Abstract:
Formal group photograph of the 1952 BVSc graduates with Prof JD Coles, Prof SWJ van Rensburg, Prof PJJ Fourie, Prof WD Malherbe and Prof WO Neitz. Like her predecessors, Johanna (Joan) Hendrika Verdurmen was the only woman in the class. She was a member of the Onderstepoort Class of 1952, but was one of several unexpected victims of an external examiner in her final year, qualifying as a veterinarian early in 1953. The names of the graduates and staff from the Front (from left to right): Prof JD Coles, Prof SWJ van Rensburg, Prof PJJ Fourie, JH Verdurmen, Prof WD Malherbe, Prof WO Neitz ; Second row: PG Howell, RC Tustin, PB Winterbach, PJ Meyer, J Bosch, DT Morkel, PH le Roux ; Third row: CJ Coetzee, EC Jooste, J Grobler, T Toms, HA Davis, IS Canham. More information on some of the graduates can be read in Past veterinarians in South Africa / Posthumus, P.J. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/21238
