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