1938 - 1947
1938
The school is half a century old. Celebrations include a birthday cake, a staff-versus-girls hockey match and a staff concert.
1940-41
Miss Darke resigns, and Miss Barker takes over until a new appointment is made. Miss Sewell is appointed headmistress. She arrives in 1941, having experienced the horrors of war in England and endured a dangerous sea voyage, through U-boat infested waters. Her headship is short-lived and disastrous, however; she resigns in 1942 and dies a year later in Nairobi.
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1942
Mrs Winifred Bryn Jones, originally from Britain and formerly headmistress of Kimberley Girls’ High, arrives in Johannesburg to take up a History post to fill in the time while her husband is away at war. On arrival at the railway station, the Board asks her to become headmistress.
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1946
The Community of St Mary the Virgin, from Wantage, England, takes over after Mrs Bryn Jones resigns.
They have the vision and tenacity to make long-cherished dreams – most particularly a hall, a swimming pool and a chapel – a reality.
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Decade 6
St Mary’s boasts 295 pupils in 1944