UCT News Update Update
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UCT News Update Update
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2 a l u m n i i n t h e n e w s<br />
Praise for Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson<br />
news of…<br />
Professor Jonathan Dorfan (BSc 1969),<br />
Director Emeritus of the Stanford Linear<br />
Accelerator Center, will be awarded an<br />
honorary doctorate from <strong>UCT</strong> in December.<br />
Award-winning piano duo Cara hesse (BMus<br />
2005) and laura Pauna (BMus 2005) have<br />
several concerts in New York in May.<br />
Former Director of the <strong>UCT</strong> GSB, mike Page<br />
(MBA 1986, PhD 1993) has been appointed<br />
Dean at McCallum Graduate School at<br />
Bentley College.<br />
Sociologist Devah Pager (MSocSc 1996)<br />
explores racial inequality in the U.S. criminal<br />
justice system in Marked: Race, Crime and<br />
Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration.<br />
In December 2007, <strong>UCT</strong> awarded the Doctor<br />
of Science in Medicine to Professor wulf<br />
utian (PhD 1970), a pioneer in women’s<br />
health and advanced reproductive technology.<br />
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According to a review in The Observer, Anne Landsman’s second novel, The Rowing Lesson, confirms her reputation as “a<br />
major new voice”. The novel has been praised equally for its innovative style, poetic imagery, and lyrical descriptions of South<br />
African landscape.<br />
The Rowing Lesson traces the life story of Dr. Harold Klein, who grows up in World War II South Africa, from the perspective<br />
of his daughter Betsy, a New Yorker who has flown home to be with him, as he lies dying in a Cape Town hospital. A secondperson<br />
narrative, the novel weaves together stories her father shared with her, as well as Betsy’s own memories and vivid<br />
imagination.<br />
Landsman (BA (Hons) 1980) moved to New York after graduating from <strong>UCT</strong>. She describes how, while writing The Rowing<br />
Lesson, she realized that “some portion of my heart will always beat in that opposite hemisphere, in the shadow of the<br />
Brandwacht mountains”.<br />
Tannie Evita’s U.S. Tour<br />
Earlier this year master satirist<br />
Pieter-Dirk Uys swapped his home<br />
in Darling, South Africa, for a tour of<br />
Los Angeles, Boston and New York.<br />
A writer and performer of more than<br />
20 plays, Uys was awarded an honorary<br />
doctorate by <strong>UCT</strong> in 2003. In<br />
the past six years he has toured<br />
South African, talking frankly to over<br />
a million children about the seriousness<br />
of the AIDS pandemic.<br />
Uys’ staunch support for AIDS education<br />
also featured prominently in<br />
his recent U.S. performances. As<br />
Artist-in-Residence at the University<br />
of Southern California, he spoke<br />
on “Comedy, Activism & Aids in<br />
South Africa” and gave several performances<br />
of his political cabaret,<br />
Elections and Erections: A Chronicle<br />
of Fear and Fun.<br />
Uys opened Elections and Erections<br />
in Cambridge in April, returning to<br />
the Zero Arrow Theatre where he performed the phenomenally successful Foreign AIDS in 2005.<br />
Boston-area audiences delighted in Uys’ host of special guests, all of whom he performed with uncanny<br />
accuracy, including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, Bill and Hillary, and the glamorous<br />
Evita Bezuidenhout.<br />
Evita’s U.S. sojourn ended on a high note in May in New York, with three gala performances at La<br />
MaMa. It was here that Uys received the OBIE Award for Foreign Aids in 2004.