2003 was the 113th year of the school's history and it was 100 years since the school re-opened after the Anglo Boer War, this time as a State school. Jeppe was one of the so-called Milner Schools. Initially the school was situated in Troyeville. Our beautiful stone building was only built in 1909.
In the context of a century of public schooling at Jeppe, AJ Grant a former Headmaster (1943 - 1962) wrote in the 1946 school magazine: "There is something rather relentless about a public school. There is a cold ruthless precision with which it presses on regardless of the passing of the years. Headmaster succeeds Headmaster and generations of schoolboys come and go, but the school in the Tennyson way goes on unheeding. And herein lies much cause for sad reflection. No place makes one more conscious of the flight of time than a school. How quickly does the grubby, inky, schoolboy become the blase adolescent male.
"The former schoolboy who returns to see his old school again does so with a highly critical air. He is ready to appraise but is only too willing to condemn. His outlook is above all conservative and while he is outwardly pleased to see improvements, in his heart of hearts he likes to find things as they used to be, and he is secretly jealous that the new generation is enjoying amenities that did not come his way." (The Jeppe High School Magazine 1946:6)
On 9 August 2003, a Founders Day service was shared with the Prep and the Girls School to celebrate this important milestone in the life of the school. Celebrations included the naming of various of the the school's facilities after people who had made a noteworthy contribution in a particular sphere.
These included the naming of:
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