SCHOOL'S OUT!
LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (and "SOLES")!
The staff of Hilton College wish you and your loved ones a peaceful, safe and joyous festive season.
 

END OF AN ERA
On the College’s annual Speech Day, held in October this year, the Chairman of the Board announced that the term of office of the current Headmaster, Mike Nicholson, would end in December 2007.  Click here for more info.
RETIRING STAFF

 December 2006 sees the retirement of two long serving members of the Hilton Staff.
 
Old Hiltonians  of the last two decades will remember Sister Helen Thompson and Bev Davidge.  Click here to read more.

VULA SCHOOLS' SUCCESS

Hilton College was proud to host, through the VULA programme, the South African Institute of Mechanical Engineers Technology Olympiad.  Schools from around the country competed in this year's challenge, with Vula assisted schools taking 2nd and 5th places in the national finals.  Click here to read more.
DF DOWLING AWARD

Tim Drummond is the recipient of the DF Dowling Award for 2006.

The award was established following the death of one of Hilton's most famous cricketing sons, Derek Dowling, in 2003. The Old Hiltonian Club introduced the DF Dowling Award for the 1st X1 batsman who had scored the most runs in the season. This year the recipient is Tim Drummond.  Click here to read more.

MEDIA MATTERS

Two Hilton College Boys distinguished themselves recently in the local media.

  • Reese Hartman, one of next year's matrics, was selected as a finalist in The Witness Short Story Competition.  Read his story "A person from Nowhere".
     

  • Preston Mommsen has excelled as a batsman in the UK. Click here to read a report from The Witness.
PUT IT IN BLACK&WHITE - your news, stories &  photo's


We had some fantastic feedback and news from some Old Hiltonians.  Read about Paddy Johnson's get together he organised for Old Hiltonians in Aussi, as well as info and news from other old boys!  Click here to read the stories.

HILTON IN THE USA
  
During September, Iain McMillan and Board Member Guy Hayward, spent a week visiting some Old Hiltonians in the USA.
Click here to read more about their time there.

BUILDING SERVANT-LEADERS

Under the stewardship of Mike Nicholson, Hilton College has begun a process of change in its approach to leadership. Click here to read more.

Tim Meyers (right) was announced Head Boy of Hilton College at the Speech Day ceremony in October, while Sam Mabombo was awarded the mantle of Deputy.

MUSICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 Read about the magnificent opportunity two Hilton College boys have been given of receiving advanced singing training at the Norges Musikhøgskole (Norwegian Music Academy) in Oslo. Click here for more on music

NEW BOARD MEMBER
Most recent nominated member of the Board of Governors is Pat Eustace, Old Hiltonian and highly respected member of the East Griqualand farming community.  Click here to read more.		 NEW PEARCE HOUSE
The new Pearce House is rapidly taking shape.  The contract has been set back a little by some persistent rain in the spring and early summer,  but the boys will be in there by the beginning of Term 2, 2007. Click here for more photos.

GARY PLAYER AT HILTON

Gary Player opened the new synthetic putting green and followed this with a clinic on grandparents' day, Sunday 15 October.  For more, click here

 THE HILTONIAN SOCIETY

Only 48% of Old Hiltonians are members of the Hiltonian Society!  For more info click here.

HILTON BOYS' TOP  HONOURS
AT THE NATIONAL PHYSICAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD

James Shorten, Steyn Krouse, Iain Monteith and Christian Callender-Easby proved once again that Hilton College's standards of excellence are consistently high. Click here for more.

OLD HILTONIAN NEWS

There is a buzz in the ranks of the Old Hiltonian National Committee under the enthusiasm of new Chairman, Murray Moxham.  Murray's is not the only new face.  Justin Platt and Paul Rayner are on the National Committee, Monty Brett has taken on the Midlands Branch and Joe Harding the Pietermaritzburg.  To see the contact details and find out more click here.