Grey College

Grey College is a boys school in Bloemfontein.

Not to be confused with Grey College at Durham University, UK or Grey High School in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Origins

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. Six (B.A.) students were taken in on 28 January 1904 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.

See also University of the Free State

Grey College Dramatic Society

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.

Not to be confused with the Grey University College Dramatic Society (founded 1907) in Bloemfontein.

Plays put on in the three years they 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),

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