Offices from 1948 until his death in 1974) wrote in the 1953 GKSA "Almanak" that “it will be many years before the Theological School runs out of room for books.” Shelves were built from steel to avoid fire damage, given fresh memories of the February 23, 1949 fire started by a short circuit in the PU for CHE library, which destroyed an estimated 30,000 books, 4,000 magazines, and original manuscripts of poet Jan F. E. Celliers.