Was havng a nice lunch at greek reading the paper ... Tony Jackman an ex O'munder writing .. read and yes its about the Solms family ,,, Mark is a succesful surgeon and now got this new venture as well .. under correction but I dont recall Solms being a GM ?? anyone got gen on this one ???
As I peer through my beer glass on this fine Saturday evening, i can only, i all honesty comment, .... "What a strange article!"
That was in the Mr Devlin era and I think Tony has a little error in Doug being the GM. Maybe the Mrs was working in the admin building. My little ticky's worth. Having fun here.....
Doug Solms was not the GM at any time. Sylvia Solms worked at the hospital as the receptionist. I have been in contact with Teresa Solms lately she and I were good friends back in the day. Marks wine from Solms Delta is devine. I have been getting a lot in lately. In fact finished a bottle of his Cape Jazz Shiraz just last nite.
A strange article indeed.
Think Doug Solms was the manager of the Recreation Club.
I am back...agree Doug Solms was never GM...was a member of the yacht club.
Might have lived in 13th Avenue in the early 60s before moving to the new staff houses in 9th avenue.
Doug and Sylvia Solms arrived in Oranjemund from Kimberley in 1954. They had three children. , Teresa was the eldest. There is a middle child, a boy whose name escapes me and Mark, the youngest. Doug worked in Accounts and was later was promoted to head the department. In the late Sixties he was seconded back to run Accounts at Cullinan. Doug died of heart disease in the late 80s. Sylvia remarried but was sadly widowed again and now lives at Rayton.
Mark is one of Oranjemund's most famous sons, though he nearly didn't make it out of Oranjemund after a shocking accident at the Yacht Club when as a small boy he fell from a roof there. He was flown to the Children's Hospital in Cape Town for intensive care but later recovered fully.
From there on, here is a potted history: take a deep breath. He received his early education at OPS and matriculated from Pretoria Boys High. After obtaining a doctorate in psychology at Wits he took up a lectureship at University College London and was an honorary lecturer in neurosurgery at St Bartholomew's & the Royal London School of Medicine.
He simultaneously trained as a psychoanalyst at The Institute of Psychoanalysis, London and in 1999 he founded the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. He was named International Psychiatrist for 2001 by the American Psychiatric Association and returned to South Africa the following year to join UCT as the first Chair of Neuropsychology, kick-starting a new area of expertise in the Department of Psychology.
This is linked to his PhD thesis, The Neuropsychology of Dreams. His text on neuropsychology - the study of how the brain influences behaviour - is considered one of the most influential in the field.
Solms has published 350 journal articles and book chapters and six books, the last of which, The Brain and the Inner World, has been translated into 13 languages. He is editing and translating the Revised Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud's complete psychological works (24 volumes) and his complete neuroscientific works (four volumes).
But Mark is no dry academic. Although he is currently professor in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, an A-rated researcher, Hon. Lecturer in Neurosurgery at St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine, and director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, he is also pursuing a personal dream. On behalf of the Solms-Delta family estate, he is overseeing the rebirth of a Franschhoek farm, where wine has been produced over the past four centuries.
Wow! It's always the quiet ones....
Sorry one tiny correction...it was Lee that fell from the yacht club roof. Teresa, Lee and Mark.