Collecting profiles of people connected to Jeppe High School for Boys in Johannesburg, South Africa (past & present; famous and ordinary; male & female)

Location:

• Cnr Roberts Avenue and Good Hope Street,Kensington,Johannesburg
• GPS Co-ordinates: 26°12'S; 28°5"58'E

History:

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Jeppe High School for Boys is Johannesburg's oldest public school, having been established in 1890 in Fairview. The Jeppe schools originated in St Michael’s Collage, started in 1890 to provide English education for Uitlander children. The college struggled to survive and was ‘saved’ in 1890 by the Witwatersrand council of Education to which belonged Julius Jeppe and other wealthy financiers, and which purchased the school building on the corner of Crown and Op de Bergen Street. As a result of the donation of several plots of land to the Town Council, Julius Jeppe was able to impose the family identity upon the school that took St Michael’s place. In 1897 the school became known as Jeppestown Grammar but did not survive the Anglo Boer War. After the war the Transvaal educational authorities acquired the buildings of the old Jeppestown Grammar School and there established Jeppestown High School for boys and girls. This school was one of the Milner Schools, designed to provide an ethos based upon a model combining English grammar school and private education. The present stone building in Roberts Ave, Kensington, designed by Ralston in the Herbert Baker, Arts and Crafts style, was occupied in 1911....

Julius (Gottlieb Ferdinand), the younger, born in 1859, was knighted for his services to the developing town in 1922.. Julius married Grace Cowen and they brought up five children, three sons and two daughters. The family lived in the mansion known as Friedenheim in Belgravia, which became one of Jeppe High School for Boy’s boarding houses, renamed Tsessebe... Sir Julius chaired the Jeppe school board from 1918 until the end of this life. He died in London, in 1929. The Jeppes are buried in a family plot in Braamfontein Cemetery. (http://www.theheritageportal.co.za/article/history-jeppe-family)

Famous Old Boys:

• Herman Charles Bosman (1905 - 1951). Writer
• Jake White (1963 - ) Rugby Coach
• Samuel Marcus Kinkead DSO DSC and bar DFC and bar (1897 - 1928) WW1 pilot
• Prof Cornelius de Kiewet President University of Rochester

War Memorial:

photo by Portiatn

WW I

• Pte Cyril William Arnot 3rd SAI. Killed in action near Frezenberg on the 20th September 1917 (Ypres Menin Gate Memorial). Recommended for a mention in despatches for his conduct at Delville Wood (no retained).
• Pte Robert Norman Barnes 4 SA Infantry KIA 25 Mar 1916 Age 18 Voi cemetery Kenya
• Cpl Charles Revel Bredell Killed in action, on the night of the 10th/11th July 1916 at Delville Wood, Longueval, Somme. Grave I.G.8 in Peronne Road Cemetry, Maricourt, Somme, France.
• Pte Frederick William Harvey Service No: 21473.South African Infantry 2nd Regt. Died 1918-10-2, Age: 18 of influenza
• 2LT Reginald George Kernick South African Infantry 3rd Regt. Died 10 Oct 1917, aged 23 of wounds received at Ypres, on 20th September. Decorations: Mentioned in Despatches.
• Lt. Thomas Arthur Letters 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders. Died on the Western front in 1915.
• 2n LT Melville Leopold 'Cuckoo' Melvill Second Lieutenant in 108 Bty., Royal Field Artillery. He died on Wednesday,31st October 1917 near Ypres, & is buried at Popering in the Liessenhoek Cemetary.
• Capt. James Humphrey Allen Payne Headmaster of Jeppe Boys' (1905 – 1917) passed away on 28 July 1917 of Blackwater Fever while on active service in East Africa
• L Cpl Russell Smith 1 SA Infantry Killed in action at Battle of Arras 9 Apr 1917 Age 25 Roclincourt Valley Cemetery France
• Pte Stafford Smith 1 SA Infantry KIA 7 Jul 1917 Age 28 Richmond Cemetery, Surrey United Kingdom

Staff:

• John Brodrick
• Sharon Doubell (Robins)
• David Grace
• Elize Grace
• Mark Grace (1956 -2017)
• Richard Green
• Dale Jackson Headboy; Headmaster
• Leaza Jernberg
• Gareth Kolkenbeck-Ruh
• Jean Meintjes
• Linda Meintjes
• Collette Rattray
• Karl Thurtell
• Fourie van Niekerk
• Dudley Wallendorf

Old Boys & Present Pupils:

1919

• Prof Cornelius de Kiewet

1936

• Brian Percy Bunting

1967

• John Brodrick

1997

• Richard Stewart

2001

• Richard Green

2002

• Russell Nel

2004

• Ramon Nogueira

2006

• David Grace

2007

• Dayne Robins

2008

• Alex Meintjes
• Danny Meintjes

2014

• Ryan Doubell

2016

• Brent Doubell

2018

• Robert Doubell

2019

• Sean Meintjes

2021

The Olympic Games

Jethro Eustice and Nicholas Rodda, both in Tokyo at the moment (July 2021) in the SA Olympic hockey and water polo teams respectively, are the 17th and 18th Jeppe old boys to represent the country at the Olympics. There was a third old boy originally selected – cyclist Daryl Impey – but he had to withdraw because of injury. There are further six old boys who have participated for other countries at the Olympics including hammer thrower Howard Payne who went to the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Games for Great Britain. Howard, who was originally from Rhodesia, also went to five Commonwealth Games meetings and won four gold medals. A further 12 Jeppe old boys went to the Games in some sort of official role. Frank Braun was the manager of the SA team in Rome in 1960. Braun was also the chairman of the South African Olympic Committee, he is the second person associated with the school who chaired the Olympic body – Sir Julius Jeppe filled that role in the 1920s. Radio commentator Duane Dell’Oca is at the Tokyo Games as part of the official media team. At the 2016 Rio Olympics there were two old boys among the officials: Paul Bundy was assistant coach of the Canada mens hockey team, while Rasta Rasivenghe was a referee at the Rugby Sevens tournament and actually took control of the final. The full list of Jeppe Olympians is:

• 1912 and 1920 Charlie Winslow (tennis)
• 1924 Lawrence Betts (athletics)
• 1928 Arthur Hall (boxing, Rhodesia)
• 1932 Frank Rostron manager (boxing)
• 1936 Frank Rushton (athletics)
• 1952 Douglas Melville (water polo), Ron Wilkie (athletics)
• 1956 and 1960 Frank Braun assistant team manager and team manager
• 1964, 1968 and 1972 Howard Payne (athletics, Great Britain)
• 1992 Kurt Landsberg (rowing), Malcolm Todd (archery)
• 1996 Shaun Cook, Brad Milne, Bradley Michalaro, Craig Jackson (hockey), Rob Pullen assistant coach (hockey)
• 2000 Alfred Stevenson coach (judo)
• 2004 Craig Jackson, Ryan Ravenscroft (hockey), Alfred Stevenson coach (judo), Clinton Hill (athletics, Australia)
• 2008 Alfred Stevenson coach (judo), Duane Dell’Occa (commentator) football
• 2012 Daryl Impey (cycling), Alfred Stevenson coach (judo), Duane Dell’Occa commentator (tennis, hockey and football)
• 2016 Stefano Marcia (sailing), Rasta Rasivhenga referee (rugby sevens), Daryl Impey (cycling) Peter Lambert (rowing, Great Britain), Paul Bundy assistant coach (hockey, Canada)
• 2020 Jethro Eustace (hockey), Nicholas Rodda (water polo), Duane Dell’Occa commentator (swimming athletics and football)
  • from the Jeppe Boys fb page

Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppe_High_School_for_Boys
• http://www.jba.org.za/article/jake-white-sports-fund-2010-07-12/
• http://www.theheritageportal.co.za/article/history-jeppe-family
• https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/sir-julius-jeppe
• https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Jeppe
• https://www.jeppeboys.co.za/well-known-old-boys/

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