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Interview with Peter Moni 1967

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Interview with Peter Moni – 1967
Peter came to St David’s as a boarder in grade 1 having spent the year before at CBC Kimberly
where he learnt a lot although CBC didn’t have the same facilities as St David’s. Peter thought
that the boarding school structure ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Peter Loffell 1960

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Interview with Peter Loffell (1960)
Peter first attended St David’s in 1948 in grade 1 as a day boy. He was in a section in the junior
school with four classrooms with two grades within one classroom. This was separate from the
main school which had a ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Peter Habberton 1975 - 1980 Staff

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Interview – Peter Habberton – Staff 1975 - 80
Peter grew up in Benoni, son of an Anglican minister who was forced to leave South Africa in

  1. As a consequence, Peter finished his schooling and university education in England
    returning to South Africa in 1974.
  2. ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Peter Gerard 1966

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Interview with Peter Gerard – 1966
Peter Gerard joined Marist Inanda in 1955 and his brother Francis in 1952 The school was then
quite small and didn’t have the reputation it has today, with a mixed bag of pupils from all walks
of life.
Peter and his family ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Peter de Kock 1967

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Interview with Peter de Kock – 1967
Peter joined St David’s in 1962, standard 6 as a boarder. On his first day he remembered
meeting many other standard 6 boys from outlying areas and Johannesburg. The boys were
all sent to St David’s because there was no ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Paul Saunders 1973 -1975 Staff

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Interview with Paul Saunders -Staff 1973-75
When Paul began teaching at St David’s, Br Anthony was the Headmaster but left in 1974 to go
to Slough and Br Timothy took over in 1975. The school was much smaller with about 200 boys
in the high school with ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Paul Gerard 1992

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Interview with Paul Gerrard – 1992
Paul remembered his first day as he arrived a bit late two weeks into the first term of grade 1.
He sat next to Jaffrey Tsaksani and Ryan Lamberts, his teacher was Mrs Scaafsma who used
her ruler quite liberally on the ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Paul Edey 1995 - 2006 Staff

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Interview with Paul Edey 1995 – 2006
Paul Edey was appointed as college headmaster during 1994 to start in January 1995. He had
previously taught at St John’s College and King Edward VII School, where he was a viceprincipal.
The search for a new head to ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Patrick Quarmby 1971

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Interview with Patrick Quarmby – 1971
Patrick joined St David’s in 1961, standard 2 and rode to school every day from Craighall Park . His first
teacher was Mrs Michael who was a lovely person and was especially kind to the new boys. Mrs Scaafsma
was also ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Pam Groenewald 1998 to date(2023) Staff

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  • 2003

Interview with Pam Groenewald – Staff 1998
Pam came to St David’s in 1998 to work as the prep school headmaster, Rick Wilson’s PA. She found Rick
to be an unbelievably, kind and well organised boss and really enjoyed working for him. He was incredibly
... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Norman Lazarus 1952

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  • 2010

Interview with Norman Lazarus 1944 - 1952
Norman’s parents lived in the Free State so he was sent as a boarder to St David’s in 1944 in
grade 2. Mrs Litson was his first teacher.The boarders had very little to do with the day scholars
except when they were ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nigel Sloane 1980

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Nigel Sloane Gr 1 1969 to matric 1980
Nigel began his school career in 1969 at St David’s in Mrs Schaafsma’s grade 1 class of 36 boys. He admits
that he was petrified of his teacher as well as the headmistress, Mrs Kempster. Other teachers who Nigel
... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nicolas Harding 2003

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Interview with Nicolas Harding – 2003
Nicolas came to St David’s in standard 6 – grade 8 . He and his brother had attended Rosebank Primary
School, originally coming from Belgium. Nicolas’s mother is French and met her Welsh husband in
Belgium. Nicolas ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nick Pruim 1984

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Interview with Nick Pruim – 1984
Nick attended St David’s from grade 1 to matric and absolutely loved the school. He was a day
boy as there were no longer any boarding facilities. In 1982, the headmaster was the infamous
Mr Murphy who was a part-time ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nick Mavrodaris 1970

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Interview with Nick Mavrodaris – 1970
Nick was born in Springs and was enrolled as a pupil at St David’s, as a boarder in 1965.
Springs High School was in decline; also Nick’s father had brought 35 children to South
Africa from Greece and wanted a better ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nicholas Robinson 1974

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Interview with Nicholas Robinson – 1974
Nick’s first memories of St David’s were rather daunting. He is English and his family moved from Sri Lanka
where he attended boarding school and was put into a class with boys 2 years older than he was.
Nick loved ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nicholas Haralambous 2002

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  • 2014

Interview with Nicholas Haralambous – 2002
Nicholas’s first memory of St David’s was the entrance exam which was held in what was a small theatre
by one of the science labs. He was 13 in grade 7 and had come from Crawford Prep where anything goes.
He had ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nicholas Ansell 2003

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Interview with Nicholas Ansell – 2003
Nick spent many years at St David’s from the age of three until he went to a pre-school run by a Mrs
Gibson. Nick’s mother Carol was a teacher at the school and therefore he spent a lot of time there. Robert
Gibson, ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Neville Dent 1961

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Interview with Neville Dent – 1961
Memories of Boarding School, 1952 to 1961 by Neville (Tommy) Dent
Pupils travelled from far and wide to board and attend school at St Davids. Some of my best pals came
from the copper mines in Northern Rhodesia and the ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Nassey Simaan

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Interview with Nassey Simaan 1960’s
Nassey was the parent of Gabriel Simaan who matriculated in 1968. He and his wife, Agnes
were heavily involved with the school from 1956 until their son Gabriel matriculated. They were
not officially employed by the ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike von Guilleaume 1995

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Interview with Mike von Guilleaume – 1995
Mike followed in his father’s footsteps beginning his career at St David’s in grade 0 and his
brother Terence was also a pupil finishing in 1990. Mike’s father matriculated in 1954. Mike’s
father’s parents moved to ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike Stanley 1974

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Interview with Mike Stanley – 1974
Mike is the youngest of a family of five boys and when he joined St David’s in standard 6, two of
his older brothers were already there and all of them were boarders. He was called “Baby
Stanley or Little Stan” and he ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike Smith 1966

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Interview with Mike Smith – 1966
Mike was a day boy at St David’s and lived on a flower farm near Alexandra township. He
remembered his first day in grade 1 in the old grades block, Miss Brick was his teacher and she
used to rap the boys knuckles with her ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike Peel 1978

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Interview with Mike Peel – 1978
Mike’s father went to Koch Street and Marist Observatory and his uncle was in the first class at
St David’s – Harold Morgan. He has cousins also related to the school, Paul and Anton Barale
and Renzo Brocco.
When Mike was in ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike Greeff Staff 2006 - 2015

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Interview with Mike Greeff – Staff - 2006 to 2015
Before joining St David’s in 2006 as chief executive officer, Mike worked in the banking sector for 20 years
before running his own consulting company specialising in development finance mainly in South ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike Eilertsen 2000

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Interview with Mike Eilertsen – 2000
Coming from Rosebank Primary, Mike joined St David’s in 1996 when Paul Edey was
headmaster. He recalled that on the first day standard 6 underwent an induction on the
basketball courts and bullying was the big topic for ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike Clarke 1951

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Interview with Mike Clarke – 1951
Mike attended St David’s from 1941 when it first opened and became a boarder in standard 7
when his mother decided that, as he was the youngest at home he should become a boarder.
His elder brother Christopher was sent to ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mike Beaumont 1966

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Interview with Mike Beaumont – 1966
Mike was a day boy from grade 0 to matric. His class had a large proportion of boys who went
right through and are still friendly to this day. The bulk of the boys in 1966, including the head
prefect were day boys. Mike ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Michael Wickins 1994

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Interview with Michael Wickins – 1994
Michael began his career at St David’s in grade1, 1983 and recalls how proud he was of his
brown suitcase.
The teachers he remembers are Mr Kotze standard 5, Mrs Marais, Afrikaans, high school and
Mr Girdwood standard 8 -... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Michael Richardson 1971

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Interview with Michael Richardson – 1971
Michael came to St David’s as a dayboy living at home. He was lucky that he had such an
active sport life and close group of friends that he stayed at school every day until about 5pm
and often they were at one ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Michael Marsay 1999

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Interview with Michael Marsay – 1999
Michael came to St David’s in 1987, grade 0. Mrs Walton was his first teacher and the classroom was
opposite the stairs to the school chapel. Mrs Scaafsma, a dragon taught him in grade 2; Mr Spence in
standard 1; Mrs ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Max Leipold 1959

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Interview with Max Leipold - 1959
Max started as a boarder in Std 2 in 1951. His parents lived in Standerton and in Std 9 they
settled in Illovo and then became a day student. He was very unhappy and missed the
camaraderie of the boarding school so went ... »

Anderson, Glenda

Interview with Matthew Schneider 2002

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Interview with Mathew Schneider – 2002
Matthew came to St David’s from Grayston Preparatory in 2002 into grade 8. He was the first generation of
the Schneider family at St David’s.
He remembers lining up in the quad next to the smelly ablution block, the ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Matthew Alford 2003

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Interview with Matthew Alford – 2003
Matthew arrived at St David’s coming from St Peter’s Prep, alone and not knowing anyone. Being very shy,
he found it terrifying, walking into the main quad with his very new school uniform, bags and books. Savo
Ceprnich ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Martin Rumpelt 1973

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Interview with Martin Rumpelt – 1973
Martin came to St David’s from the German School Johannesburg in standard 6. His parents were not too
happy with the lack of discipline at the German School and the fact that matric would have to be written in
English ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Martin Lebos 1978

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Interview with Martin Lebos – 1978
Martin initially went to St Paul’s but came to St David’s in standard 1 and Mrs Watson was his
teacher. His class was in the house block (where the CEO’s house is now) where standard 1,
1A and 2 and 2A were taught. He ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mark Reeves 1983

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Interview with Mark Reeves – 1983
Mark began his school career at St David’s in 1973, starting in standard 1, after moving from
Sandown Primary which was located where Sandton City now stands. At the age of 5, he
remembers being the swimming team mascot for ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mark Middlewick 2004

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Interview with Mark Middlewick – 2004
Mark came to St David’s in grade 0 and his brother to standard 4, in the second term as his mother was
then employed as the Music teacher in the prep school. Matthew remembers being very anxious especially
being a small ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mark Forssman 1979

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Interview with Mark Forssman – 1979
Mark was the first of the Forssman family to attend St David’s followed by his brother Bobby –
1980; Andrew – 1983 and cousins Billy -1987 (head boy); Jason – 1989 (deputy head boy);
Dale - (deputy head boy); Jordan -1996 ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Mark Di Pasquale 2002

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Interview with Mark Di Pasquale –2002
Mark came to St David’s in 1998 and being a new kid on the block knew no one which he found
uncomfortable especially with so many of the boys coming up from the prep school. However he
ended up being friends with the ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Louis Cabri 1951

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Interview with Louis Cabri – 1951
Louis came to St David’s in 1950 a few months after having emigrated from the USA. The principal was Br
Edwin and the class master was Br Werner who also taught tennis. Because he had studied a different
school curriculum ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Lloyd Wilkins 1980

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Interview with Lloyd Wilkins – 1980
Lloyd joined St David’s in January 1979, having just arrived in South Africa from Rhodesia, as it was then.
He had been a pupil at St George’s in Salisbury and arrived knowing nobody at the school. However the
boys were ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Leonard O'Haughey 1967

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Interview with Leonard O’Haughey – 1967
Len came from the Rosebank Convent, which he attended for grades 1 and 2, to St David’s in 1958 going
into standard 1. He, very soon after his arrival, earned the nickname “Chick” as within a couple of weeks
he came ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Larry Griffiths 1972

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Interview with Larry Griffiths – 1972
Larry joined St David’s when he was 8 years old going into standard 2. His father was
transferred to Johannesburg from Port Elizabeth where he was formerly a pupil at St Patrick’s.
He and his younger brother Michael (197... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Kurt Morais 1993

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Interview with Kurt Morais – 1993
Kurt remembers being interviewed by Brother Jude in 1980. He was kind and warm and asked Kurt what
he would do at school and Kurt responded by saying that he would play and learn. Initially Kurt found
everything very ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Kevin Wallace 1984

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Interview with Kevin Wallace - 1984
Kevin was born in the Drakensburg and attended nursery school there. The family moved to
Gauteng in 1975 and he and his brother Gary were enrolled at St David’s and were quickly
absorbed by the heritage of the school and ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Kevin Ryan 1970

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Interview with Kevin Ryan – 1970
Kevin joined St David’s in 1961 and was a boarder. He enjoyed the boarding as there was good
camaraderie amongst the boarders and less time was spent travelling however the downside
was not spending as much time with family.
... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Kevin Peel 1966

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Interview with Kevin Peel – 1966
Kevin joined St David’s in 1954 in grade 1 and his first memory is of being in class with the
famous Mrs Brick and others such as Mrs Kempster, Mrs Janusch who was head of the junior
school The teachers that stand out in his ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Kevin Moran 1985

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Interview with Kevin Moran – 1985
Kevin came to St David’s in 1974, grade 1 and remembers being quite nervous and not wanting
to go to school. He had his lunch box stolen by Warwick Dredge and he didn’t want to go back
to school. However he and Warwick ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

Interview with Keith Farquharson 1952

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Interview with Keith Farquharson- 1952
Keith attended St David’s from 1948 until 1952 and was a day boy who boarded for a couple of
terms whilst his parents were overseas.
Keith enjoyed the sport playing rugby and tennis but wasn’t particularly good at ... »

Egenrieder, Julie

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