Class of 72 alumnus, Dr Ralph Katzwinkel (right) visited the College recently and was delighted to meet Brother Brendan who had been headmaster during his time at St Henry’s.
Vincent” the son of Patrick Cudmore and Alice Quirk, was born in Grahamstown on 1 December 1915. Grahamstown-The capital of the Eastem Cape Province, Grahamstown was founded in 1812 by Colonel John Graham. The intention was to establish a military outpost on the troubled frontier in order to effect pacification after the FourthFrontierWar.
Vincent was born in Knockbeg in County Sliao on 7 November 1905 as the son of the engine-driver Joseph Lambe and Mary Ann Harte. Vincent went straight to the International Novitiate at SanMaurizio in Italy which he entered on 8 September 1923. He made his First Profession there on 8 September 1925. It is not...
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...
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...