THE LION ROARS: PARKTOWN BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL 1920 - 1999 BY NAN O'CARROLL. HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, 432 PAGES, INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, INCLUDE EMPHERA RELATING TO NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, ETC AT THE TIME.
This is the first book to be published giving an account of the development of the school from its humble beginning in 1920 to the eminent position it now occupies at the end of the second millennium. North Western Suburbs High School was founded in January 1920, in disused wood and iron buildings which had previously been Police Barracks at the top of Canary Street in Auckland Park. There were eighty-seven pupils in five Form Il classes four for boys and one for girls with Acting Headmaster, Mr C. Hare. The site is now occupied by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The Acting Director of Education, Mr W. E. C. Clarke, the Inspector of High Schools, officially opened the new school with an address to the scholars and staff. He apologized for the lack of decent furniture and playing fields and promised that a new modern high school for boys would be built on the Parktown Ridge overlooking Milner Park and a new high school for girls near the Zoo Lake. The first Headmaster, Mr P. M. Druce, arrived at the beginning of 1921 and, in February, the name of the school was changed to North Western High School. Then in April, the first hatbands and ties arrived. The colours were purple and white. On 1 September 1921, the school was divided into five Houses Romans, Spartans, Thebans, Trojans, and Tuscans and, on 19 September 1921, the name was changed again, this time to Parktown High School with the motto, Arise, and the school badge, a rampant lion. When the Rand Revolt took place in 1922, the school which was in no man's land, had to be evacuated for a short while.
