The first intake of our new curricu-lum entered their sixth semester in

July 2004. This means that they have now begun their clinical attachments. Up until now most of their time has been spent exploring the basic sciences. Parallel to this, they have participated in the Becoming a Doctor course, where they learnt basic clinical skills such as history taking and clinical examination, as well as important clinical skills previ-ously overlooked in the old curriculum such as venepuncture. Towards the end of the fifth semester, they began inter-viewing and examining their own pa-tients in Groote Schuur Hospital.

Now almost the entire week is spent immersed in the clinical environment, and already the students are expressing their pleasure in their exposure to the real world of clinical medicine. Our seasoned clinical teachers, many of whom are meeting new curriculum stu-dents for the first time, are impressed by the students’ commitment and in-terest. During this semester, students spend periods in the disciplines of Mental Health at the Valkenberg hos-pital; Women’s Health, which includes Gynecological history taking and exam-ination as well as the study of a number of topics relating to the health and well-being of women; Child Health, where students work with young patients at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital as well as with neonates in our obstetric units, and; Adult Health, during which they had the opportunity to work alongside our junior staff in the medi-cal wards and emergency units at GSH. For the first time, they also have a full three week module devoted to intensive training in practical skills, including a

basic life support course, practical ECG interpretation and a structured course in the examination of the eye and ear. In a significant departure from previous practice, we now have experienced fam-ily physicians coming into the hospital to provide instruction and guidance in several of these areas.

Lectures have been reduced to a min-imum; students do however receive

lectures and tutorials in ethics, com-munication, therapeutics and genet-ics. In a further innovation, traditional written examinations at the end of the semester has been replaced by a struc-tured portfolio interview. Our students are required to maintain a compre-hensive portfolio of learning in which they accumulate reports on all patients they see as well as additional material they learn by self-study and research assignments. During this interview, it will be not only their knowledge that is assessed, but also the depth of their

commitment to learning and the extent to which they have used their learning opportunities to set their own learning objectives and to meet these via their own reading and research.

In this way we intend to produce graduates who possess a greater and deeper range of clinical skills than those on the traditional curriculum. Furthermore, our students’ enthusiasm for the patients and problems they en-counter in the hospital are tempered by the wisdom and experience of clini-cians used to working with these disor-ders in a community rather than hospi-tal setting. From Semester 7 onwards, the students will be rotating through the major clinical disciplines, and all indications are that they will possess a thorough grounding in the science and skills necessary to do so successfully.

Meanwhile, a further two intakes of students have entered Medical

School and we now have approximately 600 students in the first, second and third years of our new curriculum.

This has allowed us to undertake a critical review of our curriculum, and the design teams are engaged in an ongoing process of refinement and im-provement. The UCT mission calls on us to be “flexible on access, active in re-dress, and rigorous on success” and this is exactly what we will continue to do. Our “new” graduates show every sign of exceeding our already high stand-ards. What is more they appear to be enjoying their studies far more than their predecessors.

Nicky PadayacheeDean, Faculty of Health Sciences

DEAN’S CORNER

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UCT MEDICAL ALUMNI MAGAZINE JULY 2004

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UCT’s new Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medi-

cine (IIDMM), located in the Faculty of Health Sciences, aims to be an Af-rican Centre of Excellence of the kind exemplified, at a much larger and well-endowed level, by the Rockefeller In-stitute, the Pasteur Institute, the Weiz-mann Institute, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the National Centre for Biological Sciences in India, namely a large-scale assembly of highly talented research leaders working in one place in a collegial federation, with many ex-ternal collaborations and partnerships. These renowned institutions (and many others) have shown the immense value of concentration, interaction and deep focus in effectively addressing sig-nificant contemporary issues, whilst simultaneously serving as outstanding training centres as well.

In order to achieve this ambitious goal, a large number of high-quality research enterprises in support of the common theme of major infectious diseases such as HIV-AIDS, TB, Ma-laria and Papillomavirus, have been consolidated within the IIDMM. This provides a demonstrably strong scien-tific base that spans most of the major areas of modern biomolecular enquiry (membrane receptors, pumps and traf-ficking; cellular signaling; enzymology; cancer biology; molecular genetics; bac-teriology; virology), linking these to applied biology and biotechnology, on the one hand, and clinical and public health benefit, on the other. The Insti-tute seeks to create for its Members and Affiliates an environment that is highly interactive, multi-disciplinary, and in-dependently competent in tackling de-manding scientific problems, and the coupled issues of practical benefit for communities, on South African soil. At the same time, it is participating exten-sively in collaborations within South Africa and internationally, and has or-

ganized itself as a major centre of post-graduate and post-doctoral training.

The Members and affiliates of the IIDMM are all active researchers with impressive track records of working ef-fectively in the South African research environment. They include 6 current Wellcome Senior International Fel-lows and 2 ex-Fellows (total of 8 out of 12 awarded in South Africa since the inception of the scheme in 1993); the holder of a Wellcome Career Fellow-ship in Tropical Medicine (relocating in 2004 with his complete group to the Institute for 5 years); four Direc-tors (or Co-Directors) of MRC Units or Groups; 3 Members who are the lead-ers of the major HIV Vaccine initiatives set up by SAAVI, and one who runs the only TB vaccine development group in the country. All-in-all, there are 25 Members and 3 Affiliates, all active in raising their own research grants and /or contracts; 20 of them will soon be housed together in the IIDMM’s newly refurbished 8300 sqM building com-plex, while the rest will all have a signifi-cant presence and role in the Institute, participating fully in its activities.

Alumni/ae of the Faculty will be interested to learn that the well-

known “second-year” and “third-year” blocks of their medical school days (also known as the “Wernher and Beit Medi-

THE INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

“A large-scale assembly of

highly talented research

leaders working in one place” in a collegial

federation

The new IIDMM building

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cal Laboratories” North and South) are being completely transfigured into the two Wings of the Institute, linked at two of the three levels by the magnifi-cent new Wolfson Pavilion situated in the (previously rather scruffy) space be-tween them. The complex will provide some of the facilities that will make up the new Postgraduate Centre of the Faculty, namely the attractive cafeteria, the Postgraduate Lecture Theatre (pre-viously the “Upper Pathology Lecture Theatre where many past students have sat) and a multi-purpose Advanced Training Laboratory.

The IIDMM is already beginning to attract outstandingly talented younger scientists currently working abroad, who view the IIDMM as having the necessary critical mass and aggregate scientific talent base that matches what is available in laboratories at the best Universities on other continents. The following are outstanding scientists who have returned or been attracted to South Africa by the Institute: Gor-don Brown(University of Oxford); Girish Kotwal (University of Kentucky); Heinrich Hoppe (Yale University); and Robert Wilkinson (Imperial College, London). Makobetsa Khati has also recently returned from Oxford Univer-sity.

The stature of the IIDMM Members and affiliates is such that 9 are full

Professors and 14 are Associate Profes-sors (5 and 14 appointed ad hominem to these ranks, respectively, on the basis of international competitiveness). In an internal survey of research capacity plotted against R&D potential, Insti-tute Members obtained impressively high ratings. Of the current IIDMM Members and Affiliates, 16 are aged 25-45 years, 10 are women and 7 are black – the IIDMM is actively seeking greater representivity by promoting the careers of its best young scientists and keeping in close touch with young scientists who have gone overseas.

An International Advisory Board has been set up to oversee the develop-ment of the IIDMM and to assist with long-term funding and collaboration. It comprises Sir Aaron Klug (Labora-

tory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK),and Dr Mamphela Ramphele ( World Bank) as Patrons, Prof Siamon Gordon ( Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK) as Chair, and nine oth-er members:• Prof. Alan Aderem (Co-director, In-

stitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA);

• Prof. Anthony Segal (Centre for Mo-lecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University College, Lon-don, UK);

• Prof. Gilla Kaplan (Laboratory of My-cobacterial Immunity and Pathogen-esis, Public Health Research Institute, Newark, USA);

• Prof. Virander S. Chauhan (Director, ICGEB, New Delhi, India);

• Dr. Arturo Falaschi (Director, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy);

• Prof. Marc H V Van Regenmortel (Bi-otechnology School of the University Of Strasbourg, CNRS, France);

• Prof. Richard E Chaisson (Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Inter-national Health, Johns Hopkins Uni-versity, Baltimore, USA);

• Prof. Wafaa El-Sadr (Director, Center For Infectious Diseases and Epidemi-ologic Research, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA); and

• Dr Frank Gannon (Director, EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany).

The IAB will meet once a year, and take an active part in the selection

of new members and the review of Members’ performance. IAB members regularly visit the Institute, and some will be in residence for parts of each year.

The IIDMM is very active in the postgraduate and postdoctoral devel-opment of young scientists. Several of the Faculty’s Honours Programmes depend on teaching by Institute Mem-bers, including project work in their laboratories and research groups. There are more than 30 Masters and 60 PhD students supervised by Institute Mem-bers and affiliates, and the number of Post-doctoral Fellows exceeds 20. The “hidden curriculum” of open seminars

and presentations available to these people is very extensive, combined with in-group discussion sessions, presenta-tions and relevant course work.

The IIDMM hosts the only Masters programme dedicated to Structural Biology in Africa, jointly with the Uni-versity of the Western Cape, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (6 students, 3 from South Africa and 3 from other African countries are registered in 2003, and 5 in 2004.) The programme was recently given a very positive report by its official evaluator, Prof Sir Tom Blundell of the University of Cambridge, UK.

The institute has plans for an exten-sive workshop/short course programme that will be open to participants from the whole of Africa. The Wellcome Trust has already sponsored one such workshop (2001), a second Workshop is planned to be offered in December, 2004, and the Trust has offered to as-sist the Institute in developing a work-shop series to address urgent needs in the focus areas of infectious disease, im-munology and the underpinning mo-lecular and population sciences.

The Institute will also be offering organized elective research modules to selected undergraduates in the health sciences faculty, with the intention of attracting them into research careers later, through continued mentoring and involvement. Dr Cynthia Sikakana will be the programme leader and men-tor of this focus group of students.

The IIDMM is a significant addition to the UCT Health Sciences land-

scape. In fact, the landscape of the low-er sub-campus (South of Anzio Road), so familiar to generations of alumni/ae of the Faculty, is being simultaneously modernised and restored to its former glory. It will soon be a magnificent building complex, in a superb setting facing the mountain (now again sport-ing many indigenous, wild, hoofed ani-mals), that will do much to reinvigor-ate UCT’s great tradition of relevant health-related research.

Wieland GeversInterim Director, IIDMM.

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In the South African Medical Jour-nal of January 1975, Ian Spencer,

then professor of Comprehensive and Community Medicine at UCT laid out the basis for the new specialty of Community Medicine. The aim of the specialist-training programme was to upgrade the qualifications of Medi-cal Officers of Health. From these modest beginnings as part of the Divi-sion of Medicine, the department has grown into a School of Public Health and Family Medicine, one of the five schools in the faculty. It now has a staff of over 120, mostly contract re-search staff.

This department’s growth reflects the importance accorded today to public health and family medicine. Public health had its origins in efforts to control epidemic infectious diseas-es and in sanitary movements aimed at improving the appalling living and working conditions in the wake of the industrial revolution. A century or so later, these problems are still with us in South Africa, although in new forms associated with HIV/AIDS and with deeply entrenched poverty.

The School has two divisions, Pub-lic Health (headed by the writer) and Family Medicine led by Prof. Derek Hellenberg. In addition, members of the directorate of Primary Health Care, a cross faculty unit under Prof. Jimmy Volmink, have joint appoint-ments in the School, reflecting the very large overlap between these three areas of activity.

Derek Hellenberg joined the faculty in 2001 after a number of years in gen-eral practice in Bonteheuwel where he was a leader in promoting family prac-tice. This experience equipped him to tackle his new tasks of preparing well-trained generalists at undergradu-ate level and vocationally trained fam-ily practitioners at postgraduate level. Family Medicine also houses the only

South African qualification in Pallia-tive Medicine, under Dr Liz Gwyther, who combines this with her role as CEO of the St. Luke’s Hospice.

We recently did “a where are they now?” audit of our graduates in

public health medicine (as the medi-cal specialty of Community Health is now known). Ninety percent are still in South Africa, mostly in senior po-sitions in the public or academic sec-tors.

We currently have 170 postgradu-ates in our various courses. The largest growth has been in the MPH degree, started in 1999. There are cur-rently 80 MPH candidates, the major-ity of whom are not medical doctors. Twenty are from nine other countries,

mostly in Africa. Research and policy work in public

health has burgeoned and our research budget would make us a medium sized company if we were in the private sec-tor. The School has a number of sub-ject area strengths – and is engaged with questions important to popula-tion health in South Africa and be-yond. For example. Is it operation-ally feasible to provide HIV infected patients in a resource poor primary care setting with antiretroviral drugs (Answer: yes). Is there an association between breast cancer and injectable progesterone contraception (Answer: no). Is goldminers’ silicosis disap-pearing? (Answer: no, the problem is getting worse) What is the additional annual cost of providing the universal primary health care package? (Answer: R2.5 billion).

HIV/AIDS increasingly occupies our attention. All units of the school are involved, but we have consolidated a number of research and implemen-tation projects under a new Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS unit, headed by Dr. David Coetzee.

On a personal note, I trained in economics and medicine at UCT

before discovering the wider world of South Africa in Johannesburg. My entry into public health was through treating mining and metal workers for occupational lung and other diseases in Johannesburg in the 1980s. Oc-cupational health offered the right combination for me of clinical obser-vation, epidemiological confirmation and public health intervention. It’s a model I adhere to today - I still see and treat patients, an invaluable source of knowledge of what health means.

Assoc. Prof. Rodney EhrlichDirector, School of Public Health and Family Medicine

PROFILE: THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND FAMILY MEDICINE

Assoc. Prof. Rodney Ehrlich

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Although he did not graduate from UCT Medical School, Dr Louis

Babrow, who died on 26 January 2004, aged 88, was one of UCT’s best known alumni.

He was born in Smithfield in the Free State and to improve his Eng-lish, which, having been brought up in an Afrikaans community, he could hardly speak at the time, he was sent for his early schooling to the Catholic convents at Graaff Reinet and Aliwal North. He later returned to school in Smithfield – and then to Grey Col-lege, Bloemfontein, where he matricu-lated. At Grey he excelled in athletics and rugby.

Louis came to UCT in 1932 to study medicine and soon made his mark both as a popular student but particularly as a rugby player, playing centre for the first team from 1934 to 1936. In 1937 he was chosen for the Springbok tour of Australia and New Zealand in that year, a South African team rated to this day as “the best team ever to leave our shores”. He was the youngest player in the side being only 20 when selected.

He, however, developed into the leading centre on tour, playing in all five tests, and was voted as one of the top five players of the year in the world by the rugby writers.

Louis did not return to UCT after the tour but went to Grey’s Hospital in London to complete his medical de-gree. While there he captained Grey’s, Middlesex and the British Barbarians.

When war broke out in 1939, Louis joined the Medical Corps. He was present at the evacuation of the British forces from Dunkirk and later served in North Africa and Italy. He won the Military Cross for gallant service dur-ing the Battle of El Alamein and was also mentioned in despatches no less than three times. He was wounded at El Alamein.

After the war he practised first in Vereeniging and then in Cape Town. He served on the Medical and Dental Council for 21 years.

Louis had a life-long love for UCT. He served on the University Council for 25 years, only one person, the late Judge Marius Diemont, serving for

longer. He was an ardent supporter of the Medical School and the Medical Faculty in all their activities.

He was an outspoken opponent of apartheid and was deeply disappoint-ed at the stand taken by the Medical Council over the Steve Biko affair.

Louis had a particular passion for the UCT rugby club. Apart from his playing days there, he coached the first team in 1943, while recuperating from his wounds at El Alamein, and again from 1949 to 1963. He was President of the Club from 1961 to 1971 and at his death was an honorary life Vice-President. He also served on the West-ern Province Rugby Union Executive as a selector, coach and manager of Western Province teams and was one of its Vice-Presidents and on the South African Rugby Board as a selector and manager of Springbok sides.

Louis was married to his wife, Iris, for 53 years, prior to her death in 1992. They had three children, Michelle, Pe-ter and Nelson, who also played centre for Western Province from 1968 to 1970.

In a tribute to Louis at a gathering at the UCT rugby club on 4 Febru-

ary 2004, Judge Pat Tebbutt, a former President of Convocation and a patron of the rugby club, referred to the large number present as evidence of Louis’ popularity. He described him as a re-markable man with a keen sense of humour and a likeable and friendly personality who had led a life of great achievement – as a brilliant sports-man, a soldier of exceptional bravery, a skilled doctor, respected by his peers, (as shown by his election by them to the Medical Council for 21 years) and a de-voted alumnus of UCT with a passion-ate love for his alma mater which he served with distinction on its governing body and in its rugby structures.The Hon Mr Justice Pat Tebbutt

WELL-KNOWN ALUMNUS DR LOUIS BABROW DIES

He was deeply disappointed at the stand taken by the Medical

Council over the Steve Biko affair

The late Dr Louis Babrow

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The year 2001 is one which will al-ways remain significant for Derek

Hellenberg. It was the year in which he lost one of his twin daughters (Lisa, who was 17 years old at the time and doing her matric year at Rustenburg Girls’ High School) in a car accident. It was also the year that his long-time dream of a full-time academic position was realized with his appointment as the first Head of the independent Di-vision of Family Medicine at the Uni-versity of Cape Town.

Derek is one of 13 children and was raised in Kewtown on the

Cape Flats. His father was a bus driver for the Golden Arrow Bus Company for most of his adult life. He remem-bers his father being a very pleasant and happy person who loved his job and the people with whom he worked. His mother had no choice but to care for the family full-time as the children came fast and furiously !

Derek matriculated at Spes Bona High School in Athlone in 1972 and was the first MBChB graduate from this school. He did his undergraduate training at UCT from 1973 and com-pleted his degree in 1978. He married Delia van der Merwe while a 3rd year student and likes to tell the story of being a “kept man” as Delia was the breadwinner at the time. He spent his elective period during his 5th under-graduate year at the All Saints Hospi-tal in Engcobo in the Eastern Cape where he learned to love the practice of medicine even more. He particu-larly remembers one of the GP’s who did sessions at the hospital, Dr Zweli Mbambisa, who was a very skilled sur-geon and taught him many things. Dr Mbambisa is now a Gynaecologist in Umtata.

He subsequently completed his in-ternship at the Somerset Hospital in Green Point during 1979.

For the first 4 months of 1980, he worked as a medical officer at Lovedale Hospital in Alice in the Eastern Cape under the guidance of Dr Cundill and other colleagues who had a wealth of experience. He ap-plied for and was offered a job as a registrar in the Department of Gen-eral Surgery at UCT and returned to Cape Town. He sat and passed his surgical primary on the first attempt and remained a registrar until Janu-ary 1983, when he decided that he wanted to make general practice his career.

He opened a general practice in Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats

where he worked, both in his own practice and in Community Health Centres until his appointment at UCT. He enrolled for the Master’s degree in Family Medicine which he completed at Stellenbosch University in 1990 and became a Member of the

College of General Practitioners’ of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in 1991. During 1994, he com-pleted a 2 month full-time Certificate in Policy, Planning and Management for Health Sector Reform which was run by all 3 universities in the West-ern Cape (Committee on Public Health Education). He subsequently also gained the ACLS certificate.

He has been involved in CPD and vocational training activities for fam-ily practitioners for the South African Academy of Family practice / Primary Care for many years and has also held many senior positions within the Academy as well as in the South Afri-can Medical Association, of which he is a board member.

Derek likes rock and surf angling and also jogs – mainly for the solitude it affords as a break from a very busy lifestyle. His whole family is musical and he enjoys listening to them per-form.

He has 4 children : Helga (works for SANLAM as a trainer), Adri-

aan (studying sound engineering at Varsity College), Monique (4th year jazz music student at UCT) and Lisa (who died in the car accident)

He has enjoyed the challenges en-countered in his new work environ-ment and is grateful to his colleagues in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine for creating an en-vironment which has been conducive to personal and professional growth.

He occupies a challenging position and is intimately involved in develop-ing community based learning sites and sees himself as a team player. There are many difficulties, but with the necessary teamwork and com-mitment he believes that these can be overcome so that the faculty can achieve it’s objectives, especially with the new curriculum.

PROFILE: DEREK ADRIAAN HELLENBERG

Derek Adrian Hellenberg

We talk to the head of the first

independent Division of Family

Medicine

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On Thursday the 28th August, al-most half (27) of the survivors

of the class of ‘53 met at a Dean’s function in the impressive Student Learning Centre at Medical School. The Faculty of Health Science had provided a wonderful cocktail Party during which we were entertained by members of the UCT Opera school and welcomed by the Dean, Prof Pa-dayachee. Most of us had weathered the fifty years well, hair was absent or white and some had either lost or gained bits and pieces. The hub bub of voices showed that none had lost any of their ability to talk. In fact it was almost impossible to get some of the class to go on a tour of the Learn-ing Centre with Dr. Laurie Kellaway. Prof Stuart Saunders who also made a short speech of welcome, very sin-cerely thanked the Dean.

The next morning a tour of the most impressive additions to the

Red Cross Children’s Hospital, was

followed by an Academic session ar-ranged by Cecil Bloch. This was both entertaining and interesting and it was reassuring to know that we still enjoy some intellectual capacity. When the class qualified the Children’s Hospital did not exist and on the tour we saw a newly upgraded ward and out patients department

The evening Dinner at the Break-water Lodge, accompanied by spous-es, was a hilarious evening with Bill Lambrechts, Fana Malherbe and Piet Steyn in fine form. There was much chatter in the anteroom before the dinner as old classmates met their spouses, exchanged reminiscences and caught up on news.

Some members were “missing” the next morning when we embarked

on a bus tour up the West Coast. It was a lovely summer’s day as we chugged along, passing the recently stranded container ship on our way towards Darling. The first stop, ar-ranged by Sid Cywes, was a guided tour by Nicky Duckitt of their fantas-tic orchid houses. There must have been close on a million orchids in

bloom and each lady was presented with a lovely spike of these magnifi-cent flowers.

Lunch followed an informative wine tasting at Groote Post, a beau-tiful old Cape Dutch homestead dating from 1706. The wines were excellent and many returned to the bus with large boxes of wine. We returned with some very sleepy pas-sengers via Mamre for melktert and tea at the old Moravian Mission af-ter a memorable day.

Special thanks to Joan Tuff, for her detailed organisation and to Chris Rainier-Pope, who was del-egated to be our convenor.Boet Dommisse

Class of 1963Personally I’ve always been exceed-

ingly wary of reunions and viewed this impending disinterring of the past with apprehension. Apart from the in-evitable passage of time, the class had scattered to all corners of the globe and I somehow felt I’d be surprised if one would show genuine interest in their medical voyages. I’ve always de-lighted in Esme Arenson’s comments a year or so back regarding the reunion when she said, in essence, “I was never very close to most of them anyway - in fact to very few – so what’s the point meeting again?”. Well, Esme and I, in particular, were happily proved scintil-latingly wrong.

It was indeed a true delight to meet again with a host of mostly fond mem-ories. They came from the UK, USA, Canada and one Australian.

The initial ice was broken at the Dean’s office and, arriving late, the cacophony of sound even to anyone hearing impaired meant communica-tion was a non-problem. There was a happy buzz as we registered, took second or third identification glances and were initially eternally grateful for significantly visible nametags. Jane van

REUNIONS

Standing L to R: Don Clark, Giep Rossouw, Chris Rainier-Pope, Bernice Seider, Jeremy Sloan, Eileen Green, Boet Dommisse, Theo Conradie, Sid Cywes, Cecil Bloch, Bill Lambrechts. Seated in front: Godfrey Radloff

Class of 1953

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Jaarsveld’s glamorous “new look” had me initially fooled.

We were then given background to the computer based new medi-

cal curriculum and how it was used by an exceedingly personable Laurie Kel-laway, who gave the impression that in many ways the new medical student could be largely taught by “student group discussion and computer” with almost nary a medical lecturer. To one suspicious of computer domination - while accepting the distinct advan-tage it offered over trying to decipher a Kench lecture - no matter what the pundits say, being taught by “Clini-cal Masters” left a lasting impression. Something I suspect a computer will struggle to do. Dave Ginsburg, an academic in Canada, and one who’s never been remotely intellectually disadvantaged, took up this point by mentioning that in his Medical School 15 full-timers initially had coped with the student education, lectures and all, but now with a full-time staff of 75 the latter felt they simply didn’t have the time (or was it interest?) to get involved with lecturing! Yes, times have certain-ly changed. But I’d certainly miss the clinical wisdom and personality of Jan-

nie, James, Frankie, Bill Schulze, Jack Heselson et al. There’s no computer comparable to their wisdom. No mat-ter what the programme.

Then a nostalgic trip to the library and it’s somewhat unchanged up-per bookshelves and on to the “new” Groote Schuur Hospital where those who hadn’t got lost met Johan Brink, one of the delightful professors of car-diac surgery, who showed us around the newly refurbished Chris Barnard cardiac unit. Recall the days when we were exposed to these international medical giants. Lunch, exquisite, was provided by Rob Rush’s daughter in-law’s catering company.

On Friday evening the cocktail par-ty was a great success and one de-

lighted to have the former Dean, JP van Niekerk, open the reunion and give an overview of the new medical curricu-lum. He subtly encouraged us not to forget considering medical school in our fast approaching estate plan-ning. Ashley had arranged for three of our original lecturers to be present. Bill Campbell taught us chemistry in 1958, ours being the first class that he lectured to at UCT – a daunting proposition, he said! But we couldn’t

have been that bad because he is still at UCT, 46 years later and, although officially retired, is actively involved in postgraduate research supervision. It was a delight to hear Cecil Craig (his presence I assure you remains undi-minished) take us through the various phases of medical life and then Lynn Gillis making the very appropriate comment that on retiring you’d best be certain you had something which really absorbed you. His passion is now sculpting. He, as a psychiatrist, saw too many doctors who, having re-tired, done the exotic long promised tour with their spouses and finished all the house repairs, ended up be-ing depressed and on antidepressants. Wise words Lynn.

Saturday morning at the luxuri-ous Lung Institute was the required “academia” and we heard Wolf Losken, Rob Rush, Don Nuss, Stan Standler, Fabrizio Casale, Herzl Melmed, Clive Botha and the irrepressible Jose de Nobrega “entertaining” us with their experiences.

The evening dinner was at Hilde-brand’s on the Waterfront with a spec-tacular view over the harbour. Much hilarity. Amazing how many of the old groupings remained intact.

Front row: Wolfgang Losken, Stan Sandler, Arifie Manuel, Herzl Melmed, Rene Arendse, Anthony Townsend, Joe de Nobrega.

Second row: Des Herron, Cyril Press, Emilie Wiggins, Hedwig Meyer, Nasheba Jardine, Lynne Heselson, John Brownstone, Jane van Jaarsveld, Avis Kow, Esme Arenson, Denise Juretic.

Third row: Ernst Rösemann, Keith Gunston, Cyril Weinkove, Abe Allie, Errol Racussen, Richard Aron, Mick Broughton, Bhawan Jogei, John Steer, Arthur Freeman, Clive Botha, Cassiem D’arcy, Barry Winning.

Back Row: Fabrizio Casale, Aubry Abramson, Ashley Robins, Peter Etellin, Rory Dower, Francis Diab, Donald Nuss, Rob Rush, Khandoo Deva, Ahmed Moosa, Gerry Pillay.

The highlight was undoubtedly Ashley playing excerpts from the

speeches at our 1963 final year din-ner. What fond memories to hear James, Jannie and then Frankie saying he didn’t usually come to these din-ners because they were no more than a repository of dirty jokes but this one had been a delightful exception. And then the star of the show, Ashley’s in-credible speech in which he took the mickey out of all the professors and then launched into a denunciation of the final year exams which were 6 weeks away. He concluded by adapting the Churchillian oration to our foes, the examiners: “We shall fight them in Jameson Hall; we shall fight in the wards and in the side-rooms; we shall fight in Somerset and at PMH. We shall never surrender …” And then the last line: “If this Medical School and its Hospital last for a thousand years men will still say, “This was our fin-est class”. Winston would have been proud. This was one of Ashley’s finest hours and he’s justifiably proud and possessive of the CD of the speech-es. It’s going into the UCT archives. These are the only recordings made of Jannie, James and Frankie. But Ash-ley maybe you should reconsider and allow wider distribution.

A glorious Sunday lunch was provid-ed by indomitable Jose de Nobrega at a wine farm owned by John Colley and Susan Wells. In an old Cape homestead largely restored by Jose, with dappled sunshine coming through the oaks and a lavish exquisite spread (courtesy of Jose who’s now retired and living in an isolated cottage in the Bain’s Kloof mountains) we had our final function. Again a social delight. As we took our farewells I recalled those very sage comments by the ever urbane Dave Dent at his class reunion the previous year when he talked about “promises to meet again”, knowing full well that it was unlikely!

There are many high points but I think for me the most special

was seeing John Brownstone now in his ninth decade but undiminished. I always wondered how he’d come to medicine and he told the story. He was a very successful tobacco farmer in Southern Rhodesia (I won’t mention the chocolate business, John) when he said to his wife “I’m bored with just

having a good bank balance. I want to do something meaningful with my life”. “Like what?” she said. And he told the story of a Greek family doc-tor on one of the islands (John was born in Greece) and the humane way in which he practised medicine: the help he’d given and the joy he’d creat-ed. John began medicine at 36. Then went on to the States to specialise first in psychiatry and after that in anaes-thesia. What a life story! And when at the dinner the question as to when we’d meet again was discussed and the 50th anniversary suggested, John in that inimitable way said, “Well then, I’ll say goodbye now chaps.”

If one has to look at our class and say which of us has scaled international heights, I think there can be no doubt that it’s Don Nuss. His technique of restoring Pectus Excavatum is interna-tionally accepted as a major advance in a debilitating syndrome. He’s the only one of us to have spoken on the same platform as an American Presi-dent and to have had his photo on the cover of a major medical magazine.

And finally to Ashley – without your enthusiastic input, and the re-markable organisational skills of Joan Tuff, this wonderful reunion would not have happened. More strength to your arm. Brace yourself for the next decade. You’ve already been reap-pointed.John Steer

Class of 1973A small but enthusiastic group from

the Class of 73 took part in the 30 Year Reunion recently and those who attended experienced an event of su-perior quality and fellowship.

After the registration procedures, we were introduced to the new Stu-dent Learning Centre and Library, housed in the same buildings we used all those years ago, although modifi-cations have transformed the interior spaces. However, the Library remained reassuringly familiar to us and brought back many memories.

We were all a little surprised and, I must say, rather concerned

by the dramatic changes that have oc-curred to the format of medical train-ing. We all felt that our disciplined “lecture-oriented” training had stood us in good stead and had enabled many of us to successfully carve out careers in many other countries and we questioned the need for such big changes! However, we understand that the shift to problem-based learning is happening in medical curricula world-wide so perhaps we are just showing our age!

The tour of the Groote Schuur Hospital Transplant Museum was very nostalgic for our class and we found it

Front row: Saville FurmanSecond row: Madeleine Mercer, Ian McCallum, Ann Hofmeyr, Trevor Kaye, Margie

Anderson, Charles Croft, Louise Berkowicz, Jenny Hurley, Indiran NaikerThird row: Mike Madden, Brent van der Westhuyzen, Craig Househam, Pete Berning,

Tony Maister, Andrew Floyd, Mike du Toit, Vic GardinerBack Row: Rob Waspe, Dave Stern, Ismail Jakoet, Brian Berelowitz, Thakor Dayaram,

John Odell, Lance Michell, Charles Swanepoel, Adrian Bosenberg

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informative to tour the new UCT Aca-demic Hospital as well.

It was at the Cocktail Party on the Friday evening that the Reunion was transformed from an interesting event into an experience of relaxed fellow-ship and emotional bonding that spontaneously occurs relatively infre-quently over a lifetime.

The scene was thus set for the Aca-demic Meeting in the old E Floor Lecture Theatre on the Saturday. The choice of this venue was brilliant as it obviously inspired the speakers to deliver an academic meeting of such superior quality and intensity that it could be described as an emotional sharing between the speakers and the captivated audience.

All the lectures were excellent and the audience very attentive. The

climax was the lyrical and moving speech delivered by Ian McCallum, dedicated to Nita Permuy, tragically deceased earlier last year after a long illness. This was a truly inspirational speech delivered from the heart.

Saville Furman’s moving descrip-tion of his journey throught the stress-es and heartache of a life spent as a caring family practitioner was also very well received. Ian and Saville’s presen-tations, as well as that by yours truly, Rob Waspe, describing life as an im-migrant doctor, were complemented by the more “academic” lectures by Brian Berelowitz, Ismail Jakoet, John Odell, Charles Swanepoel and An-drew Floyd.

The meeting was scheduled to con-clude at 12h30 but continued for a further two hours and we all remained enthralled for the duration.

The final evening, a Gala Dinner at the Hildebrand Restaurant at the Wa-terfront, continued the same spirit of fellowship and camaraderie.

Those who made it to the Table Mountain walk on the Sunday

morning managed to extend the in-tensity of the Reunion for a few more precious hours until, sadly, the event closed after the delicious lunch at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens Res-taurant. It was said several times at this lunch that we had got to know each other better over the three magical days of the Reunion than during the entire 5 years we had spent together at

Medical Schoo!Whatever conspired to achieve this

incredible degree of relaxed fellow-ship is difficult to explain! What can be said with certainty is that, while subsequent reunions will, hopefully, be just as good, it would be hard to imagine that they could surpass this most successful and enjoyable 30 Year Reunion.

To all the Organising Committee, many, many thanks once again.Rob Waspe

Class of 1978 As the mists of a quarter of a century

cleared, quizzical looks were re-placed by broad smiles and enthusiastic chatter as re-acquaintances commenced - and didn’t stop for the weekend. Any uncertainty about how 25 years may have changed people was rapidly al-layed as we discovered we weren’t all that different, after all. The consensus was, however, that we gents had been weathered more by the passing of 25 years - our counterparts were all look-ing remarkably good!

After registration, a tour of the ex-cellent modernised and compu-

terised Health Sciences Faculty Library started off proceedings. Fortunately the students were on holiday, as familiar study nooks prompted be quite a buzz of conversation. Crossing over Anzio Road in George Dall’s glass-enclosed walkway, with its dramatic view of Dev-il’s Peak, took us to the UCT Private Academic Hospital on the D Floor of the New Groote Schuur Hospital. This 120-bed pilot private-public hospital works closely with GSH, and allows Provincial personnel controlled expo-sure to private practice, as in the Ameri-can model. The visit to the Transplant Museum in the GSH “Old Main Build-ing”, included a TV presentation on current GSH activities and a nostalgic trip through the reconstructed trans-plant theater and ward areas. An ex-cellent lunch and dessert in The Tafel-berg Room overlooking Observatory prompted further reminiscing – (recall those late night, call-sustaining, “slap” chips from “Chippies”?)

The evening cocktail party was held in the superbly renovated New Student

Learning Centre (replacing the old anatomy lecture theatre), looking out at the zebra and wildebeest on the slopes of Devil’s Peak. The Dean’s thought-provoking address especially impressed our overseas classmates, some of whom were unaware of the great shifts that have taken place.

Neil White and Paul Goldberg joint-ly chaired the academic meeting, which was brought forward to a bracing 8am start to accommodate the World Cup Rugby Final. Jack Forbes gave an en-lightening overview of his HIV research work, including personal observations on his current sabbatical in Zimbabwe. Neil White presented an intriguing glimpse into the future of education with his remote teaching package of digitized chest X-rays of occupational lung disease, while Les Nathanson gave a superbly illustrated talk on aspects of Australian laparoscopic and hepatobil-iary surgery. Ian Webster’s presentation on pulsed-beam laser skin surgery led to good deal of self-inspection (and, I suspect, a few self-referrals!).

Brian Rayner gave an absorbing pres-entation on new insights into al-

dosterone in hypertension, followed by Paul Goldberg entertaining us with the Gems of Namaqualand, interlinking the geological passage of alluvial diamonds and the genetics of colon cancer. Tom Watson described a challenging case of neonatal intubation in a child with an oropharyngeal teratoma, with the evocative title, “Some must sleep, while others must watch”. Steve Beningfield rounded off proceedings with a brief overview of selected current controver-sies in Interventive Radiology.

Thereafter everyone swiftly crossed the Liesbeeck Parkway to “The River Club”, a driving range/ restaurant/ con-ference centre near Valkenberg and the old Hartleyvale soccer stadium. Despite the Kamp Staaldraad/ Straueli/ (insert your own interpretation here)-induced lack of South African’s presence in the Final, the hugely entertaining spectacle was enjoyed by all.

Evening dinner was held at “The Hildebrand Restaurant”, relocated from its subterranean Adderley Street location to the Waterfront near the old Bertie’s Landing. A glorious early sum-mer’s evening, sherry overlooking the harbour activities and the mountain culminated in a delicious rack of Karoo

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lamb dinner. Monika Esser presented a challenging address on paediatric HIV, interlinking well with Jack Forbes’ ear-lier presentation. After dinner, Neil White produced a series of digitized photographs of Med School days, including a number of well-known characters and activities of our era - remember the Clifton float races, and the Bummies? Pete Schram concluded the evening with a moving and warm impromptu recollection of his time as our class representative. He and Franz Ferraris (sporting silvering hair, bow-tie and that playful glint in the eye!) had both flown over, as had Aubrey Dick-man, Debbie Coleman, Tom Watson, Les Nathanson, Jack Forbes, Chris Hill and Nolan Wengrowe. Sadly, some of our colleagues are no longer with us af-ter the first 25 years, and were remem-bered to us by Neil White after dinner.

The next morning’s walk thankfully started later at the Kirstenbosch

top gate, heading to Constantia Nek. The cool breeze on the forested con-tour path to Constantia Nek encour-aged chatting. A walk back through the Gardens and, for those who could find it, Colonel Bird’s Bath offered a chance to enjoy its cool, moist, leafy canopy. Gone are the days when it could also provide a quick dip at the end of a long

run - strictly outlawed these days! A splendid cold buffet lunch and drinks were waiting for us at Kirstenbosch, as were the late (make that lazy!) arrivals.

Against expectations, 48% of the class is still in SA (13% still in the Cape), with 13% in Canada, 11% in the USA, 9% in the UK, 5% in Australia and 3% in New Zealand. Approximately 30% appear to have specialized (with Medi-cine the favourite (10), followed by Ra-diology (9), Paediatrics (8) (with Jack Bergman having done both Paediatrics and Radiology!), Anaesthetics (7) and Surgery (5).

The reunion felt like a report-back on an extended 25-year elective, with success or adversity tempered by reaf-firmation. Strange to think of some the now-indispensable acronyms that meant nothing to us in 1978, such as WWW, CD-ROM, HIV, PDA, SMS and SARS- one wonders what new ones await us in the next 25!

A massive vote of thanks must go to the amazing Joan Tuff - her meticulous at-tention to detail and very supportive ap-proach facilitates planning enormously. Regrettably my co-organiser Derek Hel-lenberg was unable to attend. All in all, it was a highly satisfying and memorable occasion, to be strongly recommended. Let’s make it even better in 2008! Steve Beningfield

Class of 1983A wild, wet and windy weekend in

early December 2003 greeted the Class of ’83 as they assembled in Cape Town for their 20-year reunion. The reunion started, as is the custom, with welcome drinks at the Medical school, before the serious business of the days tour began. Name badges were the key to the success of the first hour of the re-union, and surreptitious glances at the left breast broke the ice for us all. For most, the twenty years that had passed had not done much damage, although crows feet, baggy eyes, sagging bottoms and droopy breasts were in evidence, but that was just Bob Baigrie. The reu-nitees were then taken on the well-trod-den “reunion” tour (see above) of the library, private wing at Groote Schuur Hospital and transplant museum. Ex-cept we were different, and after 2 min-utes in the foyer of the private wing, de-cided unanimously to go straight on to the transplant museum (were we pushed or did we jump?). Really, all we wanted to do was talk and catch up with each other’s lives, so the finger lunch in the Tafelberg Room, high above the Cape Flats was an opportunity for a “gesels”. More opportunity for talk occurred at

Front Row: Diana Bok, Christine Hill, Caryl Richmond, Peter Schram, Monika Esser, Debbie Coleman, Anita Jacobs, Nanette Nicholson

Second Row: Michael Levy, Aubrey Dickman, Rob Seggie, Brian Rayner, Michael Martin, Graham (Jock) Stapleton, Charlie Krull, Jack Forbes, Ian Webster, Nolan Wengrowe, Les Nathanson

Back Row: Paul Goldberg, Des Theron, Franz Ferraris, Steve Beningfield, Neil White, Rob Drummond, Howard Chait, Tom Watson, Frans (Ziets) Zietsman, Mike Opitz

the evening’s cocktail party where JP van Niekerk, Dean in ‘83, welcomed us. An impromptu, but lively debate then followed, loosely structured on the following question “Are you a UCT medical graduate or a medical graduate of UCT, and, either way, does it mat-ter?” The wine was very nice too.

Saturday morning, at the unlikely hour of 9h00 (it was Saturday af-

ter all, dammit) we assembled for the academic forum. Eight of our class had volunteered to talk about their work (or their lives) and a fascinating morning ensued. Lynn Denny kicked off with a rollicking account of Pap smears and cervical screening techniques that might eventually revolutionise cervical cancer in resource poor settings. Her passion and commitment were obvious and re-flected in the 30 minutes she used for her 15-minute talk. Images of the cervix at 9h05 were heavy going, but later on we were to thank her for not allowing the colo-rectal surgeon to speak first. David Goldblatt followed with a talk about paediatric vaccines and some of his projects in Durban, Ghana, Zambia and Kenya that compensate for him liv-ing in London. He was muscled off the podium by Bob Baigrie (’83), who (at 9h45) had already removed a colon and was hungry for more. Bob described his new techniques for reaching parts of the colon and anus that no one had reached before. This explicitly illus-

trated talk was a challenge so close to breakfast. Mercifully his videos failed to successfully transfer from Mac to PC and a relieved audience crawled out for coffee.

Emotionally, the next speakers where hugely challenging. Janet Giddy (’83) and Steve Reid (’84) gave an inspiring talk, loosely centred on Rural Health, but far more focussed on life, decision making, family, spiritual guidance and outdoor surgery. Wendy Orr (’83) in-spired with an off the cuff, unscripted account of life as a District Surgeon in the mid 80’s. Even knowing how her story would end this was gripping stuff! Leslie London (’83) followed in a similar vein talked about ethics and the medical profession, posing the question “Who is your master?” Andrew Flem-ing (’83) then described his experienc-es as a Plastic Surgeon in London, and elaborated, in some detail, on how he injected fat into people to change their shape. Finally, Penny Pivalizza (’83) de-scribed life in Texas and her work in developmental paediatrics. Several of us have now self referred our own chil-dren as a result of this talk.

The evening saw the 37 reunionees attend the, now traditional, din-

ner (rack of lamb) at the Hildebrand on the Waterfront. A wonderful evening of food and drink was made special by the interweaving through-out the evening of a roll call of all of

our class mates (the largest class ever to graduate from UCT, although size is of course not important). As each name was called shouts from corners of the room told us where they were and what they were doing. Amazingly almost every single person was ac-counted for and, to our knowledge, all were still alive. This also gave everyone in the room an opportunity to say a bit about themselves (and not just the big mouths who volunteered to talk at the academic forum). Most did.

So, we learned many things that weekend. While the raw statistics tell us that about half of our class are still in South Africa and that the most popular specialities turned out to be Paediatrics, General Practice and An-aesthetics, what we really learned that weekend was how connected we are to others who went through an extraor-dinary experience that was medical school between 1978 and 1983, such a turbulent time in South Africa’s his-tory. That connection is profound, and our only collective regret was that more did not attend the reunion. Dur-ing our roll call, we discovered about 10 classmates who were in Cape Town as we dined, yet declined to come and meet with us. Lets hope in 5 or 10 years time more of us can reconnect in a safe and peaceful South Africa.

(Thanks to Joan Tuff, organiser su-preme) David Goldblatt

Seated: Brigitte Brice, Carolyn Baigrie, Janella van Beeck, Colleen Adnams, Janet Giddy, Kenny Keet, Carol Thomas, Wendy Orr, Trish Moores-Pitt, Shirley Venter, Althea van Zyl, Anthea Klopper, Penny Pivalizza

First Row: Sally Candy, Tim Kerry, Nicholas Crisp, Andrew Fleming, Paul Whitehead, Jill Riordan, Elvira Smuts, Lynette Denny, Keith Maart, Rolanda Steyn, Barbara Robertson

Second Row: Liz Murray, Harold Pribut, Arthur Roberts, Derek Vermeulen, David Goldblatt, Steve Reid, Grahame Jelley, Dinesh Chavda, Leslie London, Bob Baigrie

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There has been an overwhelming response to our “where are they

now” questionnaire that was inserted in last year’s Cathartic. We hope that you will enjoy catching up with the news of former classmates. If you did not respond last time round, let us have your news. Replies will be pub-lished in future editions of Cathartic.

A cabinet containing UCT memo-rabilia has been installed at the

entrance to the Barnard Fuller Build-ing. Memorabilia will be on sale weekly on Wednesdays at Medical School between 11h00 and 14h00. We encourage you to use this facility to purchase items for yourselves or as gifts for friends and relatives. Items from our shop will also be on sale via our website in the near future. Two commemorative ties, to mark UCT’s 175th anniversary, are also available at the bookshop. Enquiries: +27 21 650-2485 or email: zsallie@icts.uct.ac.za

Please, therefore, log onto our web-site, www.health.uct.ac.za/alumni regularly to catch up with all the latest happenings at UCT.

Four medical class reunions are planned for 2005:

•Class of 1955•Class of 1965•Class of 1980•Class of 1995

If you are a member of any one of these classes, please contact the Alum-ni Office to update your address and contact details so that you can be sure to hear from us. Reunions usually take place at medical school from the latter part of November until the mid-dle of December, with activities over a 3-day weekend.

We hope that you will enjoy this edition of Cathartic.

With best wishesJoan TuffAlumni Officer

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From the Alumni Office

Smuts and Fuller Halls Celebrate 75 Years

More than 300 people from around the globe attended the 75th anniversary celebrations of Smuts and Fuller Halls (Men’s/Women’s Residence) over the week-end of 12-14 December 2003.

The occasion was used to launch the Smuts/Fuller Endowment Fund, which will raise money to maintain the fine buildings as well as to augment the respective Jubilee awards. Any alumni who were unable to attend the reunion but who would like to contribute to the endowment and thus to their former home should contact Prof Danie Visser on 021 650 3962 or e-mail visser@law.uct.ac.za.

Ralph Kirsch (Editor) Irwin CombrinckJoan Tuff Nicky PadayacheeDavid Dent Gonda Perez

Layout: Department of Communication & Development University of Cape Town www.dcd.uct.ac.za

Web Sites to visit:www.health.uct.ac.za/alumniwww.uct.ac.zawww.health.uct.ac.za

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

UCT FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, Anzio Road, Observatory, 7925

1930’sSEATON GRIFFITHS [MBChB (Cape Town) 1938, FRCP (UK) D (Clin Path) (UK)] is retired and lives in Houghton, Johannesburg.HARRY PHILLIPS [MBChB 1938, DPH, MD (Cape Town)] is a Public Health Physician, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. His former wife, Eva Salber, now deceased, was a class-mate at Medical School. He is now married to Beryl Slome, a dentist and Witwatersrand graduate. Harry retired from the University of North Carolina in 1983 and lives in a continuinig care retirement community. He has four children. ALINE TIBBIT [MBChB 1939, DPN (Cape Town)] is a retired Medical Prac-titioner living in Woodside Village, Rondebosch, Cape. Aline developed Primary Health Care clinics within the Stellenbosch Divisional Council. Her late husband, Frederick Smit, was also a UCT Alumnus (MBChB 1941). Hob-bies include swimming and travelling.

1940’sDANIE (BEZ) BEZUIDENHOUT [MBChB (Cape Town) 1944, MD] Re-tired in 1986 as a Professor at Tygerberg Hospital. Thereafter he worked part time in the Department of Geriatrics at Karl Bremer Hospital. Bez is married to Mary and lives in Durbanville, Cape. One of his two children, Johan, studied at UCT [BSC (Eng), MBA]. Hobbies include music, reading and watching sport on TV.ALLAN CLAIN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1944, FRCS (UK)] from Great Missend-en, Buckinghamshire has retired as a Consultant General Surgeon with the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Married to June with one son, Allan was former Editor of Hamil-ton Baileys (4 editions) from 1967-1986. Allan was also Medical Officer with the London Wasps Rugby Football Club from 1987-1997.MICHAEL DENNY [MBChB (Cape Town) 1944, DMR (UK)] was formerly a Senior Consultant Radiologist and Head of the Department of X-Ray Gas-troenterology at Johannesburg Hospi-

tal and the University of the Witwa-tersrand. Married to Lynette and living in Sandown, Johannesburg, Michael’s hobbies include golf, trout and deep sea fishing.JACOBUS (KOOS) DE WET [MBChB (Cape Town) 1949, MMed (O&G) (Stell), FCO&G (SA), MRCOG (UK), FRCOG] is retired and lives in Bellville, Cape with his wife, Elizabeth. They have three children. Koos writes that he received the class medals for Chemistry and Anatomy and distinction for the first part of the final prof exam. Hob-bies include golf and reading.FRANK HANSFORD [MBChB 1948, DPH (Cape Town), DTM&H (UK)] is a Medical Practitioner, Tropical Disease Control from Tzaneen. He has retired as Director of the National Instutute for Tropical Diseases and is now Ma-laria Advisor with the National Depart-ment of Health. He is married to Iris with three children and enjoys farming and carpentry.RICHENDA HAW (née Fry) [MBChB (Cape Town) 1946], now retired, is a Fellow of the International Academy of Cytology. Married to Charles Haw, a fel-low UCT graduate, they have three chil-dren, all of whom studied at UCT (BSc (Civil Eng), MBA, MSc and MBChB). Their eldest son has three children, two of whom are still studying at UCT whilst her second son’s daughter hopes to study medicine. Richenda lives in Knysna and is a member of a writer’s group. She also enjoys old poetry. JOHAN LOUBSER [MBChB 1947, DPH (Cape Town), AEP (Unisa)] is re-tired and widowed and lives in a retire-ment village in Kuilsriver, Cape. Johan enjoys reading and doing crossword puzzles.PLATO MAVROS [MBChB (Cape Town) 1947] is a retired medical doctor from Harare, Zimbabwe. He is married to Dorothy (Boo) with four children. Two of his children studied at UCT – Suzanne (BA) and Danaë (BCom). His sister and three of his grandchildren are also UCT graduates. Hobbies include philately and cricket.PETER MAYTOM [MBChB 1949, MMed (Anaes) (Cape Town)] is a re-tired Anaesthesiologist from Durban where he lives with his wife, Joan. They

have two sons, both of whom studied at UCT, and one daughter. He was the National President of the SA Society of Anaesthesiologists (SASA) in 1975 as well as National President of the Medi-cal Association of SA from 1994-95. Pe-ter also served on the Federal Council and the SASA Executive for 15 years, 24 years on the NCB Branch Council of the Medical Association and various hospital boards. Hobbies include pho-tography, wild life (especially birds) and growing indigenous trees from seed. He is still trying to learn to play better golf!MARTIN SACKS [MBChB, 1949, MMed (Path) (Cape Town), FRCP (UK)] is a retired Pathologist from Omer, Israel where he lives with his wife, Phyllis (née Friedberg), BA (S/S&H) (Cape Town) He has four chil-dren and ten grandchildren, all living in Israel. Martin was awarded Hon-orary Citizenship of the city of Beer-Sheva in 1997. He retired as Head of the Department of Pathology, Sorenta Medical Center and Ben Gurion Uni-versity of the Negev in mid 1993. He has continued as a part-time consult-ant and is a keen gardener.SELIG SACKS [MBChB (Cape Town) 1941, DOMS, (RCP&S) (UK)] is a re-tired Ophthalmologist living in Con-stantia, Cape. Married to Yvonne, they have four children, all of whom studied at UCT.DANIEL SMITH [MBChB (Cape Town) 1948] is a retired medical prac-tioner living in Claremont, Cape. He is married to Peggy.JOHANNES STRYDOM [MBChB (Cape Town) 1947] is a retired medical practitioner from Lynnwood Ridge in Pretoria. He is married to Anna and has two children.JULIANA TE WATER (née Oosthui-zen) [(MBChB (Cape Town) 1946] is married to Willem Frans Te Water [MBChB (Cape Town) 1943] and lives in the Standerton Old Age Home, Gauteng. Juliana was in private prac-tice in Standerton for approximately 50 years and gave private speech classes from 1948 until 1980. She was on the Standerton Town Council for 21 years and Mayor for 3 years. They have three children. Some of Juliana’s professors

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and tutors include Professors Saint, Forman, Brock, Ryrie, Jollie, Crichton, Goldsmith and Currie.JUSTIN VAN SELM [MBChB (Cape Town) 1942, FACS, FRCOPH], a re-tired Ophthalmic Surgeon, established a clinic for the poor in Plettenberg Bay, where he lives. He is married to Cherry (née Drew) who also graduated from UCT. They have two children, one of whom, Justine, also studied MBChB at UCT. Justin is a keen golfer and enjoys gardening.EDITH WALDMANN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1949, DTM&H (Witwatersrand), DCH (UK)] is a retired Paediatrician from Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK. Edith has two children and says that she still keeps in touch with South Africa – be it social, medical, politics, culture or friends. She has worked in Zimbabwe, Mpumalanga, Hong Kong University on research on growth/development of Chinese Children as well as in the United Kingdom.ISAAC WOLFSOHN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1942, MRCGP] was a foundation member of the Cape of Good Hope Col-lege of General Practice. He practiced as a General Practitioner in Mowbray for fifty-five years before retirement. He was also Past President of the Lions Club of Mowbray, Past Worshipful Mas-ter Lodge of Kaapstad, Past President of the Keurboom Sports Club as well as Past President of the BESL Bowling Club in Observatory, Cape. He lives in Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia but also spends time at his home in Claremont, Cape. He is married to Ro-salyn (née Blum), a UCT alumnus, and enjoys philately and bowls.

1950’sCHRIS BLIGNAUT [MBChB (Cape Town) 1954, Dip in Ophthalmology (RCP, RCS UK)] worked in Malawi in a mission hospital for 41 years. He is a retired Ophthalmologist living in the Strand. His autobiography “Deur die oog na die Hart” has just been pub-lished. He was awarded the first Hu-manitarian Award by the Ophthalmo-logical Society of South Africa in 2001. Married to Delene with 4 children, Chris enjoys hiking and camping. EFTHEMIOS BOUGAS [MBChB (Cape Town) 1952, Dip in Industrial Health (UK)] is a Member of the Fac-

ulty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Ireland as well as a Fellow of the American Occupation Medical Associa-tion. He is a retired specialist in occu-pation medicine from Galaxidi, Greece. Married to Marjorie (née Dixon) with 4 sons, they left South Africa in 1983 to settle in Greece. They then moved to the UK where he worked as an occupa-tion medical physician for British Tel-ecom in London before finally retiring to Greece in 1993.DAVID DAVIES [MBChB (Cape Town) 1950, FRCS (UK)] is a retired Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon from Newlands, Cape where he lives with his wife, Nel. He was formerly Head of Department at both Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children’s Hospitals. They have two sons and two daughters and his hobbies include history, bonsais, netsuke, golf, computers and bird watching.HERMANUS (PROFFIE) DE KLERK [MBChB (Cape Town) 1953, FRCS (SA)] is a retired Uologist from Aber-deen in the Eastern Cape.SEYMOUR DUBB [MBChB (Cape Town) 1950, MFGP (SA)] is a retired family physician living in Newlands, Cape. Married to Lilian (née Kurgan), also a UCT alumnus, they have two children. When Seymour was younger, he used to enjoy fly fishing but he now plays bowls. He was also the examiner for MFGP, then Convenor of MFGP for many years.DALE DU TOIT [MBChB (Cape Town) 1950, DRCOG, DTM&H (UK), DPhil (Honors Causa) (UPE)], is a re-tired medical doctor. He worked at the Morgenster Mission in Zimbabwe for 27 years and was then Senior Medical Superintendent at the Provincial Hos-pital in George for 16 years. Dale was also a Member of the Legion of Merit in Zimbabwe. He lives in George, is mar-ried to Lettie and enjoys gardening and hiking.HENNIE DU TOIT [MBChB 1954, MMed (Anaes) (Cape Town), PhD (Med) (Stell)] is an Anaesthetist and lives in Durbanville, Cape. Married to Frida with children, Hennie enjoys reading and touring.JOHAN DU TOIT [MBChB (Cape Town) 1951] is in general practice in George. Married to Desiré with four children, he enjoys woodwork, bridge

and has an interest in succulents.MICHAEL FEITELBERG [MBChB (Cape Town) 1957, DRCOG, D (Physi-cal Medicine) (UK)] lives in Barnet, Herdfordshire, United Kingdom. He is a Medical Practitioner and a widower with two children. Michael enjoys ten-nis, watching cricket and rugby, the theatre and holiday cruises.JOE HARLE [MBChB (Cape Town) 1950] is retired and lives in Pietermar-tizburg. His wife Jean (née Brown) was also a UCT alumnus as was their eldest son. Joe enjoys gardening and sport.ROGER HINDLE [MBChB 1956, MMed(Paed) (Cape Town), MRACP, FRACP] is a retired paediatrician living in Whangarei, New Zealand. Married to Patricia (née Margrie), who is also a UCT alumnus, they have 3 children. Hobbies include sailing. Roger writes that he was the initiator and founder of the UCT Yacht Club.WENDY JACOB [MBChB (Cape Town) 1951] is a General Practitioner and Hospital Medical Officer, living in Durban. She was married to Dr Alan Curson who passed away in 1983. She has three children, one of whom, Cathy, studied at UCT. Wendy writes that she was involved in Child Abuse Management, both Research and Clini-cal, from 1982-2000 at Addington and King Edward Hospitals as well as at the old University of Natal. She enjoys f lower farming.JOCELYNE KANE-BERMAN [MBChB 1956, MA (Public Admin) (Cape Town), DCH, RCP&S (UK)] is a Health Serv-ice Management Consultant and lives with her husband, William Ritchie, an Architecture graduate from UCT, in Gardens, Cape Town. Among her many achievements, she was awarded the Hamilton Maynard Award from the SA Medical Journal in 1987, was Busi-ness Woman of the Year in 1990, Presi-dent of MASA and was elected member of the American Institute of Medicine in 1996. Jocelyn was also Chief Direc-tor of Groote Schuur Hospital Region from 1993-96, Chief Director, Western Cape Health Department and Deputy Director General and Head of Depart-ment of Cultural and Environmental Affairs and Sport for the Western Cape region from 1998-2000. They have four children, three of whom studied at UCT. Hobbies include architecture and

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gardening.SYDNEY KAVALSKY [MBChB (Cape Town) 1952] is a Medical Practitioner at Southern Cross Hospital, Wynberg, Cape. Whilst at school, he was Jun-ior Victor Ludorum at Wynberg Boys High. Married to Bella, they have three children, all of whom studied at UCT – Dennis (MBChB 1980), Shirley (BMus) and Nerine (Dip Radiography). Sydney enjoys reading and all sport.BRIAN KENNELLY [MBChB (Cape Town) 1958, PhD (UK), FRCP, FRCPE, FACP, FACC] is a retired cardiologist from Bonsall, California, USA. He is married to Fiona with four children. Brian enjoys gardening, viticulture and art and writes that he misses Cape Town and his friends as well as col-leagues from UCT and Groote Schuur Hospital.BERT MYBURGH [MBChB (Cape Town) 1950, ChM (Witwatersrand), MD (Hon) (UFS) DSc (Hon) (Witwa-tersrand)] is an Emeritus Professor of Surgery. He also obtained Honorary Fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, American Sur-gical Association and the College of Medicine of SA. Bert lives in Sandring-ham, Johannesburg with his wife Marie-Louise. Hobbies include music, reading and cryptic crosswords.EDGAR RAINE [MBChB (Cape Town) 1958] is retired to Hermanus where he lives with his wife, Pamela. They have two children and his hobbies include sundials and clocks.ERIC ROSEN [MBChB 1952, MMed (Paed) (Cape Town), MPH, MSc, DPH] is a semi-retired Developmental Paedia-trician from Fairlands in Johannesburg. Eric won the David McKenzie Award, the best Clinical Unit Award, at Wit-watersrand in 1996. Hobbies include classical music, theatre and ballet. He is also a Member of the Judging Panel of the Vita Awards for Ballet.GERALD ROSENDORFF [MBChB (Cape Town) 1954, BSc (Rhodes)] is a retired General Practitioner living in Stellenbosch with his wife of 49 years, Bernice. They have three sons, two of whom studied MBChB at UCT. Hob-bies include bowls, sport and aircraft. Gerald writes that he is looking forward to his 50th class reunion that will take place at the end of the year.ROELOF SCHOLTZ [MBChB (Cape

Town) 1951, M (Fam Med) (UFS), MFGP (SA)] has retired as a Medical Practitioner. He is Past President of the SA Medical Association (Eastern Cape) and lives in Humansdorp. Married to Annamarie, who studied BSc Radiog-raphy at the University of Pretoria, he has a daughter who is a physiotherapist and a son who is also a medical doctor. Hobbies include reading, music and walking.MILTON SIMANOWITZ [MBChB 1958, MD (Cape Town), FRCOG (UK) retrained as a Teacher of the Alexander Technique following early retirement and lives in Radlett, Hertfordshire, England with his wife Elinor (née Laza-rus), BSocSc (Cape Town) 1962. They have two sons and his hobbies include oil painting and music.LIONEL SMITH [DPH (Cape Town) 1956, MBBCH (Witwatersrand) DBACT (UK), FRSH, FRC Pathology (UK)] was a Specialist Forensic Patholo-gist before retirement in 2001. In 1985 he was awarded the Salus Gold Medal from the Minister of Health for distin-guished service in the field of epidemi-ology both nationally and internation-ally. He was also Professor of Forensic Pathology at both UCT and UNISA. Married to Rita with two sons, Lionel lives in Durbanville, Cape. He enjoys woodwork and gardening.CORNELIUS TRUTER [MBChB (Cape Town) 1957, BSc (Stell)] is a re-tired medical practitioner from Cit-rusdal. Married to Ina, they have three children. He enjoys 4 x 4 excursions.DOEN (HENK) VAN COEVERDEN DE GROOT [MBChB (Cape Town) 1957, MRCOG (UK), FRCOG, Cert in Theology (TEE College 1999] has retired and lives in Walmer, Port Eliza-beth with his wife, Sheila. They have three daughters. Henk was Head of the Dept of Gynaecology at Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth at retirement in 1998. He was ordained as a Priest in the Anglican Church in 1996. He is still doing outpatient clinic sessions, first at Livingstone Hospital but currently at the Dora Nginza Hospital in Port Eliza-beth.FRANCOIS VAN GREUNEN [MBChB 1954, MD (Cape Town), FCP (SA), Dip in Datametrics (Unisa)] is a retired phy-sician living in Pinelands, Cape. Fran-cois writes that he was the first doctor

in South Africa to use a Personal Com-puter which he self-made in 1979. He is married to Astrid Murke, who is also a UCT alumnus. Francois’ daughter, Bir-git, obtained a Higher Teacher’s Diplo-ma at UCT. Hobbies include Latin and computer science and applications.JAN VAN HEERDEN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1950] is a General Practitioner from Prince Albert in the Cape. He was Head of Students’ Health Services at Stellenbosch from 1974-1987 He and his wife, Elfabie, have four adopted children. Jan writes that he was a writ-er of medical educational newspapers, magazine articles and books under the pseudonym Dr Jan van Elfen.DANIE VILJOEN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1953, MMed (Anaesthesiology) (Pret)] is still in part-time private An-aesthetic practice with his eldest son, also an anaesthetist, in Pretoria. He is married to Marlene (née van den Berg) who nursed at Groote Schuur Hospital and they have three sons. The second son is Regional Director, Mediclinic, Cape Town and the youngest son lives in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Hobbies include Dendrology (trees) and orni-thology (birding). CYRIL WAYNIK [MBChB (Cape Town) 1950] from West Palm Beach, USA, is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association as well as Past President of the Connecticut Psychi-atric Association. He is also Chief of Psychiatry at Park City Hospital. He is married to Loraine with two children, one of whom, Mark, is also a Psychia-trist. His daugher, Melanie, is a PhD student. Cyril enjoys golf, reading and travel and writes that he would love to meet ex UCT people who visit the USA.

1960’sIAN BERNADT [MBChB (Cape Town) 1964, FRCS (UK), FRACS] is an Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon from Perth, Western Australia. He is married to Sue with two children and enjoys marathon running and Australian indigenous art. He is also a Fellow of the John Curtin Society.ROGER BLAYLOCK [MBChB (Cape Town) 1968, FRCS, FCS, MMedSc (Cum Laude) & MD (Durban, Natal)] is a General Surgeon at Leslie Williams Private Hospital in Carletonville. Roger

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has four children, one currently study-ing Actuarial Science at UCT and two who obtained their medical degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand. Hobbies include snake bite and keep-ing fit.MARTHINUS DE KOCK [MBChB (Cape Town) 1966, MMed (Chir) (Stell)] is a General/Vascular Surgeon living in Pinelands, Cape with his wife Marie-Anne. Hobbies include medical philately, bowls and woodworkFRANCIS DIAB [BSc, MBChB (Cape Town) 1963, MRCOG (UK), FRCOG (UK)] is a retired gynaecologist who was in private specialist practice from 1973 to 1998. Francis lives in Tygerval-ley, Cape with his wife. He has two chil-dren, one of whom studied BSc (Chem Eng) at UCT. Hobbies include garden-ing and following sport.FRANZISKA FISCHER [MBChB (Cape Town) 1967, DOBS, RCOG (UK), MFHOY (UK)] lives in London and is semi-retired but still practices ho-meopathy. Hobbies include music, writ-ing and photography.GOVIND HARIE [MBChB 1967, MMed (Paed) (Cape Town)] is a medi-cal practitioner in Durban where he has been practicing in a group practice for 30 years. He is married to Ramola with three boys. Govind enjoys cricket, rugby and soccer.DAVID KATZ [MBChB (Cape Town) 1969, PhD (UK) FRCP] is Professor of Immunopathology at the University College of London. He is married to Jeanne and lives in London.HEDWIG MEYER [MBChB (Cape Town) 1963] is the widow of WJ (Wil-helm) Meyer (BSc Mech Eng (Cape Town) 1955 and lives in Parow, Cape. Now retired, she matriculated in 1941 and worked in an office while her husband was studying. Hedwig then embarked on her medical studies and spent two years at Groote Schuur Hospi-tal. She moved to Red Cross Children’s Hospital where initially she was a full-time medical officer and later Medical Superintendent. Hobbies include trav-elling, gardening and photography.WILFRED MILLIN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1964] is a General Practitioner from Sydney, Australia. Married to Si-lette, they have two sons.IZAK MINNAAR [MBChB (Cape Town) 1965] is a General Practitioner

living in Woodbridge Island, Milner-ton, Cape. He has three children and enjoys golf, gym and aquaculture.WARWICK MORRIS [MBChB (Cape Town) 1964, FRCS (UK), FC (Plast & Recon Surg) (SA)] is a Part-time Senior Lecturer/Senior Surgeon, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal as well as a part-time Specialist, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of the Wit-watersrand. He is currently Chairman of the Physician’s Advisory Board at Parklands Hospital in Durban as well as Regional Chairman of the Physician’s Advisory Board of the KwaZulu-Natal Netcare Hospital. Amongst other port-folios, he was also President, South Af-rican Society for Surgery of the Hand from 1983-85 and a Member of the Ex-ecutive Committee from 1976-86. Liv-ing in Durban, Warwick is married to Marjorie Brooks, a past TV personality. He has two children and his hobbies in-clude rugby and reading.BARRY MUNNIK [MBChB (Cape Town) 1964, FF Psych (SA)] is a prin-cipal psychiatrist at Komani Hospital in Queenstown. He is married to Hazel and enjoys computers and sport.GERHARDUS OBERHOLSTER [MBChB (Cape Town) 1962, DPH, DIH, DHA (Pret)] is a retired medical practitioner from Queenswood, Preto-ria where he lives with his wife, Eugen-ia. They have three children.MARSHALL RAVDEN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1968, FRCS (UK)] is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is married to Linda Greenberg with two sons and lives in La Jolla, California. Marshall is Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Califor-nia and his wife is a writer. His older son graduated PhD in Organisational Psychology at the University of St Louis, whilst his younger son is an economics major from the University of Arizona. Hobbies include swimming, golf, gym, gardening, cooking, music and reading.GERRY RIEMER [MBChB (Cape Town) 1964] is a semi-retired General Practitioner from Plettenberg Bay. He is married to Anne (née Morris – BA UCT 1965) and they have 5 children. Three generations of Riemers have graduated from our Medical School – Gerry’s fa-ther, Bob, graduated in 1933 and his

son, Bryan graduated in 2002.ROBIN RUSH [MBChB (Cape Town) 1963, MRCOG, FRCOG] is an Ob-stetrician and Gynaecologist living in Newlands, Cape. Married to Jennifer, he has three children, one of whom is studying at UCT. Hobbies include wild life, hiking, photography and golf.JON VAN HEERDEN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1961, MS (Surgery) USA] has recently retired as a General Surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, United States of America. Special achievements include FRCS (Canada), FACS, Honor-ary FCM (SA). Married to Sheila, his hobbies include golf and travel.CATO VAN WYK (née Nolte) [MBChB (Cape Town) 1965, BSc Home Econom-ics & Dietetics (Huguenot University College)] is a retired Medical Admin-istrator living in the Strand. She has published books and is widowed with three daughters who also studied at UCT. Hobbies include crafts and writ-ing. Cato writes that she enjoyed seeing the group photographs of the class re-unions in our last edition of Cathartic.BRYAN WILLIAMS [MBChB 1967, MBA (Cape Town), FFA (SA)] is an An-aesthesiologist and nursing home own-er from Claremont, Cape. Married to Priscilla, they have two children, one of whom studied Social Science at UCT. Special interests include investment and natural science.DAVID WILLIAMSON [MBChB (Cape Town) 1962] is a Principal Medi-cal Officer from Edgemead in the Cape. Married to Sybil with a family, he enjoys trout fishing.GERDA WILSON (neé Veldman) [MBChB (Cape Town) 1964] lives in Bleiswijk, Holland, with her husband, Paul Wilson, a fellow classmate at UCT Medical School. They have lived in the Netherlands since 1966. Gerda worked in baby clinics for 27 years and Paul is still Professor of Internal Medicine at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotter-dam. They have three children. Hob-bies include golf, bridge, art museums and patchwork.

1970’sMICHAEL AGGETT [MBChB 1970, BA (Hons) (Cape Town) 2003, DTM&H (Witwatersrand)] is a medical doctor as well as a post-graduate Humanities student. He is married to Mavis, also a

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UCT graduate, and they live in Somer-set West. Their one son, Stephen, grad-uated BSC (Eng) (Elec) in 1999.JOHN BAILIE [MBChB (Cape Town) 1978, MMed (Orth)] is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon from Alberton, Gauteng. Married to Barbara with one child, he enjoys endurance races.DESMOND BELL [MBChB (Cape Town) 1970, LMCC(C) FRCS(C)], is an Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon from West Vancouver, Canada. He was the Presi-dent of the British Columbia Society of Otolaryngology in 1989 and is married to Barbara (née Taylor), a former physi-otherapy student from UCT. They have three children. Desmond enjoys golf, watercolour painting and travel.GARY CHAIMOWITZ [MBChB (Cape Town) 1979, MBA(C), FRCP(C)] is a Psychiatrist from Ancaster, Canada. He is married to Donna and has a nine-teen-year old stepdaughter.HOWARD CHAIT [MBChB (Cape Town) 1978] is a family practitioner living in Newlands, Cape. He is hap-pily married to his wife of twenty-seven years, Michelle. His son, Justin is cur-rently completing his BBusSc degree at UCT majoring in Finance and Ac-counts. Hobbies include bridge, rugby, cricket and movies.IRVINE EIDELMAN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1972, MMed (Psych) Stell] is a Psychiatrist living in Plumstead, Cape. He is the Chairman, Private Psychia-trists of SA Pty Ltd and Treasurer and Head of Finance of the SA Society of Psychiatrists. Married to Jennifer, also a UCT alumnus, they have two children currently studying at UCT. Irvine has a special interest in wildlife and photog-raphy.CAROLINE (CARLIE) HOLLAND [BSc Physiotherapy (Cape Town) 1979] lives in Richmond, Canada and has now retired. She enjoys the outdoors and her hobbies include photography, horse-riding and working as a volunteer at Wildlife Conservation and Breeding Centre. She also enjoys hiking, cross-country, skiing and snowshoeing as well as long-distance walking events.MELODIE HOUGARD [MBChB (Cape Town) 1971, FCP (SA)] comes from Randburg where she is a Physician. Married to Tiger Wessels, (a UCT MBA graduate), they have four children. Two of her children - Manie (BBusSc 1996),

and Marié (MBChB 2003) - have com-pleted their degrees at UCT whilst Dav-id is currently studying for his BBusSc degree. Melodie enjoys ballet and read-ing and has an interest in the concept and practice of “inclusive” education.SIDDIQUE ISMAIL [MBChB (Cape Town) 1977, FCP(SA)] is a Cardiologist from Rondebosch in the Cape where he lives with his wife Khadija. Two of their children have studied at UCT – Tasneem (Business Science) and Leila (Medicine). Siddique was the first Black intern at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1978. Hobbies include golf, tennis and fishing.ISMAIL JAKOET [MBChB (Cape Town) 1973, MSc (Sports Medicine) (Pret)] is General Manager of Medical Services at SA Rugby (Pty) Ltd. He is also a Member of the International Rugby Board where he is on both the Medical Committee and the Antidop-ing Advisory Committee. He is also a Member of the World Antidoping Agency (WADA) Independent Observer Programme. Married to Yasmien, they have 4 children, two of whom are study-ing at UCT. Ismail represented WADA at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and Edmonton World Athletics in 2001. He was also involved in the 1999 and 2003 Rugby World Cups.ROY MARONEY [MBChB (Cape Town) 1977, MPhil (Fam Med), MCFD (SA)] and his wife, Jeanne, live in Re-treat in the Cape Peninsula. He is a family Physician.JIM MULLER [MBChB (Cape Town) 1972, FRCPC (C)] is a Physician and Metropolitan Head of the Pietermar-itzburg Department of Medicine. Jim received the Hero in Medicine Award in 2002 from the International Asso-ciation of Physicians in Aids Care (IA-PAC). Married to Fritse Hedevig Zin-ner, they have two children – John aged 12, and Christine aged 10. Hobbies in-clude woodwork, golf, music, travel and motorcars.DEREK PRINGLE [MBChB (Cape Town) 1970, BArch (Dunelm) 1949, Dip Soc Med (UK)] spent fourteen years in primary medical health care and eight years as Tuberculosis Officer to the City of Harare. He has spent the last fifteen years in general medical practice in Harare, Zimbabwe. Derek is married to Lenora Alison (née Estment) who stud-

ied at UCT for a Certificate for Teachers of Special Classes in 1966. He has two children – his daughter, Morag, studied BCom at UCT. Hobbies include walk-ing, sketching and old buildings.DENISE READ (née Marais) [Dip Physiotherapy (Cape Town) 1971] is a physiotherapist living in Claremont in the Cape. She has four children, three of whom studied at UCT. Denise has a special interest in cranio-facial therapy.TERESA SCHONEGEVEL [MBChB (Cape Town) 1976] is a General Practi-tioner from Sloane Park, Gauteng. Her son, Robert Smith, studied BBusSc at UCT. Teresa attended her 25th Medi-cal Class reunion in 2001. She enjoys repairing porcelain.MARGARET STANFORD (née An-derson) [MBChB (Cape Town) 1973, DA (UK), FFARCS (UK)] is an Anaes-thetist living in Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, England. Margie is divorced with two sons and enjoys travel and walking.

1980’sMARTHA GEIGER [BA 1980, BSc (Log) (Cape Town) 1984, Masters in Early Childhood Intervention (Pret)] is a speech therapist/Lecturer at UCT. Martha lives in Monte Vista, Cape and enjoys classical music and bird watch-ing.GAVIN HOBBS [MBChB (Cape Town) 1987, BSc, HDE] works in Staff Grade Psychiatry and lives in Woodstock, Cape.VANESSA HYDE (née Leary) [BSc Hons (Sports Science) (Cape Town), MSc Clinical Research (UK)] is a Qual-ity Assurance Director from Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. Vanessa is married to James, an Australian, and owns a book company. He is Editor of “Whispers & Shouts”, a magazine of Irish storytelling. Vanessa writes that she spends all her free time on stage or in front of the camera, finally getting paid for small film roles! They have no children.TANYA KOHLBERG (née Burger) [BSc (Med) (Hons) (Sport Science) & BSc (Med) (Hons) (Dietetics) (Cape Town) 1988 and 1991] is a Dietician living in Cape Town. She is married to Dale.MOHAMMED-AMEEN LAHER [MBChB (Cape Town) 1980, DA (SA)]

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is a medical doctor from Fordsburg, Gauteng. Married to Nazira, they have three children. Hobbies include sports and travel.JAMES LOOCK [MBChB (Cape Town) 1980, FCS (SA) ORL] is an Ear Nose and Throat surgeon and Head of the ENT Department at Tygerberg. James lives in Green Point, Cape and enjoys otology.FLORA MATIER [B Nursing (Cape Town) 1980] from Seatown, Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland is a retired nurs-ing sister who did general nursing at Groote Schuur Hospital. Unmarried, she returned to Scotland in 1998 hav-ing lived in South Africa for 52 years. Flora, who has just renewed contact with UCT writes that she was thrilled when a friend sent her a copy of UCT News and Cathartic.LINDA VAN DER WESTHUIZEN [MBChB (Cape Town) 1982, FCA (SA), MMed (Anaes) (Stell] is an Anaesthetist in private practice and lives in Durban-ville, Cape. Linda is married to Lukas Wehrli, who is Swiss, and they have two children who are still at school.

1990’sROBERT BRIDGER [PhD (Cape Town) 1991, BSc, MSc (UK)] is an Er-gonomist and Head of Human Factors living in Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, UK with his wife, Barbara. Hobbies in-clude golf and tennis. A signed copy of the second edition of the textbook “In-troduction to Ergonomics”, of which he is the author, was donated to the UCT Medical Library. The book was pub-lished in 2003.SANDY HAEGERT [PhD (Cape Town) 1999, MA (Ed) (UK), BA (Cur) (Un-isa)], is a nursing supervisor living in Valyland, Cape. Sandy retired from working at the Western Cape Nursing College. She finds her job, at the Living Hope Community Centre in the South Peninsula doing Primary Health Care in Masiphumelele Township and the deep South environs, very satisfying. Hobbies include woodwork, knitting and reading.AYESHA MANGERA [Post Grad Dip – Health Management (Cape Town), MBChB, MSc CTM (UK), Dip in Trop-ical Disease & Hygiene (UK)] is Execu-tive Director – Health and Social Serv-ices and lives in Vereeniging. Married

to Dr FM Chenia with a young family, her hobbies include reading, theatre and music. Ayesha has a special interest in the fight against women/child abuse, gender issues and politics to promote and strengthen democracy and root out racism.JENNIFER NASH (née le Roux) [MBChB (Cape Town) 1996] is a medi-cal doctor from Sibhayi, Kwa Zulu Na-tal, where she lives with her husband, Stephen and their two young children. She is currently completing her MMed (Fam Med) degree at Medunsa and en-joys the outdoors and reading.SUSANNE RUSCONI (née Kinvig) [MBChB (Cape Town) 1994, Dip Medi-cal Rehabilitation (UK)] is a mother and housewife of two small children. She is married to Rob, also a UCT alumnus, and lives in Somerset West.NICKI RYDER (née Millar) [BSc (Logo) (Cape Town) 1995, MA(Speech) (Witwatersrand) with distinction] is a keen cyclist having finished 8th in the Argus Cycle Tour in 2002. She is also a keen mountaineer, having climbed Mesa Peak in the Himalayas. Nicki is a Speech and Hearing Therapist and has worked at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg for six years. Married to Douglas, they are expecting their first child shortly. SHEHNAAZ SULIMAN [MBChB 1995 (Cape Town), MPhil (UK), MBA (UK)] is an Investment Banker (Bio-technology) from Burlingame, Califor-nia, USA. She is very involved with the biotechnology and venture capital industries and is interested in continu-ing to look for ways to leverage this ex-perience and network to South Africa. Shehnaaz is married and her hobbies include Pacific Masters swimming and triathlons.WUANITA TUCKER [BSc (Med) (Hons) Biokinetics (Cape Town) 1996, MA (Biokinetics) (UPE)] is a Biokineti-cist from Port Elizabeth. Wuanita lived in the UK from 1998-2002 where she did Cardiac Technician and PA work. From January until June 2003 she ran the rehabilitation centre in a Johannes-burg old age home. She is a 3rd Dan black belt in Karate.SIOBHAN WILCOX [BSC (Med) (Hons) (Biokinetics) (Cape Town) 1994, BA (Physical Education) (Pret), MTech (Chiropractic) (Witwatersrand Tech)] is

a Chiropractor and Biokineticist prac-ticing in Sandton, Gauteng. Siobhan received the Chiropractic Association of SA’s Award of Excellence. She has a special interest in hydrotherapy and rehabilitation (sports or paediatrics).

2000’sHILLETJE CARSTENS [MBChB, BSc (Med) (Cape Town) 2002, NDTHER (Na-tional Diploma in Radiotherapy)] is a medi-cal doctor from Boston, Bellville, Cape.SILJE HOVSTAD [BSc (Speech-Language Pathology) (Cape Town) 2002] is current-ly studying for a Masters degree in Early Childhood with the University of Pretoria. She is a speech-language therapist and re-cently completed her year of Community Service in the Limpopo Province.CLAUDIA LEPERA [BSC (Physiothera-py) (Cape Town) 2002] practices in Pieter-maritzburg. She represents South Africa at kickboxing and her hobbies also include basket-ball and running.NAGIN PARBHOO [MD (Cape Town) 2002, MBBS (Bom), FFA (SA)] was on UCT’s staff in the Anaesthetic Department from 1980-1995. Nagin is an Anaesthesi-ologist in private practice in Cape Town. The Anaesthetic Museum at Groote Schu-ur Hospital is named the “Nagin Parbhoo Museum of Anaesthesia.” He is the author of the book “Five Decades – The SA So-ciety of Anaesthetics 1943-1993”. He has two children – Anita (MBChB 1996) and Lavina, (BCom 2001) who also studied at UCT. Nagin’s thesis was titled “The Dept of Anaesthesia – UCT – 1920-2000 - A History”. Hobbies include gardening and reading.CECILIA RADEMEYER (née Naudé) [MSc Med (Cape Town) 2003, BSc (UPE), BSc Hons (US)] is a Scientific Officer liv-ing in Vredehoek, Cape Town. She is mar-ried to Karel Rademeyer who completed his MBChB at UCT in 2002.MICHELLE SAUNDERS [BSc (Phys) (Cape Town) 2002] is a Physiotherapist living in La Lucia, Kwa-Zulu Natal. She is currently studying for her BCom degree through correspondence and is unmar-ried. Whilst at UCT, Michelle received the Gordon Cup for the best final year thesis presentation. Hobbies include sport and music.CHAD TEW [MBChB (Cape Town) 2001] obtained his degree with hon-ours. He is married and lives in Edge-mead, Cape.

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Programmes:

Class of 1973Friday, 26 Nov10h15 Coffee and registration

at Medical School11h00-12h45 Tour of the Medical

School and Groote Schuur Hospital

13h00 Finger lunch – Tafel-berg Room, Groote Schuur Hospital

18h00 Cocktail party at the new Institute of In-fectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine Building (IIDMM)

Sat, 27 Nov 7h30 Academic meeting, UCT Lung

Institute14h00 Trip to Robben Island19h45 Class photograph20h00 Reunion Dinner at the Radisson

Hotel, WaterfrontSun, 28 Nov10h30 Tour of Kirstenbosch Gardens12h30 Cold buffet lunch at Kirsten-

bosch RestaurantOrganising committee members:Raymond Jonas, Tim Noakes, Barry Penn

Class of 1979Friday, 3 Dec 14h30 Registration & coffee at Medical

School15h00 Tour of the Medical School and

Groote Schuur Hospital18h00 Cocktail party at the new Insti-

tute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM) Building

Saturday, 4 Dec 8h00-13h00 Academic meeting at

the IIDMMAfternoon: Free19h30 Class photograph20h00 Reunion Dinner at the Arabella

Sheraton Grand Hotel, Fore-shore

Sunday, 5 Dec 10h30 Tour of Kirstenbosch Gardens12h30 Cold buffet lunch at Kirsten-

bosch Restuarant

Organising committee members:Martin Bailey, Omar Brey, Andrew du Toit, Chris Hugo-Hamman and Derek Solomon

Class of 1994Friday, 3 Dec 10h15 Coffee and registration at Medi-

cal School11h00 Tour of the Medical School and

Groote Schuur Hospital12h45 Finger lunch – Tafelberg Room,

Groote Schuur Hospital18h00 Cocktail party – Foyer, Stu-

dent Learning Centre, Medical School

Sat, 4 Dec 9h00 Academic meeting at Medical

School19h45 Class photograph20h00 Reunion Dinner, Arabella Sher-

aton Grand Hotel, Foreshore Sun, 5 Dec 8h00 Possible mountain walk12h30 Picnic lunch in Kirstenbosch

GardensOrganisinig Committee members:Kerrin Begg, David Carter, Tanya Kinvig, Gary Kroukamp and Rozett Phillips

Class of 1964Thurs, 9 Dec 18h00 Registration/Cocktail party

– Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IID-MM) Building, Medical School

Friday, 10 Dec 10h00 Tour of Groote Schuur Hos-

pital and the Transplant Mu-seum

12h30 Light lunch – Tafelberg Room, Groote Schuur Hospital

Afternoon Regraduation – Jameson Hall

18h30 Braai at Medical SchoolSat, 11 Dec 08h30 Academic meeting – old E

floor lecture theatre, Groote Schuur Hospital

19h45 Class photograph20h00 Reunion Dinner at the

Arabella Sheraton Grand Ho-tel, Foreshore

Organising Committee members:Ed Coetzee, Irwin Combrinck, Ralph Kirsch and Fay Thornley

Class of 1954Thurs, 9 Dec 18h00 Registration/Cocktail party – In-

stitute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM) Building, Medical School

Friday, 10 Dec10h00 Tour of Groote Schuur Hos-

pital and the Transplant Mu-seum

12h30 Light lunch – Tafelberg Room, Groote Schuur Hos-pital

Afternoon Regraduation – Jameson Hall

18h30 Braai at Medical SchoolSat, 11 Dec 09h00 Academic meeting at Medical

School19h45 Class photograph 19h30 Reunion Dinner – Alphen

Hotel, ConstantiaSun, 12 Dec 10h00 Trip to Robben IslandOrganising Committee members:Hackey Edelstein and Petrus Botha

CLASS REUNIONS FOR 2004Class of 1973 – 26-28 November Class of 1979 – 3-5 December Class of 1994 – 3-5 December Class of 1954 – 9-12 December Class of 1964 – 9-11 December

Should you wish to attend one of these reun-ions, please contact Joan Tuff as follows:

UCT Faculty of Health SciencesAlumni OfficeAnzio RoadObservatory, 7925South AfricaTelephone: +27 21 406-6686Fax: +27 21 447-8955Email: jtuff@curie.uct.ac.zaOr visit our website on:www.health.uct.ac.za/alumni

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