The 1960 BVSc class

Abstract

The photograph of the BVSC 1960 class is a formal black and white group photo. The 10th woman to graduate was Anne Lize de Villiers Pienaar. After completing her first year of medicine at Wits University, she started her second year medicine at Stellenbosch University but after 6 months decided to switch to veterinary science. She contracted brucellosis in the middle of her final year and was invalided for 3 months. She requested an extension of the course into the following year and qualified in June 1961.The names of the graduates on the photo are: Front (from left to right): V Liebman, HE Scholtz, M Terblanche, A de V Pienaar, BGW Horton, PA Boyazoglu, GH Beverley ; Second row: AFJ Cross, BJ Erasmus, JWE Adams, DJ Wolmerans, JJ Dommisse, LJ Kritzinger ; Third row: NS van Blerk, PC Belonje, JF Schnetler, AS Holding, HL Lucouw, NC Owen