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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Both the book and jacket are like new. Opening with 93 foundation pupils and a staff of four, the College was the realisation of a dream for a group of far-thinking Presbyterian ministers and laymen who had established the Saint Kentigern Trust in 1949 to found a school for 'the acquisition of knowledge, for the glory of God, and the benefit of mankind, a proper discipline of mind and body, and a life of service to others.' The College took the name of the patron saint of Glasgow, Saint Kentigern, who is also affectionately known in Scotland as Mungo. From this beginning, Saint Kentigern College has grown to more than 1600 students from Year 7 to Year 13 and has a teaching and administration staff in excess of 200. The spacious fields and attractive buildings of its beautiful 40 hectare campus now form a greenbelt, as the city has spread to surround the College with the thriving suburb of Pakuranga, part of the City of Auckland.…