The fragile sepia toned report card is torn down the middle, its from Grey College School, Bloemfontein.The date is the 28th September 1906 and it is the oldest report card in the small pile of documents that Mom had kept lose in her Wedderburn Book.
A hundred and nine years ago, Grandpa Percy, would have been 17 and completing Form 4, as have many generations of Wedderburn boys since then.
He has done well in his six subjects, English, Dutch, Latin, History, Mathematics and Drawing.
He is certainly strong in Arithmatic and second in the Order of Merit for his form.
It is interesting to note that Afrikaans is not yet on the curriculum at Grey College, as it only becomes an official language in South Africa from 1925.Wonder how good his Dutch would have been?
Could he have chatted to Fred?
Percy Wedderburn is known for his sporting prowess and we have a couple of wonderful old black and white photos of the teams that he played for from The Collegians Rugby Football Club.
The one that I am taken with is from 1921, where the team is the Winner of the Grand Challenge Club.
Percy is the Captain, sitting centre of the middle row with the cup in front of him on the floor.
He is staring intently to camera, already bald, good looking and strongly built.
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| Percy Wedderburn, Captain, The Collegians R.F.C 1921 |
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