At Wits he earned a doctorate in governance, public policy and public finance. Reuben was passionate about light orchestral music from the era 1950-1980 and created a reference library on the topic to supplement his vinyl record collection. Sign Up For Wine Enthusiast Emails For Discounts And More! He served on the Board of the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences and was a member of the selection committee for the post of Professor of Psychiatry. He attended primary school at Saxonwold primary Johannesburg (patron saint St Francis of Assisi) and high school at Parktown boys high in Parktown Johannesburg (Motto Arise). Sherman was born on 5 March 1944 in Johannesburg. Travelling throughout Southern Africa, they collected and procured a vast range of plant seed. Joyce was a committed member of the Jewish Womens Benevolent Society for many years and is remembered by her many friends and family for her elegance, grace, generosity and dignity. Dr Ngubane died at the age of 79 on 12 July 2021 due to COVID-19 complications. She liked writing short stories for children, and translated one into Esperanto for publication. Old-fashioned values perhaps in our shamefully self-centred age, but invaluable, timeless ones surely?. Many recall with great fondness of Prinss presence and authority during the Headship of Pancho Guedes. Despite her considerable achievements, she was modest and never sought accolades. He had made one unsuccessful attempt to enlist while still in Pietermaritzburg, but had been kicked out of the army when they discovered he was only 17. In 1945 he enrolled in Wits as one of the 3 year Donga Docs' under Prof John Phillips. As tiny as her feet were, I could never fill her shoes, but am really proud to walk in her footsteps," said Keith Lurie. In 1984 she married Michael and they emigrated to the United States. Eric Krystall (BA 1957) passed away in his sleep in January, just a few weeks before his 92nd birthday. She married her late husband Bernard Segerman in 1951 and leaves a daughter and three sons. Skotnes was a great connoisseur of African art and an authority on wine and Persian carpets. At the age of 33, in 1986, at the height of apartheid, he partnered with Dudu Zulu to form his second inter-racial band, called Savuka. Aspirant attorneys served their Articles there, gaining practical experience and providing legal services to the indigent and those prejudiced by apartheid. Average price: $30, This single-vineyard Mataro from McLaren Vale in Australia shows rich flavors of cassis and ripe plum. She was also compiling a group exhibition for the Hermanus Fine Arts Festival to open its tenth year of existence in the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg, touring the country. Weekly and more than weekly breakfasts here and there, godfathership, real and honorary, each others children flowering in each others hearts. Thomas Marnewecke Brummer (BDS 1951) was one of the last students to qualify from the old Wits Dental Hospital in Bok Street. Four years later, he founded and became the director of the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Research Programme, which subsequently grew into the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit in 2001. Javett was also a great horse racing fan. Katzenellenbogen was born in Johannesburg in 1928, but spent her early years in Nelspruit, where her father owned a general dealership. In recognition of his service to the university he was appointed an Associate Professor of Surgery in 1974. Early in his career, Dimitriou designed air conditioning installations for Thermotank. While in Johannesburg, he assisted members of the faculty in Medicine in statistical analysis and expanded his expertise by association with John Kerrich (BSc 1924, BSc Hons 1926, MSc 1928, LLD, , chief of the Statistics Department at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was born in Johannesburg on 27 November 1942 and matriculated from St Johns College. He moved to Sydney in Australia for three years, where he planned to return. He helped to establish innovative and sustainable land-use systems for small-scale farmers. Jill attended Treetops in Silverton Road and then went onto Durban Girls College where she matriculated. I said goodbye to her, not knowing it would be the last time, and I felt amazed all over again by Heather. She leaves her husband, Rafi and two children, Jordan and Asher. Delightful; challenging; often maddening and frustrating. Marian not only got me to do enough work to pass, but, strangely enough it was thanks to her efforts that I eventually entered a life in academia. His study of the structural geology of the Swartkops outlier north of Krugersdorp led to a publication that was awarded the Jubilee Medal of the Geological Society. She was uncomplaining and suffered with dignity. Ukraine When he was 17, he and Sipho Mchunu formed their first band, called Juluka. Professor Fay Segal (MBBCh 1944, DSc Med 1955) was born in Johannesburg and had a remarkable life as a physician at Baragwanath Hospital and Wits Medical School. To present her simply as wife, mostly as mother, is to erase the many struggles she waged to be defined in her own terms. Professor Khumalo was particularly revered for his achievements in South African music as an award- winning composer, conductor and the mentor of generations of singers and musicians in the field of choral music. In 1959 he moved to the USA, where he became Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. After his retirement Philip continued with his research and writing, and was working on a biography of Matthews Phosa at the time of his death. In addition to his passion for the sea, he was a keen philatelist, gifted raconteur and voracious bibliophile. This was followed later by a ceremony at the General Hospital commemorating his medical career, and at which state of the art equipment was donated and dedicated to the Oncology department in his name. In many of us he awakened awareness.". He pioneered work on cysts of the oral and maxillofacial regions, resulting in many published articles and a book on the subject. She had not heard Zulu ever since, let alone Zulu songs sung with the intensity, subtlety and beauty that was Johnny. He was generous with his knowledge and well liked for his humour. During 1992 and 1993, she served as a Massachusetts fellow in the educational policy fellowship program of the Institute for Education and Leadership, traveling frequently to seminars and workshops in many regions of the United States. Ann was not only an expert histologist, immunocytochemist, and a superb experimental embryologist, but she was also an inspiring teacher. Dr Bishop started as lecturer at the University of Otago in 1997 and became programme director of the ecology programme in 2015 until 2019. In 1991 he and his wife founded the Readucate Trust to continue the work of the Rebecca Ostrowiak School of Reading established by his wife and her mother in 1969. In 1967, he returned with his young family to South Africa, where he was appointed Head of Department and Professor of Surgery at the University of Natal. Of great importance was the discovery that the iron overload (of any cause) induced irreversible oxidation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) leading to clinical scurvy, a condition that had plagued the early mining industry in South Africa. He was born in Parys on 19 April 1939, and was educated at Grey College in Bloemfontein. One standout book was The Young Chemist by Sherwood Taylor, which got Brenner started with chemistry experiments and particularly an interest in pigments found in plants. He was also a member of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants (Chartered Accountant of the Year 1984) and an honorary life member of Melbourne Cricket Club as well as Cricket South Africa and Gauteng cricket. As Chief of Cardiology at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore from 1961 to 1972, he put together the team that developed the implantable cardiac defibrillator, one of the top 10 advances in cardiology in the 20th century. Prins went on to produce some splendid heritage Impact Assessments, which became valuable archival resource material. He took up tennis when he was 12 and only stopped playing in 2008. She obtained the degree in 1989. He also participated in the general life of the University through advice and addressing innumerable meetings. A stalwart of Wits University, Adele Kahn died on 18 November 2011, aged 87, after a long illness. My (DG) first lecturer position was at Wits with Prof Manchester. On 9 December he was served with a deportation order, arrested and imprisoned in John Vorster Square. Described as a constant who brought the family together, she instilled in her family determination and courage. Respected engineering and environmental geologist Johannes Joe de Beer (BSc 1960, BSc Hons 1962, MSc 1966) died peacefully on 16 April 2022 at the age of 84. Marsanne His interest in mining led him to complete an MSc and PhD in mining engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Professor Hughess academic career began in the 1960s in the English department at the University of Cape Town where he lectured for two years and much later returned as honorary research associate before he moved to Wits where he was later promoted to Emeritus Professor of the History of the English Language. Ralph donated his body to medical science. He worked as a consultant in training and development at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1973 t0 1974. I did some work for them recently. But third is a long way from first as it occupies less than 5% of the plantings in the Southern Rhone Valley. In her particular life, we may see more clearly the violence wrought by colonialism and apartheid, the profound consequences of fraternal political movements to whom women were primarily ornamental and, yes, the tragic mistakes made in the crucible of civil war. In the nineties Nelson Mandela bestowed the Order of the Southern Cross on the man affectionately known as Uncle Zeke. Heather taught me how to body surf and so, alongside my dad, and my mom on her boogie board, we had amazing family holidays every December in Port Elizabeth or East London. Turkey Her children, Alan, Mark and Lynne, and seven grandchildren survive her. It was around this time that he met the love of his life, a secretary who was employed at the National Institute for Metallurgy (NIM) Joan Barnes. In 1940, he volunteered for military service and served in East Africa and Burma. Born in Johannesburg and educated at Kearsney College, a private boarding school near Durban, the young Proctor moved around the country, depending on where his father, a Methodist minister, happened to be serving at the time. It is possible that the stutter he developed as a youngster was the involuntary result of curbed sensitivity. He decided to teach physics at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania for two years, believing at this time that the primary role of scientists in developing countries should be education from primary school to university, in order to build up a scientific base. In 1973, the joined the then fledgling Department of Town and Regional Planning at Wits and contributed centrally to its progress. In the time between patients he would read and research online all the latest medical options so that he was constantly learning about his subject. A. Honours in Psychology at University of Witwatersrand. Colin was born in Cape Town and attended Tamboerskloof Junior School before moving to South African College School (SACS) in Standard 3, becoming a boarder from Standard 8, when he was just 13 years old. Elizabeth Muriel (Liz) Chase was a Johannesburg College of Education and Wits staff member from 1983 until her retirement in July 2015. He spent five years working at now Helen Joseph Hospital, joining the. She remained a loyal Witsie throughout her life and played an important role in setting up the University of the Witwatersrand Fund Inc. He retired in 2002 as Professor Emeritus. He remained with the same firm, now Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc., until his untimely death. Clinician, researcher and outstanding surgeon Professor Ernst Sonnendecker (MBBCh 1956) died on 17 January 2021. A long series of iron absorption studies utilizing dual iron radioisotope counting was to prove that the mix of promoters and inhibitors of non-haem iron absorption in the diet greatly influenced iron absorption and hence the iron nutritional status of a population. She told me later that it was the only time she had ever opened and shut her mouth several times without getting anything out. During this time Chris also visited the Photogeological Section of the Overseas Geological Survey of the Leeds University Research Institute of African Geology, and the Imperial College of Science in England where he met a young structural geologist named Dr JG Ramsey, whose ideas on structural geology greatly excited him. Dr Lang is survived by his wife Jenny, his two children, their spouses and four grandchildren. He was unexpectedly picked to be the Springbok flyhalf against the formidable British and Irish Lions. Dr Brain's most significant achievement was his ground-breaking work at the renowned Swartkrans Cave in South Africa. In 1983 he founded and, until 1986, edited the journalAIDS Research, the first professional peer-reviewed publication focused on the epidemic. It had previously always been an oppositional group in its historiography, aligning itself with the oppressed, disenfranchised masses. Become a WCWC Insider Here: Shop. Liz is survived by her partner, Clare Digby. He recalled how fellow Witsie Sydney Brenner (BSc 1945, BSc Hons 1946, MSc 1947, MBBCh 1951, DSchonoris causa1972) comforted him: The next morning, while I was bathing, Sydney Brenner found me crying in the water and said Lewis, pay no attention. A man of considerable energy and enthusiasm, and armed with a sharp, insightful, original mind, Philip made a huge impact on the Department, the Faculty of Arts (now the Faculty of Humanities), and the wider University over those years. In 1981 he was appointed as an honoury professor in International Relations at Wits University. The grape has also been exported to other countries including America, Spain and Australia where it is blended with Grenache and Syrah to produce wines sold as GSM. He gave several addresses on economic matters, including his two ESSA presidential addresses, on Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy and Market-oriented Policies and Financial Markets. The last two years have been particularly harsh with him being separated from his children and grandson by the pandemic. A wonderful showman, he has inspired people to think that the theatre is not only important but also indispensable to our lives. Source: Dr Jeff Harrisberg (MBBCh 1981, DTM&H 1987). One online tribute called him the consummate mensch selfless, hilarious, and wise. While teaching at Jeppe Girls High School in Johannesburg, she began to arouse the interest of educationists and received commissions for mural designs at sites such as the Transvaal provincial administration building in Pretoria, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the Transvaal Institute of Architects. The registrars used to joke that what Prof had forgotten, we had yet to learn. Potoki went on to attain his Bachelor of Education and Master of Education degrees while lecturing and supervising research students at Wits University. Her knowledge of City bylaws and routes through the inner city and how to lodge objections (which she often did on behalf of public interest groups) was vast. One of South Africas most esteemed human rights activists and Wits alumnus. He later worked for Parsons in London followed by Joy Environmental in Texas during which he also served as chairman of the National Research Councils US Marine Board. He rose to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. Theophilus William (Theo) Scott (BArch 1954) was gifted with an inventive and creative mind and consequently found his niche as a research architect at the CSIR, where he spent nearly 30 years in the National Building Research Institute. Even then, his love of medicine had him working as a permanent locum in another practice in the town until the age of 86 when he reluctantly retired properly due to advancing age and ill health. While in Ashford, Helen and Francis, had their second daughter, Janet. Her efforts also brought the work of masters like Rodin to South Africa. In 2011 he included Wits in his 80th birthday celebrations with a lecture series to celebrate youth, interfaith dialogue, and non-violent methods of protest, despite his close friend the Dalai Lama being denied a visa to attend the celebrations. He established a private practice in Vereeniging and devoted time to the Mines Medical Bureau and later the Mines Benefit Society Hospital in Johannesburg. He was an avid reader and a keen gardener, and served as President of the South African Iris Society. She was 84. Jones delivered the most systematic and penetrating assessment of the performance of the South African economy in three books: The South African Economy, 19101990 (Macmillan, 1992), with A. L. Mller; The Decline of the South African Economy (Edward Elgar, 2002) as an edited volume with specialists in South Africa; and The South African Economy in the 1990s (Manchester University Press, 2010), an edited volume with Robert Vivian. It has been developed into a unique recreational facility that combines golf, cycling, walking, dog walking and acrorobics. He was a Reader-Professor at Wits, Chief Scientist at the BMR, Geology and Geophysics in Canberra, a National Research Council Fellow at the Canadian Geological Survey and a Life Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa. He focused on psychotherapy for young adolescents but ran many other projects at Ipelegeng. Ann provided the University of the Witwatersrand with outstanding service for more than 45 years, establishing skills and research integrity among her students which will be carried on to future generations of academics. Having been unsuccessful in joining active service in the war owing to poor eyesight, he entered the war supplies structure until he was recalled by the University to join Prof. Goldsmith's secret war projects team. After their honeymoon they travelled by train to Johannesburg where Harold worked for a year and then moved to Uitenhage where he worked the next year at Fine Wools. In the US, Dr. Levin completed a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In the 1960s, he worked in New York City on a Hilton hotel for client, David Rockefeller. He was a highly respected economic geologist described as the brains, the ideas and the energy behind the discovery of the Ekati deposit in the Northwest Territories, Canadas first diamond mine. He chaired the United Nations-appointed judges committee to develop environmental law worldwide and he chaired Eminent Jurists Panel, which investigated the impact of terrorism on the rule of law. It is in the middle of your service sheets. One day her arrival coincided with that of Thomas Hoving, director of the Met, and Thomas Nicholson, director of the Museum of Natural History, who linked arms with Scholtz and frog-marched her through the clubs front door, causing many male jaws to drop. Watson was married three times. Moldova On 7 May 2020, Dr Plit passed away in the comfort of his home at the age of 83. She lectured in history before winning a scholarship to the London School of Economics in the fifties for her Masters degree in history. (Death notice submitted by Seham, Seham, Meltz & Petersen, LLP on 4 April 2013). After the war, he met Adelaine Stocks in Pretoria and they married in 1948. Philip Lewis Bonner, emeritus professor in history, died suddenly on Sunday 24 September 2017, aged 72. After working in hospitals in South Africa, the US and the UK, Caro settled in London in 1960 as a lecturer at St Thomass Hospital Medical School. Even in his first year at Wits, he was recognised as an exceptional student with a strong work ethic and proved, as well, to be an exceptional researcher with a keen academic mind. She was one of the 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in August 1956 - despite being pregnant at the time - to protest against the imposition of pass laws on black women. In 1955, Dr Uys left for England with his new bride Midge, a midwife. Neville was central to the emergence of radical white student opposition to apartheid in the early 1970s and was banned by the government in 1973 and fled to Australia a year later. She was an inspirational English teacher for more than two decades at Kings College School, Wimbledon, one of Britains leading independent schools. Over the years Prins was actively involved in the work of the South African Institute of Architects and its committees that benefit architects, including the South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP), the National Monuments Council (NMC), and the Provincial Heritage Resources Agency (Gauteng). First she completed her matric at Damelin, where she was tutored by Cecil Skotnes. During his legal career in South Africa, Williamson represented South African author and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach in his sensational trial in 1975 under the draconian Terrorism Act. The following year he resumed his studies at Wits, where he met his wife, Jenepher, in 1948, at a tennis party. Dr Sulayman Karod Domingo (BSc 1976, MBBCh 1980), or as we all knew him Dr Solly, passed away in early July 2020 succumbing to cancer. Forced to flee in 1940 from the Russian occupation of eastern Poland, she embarked on an epic refugee journey with her mother and sister, ending in Cape Town, where she read for her bachelors and masters at the University of Cape Town. Dr Peter Stephenson (MBBCh 1952) died in hospital in the UK on 8 April 2012, aged 84. Request Information on Private Event Bookings. Indeed, for a few years in the 1980s and 90s, you could have found Maureen, Merton, Jen, Maureens son, Mertons son and daughter, plus three future in-laws, all working or studying at Wits. He was headmaster of Potchefstroom Boys High, head of the Johannesburg College of Education and director of Crawford College. He spent many happy years in East London with his wife Nell and his three growing children until Nell fell ill in the early 1970s and the family moved to Cape Town for specialised treatment. He also made an accurate model of the HMS Swiftsure, the ship which a Robinson forebear had captained in 1804.