Vincent Hill School

In 1954 Shri Nathji decided to shift His sons to Pran Nathji and Priya Nathji as the atmosphere at Allen Memorial was unduly strict and harsh.  Shri Nathji had earlier found out about Vincent Hill School which was a Seventh Day Adventist Christian school. He had been told that the Seventh Day Adventists were vegetarians and that the school had teachers and students who were exceptionally soft-spoken and polite, in contrast to the harshness and bullying prevalent at Allen Memorial.

Over a period of time, Manley began to develop greater and greater respect for Shri Nathji and the boys. The Hindi teacher at the school, a certain Mr. Thomas, would always say:
 “Look how politely Priya’s father meets people. He is so full of love that he embraces people when he greets them. He gives such great happiness to everyone!”
 Whenever Manley and other Seventh Day Adventist pastors would come to Shri Nathji for donations for the school, Shri Nathji would speak to them with a divine glow on his face and they would say to him:
 “Swamiji, your house is built on a rock!”
 Meaning thereby that he was one amongst those who were “saved” in the Christian sense of the word. They would look at his 1938 portrait in the drawing room of Savitri Nivas and say to the boys:
 “Your father is a very handsome man!”

Pran Nathji and Priya Nathji both liked Vincent Hill School and completed their studies there before moving to collage.

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Vincent Hill School which was made by Seventh Day Adventist Christian. The laying of the foundation stone on October 13, 1920, was attended by prominent Mussoorie citizens like Colonel J. H. Beer, chairman of the Mussoorie Municipal Board and leading Seventh-day Adventists. W. W. Fletcher, president of the Southern Asia Division. In March 1922 the main building at Vincent Hill School was ready for occupancy. Mr.  A. J. Olsen, from Kingsway College, Canada, was the first principal in 1922

When Pran Nathji and Priya Nathji  joined the school, M. O. Manley was principal  Mr.  H. H. Mattison was acting principal.  

M. O. Manley served as principal from 1952 to 1961.1956. During his time the dining room was refurbished, and the kitchen was moved to the domestic science classroom. A new parlor was added to the boy’s hostel. Both the boys’ and girls’ parlors received record players. The laundry was completed with washing machines and electric irons. In 1955 principal Manley was directed to inform the inspector of Anglo-Indian Schools “that because of circumstances we are not at present offering instruction preparing for the Senior Cambridge Certificate, and that we will not be following the government recognized program.  From then on till its closure in 1969 Vincent Hill School followed the American unit system.

The school closed its operations in 1969 mainly because it was getting difficult for foreign nationals to get work visa in India and no more visas were granted for overseas teachers at Vincent Hill. So, the school was officially closed on June 30, 1969.79 In September 1969, 36 students transferred to the Far Eastern Academy and the new Sikh owner S. Mehtab Singh acquired it. He founded G.N.F.C school in honour of Guru Nanak's 500th birthday anniversary, which was in November 1969. The Fifth Centenary School Society was formed to manage the affairs of the institution. It was registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, in June 1970. It is now among the most prominent boarding schools of Mussoorie