Get to read the History of Dundee High School right here!

Kevin Burge has produced a labour of love and in so doing has fitted the title of his book to a T – Strenius Ardua Cedunt (the heights yield to endeavour ) – the History of Dundee High School.
Kevin, himself a former teacher from 1984-1993, spent 18 months of painstaking research that put him in touch with former pupils and teachers around South Africa and virtually from around the world.
“History is not just a series of boring dates. History lives as it is about people. History comes alive with colour – like a white canvas that speaks volumes once the artist has covered the canvass with his creativity.” Because Dundee High is so closely linked to the town, the book is really a history of Dundee.
Kevin covers a myriad of events – national and international – that impacted on life in Dundee and on the school.

Tragedies such as the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, happier times such as the end of World War Two, the Coronation of the Queen – and South African events – the declaring of the republic in 1961 and the dawn of democracy in 1994.
“School and town are entwined. What I really enjoyed was digging up those lesser known anecdotes that do not make it onto the pages of the more academic history books.”

The book is available at Stok Systems, corner of Boundary Road and McKenzie Street, Dundee, – R150 for black and white hard copies and R300 for full colour colour copies.

However, for the many loyal Dundonians out of town you can read Kevin’s fascninating book right here  by going to  Strenius Ardua Cedunt.

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