The University of Witwatersrand Fund, Inc. (Wits Fund) recently celebrated The University of Witwatersrand’s 90th anniversary at an Awards Dinner held at the University Club in New York, N.Y. The Wits Fund is a non-profit organization created and supported by a small group of alumni volunteers dedicated to supporting programs and scholarships of the University of Witwatersrand.
The Wits Fund Awards Dinner honored Wits distinguished Principal and Vice Chancellor Professor Loyiso Nongxa for his inspired and enlightened leadership as well as four Wits Alumni in the United States – John Chalsty, Chairman of Muirfield Capital Management; Chief Justice Margaret M. Marshall, retired Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Denise Scott Brown, renowned architect, planner, author and educator; and David Schneider, former Senior Consultant to the Chairman of the Coca Cola Company. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and Pastor of the nationally renowned Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York, provided the invocation for the event, and Jennifer Roth, Senior Vice President at Sotheby’s, served as the Mistress of Ceremonies.
Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein Inc., the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, medical and animal health practitioners, served as Dinner Chair and serves as the Chairman of the Wits Fund.
The University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, is one of only two universities in Africa ranked in two separate international rankings as a leading institution in the world and is the only university in the country that features in the top one percent in the world in seven defined fields of research according to the 2007 ISI international rankings.
