Inventories (Manuscripts)https://hdl.handle.net/10500/29762024-03-28T17:54:53Z2024-03-28T17:54:53ZSociety for Student Councelling in Southern Africa (MSS Acc 89)Coetzee, Marie APeter, N. A.https://hdl.handle.net/10500/227902018-11-17T13:06:44Z2017-07-06T00:00:00ZSociety for Student Councelling in Southern Africa (MSS Acc 89)
Coetzee, Marie A; Peter, N. A.
The development of Student counselling in higher education in Southern Africa has been
inextricability bound to the development of its professional organization. This organization
has consistently provided a dynamic forum for vigorous debate during the process of
establishing a platform for SCD as a profession and its growth towards a discipline with
unique Southern African characteristics.
The material includes minutes, conference proceedings and papers and newsletters
2017-07-06T00:00:00ZMarié Rautenbach Collection of Walter Battiss Materials 1974-1983 (MSS Acc 191)Coetzee, Marié Ahttps://hdl.handle.net/10500/130932015-10-13T11:11:25Z2014-01-21T00:00:00ZMarié Rautenbach Collection of Walter Battiss Materials 1974-1983 (MSS Acc 191)
Coetzee, Marié A
Renée Roos, Marié Rautenbach’s daughter, donated the correspondence (22 items), copies of sketches, invitations to Battiss exhibitions and photographs to the Unisa Library Archives in 2013. Marié Rautenbach, née Wium, was born on 13 September 1920. She graduated with a BA degree from the University of Stellenbosch in 1940 and soon afterwards started her career at the National Library in Pretoria. She purchased her first Battiss painting in 1970. From 1973 until she retired in 1980, Marié was employed as a librarian by the University of Pretoria. She met and befriended Walter Battiss through John Wickens, a fellow librarian and mutual friend.
The Marié Rautenbach Collection of Walter Battiss Materials (MSS 191) compliments the John Wickens Scrapbook of Walter Battiss Materials (MSS 140) in the Unisa Archives. There are many references and cross references to both Marié and John in these accessions. Together with the Walter Battiss - Dacre Punt Correspondence (MSS189), these Collections provide the researcher with some insight into the weird and wonderful life of the remarkable, talented, creative and enigmatic artist. Many of the Battiss letters are beautifully illustrated. He was a master calligrapher and his handwriting often varied from one letter to another. In his correspondence with Marié Rautenbach, Battiss wrote about experiences abroad, family, friends and even his impatience plant. He comes across as a kind and sympathetic friend - your letter consoles me that friendship can help cure. Battiss shared his thoughts on art and his Fook Island philosophy with Marié. The true artist knows more than the eye sees. Is the evidence of our own lives, of the birth and death of the flesh, not at once a reminder of our own flimsy material existence; and are the arts not the visible shadows of the invisible spiritual presences that inhabit temporal man.
The Marié Rautenbach Collection of Walter Battiss Materials (MSS 191) is of great research value to scholars interested in the life and artistic career of Walter Battiss. The flamboyant artist died in 1982 and Marié Rautenbach in September 2002.
Inventory in the Unisa Archives, Manuscripts Collection (Mss Acc 191) 1 Box.
2014-01-21T00:00:00ZPapers of the Pretoria Club 1885 - & Pretoria Country Club 1921- (MSS Acc 149)Coetzee, Marié Ahttps://hdl.handle.net/10500/130882015-10-13T11:11:25Z2014-01-20T00:00:00ZPapers of the Pretoria Club 1885 - & Pretoria Country Club 1921- (MSS Acc 149)
Coetzee, Marié A
The Papers of the Pretoria Club (1885 - ) and the Pretoria Country Club (1921- ) comprise 6,6 linear metres of minutes, letter books and photographs which were donated to the Archives of the Unisa Libraryby Mr Loock van Zyl and the executive committees of the Clubs in 2002. The archival materials of the two Clubs have interesting information on prominent members of society who were active in the social and economic development of the region over many decades. The history of the Clubs is also about the history of Pretoria, its people and the sporting events that took place in the capital city. The Papers of the two Clubs contain information on the social, cultural and economic history and development of the city and its people.
The Pretoria Club dates back to February1885, when the Club was founded by Richard Kelsey Loveday and 54 other signatories. The Club was established to promote social intercourse amongst Gentlemen resident in the Transvaal. Many leading citizens of Pretoria such as TW and TC Beckett, Edmund Bourke, Carl Jeppe, CJ Juta, Piet Marais, EPA Meintjies, AH Nellmapius, Carl Uekermann, Gen. JC Smuts, Justice JS Curlewis, HC Jorrisen, G Rissik and HL Abrahamse were members of the Club. Over the years many distinguished guests visited the Club, including the Prince of Wales, Prince George (later the Duke of Kent), Earl Haig and Baron Haig of Bermersyde and Charles Roberts Swart (first State President of the RSA). In 1935 TCW Dod said in his Notes on the earlier history of the Club - Two features remain, and we trust always will remain unchanged, the club’s reputation for hospitality to visitors, and that neither politics nor racialism has ever entered into its cosmos.
The Pretoria Country Club opened on 8 October 1910. Since its inception many dedicated members of the Club have given much of their time and energy to the development of the Club. Thanks to the endeavours of chairmen, committee members, organisers and team members of the various sporting sections, managers, catering and bar staff, golf professionals, gardeners, groundsmen and others, the Pretoria Country Club has become one of the most attractive and progressive clubs in the country. Unfortunately some of the earlier archival records of the club are missing. The minutes of the general committee meetings date from 1921 onwards, whereas the Executive Committee minutes date from 1966.
Inventory in the Unisa Archives, Manuscripts Collection (Mss Acc 149) 66 Boxes.
2014-01-20T00:00:00ZJohn Wickens’ Scrapbook of Walter Battiss materials (C1912; 1947-1994) (MSS Acc 140)Coetzee, Marié Ahttps://hdl.handle.net/10500/119662015-10-13T11:12:48Z2013-10-30T00:00:00ZJohn Wickens’ Scrapbook of Walter Battiss materials (C1912; 1947-1994) (MSS Acc 140)
Coetzee, Marié A
John Wickens’ Scrapbook of Walter Battiss materials (c1912, 1947-1994)
(1 Box, 0.1 linear metres)
The John Wickens’ Scrapbook of Walter Battiss materials was donated to the Unisa Library Archives by John’s sister, Mrs. Pat Franklin of Cape Town, in 2001. John Wickens, a friend of Battiss and a librarian by profession, died circa 2000. Wickens had lovingly kept a Scrapbook on the life and artistic career of his friend Walter Battiss (1906-1982).
Walter Battiss started his teaching career at the Pretoria Boys’ High School in 1936. He married Grace Anderson, a well-known art-educationalist, in 1940 and moved to Giotto’s Hill, Menlo Park, Pretoria, where he stayed until his death. Battiss was appointed as the first professor and Head of the Department of History of Art and Fine Arts at Unisa in November 1964. He retired in 1971 and in the same year, Walter Battiss was awarded an Honorary DLitt et Phil degree in recognition of his contribution to the development of art and art appreciation in South Africa. Prof Walter Battiss was an enthusiastic traveler who loved visiting islands, Europe, USA, UK, Africa and the Middle East. Battiss held many solo exhibitions in South Africa and abroad. An excellent correspondent, Battiss wrote many letters to his friends in South Africa, including to John Wickens. Walter Battiss died at the age of 76 at his holiday home in Port Shepstone.
The numerical order of the items in the inventory reflects the original order within the Scrapbook. The contents of the Scrapbook (c1912, 1947-1994), consist of illustrated correspondence and envelopes, art catalogues, poetry, invitations to art exhibitions, stamps, Fook Nooks, press cuttings, photographs of Battiss, sketches and a 1982 poster AprilFooks Day. The archival materials are of great research value to scholars interested in Battiss’ oeuvre, as well as in the development, history and teaching of twentieth-century South African art.
Inventory in the Unisa Archives, Manuscripts Collection (Mss Acc 140) 1 Box
2013-10-30T00:00:00Z