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Rhodes University Trust USA Board Members
Donovan Neale-May
Stephen Bell Trevor Hastie Tanya Accone Ian McGregor Desmond Low-Kum St. Claire Adriaan
Prior to co-founding Success Preparatory Academy, St. Claire Adriaan, has had a seventeen-year career in education. Growing up under the apartheid regime in South Africa, St. Claire attended the Dower College of Education where he received his diploma in elementary education. He then enrolled at The University of Port Elizabeth where he obtained his Bachelors of Arts in Secondary Education. He also holds two post graduate degrees from the University of Port Elizabeth, a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Biblical and Religious Studies and Bachelor of Education. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma from Rhodes University in Educational Leadership and Management. St. Claire trained teachers at Kagisanong College of Education in South Africa before coming to the United States in 1999. He was also Adjunct Professor in the School of Education at Dominican University, River Forest. St. Claire came to the United States in 1999 through the Visiting International Faculty and began teaching in North Carolina. Then he moved to Chicago to teach at Noble Street Charter School, one of the nation’s highest performing high schools. He then moved to San Diego to teach at Kipp Adelante, where for two consecutive years (2005-06, 2006-07) his English Language Learner students were the highest scoring in math the entire San Diego County and in 2007 they were the highest scoring in the State of California. St. Claire also presents workshops for math teachers throughout the country. After his work at KIPP, he moved to Cleveland to become the founding principal of Villaview Lighthouse Community School, where after just five months the school had the highest gains in math and second highest in reading on the Northwestern Evaluation Association (NWEA). During his teaching career in the United States he has been recognized for his tremendous achievements: Disney Teacher Award Honoree – 2006, San Diego CW5 Dream Classroom winner- 2006, University of Kentucky, Teacher who made a difference – 2006 and 2007, North Carolina Wal-Mart teacher of the year (Fayetteville)-2002, VIF Cultural Educator of the year -2002. St. Claire’s biography has also been included in Marquis Who’s Who In America for 2 years in a row. He has commendations for exemplary teaching from the Mayor of San Diego, United States Congress, and the United States Senate.
Adriane attended Rhodes from 1987 to 1991 and graduated with a BA LLB. She is licensed to practice law in South Africa, California, Colorado and Arizona. After completing her articles in Cape Town, she worked as in-house council to the Cape Town City Council during South Africa’s transition to democracy. After completing an LL.M in constitutional law at Wits in 1998, she moved with her husband to the United States. She was appointed a Deputy District Attorney in Colorado, where she practiced as an appellate attorney and prosecutor in District Court. She now lives in Arizona, where she is in private practice with Munger Chadwick PLC, focusing on business law, civil litigation and business immigration. She is married to David Parsons, a Zimbabwean and Old Andrean, and has two children, Finlay and Lucy. They live in Tucson, Arizona.
Dr Maclean, a graduate of the Universities of Cape Town, Rhodes, South Africa, Princeton and Harvard, is Professor of Western Religious Thought, Director of the Pre-Seminary Program, and advisor for those wishing to pursue Graduate Studies in Religion. He also serves as a freshman advisor, as a religion advisor, and as the Faculty representative for TAK, the National Honor Society for Theology and/or Religious Studies. Dr. Maclean has received numerous awards for teaching, and has been a Danforth Writing Fellow for undergraduate teaching at Harvard University. He has also been the recipient of a Rotary Scholarship, the Dean's Dissertation Fellowship at Harvard Divinity School, a Course Development Grant, and the Edna T. Schaeffer Summer Research Award at James Madison University. In addition, he was nominated by the Philosophy and Religion Department, and subsequently named as the College of Arts and Letters' Madison Scholar for 2005-2006. He presented the public Madison Scholar Lecture on "Forgiveness in Politics? The Challenge of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions" on Tuesday, 20th September, 2005 at the Anthony -Seeger Auditorium. He also serves as a consultant for the Consultation on the Vocation of the Presbyterian Teacher of the Presbyterian Church (USA), and contributed a chapter on the vocation of teaching for Duncan S. Ferguson's Called to Teach (2003). He serves on numerous scholarly and university committees, including the Steering Committee of the Religion in Latin America and Caribbean Group and the Steering Committee of Dutch Theology, of the American Academy of Religion. He serves at James Madison University on the General Education Committee, as well as those for Africana Studies, Latin American Studies and for the Classical Minor. As part of the celebration of the anniversary of James Madison's 250th birthday (16th March, 2001), he organized a series of lectures by renowned historians, constitutional scholars, and theologians around the issue of "Religion, the Constitution and James Madison: The Past and Future of Issues of Church and State." He is also web master of the "Calvinbarth" web discussion list and its companion web page which features links to numerous sites dealing with Karl Barth, John Calvin and Reformed theology in general.
Based in Toronto, Son Kee is a Financial Advisor with Raymond James, providing investment management and customized investment solutions for a diversified range of clients. He also works with business owners and consultants to maximize their "after-tax" returns on cash and investments. Son Kee graduated with a B.Comm from Rhodes University in 1973 and emigrated to Toronto in 1990 after holding a variety of professional accounting positions in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been in the Financial Planning and retail brokerage industry for the past 17 years and has, since 2003 run his own independent brokerage practice in Mississauga. Gerry keeps in close touch with the SA Chinese Rhodes alumni in Toronto. Son Kee has taken the lead in organizing Rhodes alumni gatherings in Canada. Son Kee attributes much of his success as a Financial Advisor to being a "people's" person and a community man at heart. He is a past director of the Canada South Africa Chamber of Business based in Toronto, and a Charter member of the Knights of Columbus chapter at his local church. Son Kee is married to Eunice, formerly of Johannesburg and has two adult daughters, Lynn who is an Electrical Engineer and Brenda who is a budding Physiotherapist. His interests include family, golf, ballroom dancing, travel, reading, church and charity.
Doreen Motsi is a Senior Client Operations Accountant at Mosaic Sales Solutions corporate office in Dallas, TX. Mosaic is a field sales and marketing company with operations in US & Canada. Doreen received a Bachelor of Commerce major in Accounting & Commercial Law at Rhodes University in 1998. Prior to joining Mosaic, she was Senior Associate for eight years at Greyhound Lines, Inc a billion dollar intercity passenger bus in North America. After her Rhodes graduation, she served a year of internship at KPMG Zimbabwe. Doreen moved to Dallas, TX in late 1999 & and is married to an Attorney, Lawrence Bosompem from Ghana. They are blessed with two children - Harold and Charles.
Sherwin Bryce-Pease, 33, is a graduate of Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies. He began his working career in marketing, as Rhodes University’s International Communications Liaison based in the United States. While there, he completed a comprehensive internship with GlobalFluency/Neale-May & Partners working in the global marketing and strategic communications agency’s New York and Palo Alto offices. After his return to South Africa in 2002, he took up a position in News with the SABC. He has been with the organization ever since – starting with Newsbreak in the Special News Services Division followed by a stint as Bulletin Writer and News Presenter on SAFM, the national English radio broadcaster. In 2005, Sherwin was appointed Insert Producer and Co-Anchor of SABC News’ Weekend Breakfast Show – Weekend Live. During the same period he was also the stand-in presenter on SABC 2’s Morning Live – the largest breakfast television show in South Africa. In March, 2008 Sherwin was appointed SABC U.S. Correspondent, based at the United Nations in New York. He covers the North American region for the broadcasting company. His interests include the arts, current affairs, reading and a variety of sports that include rugby (Blue Bulls fan), cricket, F1 auto racing, tennis and golf. He is an eloquent and entertaining public speaker. Highlights during his career include interviewing U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, South African Presidents Jacob Zuma, Kgalema Motlanthe and Thabo Mbeki, Chile's former President Michelle Bachelete, actor Morgan Freeman and Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and Shirin Ebadi among others.
Based in Oakville, Ontario, Sonya Kopecky-Duff is a Key Account Manager with SL Canada, GP, and is actively engaged in providing asset-backed financing for manufacturing equipment, typically high quality German manufactured equipment exported to Canada. SL Canada is a member of the LBBW group, Landesbank, Baden-Wuerttemberg, an international commercial bank, which includes operations in the NAFTA region: USA, Mexico, and since March 2009, Mississauga, Canada. Sonya was born in the Czech Republic and emigrated with her family in the summer of 1968, to South Africa. Sonya graduated with a B.A.,( Psychology and Industrial Sociology) from Rhodes University in 1981, and emigrated to Canada immediately thereafter, reuniting with her family, who had settled in Toronto in 1979. Sonya has been in the credit granting and leasing industry for the last 20 years, spending the last decade with the sales and support unit of a German manufacturer of offset printing presses, Heidelberg Canada. In the late 1990’s Sonya was actively involved for several years, first serving as the Secretary and then as the President of the Board, with a community project, Harmony Co-operative Homes, located on Princess Street in downtown Toronto. The project, funded by the conservative government, is a joint endeavor between Government, together with the Czech Community and a church based group, Family Action Network. The two tower apartment complex with Playground, provides affordable downtown housing, and has a designated 25% allocation of rental units to house families coming out of battered woman’s shelters.
White is Director of Rhodes’ Communications and Development Division. His team is based in the new Alumni House building and their responsibilities include looking after the University’s priority fundraising programmes, developing and fostering its relationships with the alumni body as well as looking after various internal and external communications initiatives. White comes from a business background having spent 14 years in the downstream oil industry serving in several senior executive positions including as Managing Director of Mobil/Engen Botswana. An entrepreneur at heart he left Engen to try his hand in the small business world and he and his wife Jill are co-owners of a number of businesses in Grahamstown. He now has over six years service to the University – the first three of which were as fundraising consultant during the highly successful Rhodes Centenary Campaign which, at its conclusion in 2004, had raised over R150 million for the University. He was recruited to the full-time staff in his present position in 2004 and serves on the University’s senior management team. Whilst he has little spare time, he describes himself as an ‘adequate golfer and a sometimes runner’. His daughter Michelle graduated with a BA LLB from Rhodes in 2006 and is currently serving her articles whilst his eldest son Mark is finishing off his BA, also at Rhodes. He has a second son who will be going to St Andrews College in 2008. He says the best thing about his job is the opportunities it gives him to meet and interact with interesting and important people from all walks of life as well as to find innovative ways in which to get them to support the University. The worst part is the never-ending meetings he has to attend on campus!
Bryony is currently a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. She joined McKinsey in 2009 in London and has recently moved to the Chicago Office. Bryony’s work focuses predominantly on the healthcare industry, and she has worked with Ministries of Health, payers or providers across Europe, Africa and now the USA. Bryony is a Zimbabwean who attended Rhodes from 2003 until 2008 where she triple majored in English, Philosophy and Psychology before completing an MA in English Literature on a Mandela Rhodes Scholarship. While at Rhodes, Bryony was sub-warden of Oriel House (2004, 2005) and SRC President (2007). After Rhodes, Bryony completed an MPhil in International Development on a Rhodes Scholarship at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. She is married to David Winn, whom she met in her first year at Rhodes. |
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Donovan Neale-May
Stephen J.D. Bell
Trevor Hastie
Tanya Accone
Ian McGregor
Desmond Low-Kum
St. Claire Adriaan
Adriane Parsons 
Dr. Iain S. Maclean 
Gerry Son Kee 
Doreen Motsi
Sherwin Bryce-Pease
Sonya Kopecky-Duff
Guy White 
Bryony Winn 
Steuart Pennington is the founder of South Africa-The Good News (Pty) Ltd. Since 2002 he co-edited 6 books on South Africa and established a website 
Fifty Facts about a remarkable nation. Compiled by SA The Good News» 