St. Stephen's College, Balla Balla
St. Stephen's College, Balla Balla, Southern Rhodesia (later: Rhodesia) was a private Christian high school for boys from 1956 to 1975.
The 1956 prospectus for St. Stephen's opens with a statement from Reverend Maurice Lancaster, "There has been for some time a growing conviction among parents that today there is a great need for their sons to receive at school not only a sound education to fit them to take their places as citizens, but also a well-based knowledge of Christianity and all it means...". To achieve this goal, the prospectus lists the aims of the college as follows: (a) to give the best possible secondary education for boys for the most reasonable terms; (b) to give a firm grounding in the Christian Faith as held and taught in the Book of Common Prayer and in the Formularies of the Church of the Province of South Africa; (c) to provide sound and wise discipline; and (d) to train for a full and useful life in the world. The school was built on 250 acres (1.0 km2) of land offered by Mr. A. A. Sanderson.
The school opened on 1 February 1959, with 35 pupils, which soon increased to 40. The school uniform was a khaki outfit of shorts and shirt for everyday wear, and a dress uniform of long grey trousers, white shirts, black blazers and school tie for evenings in the dining hall. There were also prefect's ties and house honours ties, as well as two badges. One badge was a red cross bearing a St. Stephen's crown, while the other, the official and registered crest, was a combination of the Sanderson crest (talbot, torch and helmet), the Lancaster crest (red roses), and the crown of St. Stephen. The registered crest (as a blazer badge) was worn solely by [Old Boys]] (former pupils); this is the badge still worn today by members of the St. Stephen's College Old Boys Association.
To provide the best Christian-based education at a reasonable cost, the founders originally planned to establish a monastery to accommodate teacher monks. However, by 1959, it became apparent that this was not feasible, and from then on, the board of governors employed teachers from Southern Rhodesia and the United Kingdom. The building originally constructed to be the monastery became Abbey House for juniors in 1968. Religious training included a Eucharist at 8 am and an Evensong at 6 pm on Sundays, a service in the chapel each day before classes began and House Prayers in the evening.
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