This is an association of Women who attended Collegiate Girls' School in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. This is the Official facebook page of the OCGG which is run by Executive Committee Members of the Guild!
All girls who have left the Junior and Senior Collegiate Girls' Schools, provided that they have attended the High School for a period of not less than two years, shall be eligible for membership. In addition, those girls who, having joined the Senior Collegiate Girls' School at the commencement of their final year of schooling have completed such final year at the school shall be eligible.
Facta non Verba
Girls of the college, girls of the college,
Girls of the games club who stand here today,
Stiff is our climb up the steep hill of knowledge,
Stiff, too, our climb up the stout hill of play.
Nothing in life’s to be won without trying
Strength of the body and vigour of soul.
Old Father Tempus is flying, is flying;
Let us fly after and win to our goal.
Follow on, follow on, follow on, follow on, follow on.
Let’s follow the old college cry,
For it’s “Facta non Verba” for aye.
Out in the future, the dark world before us,
Dim days appear through a shimmer of gold;
Shall we not picture, as years gather o'er us,
Dear girl faces we loved so of old;
Out of the darkness they throng forth to meet us,
Calling us softly by old school names:
Bright eyes awaken with laughter to greet us,
How we shall love them, the girls of the games.
Follow on, follow on, follow on, follow on, follow on,
Let’s follow the old college cry.
For it’s “Facta non verba” for aye.
Although the school’s traditions and ethos are based on Christian values and beliefs, there is a full acceptance of and a respect for other religious faiths.
The Lamp of Service represents the ethos of knowledge tempered with honesty, loyalty and service to the community. Presented each year by the outgoing head-girl to her successor, it is a simple oil-lamp, but is imbued with the power of the past that lights up our course into the future.
