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Title
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Rhodes University Graduation ceremony on Saturday, 12th April 1969, at 10:30 a.m., in the University Great Hall
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Creator
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Rhodes University
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Date
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1969/04/12
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Abstract
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This digitised archival document records the Rhodes University graduation ceremony held in the University Great Hall on Saturday, 12 April 1969, at 10:30 a.m. The six-page programme documents the conferral of undergraduate, honours, master's and doctoral degrees, with a particular focus on graduates and postgraduate research in the humanities, education, theology and the arts. Page 2 identifies the university's principal officeholders, including Chancellor W. J. Busschau, Vice-Chancellor J. M. Hyslop, Pro-Vice-Chancellor J. V. L. Rennie and Registrar W. J. Askew. It also records honorary degrees awarded to Mrs M. E. McKerron and Sir de Villiers Graaff (Doctors of Laws), and Professor S. H. Frankel (Doctor of Literature). The programme acknowledges the death of Professor D. C. S. Oosthuizen, noting that Professor R. K. J. E. Antonissen would present candidates from the Faculty of Arts.
Pages 3–5 list graduates in the Faculties of Arts, Education and Divinity, including bachelor's degrees in arts, fine art and music, honours qualifications, and degrees in education and divinity. The programme records distinctions in English, history, philosophy, Afrikaans/Nederlands, French, linguistics, social anthropology, psychology, mathematics, biblical studies and systematic theology. The postgraduate research documented on page 6 offers insight into the university's scholarly activities and the historical, literary, educational and religious questions being investigated during this period. Master's research includes studies of poetry teaching in South African senior schools, Wesleyan missionary strategies in the Eastern Cape and Caffreland between 1823 and 1838, the correspondence of 1820 Settler Hannah Dennison, and the history of music at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town. Further research examines Henry James's novels and the struggle of 1820 Settler James Erith for compensation. Doctoral theses address allegory and myth in literature, the theory and practice of Klangreihenkomposition, narrative structure in short stories, family planning among the white population of Port Elizabeth, and the physics of the ionosphere.
As a primary historical source, the programme provides valuable evidence of Rhodes University's academic traditions, research priorities and institutional history in the late 1960s. It supports biographical and genealogical research through its lists of graduates and contributes to broader studies of South African higher education, literary scholarship, missionary history, settler history, music and the development of academic disciplines during the apartheid era
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Subject
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Rhodes University
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Graduation ceremonies
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Academic ceremonies
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Format
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application/pdf
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Language
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English
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Type
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text
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Extent
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6 pages
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Rights
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Rhodes University
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Is Part Of
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Rhodes University Graduation Programmes
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Genre
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Graduation program
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Publisher
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Rhodes University, Office of the Registrar
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Location
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Cory Library and Archives
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Location - Shelf Locator
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Box 1, C3
