His wife Jennifer and children Ben, Claire, Robyn and Sharyn survive him. Here he revelled in extended family and the camaraderie of ex-servicemen at the Returned & Services League. 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. Heime Geffen will be missed by his loving family, colleagues, and wide circle of friends. Here, he was instrumental in ensuring that candidates applying for professional registration would receive due credit for their academic work. Ian never had a bad word to say about anyone, and no one ever said a bad word about him. A multi-linguist, he spoke English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Tswana. He guided the firm’s social responsibility efforts and there is also a scholarship and a lecture in his name. Through her efforts as head of the SABC’s transcription services, the isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo made their first recordings in 1969. It increased the speed at which optical data could be transmitted 100-fold – the highest rate available at the time. He and I did a few long horse rides, during one of which he displayed courage and fortitude in a major thunderstorm.”;  â€œColin definitely had an uncanny knack for getting to the nub of projects at an early stage and my person experience from early on showed me he was able to greatly improve clients’ understanding of complex technical and other issues during reporting, and later, stages of projects.”; “He recruited me in London in 1971, it changed my life and was the start of a most-rewarding career, during which Colin was a respected mentor and friend.”, One of his children wrote: “In spite of how important his engineering career was to him and all he achieved in his work, it was remarkable that he always there to spend evenings, weekends, and holidays with the family. Former Head of Electrical Engineering at Wits, Professor Charles Farrell Landy (BSc Eng 1966, GDE 1969, MSc Eng 1970, PhD 1970) died of cancer in the USA on 8 January 2016, aged 71. Past registrars will fondly remember his ward rounds and teachings that would go on late into the night. This year he celebrated the 68th anniversary of his election to Fellowship of the Royal Society of South Africa, of which he was subsequently made a Life Fellow. But remembers especially her rambles with Dad in the hills of Mondeor before their development. In 1995 Jeremy returned to South Africa and he and Phill Mashabane established Mashabane Rose Associates. Professor Peeters had an enthusiasm for life and a passion for myrmecology, doing research on ants in localities around the world, including in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Thailand. He earned a Fellowship from the Royal College of Pathologists in 1975. Alistair went on to win various awards from GE including a certificate in recognition of his leadership of the GE team during the Gulf war. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Los Angeles and attended the New York School University. This was a time of many advances in the treatment of infertility, and presented an interesting new field of work. He wanted schools to give children the freedom to fall in love with ideas. Even though I cried when she kept beating me, she always told me that, one day, I would find a way to win. Ronald Reagan became USA president and Prince Charles married Princess Diana. She grew up in gold mining communities in Deelkr l and Aggenys and was educated at Potchefstroom High School for Girls, where she was a gifted academic and an Honours Roll student. She had just finished writing her subsequent PhD thesis when she succumbed to the final stages of her illness. Wits has an institute named after him. Egoli, a voluntary organisation, is involved in creating an awareness of heritage conservation and comprises a small group of interested and concerned people. New voices are telling our own stories and expressing our unique cultures through dance, music and the visual arts.”. He had Parkinson’s disease but had fallen and suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage just prior to his and his wife’s aliyah (pilgrimage to Israel – his burial place). This paper â€œThe Care of Accident Victims on the Roads” suggested action to be taken to increase the survival rate of road accident victims by improving amongst other issues, Communication. In 2011, the Black Business Executive Circle presented Mabuza with the Chairman’s Award for “Black Business Leaders at the Pinnacle of Thought Leadership". She was also recognised as a Department of Science and Technology Distinguished Woman Scientist in 2010. Two books on township histories followed,  Kathorus: A  History (2000) and Alexandra: A History (2008), both written with Noor Nieftagodien.. They also grandly entertained surgeons visiting the Department of Surgery from overseas. He held a BCom from Wits and was passionate about education. He was active in his community as a councillor and as a member of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI). Kenneth William King (BCom 1948, Certificate in Theory of Accounting 1951) died in November 2007 at the age of 80. John Armar Bower Harman (BA 1947) died 25 November, aged 90. He thrived in the intellectually stimulating environment and also spent many happy hours on the squash court, representing Wits in competition. However, the London smog aggravated Plint’s tuberculosis (which had claimed his father and sister during the war) and he was hospitalised for a year. Despite being plagued by ill health her whole life, Helen endured. Theirs was a formidable artistic collaboration. In 1985 he returned to England. Mandelstam was an emeritus professor at Berkeley when he died, aged 87. Through public action and Prins’s leadership, Markham’s facades were saved and today Markhams boasts a blue plaque. Magerman remained active in a number of organisations involved in the development of Alexandra and between 2003 and 2008 served on a history and heritage committee, with other veterans of the township, which collaborated with the History Workshop in researching and writing the history of Alexandra. Birch was born in Johannesburg on 18 May 1914. His bursary was suspended when he decided to do Honours, but to pay his way he got a job as a histology laboratory technician, making teaching slides of the human body by sectioning, staining and mounting tissue. Philip was never a purely university figure. The family lived in the mission station house at Tshakhuma, where Ernst attended Levubu Primary School, and then went on to Pietersburg (now Polokwane) High School. I had made friends with some young nuns who would gather every hour to sing plainchant in one of the chapels. That is after a similar stellar academic record at the University of the Witwatersrand for his first degrees. His son Johann (BSc Eng 1979) and granddaughter, Christine (BPharm 2005) are proud Wits graduates. Born in Krugersdorp on 3 July 1941, Visser stayed at the Cottesloe Mens’ Residence when he joined Wits. Moelwyn-Hughes took sabbatical leave to Stanford, Cambridge and Oxford universities to pursue chemistry research, and later to research staff development methodologies. He was a loyal patron of “The Dev” (the Devonshire Hotel) in Braamfontein. In 1973, he became Professor of Librarianship and Bibliography at Wits. Self-effacing (‘And what do you do, Mr. Tucker?’ ‘Oh, I just sell tickets’), always optimistic and supportive, generous with advice and encouragement, he has been a true patron of the arts.”. Colin was the Shand’s elder statesman for the project and an influential member of the team, respected by all parties. He oversaw the construction of all the major Eskom “six-pack” coal-fired power stations (Kriel, Matla, Duvha, Tutuka, Lethabo, Mathimba, Kendal and Majuba), the hydro-electric power stations (Gariep, Vanderkloof and Cahora Bassa), the pumped storage power stations (Drakensburg and Palmiet), and the Koeberg nuclear power station in South Africa. Many postgraduate students benefited from her insight. It gave Dad one of his favourite photos. For similar reasons, he was repelled by social media with its speed and superficiality, its dialogue of the deaf. He was a quality person who had the affection of all who knew him. There she continued lecturing part-time, practised privately and consulted for many years. And there were many whom he described in this fashion. Despite his success, he regarded his role in his family as his most important duty. He was a systems ecologist, adopting a holistic approach to the study of ecological systems, which he loved for their complexity. A scratch golfer and a first-class cricketer for Transvaal and Eastern Province, he taught at Kingswood College in Grahamstown, then worked at Potchefstroom University and for Anglo American in Welkom, where he died. Alumni recall how he delighted in trundling them in a wheelbarrow from the Great Hall after graduation with cardboard signs around their necks; the post-graduation dinners he hosted; that pipe! Born in Johannesburg on 30 July 1934, Eskapa studied psychology and sociology at Wits. He put himself through medical school by holding down jobs such as driving new vehicles in convoy from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg, ramp modelling, and working as an orderly in the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. Dr Ian Potgieter (MBBCh 1957) passed away on 2 October 2020, less than a month after his 86th birthday, after a long, illustrious career and productive life. (Wits. Some of the houses in the area where I was born still stand today, even though the power station has long been replaced by Eskom’s National Control Centre and other departments.”. He matriculated in 1936 and went on to study Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, obtaining his degree in 1942. Coupled with his intense belief in the “sanctity” of truth, this yielded an intense focus on ideas not seen too widely, and meant trouble for tradition. Serving on the Education Committee of the Public Accountants’ and Auditors’ Board, he oversaw the quality of the education and training of articled clerks at universities. Together with South Coast Hospice founder Kath Defilippi, they started Voices for Hospice, which became a popular annual international event celebrated around the world in October, bringing awareness to communities about palliative care as well as hospices. He discovered tsavorite in northern Tanzania in 1967, apparently after diving into a gully to avoid a buffalo charge. Her loving way of being in the world enabled her to reach other persons at their very core, which is perhaps the reason children adored her. Peter Hain, himself an activist, politician and author, was recently a Visiting Adjunct Professor at Wits Business School. His courage to speak out against discrimination against black students. A longtime avid golfer, she took up horse riding in recent years. The project culminated in the installation of a full-scale reactor at NUFCOR works. He gained experience working for the old London County Council. Lady Klug and Adam survive him. He was born in Devon, England and attended University College Cardiff in Wales and obtained his Master’s in parasitology in 1980. He had three younger brothers: Raymond, Robin and Bernard. What he found out, and reported, was not widely popular apparently, but it was evidently accurate and fair (and accuracy and fairness take time and nerve, but Hugh saw that as Duty). He was the only person to attend every single reunion since then and had every intention of being with you all in San Antonio today. After their divorce he married Di Gold, a stained glass artist, who also had two sons, Matthew and Benjamin, and they lived in the Cotswolds with their four sons. Their success led them to form the Save Alexandra Party, which won the local elections and controlled the township council in the early 1980s. This was at the time that GE was the largest company in the world. He proved to be a gifted student and won several prizes. It was at this time that he married his wife Julia Skeen. Dr John Meiring Beck (MBBCh 1955) died in England on 20 January 2016, aged 82. He was born on 14th September 1932 in South Africa, eldest son of Vivian and Jeanette Hicks. Professor Raymond Dart the appointed her as a technical assistant in the Department of Anatomy at Wits’ Medical School, where she was involved in the making and painting of facial casts and worked extensively on the department’s skeletal collections.