency! He has settled in extremely well and is doing his utmost to take advantage of all that this incredible university has to offer, from rugby to professional story-telling, language tables and evenings during which they defend Machiavellis theory of expedience as the only means of effective governance against modern liberalism - before star-gazing at the Universitys brand new observatory (the 3rd largest in the United States!). The opportunities are boundless. Cameron wants to thank St Johns for providing him with a solid base of historical knowledge that has aided him immeasurably with his primarily humanities based courses. by generations to come; St Johns College obviously features prominently. His youngest daughter married Andre Vos, a previous Springbok captain and they live in Cape Town with two children; his other daughter lives in Pretoria with her three children and his son, the eldest, lives in East London with his three children. Having built their present home in Gonubie 37 years ago, they are inevitably thinking about downscaling to something smaller and more secure. As he looks back on his life, he realises what wonderful people he has met over the years and how blessed he has been with good health, a wonderful wife and children of whom he is proud.
BILL COZENS (NASH 1958)

Bill reports that it was great catching up with old class friends at the 1958 reunion in 2008 and seeing what has happened at the College in the intervening 50 years. He nally retired for the third time on 30 September 2010 from Glenrand MIB Insurance Brokers after a 50 year tenure with the company, of which he has spent most of the time in East London. He has been very active in local community affairs over many years and still chairs the St Bernards Hospice Board; he has been a Rotarian for 33 years, a trustee of the National Council for Persons with Physical Disabilities in South Africa, Chairman of the Premier Hotel Group and had other involvements, especially in the Gonubie Baptist Church for the past 37 years. Having been coached by the renowned Roger Jarvis at school, he still plays in the lower squash leagues, with some success! Bills three children have produced eight of their own so far and he recently learned that two more are on the way. His wife, Jenny, and he have been married for 43 years and both enjoy good health. They enjoy travel, especially abroad and in their caravan. He has just completed his memoirs in a professionally bound book to ensure that he will long be remembered
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

COUNCIL MEMBERS 2010

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

COUNCIL MEMBERS 2010

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

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SO WHAT IS IT THAT DEFINES AND MAKES A CHAMPION?

WE LIFT OUR HEARTS AND GIVE THANKS.

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

MATRIC RESULTS 2009

IEB MATRICULATION RESULTS

PRIZE WINNERS 2010

Dylan Feldner-Busztin Scott Hunt

LIV SUBJECT PRIZES

UIV SUBJECT PRIZES

LVI SUBJECT PRIZES

UVI SUBJECT PRIZES

PRIZE WINNERS 2010

FLEMING PRIZES FOR SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL

OLD JOHANNIAN MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL

THE OLD JOHANNIAN ASSOCIATION AWARDS

PETER BAKER PRIZE FOR THE DUX SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR

BRUCE CURRIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

SIR HENRY STRAKOSCH SCHOLARSHIP

LAWSON POETRY PRIZE

GUY BALDERSON SCHOLARSHIP

WALTER WEBBER ESSAY PRIZE

JOHN AIREY MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR EXTRAMURAL CONTRIBUTION

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

The St Johns Academy on Leadership Camp: making new discoveries

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THE PRESIDENTS AWARD

WINNERS OF THE GOLD AWARD, PRESIDENTS AWARD SCHEME

THE EAGLE AWARD

THE EAGLE AWARD

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THE EAGLE AWARD

De-barking the logs

Ciaran Raymer and Carl Coetzee: Off to work we go

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SIXTH FORM AND RUNGE HOUSE REPORT

VIth Form Dance Committee

Vith Form Golden Eagle recipients

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ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

NASH HOUSE REPORT

NASH HOUSE MATRICS

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ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

HILL HOUSE REPORT

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ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

CLAYTON HOUSE REPORT

CLAYTON HOUSE MATRICS

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ST JOHNS COLLEGE 2010

THOMSON HOUSE REPORT