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St Andrew’s SceneSt Andrew’s College,

Grahamstown.1st Term 2009

We welcome Paul Edey to College

S t Andrew’s College welcomed back one of its ownwhen Paul Edey agreed to take up the position of

Headmaster. His invigorating and energetic style of leadership quickly won the respect of both boys and staff.Mr Edey is an engaging man with an approachable manner and a warm sense of humour. His high expectations andcommitment to solid values add to College’s already

existing sense of pride and tradition.Mr Edey was most recently Director of ExecutiveEducation at the Gordon Institute of Business Science(GIBS), and previous to that position, was Headmaster at

Message from the HeadmasterI t is an enormous honour to have been appointed as

the 18th Headmaster of St Andrew’s College.It is many years since I was in Grahamstown and

whilst not much has changed in the town, there havebeen signi cant changes at College. The most excitingof these changes is the co-instruction and sharing withthe DSG. This has brought a completely differentdimension to teaching and learning in the senior school

and it is a unique selling point for both schools.I think St Andrew’s is a far happier place than itwas thirty- ve years ago and the boys come across ascon dent, articulate and engaging. One of the great

joys of the school and the Eastern Cape is a completelack of pretension. It is pleasing to note that the boysare not arrogant and that the school retains its strongEastern Cape avour. There are many more activitiesand sports on offer and the school is very busy.Perhaps we have lost a certain formality which canlead to sloppiness, so it is important that we continueto place an emphasis on manners and dress in a worldwhich does not regard these things as important anylonger.

Grahamstown remains a wonderful place for youngmen and women in which to grow up, and one of thegreat bene ts coming from Johannesburg, is to see howCollege remains open to the town and the public.

The rst term has passed in a bit of a whirl and Ilook forward to engaging with the staff and the boysmore fully as the year progresses.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all avery blessed Easter and a wonderful and relaxing

holiday together with your boys. May it be a time of enrichment and rejuvenation. I look forward to theenergetic return of the boys at the start of the TrinityTerm.

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Mr Paul Edey, Headmaster of St Andrew’s College



We welcome Paul Edey to Collegel From Page 1

St David’s Marist Brothers for closeon 12 years.

As a boy in Mullins House from1970-1974, Mr Edey was a CollegePrefect and Chairman of the CurrentAffairs, Music and Public SpeakingSocieties. He was also Deputy Head

of House. His particular interests wereDrama, Public Speaking, Hockey,Cricket and Tennis.

His wife, Susan, is a teacher by training and taught art for tenyears at King Edward’s School inJohannesburg. She then worked atWits for 20 years. She continuesto work from Grahamstown and

heads up the St Andrew’s Girls’School Foundation and works for an education group. Paul and Susanhave two grown up sons who live inJohannesburg.

The College community welcomesthem to Grahamstown and to StAndrew’s College.

Installation of Paul Edey The Installation of Paul Edey, the 18th Headmaster of St Andrew’s College, took place on Sunday 1 February 2009 in the Chapel. The Bishop of Grahamstown,the Rt. Rev. Ebenezer Ntlali is seen with Mr Edey during the service.

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David Wylde Leadership IndabaT he DB Wylde Leadership Indaba is an exciting project

that started last year, initiated by Old Andreans whofelt they would like to share practical and personal experi-ence in leadership with the boys at College and the girls

at DSG.The rst Indaba was held last year, Philip Womersley(Graham, 1968) and Myles Ruck (Armstrong, 1972) did a“double bill” and spent a day at College talking about their lives and leadership in business.

This term Hamilton (Tony) Wende (Armstrong 1979)was the guest for the DB Wylde Leadership Indaba on17th and 18th February 2009.

Tony is a novelist, freelance writer and television producer. He has covered twenty different wars andcon icts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

In television he has worked for a number of internationalnetworks including CNN, BBC Panorama, Newsnight,

10 O’ Clock News, NBC, ABC (Australia) ForeignCorrespondent, Lateline, NHK Japan, SBS Australia, ZDFand ARD Germany, Reuters TV, APTN, ITN, Al JazeeraEnglish.

He is a regular contributor to From Our OwnCorrespondent on Radio 4 on the BBC. He has alsocontributed to the BBC World Service programme Letter.His articles have appeared in many international and SouthAfrican newspapers and magazines, including NationalGeographic Traveler, The Chicago Tribune, GQ, Maclean’sMagazine in Canada, TravelAfrica in the UK, The NewZealand Herald, The Buffalo News in the US, The SundayTimes, Business Day, The Sunday Independent, Maverick in Johannesburg and many others.

Tony’s has written 6 novels, the latest, The House of War, being a novel about the search for a lost city of Alexander

the Great in present-day Afghanistan, is to be published byPenguin (SA) in September 2009.

His previous books include: The King’s Shilling (Anovel about WWI in East Africa); Deadlines From the Edge

(Non- ction account of working as a television journalistin Africa, Afghanistan and the Middle East); True North:African Roads Less Travelled (an account of working as a

journalist & TV producer in Africa); Msimangu’s Words (anovel for young adults; co-written with Windell Williams);and The Quagga’s Secret (a children’s picture book)

The stories and experiences that Tony shared with uswere both riveting and inspiring. Particularly chilling washis award-winning documentary for BBC on the RwandanGenocide. He spent two days with various classesdiscussing the ethics of journalism, the history behind

many of the con icts, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq,and the “Leadership of Ideas”. He gave a mesmerizingaddress to the boys and staff at assembly which can beread in full on the OA webpage (www.oldandrean.co.za).

Tony was interviewed by Ross Thompson and AbbyRobertson in front of a packed audience at the Highlander,who were also invited to ask him questions about his lifeand work.

The interview format is brilliant – the emphasis beingon what the listeners wanted to learn from the guest, rather than an address from the guest.

It is becoming a highly anticipated aspect of the programme of Leadership Education at the schools.

We aim to hold Indaba’s at least once a term.

At the DB Wylde Leadership Indaba 2008 were fromthe left: Myles Ruck, David Wylde, Philip Womersley,

Cameron MacKenzie, Ashleigh van der Hoven andNandile Tabata.

The DB Wylde Leadership Indaba was held at TheHighlander in February this year and from the left

are: Paul Edey, Tony Wende, Abby Robertson,Ross Thompson and Tim Nuttall.



The Boy in YouBy Marguerite Poland

COLLECTORS’ EDITION

1 700 copies of the Standard Edition of The Boy in You – SOLD OUT!

Just 100 copies of a Collectors’ Edition were produced and 53 have been SOLD already. This edition is bound with a leather spine and leather corners. It carries a ‘tip-in’ pageat the front on which is inscribed the name of the Collector, the number of the book and

Marguerite’s signature. Those connected to St Andrew’s College, past and present, who have looked at this edition

believe it will become a valued piece of Africana.

Every Andrean fami ly, par t icu lar ly those whosegrandfa thers, fathers and sons attended or will attend College

MUST ensure they have a copy in the family! So contact yourfamily today to contribute towards a copy to

avoid disappointment.

Once all 100 copies have been acquired, a list of the Collectors will be produced in‘script’. The original will be displayed at College by way of saying ‘thank you’ and copies of

the list will be mailed to all Collectors to insert in their copy.

We should have known that the story of the history of College written by the inimitableMarguerite Poland who has woven the tapestry of the School’s story into the fascinating history of the Eastern Cape, South Africa and the two World Wars, would be a best seller.

To order a copy of the Collectors’ Edition, please email Bev McCarthy [email protected] . The Collectors’ Edition is priced at R5 950,00 inclusive of

VAT and insured postage (worldwide).

By purchasing a copy you will be making a valuable contribution to Collegein terms of helping to fund the overall cost of producing the monumental

production of The Boy in You.

Don’t be disappointed. Act today!Gregory Were

Dexter Munnik

Justus Luttig

Pro ciency Tiesawarded this term



Grade 11 History with a differenceMs Middlebrook’s Grade 11 History class asked (and answered) the question: What crises did capitalismface in the 1920s and 30s? It was, of course, interesting to link these events to the current global economiccrisis. At the end of the section, the learners attended a ‘1920s Roaring Twenties’ party at the Savoy Hotel in

London (DSG library). They chose and researched a character from the 1920s, dressed up as this characterand explained to the party guests why each of them had been invited to this prestigious party!! One of the pre-requisites for attending the party was the ability to know how to dance the charleston! The learners enjoyedchampagne from chrystal glasses (sprite and paper cups!), strawberries and cucumber sandwiches (greenstrips of sweets and marie biscuits!). As you can see in the photograph, they all looked gorgeous!!

Pipe Major, Andrew de Blocqsucceeds again

Andrew de Blocq competed in theSandy Mallen Memorial in Johannes-burg (KES) on Saturday and camesecond overall, behind the currentSA Junior Champion.He took rst place in the Piobaire -achd, 3rd in Strathspey and Reel and

managed 4th place in March. It wasenough to secure him 2nd spot in thecompetition.

The Design and Technology Centre, at St Andrew’s College, is widely recognisedas one of the nest in the Southern Hemisphere. In a sense it is the intellectualnerve-centre of the school and activities conducted in the Centre are focusedon cross-curricular work and creative thinking. The 2009 Grade 8 class’s rst

project was to make a new product that could be sold in real shops (not at schoolfêtes or craft markets).The product was to be made out of 2 litre milk bottles.

Dane van Heteren made an impressive canoe. The course followed consists of eight lessons on Design and Technology and the Environment and the canoewas the product made by a happy boy exploring the edge of creativity.

Grade 8 Project for Design and Technology



Awards and Achievers

St Andrew’s pupilinvited as a guest of the British Counci l

A ndrew de Blocq, a St Andrew’sCollege pupil, has been selected

to represent South Africa as aguest of the British Council, alongwith another pupil from LimpopoProvince, in Edinburgh at a global

initiative known as InternationalClimate Champions for a selection of young people from the G8 countries

plus Brazil, Mexico, China, India andSouth Africa (known as the G8+5) andSri Lanka. Two International ClimateChampions have been selected fromeach country, aged 16 – 21, to attenda workshop in Edinburg from 23 – 27February 2009.

The overall aim of the workshop

is to inform, inspire and encourageaction in the eld of climate change but speci cally to equip participantswith the skills required to deliver successful projects and communicatetheir message. The EdinburghWorkshop begins on Sunday evening22 February, and ends on Friday 27February 2009.

As part of his participation in thenational schools’s debating nalsin 2008 and in the British CouncilInternational Climate Champions

programme in 2009, Andrew de Blocqhas been selected to participate in theworkshop.

Royal School of Music - Timothy Abel. Grade 6 with distinction.

Cricket colours for 2009 were awarded to the following pupils, they are fromthe left: Jaco Delport, Grant Macdonald, Nick Mills, Paul Hofman, RyanDugmore and James Price.

The standard of swimming was exceptionally high this year. Congratulationsto the boys above for being awarded colours for reawards and new awards.

The Cema Committee made thefollowing awards. Merit Award For Music: James Gripper (left) andColours Award For Music: Tom Niven.



Awards and Achievers

Weight Training Of ce bearers for 2009 are: Christopher Landman (Captain), Dexter Munnik (Vice- Captain),Donald Ballantyne (Senior Assistant), Henry Morgan(Senior Assistant).

Pipe Band Of ce bearers for 2009 are from the left: An -drew de Blocq, Justus Luttig and Clive Hunting.

The Cadets Of ce bearers for 2009 are from the left:Brian Makamure, Rufus Camm and James Edwards.

Lebo Seitisho is the Captain of Shooting for 2009 and hehas been awarded colours for shooting.

Congratulations to Simon Pheasant who has been se-lected as Captain of swimming and Nathan Reitzer as Vice-captain.

Craig McCune is the Captain of the 1st Squash Team andBrian Skosana is the Vice-captain.



Community Engagement - Term 1T his has been a very busy start to the year and it has been wonderful to see how many more College boys

are participating in the service programmes.This term we have visited the SPCA twice, cleaned out Kowie Ditch twice, started work on an organic

vegetable garden, cleaned up litter from the streets surrounding the school and hosted another successfulseven-a-side soccer tournament for 60 children.

Michael Vos cleaning out at the SPCA. Ian Fraser-Jones with his soccer team. Cricket during Tuesday clubs.

St Matthew’s School is an important partner and in an exciting project, the College IT team is helpingdevelop the IT facilities at the school with funding from the Calabar Foundation. The Librarian and librarymonitors spent a day visiting the libraries at Prep, College and DSG.

The Learner’s Enrichment and Advancement programme where we invite 45 learners from three partnerschools in East Grahamstown to participate in extra Maths and English lessons on a Saturday morning is alsogoing well thanks to the commitment of several College staff who do all the teaching.

Basketball, computers and a visit to the Library during Tuesday clubs.

Debating updateW e began the year with a demonstration debate, a Sunday’s adjudication

workshop and a Grade 8 training day - all of which went off smoothlyand were enthusiastically received. A combined SAC/DSG Internal DebatingLeague has been going on throughout the term and is now coming to a close.This gave all those keen to debate socially a platform to do so and was certainly

enjoyed by all participants. The Grahamstown Debating League (run by Rhodesstudents) now heads into week three and so far College teams have won all their debates. We attended the Alex Road Debate Fest and enjoyed a successful dayof debating (both teams won their xtures against Riebeek, Muir, Queens andCollegiate). Weekly ‘squad’ sessions take place for the coaching and trainingof debaters in Grades 9 - 11, while the Grade 8s are taken separately - both

programmes are progressing well with talent in abundance.Dexter Munnik has left for New York where he will be representing SA at a

Model United Nations event. This follows on the heels of Andrew de Blocq’shonour of being called upon to represent SA at a G20 scholars’ climate changeconference in Scotland (as a result of his performance at a national debating

event last year). Eight Grade 12 College boys head to Ireland at the end of term(for the St Andrew’s 22nd International Model United Nations Competition)and have spent many hours doing research and preparing intensively. Whilethere is still plenty to do, the team is looking promising.

Free the Bears and Wildlife at Risk are dedicated to ending the biletrade in Vietnam and developing sanctuaries for rescued Asiaticblack bears and sun bears. Benoit

Morkel matriculated in 2008, and isin Vietnam doing voluntary work for this conservation organization.





The River MileT he Annual River Mile was held in the Kowie River at

Port Alfred in perfect weather conditions. It was greatto see so many boys and girls participating and to see thegood support from both parents and staff.

The Junior event was a closely contested affair withJames Myburgh coming in just 3 seconds ahead of Matthew Danckwerts to clinch 1st place. He was followed

by Campbell Gregory, Dylan Ramsay and M-J Rosslee.The Junior team event was won by Armstrong House withall six swimmers amongst the top 17 nishers. Second wasGraham House, followed by Upper, Espin, Merriman andMullins.

The Senior event saw Simon Pheasant leading fromstart to nish, winning by just under a minute in 24 minand 6 secs. There was a close tussle for 2nd spot with

Nick Eastwood eventually coming in ahead of Angusand Lachlan Macdonald, with James Baker in 5th place,a little further back. The Senior team event was also won

by Armstrong House with another strong showing. Theywere followed by Graham, Upper, Merriman, Mullins andEspin.

On the left is the senior winner of the River Mile, SimonPheasant and the junior winner, James Myburgh.

Highly successful Water Polo SeasonT his term’s water polo season was highly successful,

with an incredible total of 172 competitivematches played by our 5 senior teams and 4 juniorteams, and more than 65% of matches won.

The 1st Team achieved an exceptional 31 wins outof 35 matches, the best performance by a College 1stTeam in recent memory, and they won silver medalsat both the Grey Bloem and Vides tournaments. Aftertheir ne performance at the KES tournament, weare now unof cially ranked among the top 5 waterpolo schools in the country.

The 2nd Team’s 17 wins and a draw out of 28 gamesis all the more impressive when one considers that 23

of those games were against the 1st teams of otherschools, and they were unbeaten against any other2nd Team. They also achieved a very creditable top10 nish in the Vides tournament.

The U15A Team achieved 22 wins and 2 drawsout of their 29 games and made the nals of bothtournaments in which they competed, while the U14ATeam won 13 out of their 17 matches, and showed alot of promise.

Colours for water polo were deservedly awarded toSteven Cilliers, Peter Cornish, Nick Eastwood, Liam

Henderson, Angus Macdonald, Lachlan Macdonald,and Mark Prior, joining Jamie Gotz, Simon Pheasantand Edward Torr who were awarded their colourslast year.

1st Team with their silver medals at the Vides Tournament.

1st Team with their silver medals at the Grey Bloem Tournament.



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