Army Burn Hall College,
Abbottabad, is a unique institution of its kind with proud legacy and rich
traditions. Its curriculum and environment distinguishes it from other academic
institutions, which our alumni carry and exhibit throughout in their life style.
Over the years, Burn Hall has produced generations of Hallians who are serving
humanity across the globe with inspiration and follow up beyond geographical
and political boundaries. Spirit behind our academic excellence and personality
development pursuits are enshrined in the motto; Quo Non Ascendam i.e. To where
Can I Not ascend.
Burn Hall traces its history back
to 1943, when a team of missionaries from Mill Hill, London, k.nown as the Mill
Hill Fathers, established the School in Srinagar. It was named after an English
Manor House, which had a Hall with a small stream (burn) running through it.
The school was administered by the Fathers in English Public school tradition.
After partition, in 1948, the
Fathers, with a handful of students shifted the school to Abbottabad and set it
up in a small hotel building, the Abbott Hotel. The school was among the best
in the count<y and soon more buildings were added to accommodate the
increasing number of students. The school was under the control of the Diocesan
Board of Education, Rawalpindi.
In 1956, a new school was
constructed a few miles outside the town to provide more room for seniors and
came to be known as 'Senior Burn Hall'. The new school was designed to allow
for adequate sports facilities and included playgrounds for all games,
including a swimming pool.
Ideally located at 4300 feet
above sea level in natural surroundings, coupled with the zeal and fervour with
which the Fathers and school staff administered the school, it became one of
the leading schools of the country. It excelled in academic and literary
activities and encouraged competition in sports, by having House Games and
inter school/ college sports fixtures. The high standards achieved were in sync
with the School motto 'Quo Non Ascendam'.
In 1976 the Fathers faced
insurmountable problems in running the school satisfactorily and handed over
the management of the School to the Pakistan Army. Since then it has been
renamed as Army Burn Hall College for Boys, whereas, the old campus was
converted into Army Burn Hall College for Girls. Since then both the Colleges
have been functioning separately, under Commander 10 Corps, as Chairman Board
of Governors. The new management has not only maintained the traditions set by
the Fathers, but also has added new buildings and facilities necessitated over
the years.
Equipped with magnificent
infrastructure and supplemented by professionally competent faculty, the
college is inspired by its noble mission and functions through a carefully
crafted comprehensive education philosophy to produce personalities of eminence
and leaders of stature. Besides formal education, moral, physical and social
grooming of students is enacted through a host of co curricular and
extracurricular activities. Charged with the spirits of imparting quality
education, the faculty encourages active and creative minds, attempts to infuse
sense of understanding and compassion for others with the conviction and trust
on their beliefs and potentials.
The College routine capitalizes
on every single moment toward-s inculcating values of integrity,
self-discipline, sense of responsibility, self-confidence and healthy
competitive spirit among its students. Efforts are still in hand to further it
by ensuring quality intake with progressive career development and challenging
yet achievable standards, professional grooming of faculty, and by creating an
atmosphere for wholesome personality. The enterprise is off course two folds,
whereby, parents and the college together should devise to craft the future of
their future generation.
On the occasion of 75 Years of Army Burn Hall College, Abbottabad (1943-2018), Pakistan Post is issuing a Commemorative Postage Stamp of Rs 8/- denomination on March 5, 2018.
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