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- 7 November 1805 - 26 October 1977 (Production)
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Joane Pim was born in 1904 in Johannesburg, South Africa, of Irish-English Quakers, Howard and Rosamund Pim. Her father was a prominent figure in South Africa in accountancy, philanthropy and art. Her preliminary schooling was at St. Andrews School, Johannesburg, and later at the age of fourteen, she went to England, where she attended St. Stephens in Folkestone, followed by a period of two years in Paris studying singing and French.
She returned to South Africa and spent several years of enjoyment with no fixed occupation and then became interested in horticulture and the maintenance of private gardens. She subsequently worked in an architect's office to learn draughtsmanship and worked with a professional horticulturist. She was ill for three months and went to England to recuperate, where friends suggested that Brenda Colvin, P.P.I.L.A., President and Founder of the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Great Britain, and leading landscape architect of the day and who is still one of the active leading landscape architects in Europe, would welcome a pupil. From that day on she had no other thought and her one desire was to qualify as a landscape architect.
During the war of 1939-1945, she was occupied in other fields and only started to practice in 1946, being accepted by the British Institute in 1947.
She was appointed Consultant to the Anglo-American Corporation in 1952, which position she held until her death, and entrusted with the landscape and garden planning of an area of virtual desert, 24 miles square, the layout or rehabilitation of fourteen mines and mine villages under the control of the Corporation and the landscaping of a town designed to accommodate 30 000, the plan of which had already been approved.
This appointment proved to be the forerunner of many others and her interests covered a wide field. Her landscape developments covered all Provinces of the Republic, Zambia, Rhodesia, Botswana and Swaziland. In 1954 she was appointed as Consultant to the Harmony Gold Mining Company and other mining groups. Travel by air and road averaged 48,080 miles per annum and schemes were planned for six different climates.
She was twice guest lecturer at the International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress in Zurich. In 1963 she was invited to address a similar Congress in Israel. She was a part-time lecturer in the Architectural and Town Planning Department at Witwatersrand University. She lectured in Pretoria and was instrumental in starting a degree course in Landscape Architecture at Pretoria University, as well as lecturing at the University of Stellenbosch and the Pietermaritzburg Architects' Forum. She contributed to many landscape Architectural journals, her most important publication being her book, 'Beauty is Necessary' published by Purnell & Sons (S.A.) (Pty) Ltd. Cape Town, in 1971.
Her other interests were Youth Clubs, of which she was also founder and chairman, as well as horses, dogs and photography.
Miss Joane Pim died suddenly on 27 November 1974.
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The papers were donated to the University by the executors of her estate in February 1975.
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The Joane Pim papers span the years 1939-1974, with the preponderance between the years 1950-1974 when Miss Pim was actively employed by the Anglo-American Corporation, although there are a few items going back as far as 1805.
They contain correspondence, minutes, reports, addresses, lectures, manuscript and typescript notes and notebooks, photographs and photographic albums, press cuttings, slides and plans as well as her book 'Beauty is Honorary'. Her private correspondence is to be regarded as 'Closed Access' for the next 10 years (until 1 January 1985).
The papers should be of great interest to several departments within the University. Her collection of slides illustrating her work in beautifying the gardens of many fine private homes, as well an the mines, would he of particular interest to the Department of Architecture and Town Planning. The botanical specimens and notes would he welcomed by the Department of Botany. Miss Pim's work covered the whole of South Africa and with the growing awareness of the need to preserve the best of the past, her papers are of national interest. Her death is a great loss to environmental consciousness in South Africa and particularly to landscape architecture of which the was a pioneer.
All the papers and printed items are of immense research value and will be preserved and made available to bona fide students and researchers.
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Copyright Historical Papers Research Archive, The Library, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Alternate title: Pim, Joan
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Joan Knoesen November 1977