30-06 2020 02:00
wrote:
Brave, generous, kind. Prof. Esté was a mentor to many, but I don't think she ever realised just to how many. I will be forever grateful to have known her, to be inspired by her as it has changed the whole direction of my research career. Together with her colleague at the time, Prof. Nico Malan, they have shaped me in my early career in 2000 and onward. Her encouragement to go for the best possible quality, to not be scared but brave, has stuck with me. Only by being challenged one improves. When I returned from a conference in Germany in 2003, having met Prof Salim Yusuf who invited the University to join the PURE study, it was her encouragement and that of Prof. Annamarie Kruger, who put NWU in the driving seat to run one of the first large longitudinal studies in Africa. I was hesitant and inexperienced, they were brave. Ek is hartseer, maar ek is ook diep dankbaar dat sy nou by haar geliefdes kan rus. Ek bid dat Hattie en familie groot berusting en vertroosting kan vind deur almal se liefdevolle herinneringe.
30-06 2020 02:00
wrote:
Brave, generous, kind. Prof. Esté was a mentor to many, but I don't think she ever realised just to how many. I will be forever grateful to have known her, to be inspired by her as it has changed the whole direction of my research career. Together with her colleague at the time, Prof. Nico Malan, they have shaped me in my early career in 2000 and onward. Her encouragement to go for the best possible quality, to not be scared but brave, has stuck with me. Only by being challenged one improves. When I returned from a conference in Germany in 2003, having met Prof Salim Yusuf who invited the University to join the PURE study, it was her encouragement and that of Prof. Annamarie Kruger, who put NWU in the driving seat to run one of the first large longitudinal studies in Africa. I was hesitant and inexperienced, they were brave. Ek is hartseer, maar ek is ook diep dankbaar dat sy nou by haar geliefdes kan rus. Ek bid dat Hattie en familie groot berusting en vertroosting kan vind deur almal se liefdevolle herinneringe.
