Page 76 S Y M P O S I U M 1960 OUR CONTRIBUTORS BATTISS, Walter, the South African artist, has won acclaim both in his own country and overseas. A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, he trained as a teacher at the Johannesburg College of Education, and has occupied posts at the Pre­ toria Art Centre, Rhodes University, and Pretoria Boys’ High School. Apart from his outstanding artistic merit, he has made an invaluable study of Bushman painting, on which he is a leading author­ ity. BEHR, A. L., was educated at the universities of the Witwatersrand, Pretoria and London. After considerable classroom experience he became the headmaster of a Rand school, a post which 'he re­ linquished to take up the appointment of Head of the Department of Mathematics at the College of Education, Johannesburg. The author of many text­ books on mathematics, science and arithmetic, Dr. Behr has specialised in methodology in the Primary School. BERON, A., B.A. (Rand), M.A. (S .A .), Ph.D. (Rand), is at present headmaster of the King David Primary School in Johannesburg, but was for many years associated with the Roodepoort Town School, as teacher, vice-principal, and principal. During the war, he was attached to the I.L.H. as Informa­ tion Officer. He has done extensive research into the readiness of children for school. BLEKSLEY, A. E. H„ M.Sc. (Stell.), D.Sc. (Rand), is head of tht department of Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand. A former president of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, he is Director of the Plane­ tarium in the University grounds. He held for some time a research post at the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, and is well-known in South Africa as a broadcaster. A prolific writer, he has over fifty plays to his credit. COETZEE, J. C., is Rector of Potchefstroom Uni­ versity for H.C.E., and one of South Africa’s lead­ ing educationists. He taught for some years in the classroom, then become Professor of Education, and finally the head of one of the most influential of the Afrikaans Universities. For many years he has been on the Senate of The University of South Africa, and a member of the Transvaal Advisory Council on Education. An untiring writer, lais books such as O n d e r w y s in S u i d - A f r i k a , O n d e r w y s t e o r ie en P r a k t y k d e u r die E e u e are known to all serious students of South African Education. The Editor of Die Onderwysblad, Professor Coetzee recently concluded a most successful tour of the U.S.A. DAVIS, J. Elwyn, M.B.E.. M.A., D.Ed. (Pretoria), is headmaster of Athlone Boys’ High School, Johan­ nesburg. In 1954, as Imperial Relations Trust Fel­ low at the University of London Institute of Educa­ tion, he made a study of secondary education in ten countries in Europe and N. America, and has written numerous reports and a thesis on his findings. He is a former president of the Transvaal Teachers’ Association. DODSWELL, H. B., Housemaster, St. George’s Home, Johannesburg, was educated at Oxford, where he read Modern Greats, and then proceeded to the British Home Office’s Approved School Service. Be­ fore coming to S. Africa he was head of an Experi­ mental home for boys in need of reclamation. Closely associated with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the Outward Bound Trust, he is one of the foremost advocates of a new orientation in S. African educa­ tional practice. GORDON, C. T., B.A. Hons. (Rand), a senior His­ tory master of King Edward VII School, Johannes­ burg, for many years, where he was for some time a Housemaster. He joined the Johannesburg College in 1959 as a lecturer in English and History. HARTSHORNE, K. B., read history at the Univers­ ity of London, whence he graduated with an Hon­ ours degree in 1936. During the Second World War he was Second-in-Command of the Clinic for Psycho­ logical Medicine, S.A.M.C., and it was partly as a result of this experience that he presented a thesis in 1946 for M.Ed. entitled A S t u d y of P sy c h o n e u ro s e s in S o ld ie rs on A c t i v e S e r v ic e . The following year saw him appointed as Principal of Kilnerton Normal College, Pretoria, a post he left in 1952 to assume duties as Inspector of the Bantu Education Depart­ ment. He has contributed educational articles to journals such as T h e J o u r n a l of th e B u r e a u of S o ­ cial R esearch , Overseas Education, etc. HOLMES, H., M.A. (Lond.), D.Ed. (Pta.), Vice- Rector, College of Education, Johannesburg, has spent his teaening career in the Transvaal, first on the staff of the Kilnerton Training Institution for African teachers and later at the Sir John Adamson School where he acted as principal, and subsequently became headmaster of the Regents Park School. He was appointed to his present post in 1958. He is an executive committee member of the Transvaal Tea­ chers’ Association, of which he is a past president, and of the Christian Education Movement. LANGEVELD, M. J., Professor of Educational Psy­ chology, University of Utrecht, is well-known to S. African educationists through his works on psycho­ logy and his lecture tours in the Union. His fame as a child psychologist stands very high on the con­ tinent of Europe, and he is an international author­ ity on the problems of juvenile delinquency. - 1960 S Y M P O S I U M Page 77 OUR CONTRIBUTORS LIGHTON, R. E., M.A. (Pret.), Rector of the Johannesburg College of Education since May 1950, and honorary Professor of Education, University of t'he Witwatersrand, has had a long and distinguished career in the service of the Transvaal Education Department as teacher, headmaster and inspector of schools. He has served on innumerable university and departmental committees, including the Advis­ ory Committee for Teacher Training and the Trans­ vaal Board of Moderators. An executive member of the Mental Health Society of the Witwatersrand, he has been instrumental in introducing new psycho­ logical approaches in education. As author, he has drawn on his many platteland experiences in his novel “ O u t of th e S t r o n g ” . A member of the S. African Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Senate of the University of of the Wit­ watersrand, he is the author of several educational textbooks. pany, Limited. Educated at Grey College, Bloem­ fontein and the University of Cape Town, he is a for­ mer President of the Newspaper Press Union of South Africa, a former Chairman of the South Afri­ can Press Association, and a founder of the South African Audit Bureau of Circulations. He served throughout the Second World War, rising to the rank of Colonel, and receiving among other decora­ tions, the United States Bronze Star. RICHARDS, M. W., M.A. (Oxon.), is Chairman of the Council of Education, Witwatersrand, and an executive Director of Union Corporation. Mr. Rich­ ards is also a member of the Council of the Univer­ sity of the Witwatersrand, and a member of the Board of Governors, Roedean School. McLARTY, M. (Miss), M.P.C., M.A. (Dunelm), is one of the senior educationists in the Province of the Transvaal. She was classics mistress at the Jeppe High School for Girls for many years and in 1931, she was appointed as principal of the school, a post she held with distinction for fifteen years. On re­ tirement, she took up public work and was elected M.P.C. for Kensington, Johannesburg, an office she still holds. ROSE, Brian, M.A. (Rand), B.Ed., B.A. (Soc. Sc.), Lecturer in Theory of Education, College of Educa­ tion, Johannesburg. Books: Modern Narrative Poetry (Nelson), Modern Lyrical Verse (Nelson), Lines of Action (Macmillan), Reading Plays from the Bible (Macmillan). Editor P.E.N. 1960. ' Educated at Por- tora Royal School, Enniskillen, and Trinity College, Dublin. Occasional broadcaster. MACMILLAN, R. G., B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D. (Rand), occupies the Chair of Education at the University of Natal. Professor Macmillan was educated at the Krugersdorp High School and the University of the Witwatersrand, and he was trained as a teacher at the Johannesburg College of Education, of which he became Vice-Rector in 1948, after periods as prin­ cipal of the Krugersdorp English-medium and the Roodepoort Town Schools. He saw active service during the Second World War. A former President of the Transvaal Teachers’ Association, and an authority on teacher training, he was awarded an Imperial Relations Trust Fellowship in 1951. NELL, (Mrs.) S. Graduated from the University of Cape Town and trained as a teacher. Taught for some time at Huguenot University College. Was for years a member of the Rand Central School Board and the Witwatersrand Juvenile Affairs Board. Mrs. Nell is a Past-Chairman of the Home and School Council, and alternate Education Con­ venor for the National Council of Women and the mother of three school-going children. OLLEMANS, D. H., M.C., O.B.E., B.A., L1.B„ is Chairman and Managing Director of the Argus Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, and Chairman of its associated company in the Federa­ tion, The Rhodesian Printing & Publishing Com- ROUSSEAU, Jac, Professor of Education, Univer­ sity of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and an education­ ist of wide and varied experience, has special inter­ ests in teacher training, in which field he has done considerable research. He has taught in the Uni­ versity College of Fort Hare, was an officer in the Army Education Service during the Second World War, and carried out mass education work in the Near East. WALDMAN, W., is an Honours Graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand. He has for many years been examiner in English Literature for the Transvaal Matriculation Examination, and as a practising poet, he has had the distinction of the award of the Bardic Chair. He is Head of the De­ partment of English at the Johannesburg College of Education. WEAVER, R. F., B.A. Hons. (Rand), was vice­ principal of a secondary school and subsequently lecturer in English at the Heidelberg Teachers’ College. In 1954, he joined the staff of the Johan­ nesburg College of Education where he occupies the position of Head of Department of Organization and Administration. He has edited several S. African books and in the educational field has contributed to works on Speech Training and Race Studies. He is a chief examiner in Transvaal Secondary School Certificate English. During the Second World War, he served with military intelligence. 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