VPHS Magazine 2014 | Page 47

VPHS Eldred Oelofse’s claim to Victorian Fame Eldred Oelofse was VP’s 2nd Head boy to be appointed in 1951 when there were only 57 students at the school. Mr Thorp was headmaster at the time and celebrated with his Matrics at the end of the year where they all congregated at his home in Hallack Road (house still standing) and were then taken to see a movie. At 80, Eldred still clearly remembers the movie’s title, “The Cruel Sea”, because the gesture of treating them as adults left a lasting impression on him.