Welcome to the home of the Mansfield High School Old Boys webpage, Durban, South Africa. It is dedicated to those friends that we have lost along the way.

If you have been searching to make contact with some of your classmates, this may be the place where you will be able to find them!

Thanks !
Tchai Mumford
Matric 1985

Pilgrim's Progress, written by John Bunyan in 1684.

He who would valiant be ’gainst all disaster,
Let him in constancy follow the Master.
There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound - his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.

Since, Lord, Thou dost defend us with Thy Spirit,
We know we at the end, shall life inherit.
Then fancies flee away! I’ll fear not what men say,
I’ll labor night and day to be a pilgrim.

As remembered by John Searle (Mansfield 1954)

Creator of life and light,
We praise thee this day for the beauty of thy world,
for sunshine and flowers,
storm-cloud and starry night,
for the radiance of dawn and the last smoldering calm of the sunset.

We thank thee for physical joys,
for the ecstasy of swift motion, for deep water to swim in,
For the goodly smell of rain on dry ground,
for hills to climb and hard work to do,
for all the skill of hand and eye,
for music that lifts our hearts in one breath to heaven,
for the grasp of a friend,
for the gracious loveliness of children,

for all these thy sacraments of beauty and joy,
we thank thee our Lord and God.