RHODES NEWSLETTER Old Rhodian Union December, 1984 V______J University of California Chancellor revisits alma mater Possibly our most illustrious alumnus, Professor John Saunders (1920) revisited Rhodes in October on holiday from San Francisco where he is Chancellor of the mammoth University of California. He was accompanied by his wife of eight years, Rose-bud. Both widowed, they had lived in the same street for many years. “He preferred the view from my house”, says Rose-bud. Professor Saunders went to California as head of the medical faculty before the Second World War. Not only is he ex­ tremely interesting when talking about the development of education in the USA, but he also has a faultless memory for people and events in Grahamstown more than sixty years ago. His father The Centenary of the Grahamstown — was in charge of Prince Alfred Hospital, Bad news for M C P'S Port Alfred train service was celebrated and their family home was “The Oaks”, in September when almost 600 people now demolished, up near the Vice- as women sweep toset off in Edwardian garb for a steam Chancellor’s Lodge. Professor Saunders train outing filled with beauty and came to Rhodes for the first time as a 13 power at Rhodes nostalgia. Pipe bands, bunting and year old to study Greek under Professor mayors in chains were the order of the Bowles. It was good having you backSince the recent election of a female day, plus a picnic champagne lunch at again, Professor Saunders. SRC president at Rhodes, women have Bathurst. Among the guests was Prime swept to leadership positions in a large Time presenter Dorianne Berry, seen number of the more prominent societies, here talking to our splendid archetypal committees and cluhs on the campus. minister-figure Professor L A Hewson. Of the five SRC executive members, Also there were Errol Moorcroft (BA four are women — the SRC president 1963) MP for Albany, and his wife Jennie Bowen, media councillor Olivia Gill (Williams BA 1963). Forsythe, Mary-Jane Enslin and Julie Scott. The other member is Barry du Toit, SRC vice-president. Women have also taken over the leader­ ship of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) local committee — Maura Talbot and Olivia Forsythe are co-chairwomen. The new chairwoman of AIESEC Rhodes is Elizabeth Miller and Iris Vogelsang is chairwoman of the Rhodes University Pharmacy Students Association. Other female society chairwomen are Toni Petra, Progressive Federal Party Youth Branch; Patsy Weyer, Rag Committee; Billie Bridges, Rhodes University Social Work Association; and Julie Scott, Academic Freedom Committee. Roelien Theron and Melissa de Villiers are the new editors of the student news­ paper ‘Rhodeo’. Rhodes R50 000 Scholarships awarded to Rhodes Tick Research German students Unit in Professor Dieter Welz, head of the Department of German at Rhodes, has announced that 10 of his students have Congo fever been awarded coveted Goethe Institute scholarships to study for two months in fight Germany at the end of this year. The scholarships are worth R5 000 each. The Rhodes Tick Research Unit (TRU) The 10 students are all doing German as played an important role in the fight a foreign language at Rhodes, which against Crimean Congo Fever, which was the first university in the country to caused the death of a Western Cape offer this type of course. The successful man, a doctor at Tygerberg hospital, a applicants, who come from all popu­ boy in Bloemhof, the serious illness of a lation groups in the country, had to Free State farmer, one of his labourers undergo placement tests which were and four nursing sisters and a matron at assessed in Germany. The Goethe the Tygerberg hospital in September. institutes, spread all over the Federal Republic, offer courses tailored for Dr Ivan Horak, TRU director, said that different levels of proficiency in German the National Institute for Virology had and are intensive language acquisition asked him to share his findings when it exercises of a highly sophisticated became known that he and his team nature. Each student will be examined were conducting a survey on the bont- at the end of the course and legged tick, which is responsible for the internationally-accepted diplomas will infection in animals and occasionally be awarded. humans. Professor Welz remarked that the some­ Dr Horak said: “TRU started work on what overwhelming success rate of his hares in January, 1983. Hares and Dr Chris Hummel, who will lead the department’s applications might indi­ ground-frequenting birds are hosts of historical tour, attended the steam traincate that the recently-introduced the bont-legged tick during its immature M ade stages. centenary with current students German as a foreign language option “That is when the National Institute for M oed who is studying for an MA inhad started to pay handsome dividends. Virology came in and asked to share cur history andMichael Stevens, third year The successful applicants are — Kevin findings on where the tick occurs, the history student. Adams, Michelle Enslin, Valmay nature of its hosts and seasonal occur­ Kariem, Ruben Mitchell, Khumo rences”. Mokgatle, Louise Pistorius, David He said the adult tick preferred large Roam Europe with Segatle and Iris Vogelsang. hosts but seldom attacked humans. It was known that the Bloemhof boy who Rhodes Historians died from the disease had been out If you are fascinated by the highways camping. Dr Horak said that were a tick and byways of medieval history, you SA is “Media to find a warm body in close proximitymay wish to join the Rhodes University Laboratory of World” it might well bite. history department on a 28-day ramble There was the possibility of human-to- through Italy, France and Germany in A lecturer in the Rhodesjournalism and human contact but it appeared that June/July next year. Their route followsMedia Studies Department and newly- humans infected by other humans closely in the footsteps of the first half ofappointed professor at Natal University, suffered far less serious symptoms. the medieval European course taught to Kenyan Tomaselli, says South Africa Dr Horak said that if the Tygerberg first year history students at Rhodes. is the media laboratory of the world. Dr Hospital nursing sisters had contracted It starts in Rome, wanders north Tomaselli, who is to take up the newly Crimean Congo Fever in this way itthrough Florence and Venice to Milan, created position of Director of the would account for the lesser severity ofthen into France to Arles, Avignon, Contemporary Cultural Studies Unit at the attack. Cluny, Dijon, the Loire Valley, BayeuxNatal University, Durban, says ‘little and Paris. Then the tour goes through attention has been accorded to media into Germany taking in Cologne, studies at South African universities — Heidelberg, Rothenburg and Würzburg other than Rhodes’. and ending at Frankfurt. The tour As head of the unit, Dr Tomaselli will Club 15 Reunion organiser is Dr Chris Hummel, of the be teaching students conducting post­ department, and Professor Rodney graduate research. ‘The direction of Calling all members of Club 15. Your Davenport, who will be on sabbatical courses will be an extension of the club was founded in 1960, and will be leave in Dublin, will guide the group in direction in which the Rhodes Journ­ 25 years old next year. Current France. The tour is described as one alism and Media Studies Department members are anxious to compile a list ofthat should appeal to old and young, has been moving in the last four years.’ past Club 15’ers preparatory to amateur and connoisseur, and is rea­ Dr Tomaselli, 36, who has reached pro­ arranging a nostalgic weekend get- sonably priced at R4 250. It follows a fessorial status after only six years of together some time during the year. successful tour of the sites of classical academic teaching says he is sad to leave Please send your name, years of Greece and Byzantium led by Classics Rhodes. ‘The staff here have worked membership and contact address to: lecturer, Warren Snowball, last year. hard and constantly to establish this Further information can be obtained department as one of the more pro­ Mr Ritchie Morris from Dr Hummel at the History depart­ gressive in the world. Comparing the 7 Hodges Street ment, telephone 0461-2023 x 45, or standards of courses taught here with Grahamstown from Mike Barnwell at Tom Tits courses in America, there is no doubt 6140 Travel, telephone 0461-2235. that our theoretically based approach to production is at least a decade ahead’. 2 educated at Templeton High School, Rhodes University and the University of Poet, scientist and miner Pretoria. He is an honorary member of the Institute of South African Architects, the SA Institute of Building, the SA to be honoured by RhodesCeramic Society and the SA Institute of Housing Management. He is also a Rhodes will award honorary degrees to (honoris causa) in recognition of hismember of the Building Industry three prominent South Africans at the contribution to the study of buildingAdvisory Council as well as several other University’s annual graduation cere­ materials. professional bodies. mony in Grahamstown in April next Dr Webb was born in Cradock and was After service in the Special Signals year. Service (RADAR) during World War The distinguished Afrikaans poet, II, Dr Webb joined the National author and literary critic, Ernst van Building Research Institute of the Heerden will receive a Doctor of Council for Scientific and Industrial Literature degree (honoris causa) in Research, becoming head of the recognition of his standing as a poet, materials division in 1955 and Director literary critic and teacher. of the Institute in 1959. On his retire­ Professor van Heerden was born at ment he was appointed to a Chair in the Pearston and was educated at Grey School of Business Leadership at the College, Port Elizabeth, Stellenbosch University of South Africa. University, the Gemeentlijke Univer- Dr Webb is particularly known for his siteit Amsterdam and the University of studies on clays and related building Ghent in Belgium. In 1959 he was materials and has promoted interna­ awarded a Carnegie scholarship, which tional links for South Africa through his enabled him to study modern American long membership of the International literature in the United States of America Confederation of Thermal Analysis. of America. His more recent contributions have He lectured in Afrikaans at the been in the field of industrial building University of Natal and in English and and research management and he has Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University frequently appeared on radio and tele­ before moving to the University of the Professor Ernst van Heerden vision in connection with the pressing Witwatersrand, where he was appointed housing needs of the country. senior lecturer. After being promoted Dr Richard Cooke, former Executive to Reader in General Poetics , he was Director of the Johannesburg Consoli­ appointed Professor and Head of the dated Investment Company and chair­ Department of Afrikaans and man and director of a number of Nederlands in 1967, a post he held until mining companies, will receive the his retirement in 1981. degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris Professor van Heerden has earned causa) in recognition of his contri­ numerous distinctions. In 1948 he won butions to the economic, industrial, edu­ second prize in an international poetry cational and cultural life of the country. competition at the Olympic Games in Dr Cooke was born in Malta and was London; he won the Hertzog Prize for educated at Lancing College, Sussex Poetry in 1962 for his volume “Die Klop”, and King Edward VII School in and “Teenstrydige Liedere” earned him Johannesburg. the W A Hofmeyer Prize for Poetry in He was President of the Chamber of 1975. Mines in 1966-67 and 1969-70, and is a In 1977 he was honoured with the member of the Institutes of Mining and diploma of the Uniáo Brasileira de Metallurgy in South Africa and the Escritoires, based in Manaus, Brasil; United Kingdom. and shortly after his retirement the In 1974 he was awarded the degree of University of the Witwatersrand con­ LLD (honoris causa) by the University ferred on him the degree of DLitt of the Witwatersrand in recognition of (honoris causa). Recently the freedom his services to the mining industry in of the town of his home-town Pearston South Africa. was bestowed on him. At present Dr Cooke is Chairman of the He has published twelve volumes of his Council of the 1820 Foundation and, poetry and several collections of prose since his retirement to Plettenberg Bay, during his career and has also made a has played an important role in the notable contribution as a literary critic. development of the Foundation as a His intimate knowledge of the lit­ cultural organization. eratures of several languages is a He is a Trustee of the SA Foundation, valuable feature of his literary essays the University of South Africa and the and has contributed to his balance and Stellenbosch Centenary Fund. From depth of critical understanding. 1965 to 1970 he was a member of the Professor van Heerden has done much Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory to promote interaction and under­ Council. Dr Cooke also served on the standing between the Afrikaans and Boards of the National Institute for English cultures in South Africa and he Metallurgy, the Nuclear Fuels Corpor­ is regarded as one of the most prominent ation, the National Productivity living Afrikaans poets. Advisory Council, the SA Institute for Dr Thomas Webb, an internationally Medical Research and the Pneumocon­ recognized pioneer in thermal analysis iosis Research Institute. He also played (the quantitative study of the effect of an important role on the Research heat on materials of all kinds) will Advisory Committee of the Atomic receive the degree of Doctor of Science Dr Richard Cooke Energy Board. 3 Harare Reunion Barry Blair,our stalwart ORU repre­ sentative in Harare sends the following account of this year’s annual reunion: Professor Cliff Moran and his wife, Peggy, were the guests of honour and representatives of the University at the Old Rhodian Reunion in Harare on 11 July 1984. In an amusing and interest­ ing talk (interspersed with wry comments from the audience), Professor Moran told the gathering of 70 about recent developments on the campus, and about the successful efforts in fund­ raising by the Development Division. As it had been some years since Professor Moran was in his home town, his visit provided an opportunity to renew friendships and freshen memories of past stamping grounds. It was necessary, however, for him to partake of a few brown bottles before he could decide Settler Country Rhodes whether the quality of the brew was unchanged! A good and enjoyable 1985 Calendar refused statue evening was had by all present. The Zimbabwe Cabinet Committee on The haunting beauty of the Eastern the National Anthem and Monuments Cape frontier territory is the subject- has rejected a request from Rhodes that The Rhodes Newsletter is published bi- matter of a new art calendar for 1985 it be given a statue of Physical Energy.annually in June and December by the designed and photographed by Rhodes The Harare City Council General Public Relations Division of Rhodes Journalism and History graduate,Rob Purposes Committee had originally University. Information and news of, or Cooper (BA 1979). agreed to offer the statue to the of interest to, Old Rhodians can be sub­ Titled ‘Settler Country 1985’, the university. However, in a letter to themitted to: calendar contains thirteen black and council, the secretary for the Ministry of The Secretary white images which were taken over a Local Government and Town Planning ORU two-year period. They cover a wide areasaid the Cabinet Committee did not or — from the dense natural forests of want the statue to be given to the The Public Relations Officer Hogsback in the north through the rich University. The statue and that of Cecil Rhodes University, P O Box 94 historic fabric of our own ‘City of Saints’John Rhodes, placed in what'was then 6140 GRAHAMSTOWN and the grandeur of the coast to the Jameson Avenue, were re-sited in 1981 Telephone (0461) 7309 sombre industrial heartland of Port at the rear of the National Archives on Elizabeth in the south. the instructions of the former Ministry of Information and Tourism. The Professor Dennis Buchanan (B Sc Two of the pictures were taken during Physical Energy statue, which for Hons 1969) has been appointed to the the filming of the recent SABC “TV several years stood by the Rowan MartinMineral Industry Chair of Mining Settlers” documentary THE Building on the Bulawayo road, was Geology at Imperial College, University VOLUNTEERS - for which Rob took previously held in storage by the councilof London. He worked for Union most of the press pictures. after it came from Lusaka municipality Corporation before he gained his PhD The original photographs — master- when Zambia gained independence in at Imperial College on aspects of the printed on Ilford Galerie paper — were the 1960’s. Bushveld Complex. Dennis was in exhibited at the 1820 National Grahamstown in September when we Monument and shown on TV during took this picture. this year’s Arts Festival. In order to Changes in ensure maximum faithfulness to the rich blacks and sparkling highlights of Rhodes PR these originals, they were reproduced Earlier this year the Public Relations using laser scanning technology and and Development Division was divided, printed on imported art gloss paper by with Neil Papenfus (B Com 1958),who the expensive and laborious Duotoneis once more stationed in Grahamstown, process which employs two negatives. becoming Director of Development and Richard Buckland (1953)Director of Launched to commemorate this year’s Public Relations. Two new posts were 10th anniversary of the 1820 Settlers created — Mary Burnett (BA 1972) National Monument, the calendars are was appointed Press Officer and Charles available now in a limited edition and Jefferys Schools Liaison Officer can be mailed direct. Price is R11.50 stationed in Grahamstown.Felicity van (mailed to anywhere in SA) or R12,50 der Linde (Pearson, BA Hons 1973) (mailed to anywhere in the world). remains at the helm of our Orders should be sent to Grocott and Johannesburg Liaison Office, which Sherry, P O Box 179 Grahamstown,now falls under the Public Relations 6140 or phone(0461) 7222. Division. Public Relations Officer, Rob is currently the editor of Grocott’sAletta Eliott (de Villiers BA Hons Mail — the oldest continuously publish­ 1966)leaves Rhodes in the new year to ed newspaper in the country. His next join Fort Hare as their chief PRO. Her project is a book of photographs onplace will be taken by Julia Demetriou Grahamstown and the Eastern Cape. (Denny BA Hons 1982). 4 Eighth consecutive Intervarsity loss If it weren’t for the gentlemanly attitude to sport still prevalent at Rhodes — game, not battle — 1st team rugby players might be feeling a little des­ pondent after their eighth consecutive defeat by UPE at the annual Inter­ varsity. However they can cheer them­ selves up (slightly) by re-reading the following report in the local rag: ‘Al­ though UPE once again proved too strong for Rhodes in most departments of the game, the one area in which they did not match the home team was in enthusiasm. The Rhodes teams gave everything they had and their reward was keeping the margin down to 9 points and scoring the only points in the second half. Bear in mind too, that Rhodes is, we believe, the only univer­ sity left in South Africa that has not succumbed to offering sports scholar­ The Rhodes Choir made its first tour of the Reef in seven years during the September ships. vacation, and a great success it was too. In the picture, Professor Rupert Mayr puts his choir through its paces at an impromptu concert in Rhodes Park. Many thanks to Not enough cooks those who hosted members of the choir in their homes and looked after them so well! spoil the broth Unrest in the Black townships of Whites cracking Ex-Rhodes Grahamstown had an unexpected spin­ Professor off during final exams this November under the strain when the University’s residences found edits Jewry survey themselves entirely without Black staff, Professor Edward Higgins, head of the and students volunteered for behind- Department of Sociology and IndustrialA former professor of Economics at the-counter duty for a change, cooking Sociology at Rhodes, says the WhiteRhodes, Dr Marcus Arkin, has for 12 and serving meals for almost 2 000population group in South Africa isyears been Director-General of the people. being subjected to severe stresses which Zionist Federation in Johannesburg and Behind the scenes were ProfessorAlan it is not able to withstand. for the last two years has been editing a Penny (BA 1963) Master of Founder’s Currently engaged in a major national major survey of Jewry in SA. Hall and Miss Jane Dalton, General demographic study of census data from The hook consists of 10 chapters on Manager of Catering and Housekeeping the beginning of this century up to the different aspects of comtemporary Services. He washed while she dried. present day, Professor Higgins’ researchJewish life, each by a specialist. Arkin has led him to believe that the distorted feels a touch of pride that the work is to South African social and political some extent a father and son effort. system, which ignores almost four-fifthsWhile he has edited, introduced and of the population while expecting thecontributed one chapter to the survey, White minority to produce all the his son, Dr Anthony Arkin (BA Hons leaders in commerce and industry and 1972) has also contributed a chapter. the professions, is largely to blame. Anthony is the first White to have been This, added to excessive smoking and awarded a doctorate by the University drinking, lack of exercise and over­ eating, has produced a high-risk ‘killer’ of Durban-Westville. lifestyle. His study shows that mental Marcus Arkin has plenty of facts at his illness is now largely the exclusivefingertips. For example, the Jewish preserve of the White populationcommunity of South Africa is about because of the intense strains under 120 000 strong and is remarkably homo­ which Whites are forced to operate. genous. About 80 per cent originated in Black people, by contrast, tend to be Lithuania, one of the earliest centres of more tolerant of behavioural aber­Zionist effort in the world. ration within their community. Of this community, 80 to 85 per cent White males in SA lead the world in are found in the two major urban areas death from heart disease and Indian of South Africa, Johannesburg and males are rapidly showing the same Cape Town. About half of all Jewish trend, while heart disease in the Black children attend Jewish day schools. and Coloured community is less South Africa plays a role out of all prominent. proportion to its size in world Zionism. This is because the Zionist community Professor Les Switzerof the Department in South Africa is the most vibrant and of Journalism and Media Studies has left closely knit there is. This, in turn, is Rhodes to become joint professor in thelargely the result of one body, the School of Communication and the Zionist Federation, controlling all African and Afro-American pro­ aspects of the movement. South Africa gramme at the University of Houston inis the only country in the world where Texas. this is so. 5 ion committee. She is the wife of the vice-chancellor of Rhodes, has two Who’s Who? daughters and lives in Grahamstown. Rhodes women are Who! Helen Mann is resident director of the Fair Lady magazine annually publishes Ethne Fourieis minister of St Andrew’s Mannville Open Air Theatre in Port the Who’s Who of SA women. Rhodes isPresbyterian Church in Kroonstad. She Elizabeth. She played leading roles in happy to note that no fewer than 18 ofstarted studying theology after she was more than 35 productions between 1952 these have Rhodian ties. We publish the widowed in 1969, graduating first with and 1982 and has directed more than 40 details here: a BA at UNISA and B D with first class major productions, including two (with acknowledgement to Fair Lady).honours in systematic theology operas. at She has served on the drama Joyce Elizabeth Berry (Lumsden BRhodes at the age of 53. This year she is and opera committees of Capab, con­ Pharm 1976)is managing director of moderator of the Presbytery of theducted workshops for drama teachers at Sender Laboratories (Pty) Ltd. She has Orange River. She was the first woman Rhodes and Dower College, and holds a degree in pharmacy from Rhodes and ordained in the Presbyterian Church of the Shakespearean Festival anniversary completed her internship at Settlers’ southern Africa, the first to receive a gold medal, the Port Elizabeth anni­ Hospital in Grahamstown. She has call from a congregation and to be versary medal, the Andrew Hugeunet elected moderator of a presbytery. medal and the 1820 Settlers gold medal. worked at the Nigel Hospital and in In 1981 she was awarded the Prisa merit retail pharmacies. She was appointed Shirley Gelb (Cohen 1953)has been award for promoting classical theatre. assistant pharmacist and training director of Face Place for 12 years, is She is married, has five children and manager at Servier in 1982 and was vice-president of the SA Institute of lives in Port Elizabeth. appointed managing director last year. Health and Beauty Therapists and has She is married with two sons and lives in been a council member of this body for Estelle Marais (BA 1965 MFA 1972)is Johannesburg. professor and head of the fine arts the past eight years. She has a BA from department at the University of Molly Blackburnis the PFP member of Rhodes and diplomas from Vienna, Bophuthatswana, a new department. the provincial council for Walmer. She Paris and the USA. She has travelled The first students will be enrolled next is a BA graduate of Rhodes, and until widely on lecture-demonstration visits. year. She has a MA in fine arts and an 1981 she had her own estate agency in In 1973 she won a national make-up honours degree in Afrikaans from Port Elizabeth, where she lives. She is competition. In 1982 she was the Rhodes where she is doing her doctoral the official opposition spokesman in theconvenor of the eighth national andthesis. She started a fine arts depart­ Eastern Cape for hospital services. She is tenth anniversary congress of the SAment at the University of Fort Hare, was married and has seven children. Institute of Health and Beauty head of the Natal Technikon’s art Jean Branfordcompiled A Dictionary Therapists in Cape Town. She has three department for a year, and returned to of South African English’, the third edi­ children and lives in Cape Town. lecture at Rhodes before joining the tion of which is in preparation. Dr Eily Gledhill (M Sc 1936)is an hon­ staff at the University of Bophuthats­ Branford works at the dictionary re­ orary research associate in the depart­ wana; She is an authority on contem­ search unit of Rhodes in Grahamstown ment of plant sciences at Rhodes. She porary southern African art and has as a lexicographer involved in teachinghas a M Sc from Rhodes and a Ph D in held 15 one-man exhibitions and 40 and research. She is consultant on South plant ecology from London. She is thegroup shows of her own work. She is African English for the Oxford English author of ‘Eastern Cape Veld Flowers’ single and lives in Mmabatho. Dictionary supplements. She is married (translated as ‘Blomme van Oos-Kaap- Lucy Mvubelois founder and general and has two adult children. land’) and co-author of three histories, secretary of the 22 000 strong National Nancy Chartonis associate professor of‘From Cottage to Villa’, ‘1820 Settlers Union of Clothing Workers (SA), and political studies at Rhodes. She was Illustrated’ and ‘In the Steps of Piet has negotiated better conditions for appointed in 1981 and was previouslyRetief. She was a foundation member workers in the clothing industry. Dr senior lecturer. She has bachelor’s and of the 1820 Settlers National Monument Mvubelo is deputy vice-president of the master’s degrees in administration from Council, and managing director and a Trade Union Council of South Africa, Pretoria University, BA and B Theol founder of Historic Grahamstown (Pty)life vice-president of the Business and degrees from UNISA and a University Ltd. She is chairman of the Graham­ Professional Women’s Association and a Education Diploma from Rhodes. She is stown Guild of Tour Guides, and member of the Women’s Legal Status the author of ‘Ciskei — Economics and president of the town’s historical society.Action Committee. In 1975 she was Politics of Dependence’, and co-author ofShe is a member of the Simon van der voted woman of the year by The World ‘White South African Elite’, ‘African Stel Foundation and a former council newspaper, and in 1979 The Star’s Perspectives on South Africa, and ‘An member and a Commander Sister of the woman of the year. In 1979 she visited Empty Table’. Her chief interests are Order of St John with 40 years’ service. the USA twice under the auspices of the resettlement, the homelands and the She is married, has one daughter and South Africa Foundation. She has politics of developing countries. She is livesa in Grahamstown. strongly opposed disinvestment by sub-deacon in the Anglican Church. Thelma Hendersonis director of the American and European businesses in Jacklyn Cock (BA 1966 PhD 1981)is a Centre for Social Development, Gra­South Africa and this year under the lecturer in sociology at the Universityhamstown of and spearheads the funding auspices of the US Chamber of the Witwatersrand where she teaches and development of new communityCommerce in South Africa presented a courses on education, women and facilities (day care centres, creches, paper at the District of Columbia health. She is actively involved in thenursery schools) and is the co-ordinatorhearing on the disinvestment of civil feminist movement and is the author of for four large bursary funds including pensions in South Africa. She is a the book Maids and Madams. She has a Gadra Education of which she is chair- member of the National Manpower Ph D in sociology from Rhodes, and hermain. She is also a council member and Commission. In 1981 she received an thesis dealt with the position of black projects consultant of the 1820 Founda­ honorary doctorate in social science women in domestic service. During 1983 tion, and a member of the Eastern Cape from Rhodes University. She is widowed Dr Cock was engaged in research on Board of the Urban Foundation. A and has two children and two grand­ child care and the working mother for former dean of women’s residences and children. In 1983 she received the the second Carnegie inquiry into lecturer in geography at Wits, she has Adelaide Ristori award. poverty in South Africa. She edited a written and lectured widely on edu­ Nan Olivieris new business develop­ special issue on women and work for the cation, the role of women and ment manager with Berk Pharmaceu­ South African Labour Bulletin, which community development. She is a ticals, a member of the Revision Health appeared in December 1983. She was member of the federal executive of the Care Group. She was appointed in 1982 previously a lecturer at Rhodes and livesPFP and alternate chairman for the and was previously a product manager in Johannesburg. OFS and E Cape Rhodes Scholars select­ at Berk. She has a bachelor’s degree in 6 pharmacy from Rhodes, a B Sc (hons) from Wits and an MBA from UCT. She BIRTHDAYS AND WEDDINGS lives in Sandton. Muriel Bamford Richter is the medical officer of health for Durban. She worked for the Transvaal Provincial Hospital Services from 1951 to 1953, the Johannesburg City health department from 1953 to 1968, was assistant medical officer of health for Durban from 1968 to 1971, and chief state medical officer in the State Health Department in Pretoria from 1971 to 1974. This year she is the moderator in epidemiology for the Natal Technikon and united municipal executive repre­ sentative on the State Advisory Committee, Animal Slaughter, Meat and Animal Product Hygiene Act. Last year she was appointed to the Health Matter Advisory Committee. She has been a registered specialist in preventive medicine since 1969. She obtained her medical qualifications from the uni­ Our Johannesburg liaison office turned 10 this year (it was established in 1974 with versities of Rhodes, the Witwatersrand, June Bahlman (now Mason BA 1966)at the helm), and to celebrate, current Cape Town and Dundee. She lives in Johannesburg schools liaison officer,Felicity van der Linde (Pearson BA Hons Durban. 1973) remarried in Grahamstown in November. She is seen here on the big day with Irina Russell (B Sc 1967)is professor of new spouse John Easom, product manager with a major pharmaceutical firm. pharmaceutics and head of the school of pharmacy at the University of theanniversaries of the Cape ProvinceLize van der Merwehas been associate Western Cape. She was appointed in Women’s Agricultural Association and professor of mathematical statistics at 1981, and was previously a seniorthe SAWA A. She is the mayor of Rhodes since 1982. She was previously a lecturer in the department of pharma­ Heidelberg. She has a BA from Rhodes senior lecturer at UNISA and a lecturer ceutical chemistry. She has a B Sc and a Higher Education Diploma from at UPE. She has a B Sc (hons) degree (Pharm) and a Ph D from Rhodes, as UCT, and taught for some years in the from Stellenbosch and a Ph D from well as an HED from UNIS A and a B Ed Cape and Natal. She is married and UPE. She is married and lives in degree from the University of the lives at Heidelberg. Grahamstown. Western Cape. Her chief interest has been the study of polysaccharides from the red seaweeds, and she has published and Lorna live is well-situated in the several papers in scientific journals. She Late OR news centre of Stutt, just off the national lives in Cape Town. road between KWT and Queenstown — Niall D’Altera Turner (Abrahams BA friends please note!! Margaret Smith retired as director of 1965) is teaching English to foreign the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyologystudents in Bournemouth, England and D M Venter (M SC 1980) who was at Rhodes in 1982. Professor Smith is a studying for a diploma in the subject. living in Tsumeb, is now a project marine fish systematist, and a world Her husband, Kenneth, is sales geologist with African Selection Trust authority on fishes. She is a member of manager for a computer distribution Exploration, the exploration subsidiary the national committee dealing with company. of BP. He is stationed in Klerksdorp. marine line fish, editor-in-chief of the Tony Granger (LLB 1979)is with the Avril Wilson (Challemore BA 1963) revision of ‘Sea Fishes of SouthernOld Mutual in Cape Town where he is writes that she and her husband Alan Africa’, honorary curator of fishes atthe manager of their financial advisory(B SC 1963) do not receive their news­ East London and Port Elizabeth services. He is married to Joy and has letters despite havingpaid at a Rhodes museums, board member of Albany one son. Also at the Old Mutual from Reunion in Durban. That was an enter­ Museum and honorary life vice-presi­the 1979 Law class are Brian prising person who took your money dent and life member of numerous Pemberton, John Rainier(both in Avril — newsletters are sent free to all angling, underwater and conservation property investments) andSteven OR’s who keep us informed of their bodies. She is involved in variousM anning (legal adviser). current address. Hope this one reaches women’s organisations — NCW, Ann (Brink BA Hons 1966)and Andre you. (P.S. Suppliers of OR ties are SAAVW Soroptimist, and is a member Jaquet (BA 1966)are returning to SA Birch’s, High Street, Grahamstown). of Grahamstown School Board and from the USA in January, and will be Councillor of Kingswood College. Sheliving in Sandton for a few years, before has written numerous books on marine setting off again for pastures new. Foreign address life and been on many research expedi­ Andre is with the Department of tions. She is the widow of Prof JLB Foreign Affairs. lists Smith after whom the Institute is OR’s receiving their newsletters while named. She has one son, two step­ Michael McCoy (BTheol 1974)now is living abroad should, if all goes accord­ children, four grandchildren, and seven in Stutterheim, where he is rector of ing to plan, find in their envelopes step-grandchildren and lives in three Anglican parish churches — two address lists of all OR’s known to live in Grahamstown. in town and one at Kei Road. He and that part of the world. Please help us to Lorna (UCT physio) had three verykeep these lists up to date by sending Glen Uys (Irving BA 1943)is president happy years at the Cathedral in Gra­ any changes to us, either for yourselves of the SA Women’s Agricultural Asso­ hamstown, 1982-4, during which Mike or for others. Also, all SA-based OR’s ciation, which has 31 000 members. In embarked on the part-time B Theol travelling abroad who would like to 1982 she was elected for a second term Hons in Pastoral Theology at Rhodes.meet fellow OR’s, please write to us of office. She has been associated with The move to Stutt hasn’t made study before you go, for your copy of the the WAA since 1948, and is the author easy, but Mike intends to pass his finals foreign address list applicable to the of two jubilee albums to mark the 50th in February 1985. The rectory where hepart of the world you intend visiting. 7 Old Rhodian N e w...... s Prof Andy Andrews (B Com 1971)who not married. My sisterHelen Riding .expiration of his contract, the UN, is the youngest dean to be appointed at (Ryan BCom. 1979)is m arried to under Russian pressure, refused to Wits and the youngest head of a South Michael Riding (BCom Hons 1977), renew his contract. Dr Boernstein won African business school, was voted one who later qualified as a CA and then his case on appeal to the General of the Jaycees ‘Four Outstanding Youngstudied further through UNISA, to Assembly. South Africans’ this year. He joined the complete a BSc (computer science). He Cindy Breetzke (Junior Primary Dip Department of Economics at Wits in is now working for Mobil Oil as an 1980) is m arried to David Hardy (B 1974 and became Dean of the Faculty of international auditor (computers) and Pharm 1979)and the couple live in Port Business Administration in 1982. they travel throughout the world,Elizabeth where David is in partnership ASSOCOM remains in the firm control spending periods of up to 3 months in in a pharmacy in Despatch and Cindy is different cities — at the moment they teaching at Westering Primary. of Old Rhodians, now that Bill are in Havanger, Norway. They have Yeowart (1958)has handed over the been married for 6 years and do not Ernie Burmeister (B Com1973) is MD presidency toM E W Weir (1953). have any children as yet. My brother-in-of Diesel Electric Eastern Cape, station­ In his presidential address at the law, Andrew Bateman, BPharm 1981, ed in Port Elizabeth. Assocom annual congress in Pieter­ will soon complete his military service atGeoffrey Burton (BA1970) is now maritzburg, Bill pinpointed some cures Saldanha Bay, where he has been work­ teaching at St George’s Grammar School for inflation: ing in the navy dispensary. He intends at Mowbray in the Cape. He taught for 1) cutting down Government expen­travelling overseas next year. ten years at Que Que in Zimbabwe. He diture; and his wife have two sons. 2) cutting down the supply of moneyHans Berker (LLB 1951) was appointed going into less urgent private sectorJudge President of South West Africa/ Wendy Clark (nee Parker BA 1971)is spending, primarily as a result of Namibia in March last year. living in Pulborough, West Sussex, previously unrealistically low interestJennifer Bishop (nee Bostock B Soc Scwhere she teaches the violin to pupils rates; 1962) has been appointed Registrar from the age of two upwards. Poor 3) reduced taxation; (academic) at the University of Fort neighbours! 4) increased productive investment in Hare. Her husband is an Associate Norman Cliff (B Com 1949),one of commerce and industry; Professor in the Department of Animal our kind and energetic ORU organizers 5) an increase in personal voluntaryScience at Fort Hare. They have a son in the UK, who was born in China, saving to supply funds for invest­and a daughter. spent some time there this year. His ment; address is 6) an all-out effort by everyone in Dianethe Boernstein (Hermans BA 1954, 4 Hull Terrace private sector to increase efficiency.Hons 1958)is the first woman lawyer to bring a case before the International Colchester Road G L Awre (B Sc 1948) writes from Court of Justice in The Hague. Diane, Harold Wood Swindon in the United Kingdom that he who has worked for the United Nations Essex RM3 OXR has left Sir William Halcrow and for 20 years, will be bringing the case of Bryony Cobby (B Sc worked 1977) in Partners after 28 years and joined the a Russian who was contracted to work the Rhodes Entomology Department Training Department of the Institute of for the UN but was recalled to the Soviet until 1982. She has since emigrated to Civil Engineers in Great George Street, Union. He declined to go, but on the the UK and is working at Birkbeck Westminster. He has three children — College, University of London. two sons and a daughter — and complains that he hears very little news New Campus Maps Cape Town OR’s have a new represen­ of ’48 graduates, especially those who for sale tative, Katherine Cruise (Button BA started in ‘The Homestead’ up the hill. The campus map, featured reduced in 1967). She takes over fromJen (Forbes John Badenhorst (BA 1972)has been size in this year’s Rhodes Review, is BA 1964) and Dave Lewis (B Com appointed publicity officer for opera,available in full poster size and glorious 1967) to whose dedication Rhodes and ballet, music and orchestra at PACOFS technicolour from the Public Relations all OR’s in Cape Town owe the in Bloemfontein. So far, John has alter­Division for a mere R2. nated his career between his two main interests — education and the arts — by teaching at Harold Cressy school for Coloured children in Cape Town, and directing drama workshops and the People’s Space Theatre in Cape Town. Lorna Bateman (Ryan HED 1974) writes: My husband, Kenneth Bateman, and I attended Rhodes from 1971-1974, where Kenneth completed his BPharm (1974)and I studied for a BA(PhysEd) NHED (1974). My husband now runs his own pharmacy in Mount Pleasant, Port Elizabeth. I taught for 6 years in both Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and am now a housewife with a 2V£ year old son, Ryan, and a second addition due next June. My brotherEric Ryan (BCom 1979) lives in Dallas, Texas. He completed a post graduate course in computer programming and now works as a systems analyst for a large international, London-based firm. He is not married. 8 tremendous success of their re union prior to a business trip to Europe to visitMurray Graham (B Sc Hons 1949)is parties. cement factories in Spain, France, well-known to all veteran UK OR’s. Katherine is in an ideal position to Denmark, Luxemborg and Germany. New UK OR’s should contact him at continue the good work of her prede­He also attended the 1984 International 27 Dormers Wells Lane cessors — her husband Stephen (1967) Cement Production Seminar in Southall, UB1 3HX is the manager of the club where the Copenhagen. He is the Production Middlesex reunion was held this year. Superintendent at Pretoria Portland UNITED KINGDOM Hilary (BA 1954)and Maggie (Boyd Cement Riebeeck Works near Cape Murrayis looking forPatrick Aloysius BA 1954) Curreyare in Somalia where Town. O’Brien (M Sc 1949). Can you help? Hilary runs the Juba Sugar Project for Antoinette Alexander (Rault BA1946) John Grogan (BA Hons 1972) who has Booker Agriculture International and Heather Giles (BA 1973) have been been a lecturer at Rhodes since 1981, Limited, London. They went to The appointed the first lay Principal and has been appointed a senior lecturer in Horn in 1981 after 24 years in Zambia, Deputy Principal respectively of Bresciathe Department of Journalism and where Hilary was in charge of Zambian- House in Bryanston. Media Studies. John has worked on isation of the Copper Industry and newspapers in Cape Town and in Port Maggie worked as a journalist. They Elizabeth, as well as completing B Juris expect to return to the BAi head office Rhodes Pottery and LLB degrees through UNISA. He is in London in 1985. married with 3 children. Prof E A Davies (BA 1964)has been appointed head of the English Depart­ Hermanus Haye (B Sc ED U 1952)re­ ment at Fort Hare. After leaving tired from teaching in 1980 and is now Rhodes he received a teachers diploma studying at the Cape Technikon for a at the University of Zimbabwe, a diploma in Pharmacy. Masters degree at the University of Graham Herbert (BA 1977)and his Exeter and a doctorate from the Uni­ wife Arlene Katz (BA 1976)have been versity of Birmingham. Before coming in the USA for two years where Graham to Fort Hare, Prof Davies lectured at the has been studying for his MBA at University of Durban-Westville. Michigan State University. He is on a Alexander Dewar (B Sc 1939)received Ford Fellowship and will return to Ford his medical degree at the University of in Port Elizabeth in 1985. Arlene, who Glasgow and went into practice in the was Personnel Officer at Barclays in UK. He married in 1939, just before Port Elizabeth, has been keeping active setting out on five years of military in the arts, and has recently taken part service. The Dewars returned to SA in in a TV play to be screened in the USA 1946 where Dr Dewar set up a practice in January. in Port Elizabeth. In the fifties the Hugh Herman (BA 1960) has been couple turned to farming. They are now made a joint MD of Pick ’n Pay, where retired and living in Adelaide. Mrs Jenny Purdon of the Rhodes PR he was formerly the property director. Sue Dickie (BA 1978)who was a spring­ Division holds pottery specially made byAfter leaving Rhodes, Hugh became a bok swimmer, is now playing hockey forHamburger Potteries bearing the partner in a Cape Town legal firm. He Western Province. Rhodes crest. Prices, plain or crested, joined Pick and Pay in 1976. After nearly 20 years in librarianship (excluding GST), are: C K (Ken) Hill (M Sc 1942) has just Glenn Emmerson (BA 1962)took a Mug R3,75 retired from the Maths Department at year off to train as a florist and has Pin-dish Rl,95 Natal University, Durban. He passed opened her own shop, ‘the Daisy Chain’ Big ashtray R9,70 through Grahamstown with his wife in Claremont, Cape Town where she Small ashtray R3,09 Jean (Ballantine UED 1942)on a trip specializes in natural, country-type Order from us, including vast amounts to Cape Town recently. They still live in arrangements and cottagey gifts. for postage. If you send too much, shallDurban. Jakes Ewer, who was a professor of we consider the change a donation? Manton Hirst (BA Hons 1974)tutored Zoology at Rhodes until 1976 is living in at Rhodes in the Department of Anthro­ London. No details however. Vanona Gillard (B Theol 1983) haspology from 1975-77, during which Mrs N M Falkiner (Davies 1919)is been appointed director of Life Line (E time he was involved in a project dealing living in Springs and tells us that she is Cape). Vanona first trained as an occu­ with folk-healing amongst the Xhosa- shortly going to move to an old pational age therapist, and lectured at the speaking peoples. He has been with the home. Her postal address is Box 113, University of Pretoria for some time. KaffrarianIn Museum in King William’s Springs, 1560. 1969 she moved with her family to PortTown since 1978 as curator of anthro- Quentin Ferrey (Ba Div 1963)is Elizabeth where she was instrumental in pology. married to Pat (Gregory 1962)and was the establishment of an E Cape branch Bedford Hurndall (B Sc 1933 and B recently appointed secretary to the of Life Line in 1976. After a divorce in Ed 1937) has sent us some delightful Faculty of Engineering at Wits. The 1979, Vanona and her four children tales of didgeroo-doo during his Rhodes couple are living in Roodepoort. moved to Grahamstown where she days. How nice it is to know that one’s became a student again. Although she elders were as wayward in their youth as Laura Fielden (B Sc Hons 1982) has feels a call to the ministry, the Anglican oneself! One tale, too scurrilous for the been awarded the 1984 Frank Bush Church in South Africa does not ordain pages of this pristine publication, con­ bursary to study a rare and elusive women. However, she says: ‘Life Linecerns a certain student — 3rd year chem species of mole in the Namib desert. At sees itself as a branch of the Christian at that — confusing the formulae of present Laura is an M Sc student in the ministry by providing an educationalalcohol and ether and scaring the day­ Department of Zoology at the Universityand a counselling service as well as a lights out of his pals as a result. Another of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. 24-hour telephone service’. we’ll quote in full, (thank you Bedford Mark Finnigan (B Pharm 1980) Lisa Goddard (BA 1978)writes: Hurndall) and tentatively titled : married Rose Bouchier (B Pharm ‘Believe it or not, am still alive and ‘The Copbaiters’ 1981) in East London in December last suspiciously well. Working as a free­ ‘I think the year was 1931. Could have year, and they are both working at the lance journalist, still single, free and been 1932. One evening half a doz. stu­ Frere Hospital. sane. Living in Craighall, Johannesburg dents dropped in at Alfs, the local pub A M Gibbs (B Sc 1979)married Carole (phone 706 1543) and would love towhich stood where the Graham Hotel is Hodge (B Sc 1980)in May this year just hear from old friends’. now, on the way to the local bio which 9 at that time was down past the Cathedral to the right. By the time they reached the Cathedral they had also reached the unanimous decision that one of them who still had the odd penny, over and above the bio entrance fee, must spent it weighing himself on a scale that used to stand outside one of the shops immediately to the South of the Cathedral. Somehow or other he lost his balance while weighing himself and in falling he pulled the scale over which crashed down on the pavement with a great bang. Before they knew it, a policeman appeared amongst the ‘revellers’, who by this time were killing themselves with laughter but not for long as said policeman took ‘the criminal' (intent on malicious damage to private property) into custody where he spent that night getting over Alfs hellfire jack but not his indignation. As Bedford Hurndall(third from left), author of ‘The Copbaiters’, is one of only two a consequence, although he was golfers who have played in every one of the Davis Cup Intervarsity golf tournaments released the following morning without which have been held in Johannesburg annually since 1976. being charged the students (over 200 of us at the time) decided to get their own Deon Lemmer (Fine Art 1977)studied in 1980, is divorced and has three small back. Word was leaked to the police at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam after daughters to care for. Being a woman in station that on a certain night the leaving Rhodes. Currently living ina man’s world, she finds, like most students were going to demonstrate en Natal, Deon held an exhibition in women before her, that she has to work masse and possibly commit mayhem in August where the imagery of kites is harder and longer hours than her male the town. On the appointed night the used throughout to represent an attempt counterparts for equal recognition. students quietly marched down High to rise above the earth towards a purer Nan Melville (BA 1970)is one of the Street four abreast on the way to the understanding. official photographers for PACT. Her cinema after which they all marched Mary Lochner (de Beer BA 1927 HED work entails producing pictures for the quietly back to Res. The police must 1928)) sends news of her three children, archives, and publicity photographs for have enrolled dozens of temporaryall OR’s: Ludy Lochner (B Sc 1959)is the three PACT companies: opera, extras for the event, some of whom worea partner in the law firm Stephenson & ballet and drama. However, it is with helmets or bayonets or some other pieceHarwood of Coulters Lane, London,dance that she has found the greatest of official dress, and these could be seen dealing with patents and trademarks. challenge, and to which she has made skulking in alleyways, doorways, behind He rides to work on a folding bicycle the greatest contribution. trees and parked cars all along our way which then goes home to Godaiming Adrian Meyer (B Com 1983)came to and from the cinema. Although the with him on the tube. third in SA in the public accounting incident didn’t endear us much to the Christine Thomas (nee Lochner BFA and auditors board examinations. An police, this never worried us much as it 1961) took a diploma in infant teaching excellent achievement, particularly was generally felt that we had proved a at UN ISA and is now principal of the when on considers that only 42% of point. Noby actually knew what.’ Valley Road Pre-Primary School incandidates passed the exam at all. Hout Bay near Cape Town. Toriy Jackson (B1965) Sc is living at 30 Alice Wilkes (nee Lochner BA 1966) Colin Millar (B Com 1977)is living in Kingston Drive, Umhlanga. teaches art in the Ryde School on the Atlanta, Georgia, where he is establish­ Francois Jacot-Guillarmod (B Sc 1973)Isle of Wight, where her husband is the ing a business importing high invest­ is returning to Rhodes this December as principal. ment art pieces from various southern a systems programmer. He has been African countries including a teddy working in the Transvaal as a pro­ Arnold Louw (MSc 1932 UED 1935)bear from Botswana called Zak. He is grammer/analyst for engineering and writes from Colesberg in response to ouralso involved in a skin care product financial concerns. article about Dr D G Kingwill (Hon which provides a good base. (Not kubus Grad 1984): ‘Ithink it was on his door we trust?) Max Kowen (BA 1970),principal of that there hung this notice: “Bread is Legal Personnel Selections, warned the staff of life, but that does not mean Ann Miller (Sec Prac) is MD of a PR would-be law students at a careers that the life of staff should be one long agency in Johannesburg which special­ guidance meeting in Johannesburg that loaf”. izes in organizing sporting events such as young lawyers are moving out of the Fun Runs and the JSE Marathon. The profession because they can’t maintain a Margeret Lundquist (BA 1950) is divorced mother of two daughters, Ann based in Stockholm, although she and is a ‘no-nonsense, no frills’ PR person. high enough standard of living. Maxher husband are spending several years says they are moving instead intoin Morocco. News of theMorton family: commerce. Hugh Morton (B Sc Hons 1968)is living Leslie-Sharon Lang (BA 1979)— we Dr Jos Lurie (B Sc 1961)is director of in New Zealand where he is a senior are looking for you! Doreen McDonaldthe Witwatersrand Technokon’s School lecturer in statistics at Massey Univer­ is most anxious to get in touch with you.of Mining and Metallurgy. sity. In the last New Zealand parliamen­ Leslie-Sharon apparently emigrated Alan Maker (B D Hons 1966)has been tary elections, a computer analysis with her parents and brothers to the elected moderator of the Presbyterian system devised by Hugh was spot on in USA in 1980. Their first address was Church of Southern Africa at the veryits predictions of results in almost every 8D, 144 West, 86 Street, New York. We young age of 42. Married with three constituency. appeal to anybody with further news daughters, Alan also holds a doctorate Phillipa Johnson (nee Morton BA about the Lang family to contact us in theology from Princeton. 1968) is working as an illustrator for the and/or Doreen, whose address is Corinne Marriott (B Soc Sc 1973)is surgery department at UCT. She has E34, Edingight, sales manager for a big motor car dealer two little boys. Queen Road in Phalaborwa. Corinne, who is also in­ Angela Morton (BA 1973)is a m anag­ Rondebosch volved with the personnel agency sheeress of Woolworths, stationed in Cape 7700 started when she moved to Phalaborwa Town. 10 Patrick Mynhardt,fond of describing Martin Oosthuizen and they have two design for a memorial at Delville Wood his days at Rhodes as ‘three disastrous young daughters. The family live inthus: “A strange mixture of classical years’ has had a great success round the Natal on the edge of the Kloof Nature Greek, medieval fortress and Cape country with his latest one-man pre­ Reserve. Dutch architecture — a style I once sentation “Boy from Bethulie”. Humphrey Power (LLB 1980)is living heard described as late Parow Afro- Mike Osborne (Land Survey 1953)in Montgomery Park and practising as Gothic”. spent five years in the Middle and Far an attorney in Johannesburg. He married Mrs M Stephens of Chinhoyi, East before leaving Rhodesia in 1964 to a Witsie in 1982. Zimbabwe sends news of her two OR settle injohannesburg. He qualified as a George Pressly (BA 1947)is living in offspring: towm planner at WITS while working Kimberley where he recently stood in Kay (BA 1966)married a Kenyan, for the City Council and for the last 14 the municipal elections. After leaving Ewan Wilson and emigrated to the USA years has been a partner in a large firm Rhodes, George qualified at St Paul’s in 1969. Kay obtained a Masters degree of town planners and land surveyors in Theological College in 1949 and was in education at the University of West Johannesburg. He is currently president rector at Barkly West for some years. HeVirginia. She and her husband, who is a of the SA Institute of Town and Region­ also taught at Kimberley Boys High and Vice-President of the American Meat al Planners. Mike is married with two actually returned to Rhodes in 1953 to Institute, live near Washington DC and teenage sons. do his Education Diploma. have three daughters. Brian (B Com Ian Paterson (B Sc HED 1950)retires Dana (B Journ)and Michael Pullen Hons 1979) was articled to Peat this year from the headmastership of St (B Com 1983)are living on a farm just Marwick Mitchell and qualified as a CA Andrew’s School Bloemfontein. Althoughoutside Alexandria and have a baby in 1982. He married Patricia a chemistry graduate, he has taught son. Dana is on the staff of the local Butterworth (1977)in 1979 and they maths throughout his career and was newspaper, Coastal News. have one son. He has recently returned co-author of the highly successful text­ to Johannesburg after a two year stint book Junior Mathematics’. In 1962, he Terry Roach,current vice-chairman of for his firm in San Jose, California. was appointed headmaster of St John's the Rhodes branch of AIESEC has been Colleen (nee Dargie B Sc Hons 1968) Prep in Johannesburg and has been elected AIESEC’S exchange controller and Wiet Stokhuysen (B Soc Sc 1967) head of St Andrew’s since 1974. He and for 1985. He will be based injohannes­ are living in Rugby, Warwickshire. his wife Robin (Angus BA 1949)have burg and will be co-ordinating the work three sons, one of whomTorquil of the local committees of 24 universitiesPeter Surtees (B Com 1961)has been Paterson, (BSc 1973, B Div 1977 MAand technikons in South Africa to find appointed a professor in the Department 1978)is the present chaplain at Rhodes. jobs for foreign graduates here and to of Accounting where he has been lectur­ The couple intend retiring to Kenton- place South Africans in trainee jobs ing since 1981. Peter qualified as a on-Sea. overseas. chartered accountant and was a partner Barlu Searll (Speech & Drama Hons in a firm of accountants before return­ 1983) left Grahamstown in August where ing to Rhodes as a lecturer. she has been working for FAMSA. She is Peter Sutherland (1963)was married in attending the Laban School for Move­Kingston, London, on September 8 to ment and Dance in Greenwich, a branch Rosamund Huggett. She has a diploma of Goldsmith College. in hotel management from St Margaret’s College, Edinburgh, and is a Rosemary Sellick (BA Hons 1983) iscareers adviser of the Hotel and living in Mowbray, Cape Town. Catering Management Association. Ros Penny Siopis(M Fine Art 1977) who is also has a music degree from the gaining repute for her ‘cake paintings’ University of Hull. Peter, who has a was featured in the SABC TV’S art pro­ PhD from the University of Birming­ gramme ‘Kunskaleidoscope’ at the end ham, is senior lecturer in educational of August. Penny is lecturing at Wits. psychology at St Mary’s College of Dr Eve Slatter (Harvey MA 1934 PhDHigher Education, Twickenham 1966)has left Zimbabwe and settled in Surrey. Krugersdorp. Murray Sutherland (1968)is now a Bruce Smith (BA 1967), previously sub editor on ‘The Mercury’ and the Sports Officer at Rhodes has been Tasmanian Sunday, in Hobart, appointed Deputy Director of Personnel Tasmania. at the University. Bruce taught at Juwa Thorburn (Evans BA 1972) Kingswood for seven years before join­spent seven years in Saudi Arabia work­ ing Rhodes. ing for the Saudi Arabian Airlines. Last Dr Carol Pemberton(MA 1941) is at Prof J Smuts,retired professor of Afri­ year she and her husband returned to present acting director of the Office of kaans Nederlands at Rhodes, is living in the UK where Juwa produced twin girls Institutional Research at the University George, and describes the Government’s and is now a ‘contented suburban of Delaware. The institute is concerned housewife’. with enrolment planning, academic Ingrid Rischbieter (Smeets B growth and quality of students. Carol Pharm 1977)and husband Tony Christopher Till (MFA 1976)has been has been at Delaware since 1963. She (B Pharm 1978) are living in appointed director of the Johannesburg was previously a research assistant at the Pretoria where Tony is production Art Gallery. Brought up in Johannes­ University of Chicago and a lecturer in pharmacist at The Boots burg, Christopher came to Rhodes after psychology at Wits. Company. They have two little passing through on a sketching tour children, a girl and a boy. We with close friend Jonathan Cook (MFA Marguerite Poland (BA 1970)who went quote the rest of your letter, 1974), son of Divinity Professor Calvin on from Rhodes to do an Honours Ingrid: ‘I should like to add an Cook. He liked it so much he stayed for degree at Stellenbosch and a Masters obituary for my beautiful and five years. On graduating he moved to degree on the structure of Zulu Folk beloved sister, Gillian Anne Salisbury (now Harare) where he was Tales at Natal, is the only person to Smeets who was in third year assistant, acting and finally director of receive the Percy Fitzpatrick Award for pharmacy at Rhodes and who the National Gallery. children’s literature in the past 12 years. died tragically in a motor car Molly Tylden (BA 1980)has received Her delightful books have become vir­ accident on 23 June 1984. We will her MA degree with distinction from tually required reading for today’s all miss her so very much’. London University where she has been children. Marguerite is married to studying at Queen Mary College. 11 Dr Binno Watze van der Veen (B Pharm 1973) received his medical maritzburg in June. He was steward of degree at UCT and is now the Registrar OBITUARIES the PMB Turf Club and on the execu­ in the Department of Anaesthetics at H W Arnott (BA 1928, MA 1937)and tive committee of the Chamber of Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. a long-time member of the RhodesCommerce. He leaves his wife, Audrey Colin Visser (BA Hons 1958)returned University Council died in September. and three children. to South Africa in June for his first visit Professor M Blackman (BSc 1928, Andrew Lind, a second year BA home in 25 years. He is currently an MSc 1929) died last year in London. student, was killed in July when his associate professor of English and Winifred Cloete (Kirby BA1934) died motorcycle collided with a heavy director of drama at Toronto Universityin Marquard, OFS. Her brother, commercial vehicle in Grahamstown. in Canada. Colin met his wife, Margaret, Kenneth was also at Rhodes and was Molly Lovins (MA 1921)died in while studying in France, and the tennis champion in his time. Bloemfontein in June. Molly taught for couple have a home near the Spanish most of her career, and also lectured in border. They have two teenage child­ Dr JA G Coetzee,who retired last year Afrikaans at the University of the ren, a son and a daughter. after 15 years as a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and IndustrialOrange Free State. After undergoing Miss V K Webber (1925) sends us good Sociology at Rhodes University treatment died for cancer, she became a wishes and a word of appreciation for suddenly at his home in the Western regular visitor to the cancer wards in the the newsletter. She says ‘I am one of the Cape. Dr Coetzee and his wife, who was Bloemfontein hospitals, encouraging veryold Rhodians.’ a secretarial practice instructor at and helping the patients there. Rhodes, had moved to Yzerfontein,Peggy Mollett (nee Sutherns BA 1940), near Darling, where they built a retire­ widow of WAM Mollett, died in ment home. Dr Coetzee began his September. university career at the University Helen of Audrey Robb,a third year B Sc Pretoria before joining the copper minesstudent at Rhodes was killed in a motor­ in Zambia. He was transferred to cycle accident in East London in the Western Deep Levels gold mine as September vacation. Personnel Manager and, while there, East London attorney, and original registered for a doctorate at Rhodes. Hemover on the city council for plans to joined the University in 1969. start a division of Rhodes in East Dr Charles Cory,son of Rhodes’s firstLondon, Charles Kenneth Rowland, professor of chemistry, Professor Georgedied in East London in November. Mr Cory, and known to many generationsRowland was the sole owner of a legal of Old Rhodians as Grahamstown’s firm and had practised in East London dentist, died in August at the age of 88. since 1938. He also practised in Umtata Dr Cory’s daughterPamela (1955)is and Grahamstown. He was born in married to the artist Norman Bournemouth, England, in 1909 and Carruthers and lives in the USA. complete his schooling at St Edwards Reverend R E Flowerday, BA 1935, School and St Johns College in Oxford. MA 1936. He furthered his education at Rhodes Dennis Hastilow (BSc 1953)died University and gained his Attorneys suddenly in September at his home in Admission Examination in 1936. Dana Wynter (1949),who became a Cronulla, NSW. Mr Rowland was admitted as an attorney Hollywood star in the ’50’s, has written a and notary in the Eastern Districts marriage guidance book. She is living in Audrey Henley Graydied in Inverness Local Division in 1937. He was admitted a cottage in Ireland and is divorced in October. She was an art student as conveyancer in the Cape in January from husband Greg Bautzer. Dana says during 1936 and 1937, at the end of 1946. she doesn’t miss Hollywood at all, which year she was awarded the Purvis While at Rhodes he founded the although she did return last year to play Prize. She then worked as a designer at University Rowing Club and was also the queen in ‘Charles and Diana’. the Electric Press and Commercial the ca-founder of the annual inter­ “There were few similarities between me Printing Company in Durban, where, varsity boat race. and the Queen”, she said, “I think she being the only artist to design for Mr a Rowland was chairman of the would have had a fit if she had seen it”. material then yet new, she was nick­ Selborne Primary School Committee for named ‘the Cellophane Queen’. After 13 years, a member of the city council serving in the Coastal Artillery inhere for 15 years and also served on the Jenni Webster (B Soc Sc 1969)is a Simonstown and East London sheEast London Technical College lecturer in psychiatric social work at the worked as a commercial artist in Council for three years. He held office University of Manchester, UK. One of London, and later taught mathematics on the Rhodes University Council for 21 her areas of specialization is the increas­ at the Grammar School, Rochester. Sheyears and on the university’s finance ingly prevalent anorexia nervosa. Jennideveloped a great interest in the Norsecommittee for 18 years. He also held returned to Rhodes in July to deliver a Sagas, and from the tales of Aud the office as chairman of the East London course of lectures to current students. Deep-minded she drew material to write Fine Arts Society from 1959 to 1961. Kevin Yee Loong (B Com 1977)is a a play on the Vikings in Iceland. She Mr Rowland leaves his wife, Elizabeth, manager on the Computer Audit Staff retired from teaching but continued to and three sons, Charles, Anthony and of Clarkson Gordon, a major firm of be in demand as a supply teacher in Timothy. public accountants in Ontario Canada. Rochester, until she and her husband Francis Edwin Smit (B Sc 1926)died at He and his wife have a little boy. They moved to Inverness-shire. the end of 1983. He lived in the Orange are considering moving to Australia in Professor Jan Hendrik Hofmeyrdied Free State. the new year. in Pretoria in August. He was born in Fred Zietzman died in November at the Jane Young (BFA 1983)is living in Somerset East in 1909, and came to age of 62 while training for a scuba Johannesburg and held an exhibition of Rhodes in 1927. He later trained in the diving certificate. Fred, an attorney in her pottery earlier this year in Melville. United Kingdom as an ENT specialist Cape Town, was a founder member of and after settling in Pretoria he joined the Red Cross air ambulance service, Maisie Youngis living in Ladysmith the university there as their ENTand had piloted more than 300 mercy and runs art classes in her studio. Before professor. He and his wife, Vera, had moving to Ladysmith Maisie lived in seven children. flights. He was a keen jogger and fitness East London where she was the itinerant fan. He leaves his wife, Dorothy, two art teacher for 15 years. Stan Laidlaw (1949)died in Pieter­ sons and a daughter. 12 Kohler Print, P.E.