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Cada familia que ingresa a Santiago College recibe
uno de los cuatro colores de las SC Houses, que He arrived at the port of Valparaiso in 1878 invited
sus integrantes representarán durante su paso por by Reverend Taylor. He formed the first group of
el Colegio: Azul, Amarillo, Rojo y Verde (en estricto missionaries and teachers who created the new
orden alfabético, para evitar cualquier tipo de ses- school: Santiago College. Described in the files of
go). Y estos corresponden, a su vez, a personajes the Methodist Missionary Board of New York as a
claves en la historia de SC. man of “bold initiative, statesmanlike vision, calm
perseverance and invincible determination”, Ira La
En octubre de cada año, cuando celebremos con Fetra was SC´s first headmaster.
entusiasmo el aniversario de Santiago College, con
los tradicionales “Días del Colegio”; o cuando los Yellow House: Miss Mary Swaney
alumnos y alumnas de 5° básico reciben el pin del
color de su house, que los distingue como los más She was the headmistress of Santiago College
grandes de Lower School, recordamos de manera who decided that the School would give special
especial a: acknowledgement to those students who personi-
fied SC values. Such distinction was named Finer
Blue House: Reverend William Taylor Humanhood, currently known as Finer Humankind.

American Methodist Minister, who in 1877 submit-
ted a plan to the Chilean President, Aníbal Pinto, to
organize a missionary school for women. Later on,
he was the founder of Santiago College.

Green House: Miss Elizabeth Mason
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She was an exceptional headmistress who led SC vida a las SC Houses
from 1933 to 1959. Miss Mason contributed to turn
Santiago College into a leading female educational son: Azul, Amarillo, Rojo
establishment. She received the “Bernardo O´Hig-
gins order to merit” twice, for her outstanding job y Verde.
as an educator. “May god bless you each one and
as always keep our school in his loving care”, was
the blessing she pronounced at the end of all cere-
monies and that is present to these days.

Red House: Ira La Fetra