Grey College
Grey College is a name given to a bilingual (Afrikaans and English) primary and high school for boys (1855-), and an allied university college (1906-) in Bloemfontein.
Not to be confused with Grey College at Durham University, UK or Grey High School in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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Origins
=The School
In 1855 a school for boys was established in Bloemfontein by Sir George Grey. Called Grey College it was the third oldest school in the country, and the first in the interior. At the beginning of the 20th century, the mandate of the school was extended to higher education in the then Orange River Colony.
The University College
On 28 January 1904 six (B.A.) students were taken in and the the first two students graduated in 1905. A year later the tertiary institution became known as the Grey University College (GUC) and shortly thereafter, the school and college parted ways, the university college ultimately becoming the University of the Orange Free State (later renamed the University of the Free State).
For more information, see the entry on the University of the Free State
Grey University College Dramatic Society
The Grey University College Dramatic Society was founded in Bloemfontein in 1907, shortly after the creation of the tertiary institution in 1906.
Grey College Dramatic Society
Not to be confused with the Grey University College Dramatic Society (founded 1907) in Bloemfontein.
The Grey College Dramatic Society is the name given to a society co-founded at Grey College High School in Bloemfontein, South Africa, by Temple Hauptfleisch and Charles Malan in 1969, while they were teachers there. It lapsed for a while after they both left the school in 1971 to take up other occupations.
Plays put on in the three years Malan and Hauptfleisch ran the society (1969-1971) include Oorlog is Oorlog (Grosskopf), Charley's Aunt (Thomas), A Little Touch of Harry in the Night (a scene from Henry V by Shakespeare),
The society was resurrected afterwards,
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