Series 4 - Education

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Harding le Riche received his primary and secondary education in his home village of Dewetsdorp, Orange Free State, between 1922 and 1933. In 1933 he wrote his matriculation exams, receiving a first class pass. In January of 1934 he left the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg to begin studies for what he had long since decided would be his profession, medicine. He received his BSc in 1936. Over the following three years, he undertook three surveys, one of nutrition in Pretoria, financed by a Carnegie research grant; the second, of African school children for the Union Department of Health; and the last, of rural malnutrition for the South Africa Institute of Medical Research. Between 1940 and 1943 he completed medical studies for the degree of MB, ChB at Wits, where he was a
senior demonstrator in anatomy. In 1949 he received his MD on a thesis, “Studies in growth, health and nutrition” at Wits. He was then awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship which
enabled him to study epidemiology and nutrition, maternal and child health at Harvard, which awarded him a Master in Public Health (cum laude) in 1950.

This small series contains some of the certificates he received during his primary and secondary education, his matriculation certificate, and a list of members of the class of 1950 for the Harvard School of Public Health. There is also a file of reports on the progress his future wife, Margaret Cardross Grant, made while a student at Roedean School, Johannesburg, in 1938.

For related correspondence and a photograph, see B2003-0012/005(03).

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