Thirteen Formative Years |
 LEAVING SOUTH AFRICA – American Field Service (AFS): In July 1962, all sixty South African students who’d won 1962-63 AFS scholarships to study in the United States assembled in Johannesburg for an intensive orientation programme. If you click here, you’ll see a considerably larger version of this photograph, as well as the names of all the students in it, so I’ll identify only handful of people on this page. I am squatting third from the left in the front row; David Rosettenstein – who went through Saxonwold Primary School with me – is squatting second from the right in the front row; Isobel Dick – whom I’d previously met at Loteni – is sixth from the right in the second row (wearing a coat with three large buttons); Margaret Marshall is the fifth woman in from the left in the jumbled third and fourth rows – Margie had an outstanding international career as a lawyer that was capped by becoming Chief Justice of Massachusetts; and Dawn Silver, who is standing next to the wall in the fourth row, also had a stellar career, but as a folk singer (she and her husband, Des Lindberg, formed the Des and Dawn duo) and in the theatre. I was shocked to learn that Dawn died in December 2020, just six days after announcing that she and Des has contracted Covid-19. |