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St Ignatius College, is a high school near Harare, Zimbabwe. St Ignatius College is a Catholic Jesuit College outside Harare in Chishawasha, at 17°45'9.40"S and 31°13'20.02"E. The school is all male for forms one to four and is coeducational for A Level students. The school only accepts students of high academic merit along the same lines as a grammar school by English standards. The students perform well in the national exams with a pass range typically between 98% and 100%.It is a linked school with St Augustine, Edinburgh. St. Ignatius College is a full-time boarding school, related to the St Ignatius' College in England via the Jesuits who founded the college in 1962. == History == Several Jesuit fathers have spent a long time at St Ignatius College and are part of the history of the College. Father Gregory Xavier Croft S.J. spent most of his working life developing science education at St Ignatius and in Zimbabwe as a whole. He developed some of the best school laboratories for physics, biology and chemistry found in 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 namde 'Bibiana' at one time. A painter of great imagination, he decorated the Jesuit house at St Ignatius with abstract art. Some remember his extensive beard and soft-spoken witty humor. 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. There are several organisms now named after him (Watshami). Fr Paul Edwards S.J. who served as Rector for close to a decade in the 1990s, taught Religious Education and coached both swimming and rugby, and additionally patron of The Chess team. Brother Fitz Fitzsimmons, who served as both the school's Senior Accountant, as well as Boarding Master of Junior House, since the college's founding. In the mid to late 1990s, under the leadership of Headmasters Father Ber idge and Mr Ignatius Mabveni, St Ignatius surpassed all its academic records, achieving 100% pass rate at O Level for five consecutive years. In the same period, the quiz team won two Regional Quiz crowns, as well as two consecutive National Quiz Championships in 1996 as well as 1997, with record points scored in the history of the competition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint Ignatius College (Zimbabwe)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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