OLD EDWARDIAN SOCIETY | 11 4 St, Houghton, Walkerville, 2041, Gauteng

It was in a spirit of re-union that the Society was founded. Its originator, Claude E. Mann, had been one of the first four boys to be enrolled in the Kerk Street Government School when it was opened in 1902. After some years of closest association with a happy band of schoolfellows and an acquaintance, perhaps not so happy, with noble masters, he suddenly found himself alone in the world. He began to wonder what had happened to them and longed to renew old friendships. He went to see his old Headmaster and out of this idea was born the Johannesburg College Old Boys Society in 1908.The Society had an impressive first committee with the headmaster Mr. J.M. Crofts as President, Mr. H.D.F. Davis, Mr. F.J. Robinson, Mr. (Later Sir) Abe Bailey, Mr. C.P. Hill, Mr. S. Pegler and Mr. A. Troye as Secretary. During the first year of inauguration a soccer team was entered in the Second Division of the Association League. Early in the history of the Society which was largely a family affair carried on by some twenty