The concept of creating a space of memory at the old school was proposed by the late Otto van Noie, a former L\u00fcckhoff learner, teacher and community activist. Ren\u00e9e Hector-Kannemeyer, deputy director of SU’s Centre for the Advancement of Social Impact and Transformation, helped develop this into a proposal approved by SU’s Social Impact Funding Committee.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We wanted to honour Parry not just as a scientist, but also as a man, father and teacher, someone who lived with integrity and served his community in a time of deep hostility and injustice,” Hector-Kannemeyer said.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three-panel installation consists of a biographical overview of Parry, an artist’s illustration of him and scenes from the inaugural lecture. It was designed by Monique Biscombe, a PhD candidate in Visual Arts at SU and daughter of the late Stellenbosch author and activist Hilton Biscombe, with input from the L\u00fcckhoff Alumni Association and the Parry family.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who was Walter Parry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in District Six in 1913, Walter Hazell Parry was a gifted scholar who completed his MSc in Physics cum laude at the University of Cape Town in 1934. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite his academic brilliance discriminatory policies denied him the chance to pursue a doctorate or a formal academic career. He became a maths teacher and taught at L\u00fcckhoff High until his death in 1966.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Teachers at the school taught by him when they were learners remember him for always being well-prepared for lessons,” Chris Jooste, current principal of L\u00fcckhoff, said. The school still exists in Ida’s Valley.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parry’s passion for science reached beyond the classroom. He quietly assisted SU staff and students, often tutoring behind closed doors and collaborating with physicists, including then-head of department Prof Piet Zeeman, on early experimental projects linked to the Southern Universities Nuclear Institute (now iThemba LABS). The injustices he was subjected to left their mark. “Apartheid hurt Walter and all of us,” Wilfred Daniels, deputy chairperson of L\u00fcckhoff Alumni, said. “He was sometimes frustrated and unhappy, but remained committed to teaching.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Family, community reflections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Parry’s daughter, Elizabeth Vergotine (82), remembered the warmth of their home, a house full of books. He and his wife, Winifred, had eight children, five of whom became teachers. “As long as there are children to teach, there must be teachers,” she recalled her father saying.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n She was moved to see the university not only honouring her father but transforming itself. “At the first lecture I was pleasantly surprised; there were so many academics and students who would not have been there in the past. It made me so happy. SU is making a real effort so children from Stellenbosch do not have to go elsewhere.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her son Benito, a presenter on Smile FM, expressed similar appreciation: “This wonderful tribute and honour bestowed on my grandfather means a great deal to our family.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Calvyn Gilfellan, CEO of the Castle Control Board in Cape Town and a member of the strategic body of L\u00fcckhoff Visual Redress as Restitution, said: “I wish the spirit you have here can be transplanted in all our communities.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Restitution in practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The installation is a tangible expression of SU’s restitution statement, adopted in 2018 when the SU marked its centenary. In the words of Prof Nico Koopman, deputy vice-chancellor of Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel: “Restitution includes contrition, confession and conversion. But it must also lead to reparation, reconciliation and rejoicing. 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