Jeppe High School For Boys Rowing

Fundraising for Jeppe High School For Boys Rowing.

Jeppe was one of the founder schools of rowing in Johannesburg. In 1958 Dr JRD Tomlinson, a Jeppe old boy, encouraged his nephew Martin Maine, the coxswain of the Wemmer Pan crew, who was at the school to get a Jeppe crew together. He coached them and in 1959 he approached Anglo Vaal, who purchased three Fours and donated them to Jeppe, KES and Parktown. With this, schoolboy rowing was born. Today the rowing club has over 100 members and enters boats in all the classes in interschool regattas, the Buffalo Challenge, the SA Schools Boat Race and the SA Schools Championships. Jeppe has a boathouse at Victoria Lake in Germiston.