RHODES NEWSLETTER Vol. 12 July, 1972 No. I OLD RHODIAN UNION RHODES UNIVERSITY ABOVE: This photograph por­ trays the easy blending of the old and the modern on the campus of BUILDING PROGRAMME CONTINUES Rhodes University. To the right of the Chemistry block is an old stone wall and a small cottage The intensive building program­ Rhodes University Club. This commence on another set of reminicent of a past era in our me at Rhodes University which has building, which overlooks the residences to the west of Kimberley history. The Oak between the brought about tremendous changes Great Field, will be opened official­ Hall. When they are completed, two buildings will be recognised by on the campus in the past few years, ly before the end of this year. the built-up portion of the campus past Old Rhodians as the tree of shows no sign of slackening off. Where the old art gallery once will extend for nearly a mile from which it is said that “when this Two large buildings are under con­ the Drostdy Gate. tree comes into leaf, it is swotting stood, a large extension is being Beyond the indoor sports hall, struction and several more are on constructed to the Rhodes Theatre time”. the programme for the immediate building. This extension will the Alec Mullins hall, a vast new future. accommodate additional facilities sports stadium is taking shape. Nowhere on the campus has Contractors are at present put­ for the Theatre, for the Speech and Extensive earth-moving and level­ development been allowed to de­ ting the finishing touches to the Drama department and will also ling has been carried out on this Rhodes University Union building site for the past two years and a prive the University of these which will form the centre of free­ provide accommodation for other stream had to be diverted. cherished links with the past in time student activity and will also departments. More buildings are in the plan­ which it is so deeply rooted. provide accommodation for the Construction work is about to ning stage. member of the Club Managers RE-UNION FUNCTIONS Association of Canada, the pro­ The Club fessional association, Chaine des Rotisseurs, of France and the The Newsletter has been requested to announce the following functions Food Services Executives of Ameri­ to be held in September and October this year. Invitations to these ca. and several other re-union parties will be sent out later. (See notice aelow!) Before emigrating to South is in Africa, Mr. Lapinski worked as JOHANNESBURG 15th September (Old Edwardian Club) chief steward and maitre de hotel at the Vancouver Club. Until April this year, when he came to CAPE TOWN: 15th September (W.P. Cricket Club) Rhodes, he was assistant manager in one of Johannesburg’s best DURBAN: 15th September (Four Seasons Hotel) operation known clubs. THE UNION SALISBURY: 6th October The Rhodes University Club, Apart from his duties as man­ BULAWAYO: 3rd October which was established towards the ager of the Rhodes University end of 1970, has moved into its Club, Mr. Lapinski will also be in accommodation in the new Rhodes charge of the Rhodes Union which UMTALI: 5th October University building. Application replaces Kaif and which will soon has been made to the licensing become the centre of most student board for a full club license and all free-time activities. The Students’ other aspects of the club’s activities Representative Council and the are now in operation. Sports Secretary are already in­ Where to find them . stalled in their new offices in the With the University’s assistance, building. the club has furnished its accom­ During September, Old Rhodians will celebrate Founder's Day modation in a manner that leaves The Union will be formally in all parts o f South Africa and Rhodesia and also in England. nothing to be desired. Meals are opened on Founder’s Day, 12th Please ensure that your local committee has your correct address, served throughout the day and September, 1972. and the addresses o f any other Old Rhodians in your area, so that evening except on Mondays. you may receive an invitation. The following addresses may be used in the centres indicated. The membership of the club, which is open to staff, students and Cape Town Mr. V. C. H. R. Brereton, Old Rhodians, is approaching the 3 Bantry Steps, Bantry Bay, Cape Town. 400 mark. The annual subscription Johannesburg Mr. G. Hodges, is the statutory minimum of R6 00. AIRWAYS P.O. Box 5404, Johannesburg. Application for membership of the Durban Mr. K. A. Marr, club should be made on the printed 22 Cowendale, Cowey Road, Durban. form which is available from the EXCURSIONS Port Elizabeth Mr. J. L. Omond, Secretary, Rhodes University Club, 1 Burford Crescent, Linkside, Port Elizabeth. P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown. Kimberley Mr. L. Shuttleworth, P.O. Box 21, Kimberley. MANAGER Most Old Rhodians have prob­ Bulawayo Mr. G. S. Todd, P.O. Box 1132, Bulawayo. A highly trained and experienced ably received circulars from travel Salisbury Mr. H. Hall, caterer has been appointed as agents offering overseas tours at 49 Montagu Avenue, Salisbury. manager of the Rhodes University greatly reduced prices. Old Great Britain Mrs. J. Chanter, "Summerhill", Gypsy Lane, Club. He is the Polish-born Mr. Students qualify for inclusion in Marlow, Bucks., England. Jan Lapinski, who received his initial training in a restaurant in such tours by virtue of their THIS IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO THOSE Beirut. He worked as a waiter, membership of the Old Rhodian WHO HAVE JUST LEFT THE UNIVERSITY. barman and cook in Italy, Switzer­ Union. land, France and Spain during his early training years. While these tours are not being In England, he advanced to the arranged by the O.R.U., every Old Rhodian Union position of chef d’etage before possible assistance has been given emigrating to Canada in 1960, to the travel agents and airlines where he was appointed maitre de concerned in the belief that such NOTICE OF MEETING hotel shortly after his arrival. He worked as manager for various offers may be of assistance to some The Annual General Meeting of the Old Rhodian organisations in Canada and is a Old Rhodians. Union will be held in the Minor (Upper) Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Building, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, on Tuesday, 12th September, 1972, at MEMBERSHIP OF CONVOCATION 5.30 p.m. The Agenda will be as follows: 1 . Confirmation of Minutes Provision has been made by ing Convocation members of the 2. Matters arising from the Minutes recent legislation for those graduates University of South Africa. (Post 1951 graduates are automatically 3. Annual Report of Rhodes University who did notmembers of the Rhodes Convoca­ acquire membership of its Convoca­ tion.) 4. Financial Statement tion in 1951, to do so now. It is believed that a considerable When Rhodes University Col­ number of graduates did not 5. Election of Officers lege ceased to be a constituent become members of the Rhodes 6. General College of the University of South Convocation merely because they D. E. A. Rivett, Africa and became an autonomous failed, through inadvertance, to University in 1951, all graduates make the election before the due Hon. Secretary were given the option of electing date. They now have the opportun­ to become members of the Rhodes ity to join Convocation by written P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown. University Convocation or remain­ notification to the Registrar. 2 together in one place. It represents J. L. B. Smith Institute lor Ichthyology PRODUCTS a valuable addition to our recorded information on this region. Source Material on the South African Economy 1860-1970by D. Hobart Houghton and Jennifer Dagut, is being published in three Research Extended OF THE volumes by the Oxford University Press. The appearance of this work is the outcome of research under­ taken as part of the programme of to Fresh Water Fish the Institute of which Professor Hobart Houghton is the Director, I.S.E.R. and with which Jennifer Dagut has A leading expert on fresh-water Jackson joined the Colonial Service been associated since the time when fish and fisheries, Mr. Peter Jack- and was sent to work in Zambia she was lecturing in the Economics son, has taken up an appointment and Nyasaland. He soon became Department at Rhodes. as senior research fellow at the Chief Fisheries Research Officer The first volume, which has now J. L. B. Smith Institute for Ichthy­ for the two countries, doing exten­ The Institute for Social and been published, covers the period ology at Rhodes University. sive work on Lake Nyasa, Lake Economic Research at Rhodes, 1860-1899 and offers 370 pages of Mr. Jackson's experience will be Tanganyika and many other large under the Directorship of Professor material that will be a tremendous invaluable to the Institute in the lakes in the two countries. Later Hobart Houghton, has long estab­ boon to students and researchers execution of its programme of ex­ he undertook the original work lished a reputation for itself as an in the field of economics in South pansion which will include fresh­ needed before the Kariba Dam was active research establishment that Africa. water fish. Thus far, the Institute built. continually produces results of has concentrated on sea fishes and great practical value. This reputa­ has built up a worldwide reputa­ UNITED NATIONS tion was further enhanced with the tion for its library of information In 1963 he joined the United appearance of a few most valuable and specimens. When the new Nations Food and Agricultural publications in recent months.