20 February: Br Adalbaud Freytag, 1886-1958. Ignace Freytag was born in Saxony, then part of West Prussia, in 1886, the son of the local mayor Jules Freytag and Agnes Sedelmayer. His parents moved to Wartenburg, where some of his brothers were born. In 1898, at the age of 12, he entered the Marist Juniorate and...
MR GLEN HOGG (DEPUTY PRINCIPAL 1993 – 2002). It is with a sense of great loss and sadness that we record the death of Mr Glen Hogg, former Deputy Principal at St Henry’s, late on Friday afternoon 3rd August 2007 after a long illness battling cancer.
Aidan Neville Daly was born in Port Elizabeth on 25th April 1914, the son of a Barman, Aidan Daly and Ethel Walker. He attended the local Marist Brothers school. He entered our South African Juniorate in Pietermaritzburg in 1930, and the Santa Maria Novitiate in Italy the following year, making his first vows on August...
Arthur Basil, the son of a coach builder James King and Sheila Heathcote, was born in East London on 12 February 1921. He went to Australia and entered the Mittagong Juniorate on 16 February 1939 and thereafter went through all the stages of the Mittagong training, receiving the religious name of Brother Victor and subsequently...
Thomas Joseph Pollard was born on 27 February 1927 in Pietermaritzburg, the son of Thomas Pollard and Elizabeth Burrows.After attending school at St Henry’s in Durban and then worked in the Natal Provincial Department until he went to Australia at the age of 23.
The Brothers’ Community. Brothers Maurice Cudmore, principal (a South African), Eugene Vincent Lambe, sub-director (Irish), Ezekiel McAuley (Scottish), Paul Eusterius Niez, the founder of the College (French), Adalbaud Freytag (German), Philip Cranston (South African), Patrick Clarke (Irish), Paul Benecit Charette (Canadian) and Regis Vallier (French). Once again a multi-national group, with their particular influence on...
Various photos and snippets from 1950-1952.
Photo: From the Rouillard Family Album : Mummy Virgie with “Duke” & Dixie with “Starlight” Sometime in 1928 Miss Maisie Bonamour (now Mrs M. Barth) drove Bishop Delalle and two Brothers up on to the ridge of Durban to see a property known as ‘The Maze’.