Saint Ignatius College (Zimbabwe)

St. Ignatius Chishawasha
Location
Chishawasha, Mashonaland
Zimbabwe
Coordinates 17°27′S 31°08′E / 17.45°S 31.13°E / -17.45; 31.13
Information
Type Private, boarding
Motto Ignem Mittite In Terram
Set the World on Fire
Established 1962 (1962)
Headmaster L. Madyangove
Gender All-male high school, coed A-levels
Age 12 to 18
Pupils 400(approx.)
Houses Kagwa
Lwanga
Mkasa

St Ignatius College is a Jesuit, Catholic, boarding high school near Harare, Zimbabwe. It is all-male in forms one through four and coeducational for A-Level students. It is a linked to St Ignatius' College in England in its founding (1962) and has continuing links to St Augustine, Edinburgh.

History

Several Jesuit fathers have laboured long at St. Ignatius and are part of its history. Father Gregory Xavier Croft, S.J., spent his Jesuit life developing science education here and throughout Zimbabwe. He co-authored Science for Zimbabwe, one of the first science textbooks written after independence in 1980. He retired in 1991 and continued with his passion for physics at St Alberts in Mt Darwin, then moving on to St Boniface in Magunje. He died peacefully in Garnet House Harare in 2000.

Father Anthony Watsham, S.J., was a biologist, becoming a world authority in entomology. He spent much of his free time in the company of animals, dogs, birds, and even a baboon named 'Bibiana' at one time. A painter of great imagination, he decorated the Jesuit house at St. Ignatius with abstract art. One of his greatest academic achievements was to study and document the parasitic wasps that live inside figs. He was awarded an honorary life membership of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa.[1]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Rostrum Number 57 August 2001 Honorary Life Members". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. http://www.entsocsa.co.za/. Retrieved 2010-02-03. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. ↑ Gappah, Petina (2009), An elegy for Easterly : stories, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-86547-906-2

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Coordinates: 17°45′S 31°13′E / 17.750°S 31.217°E / -17.750; 31.217

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