Vetnuus | June 2024 29 In 2015, Heloise was elected as an Honorary Associate Life Member of SAVA for her outstanding service to veterinary science in South Africa. She spent her entire career as a veterinary technologist at The Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute and worked with Gertrud Theiler and Ivan Horak among many other renowned scientists. Her main field of expertise is the taxonomy of ticks and parasitic mites. She retired as a Senior Research Technician with about 40 scientific articles in leading journals. Her status as an internationally recognised tick expert led to the co-authorship of a textbook: The Ixodid Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Southern Africa (Horak et al. 2018). Heloise also lectured at the Tshwane University of Technology and at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Onderstepoort. Heloise’s contribution to veterinary science internationally and to the veterinary history of South Africa is truly outstanding. v Read more about the contribution of HH Curson at: https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00382809_4312 Read more about the contribution of BH Pappin at: https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00382809_3586 Events I Awards Heloise Heyne prevented the destruction of the blackboard in the first lecture hall and library at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute c. 1923. Read more about the contribution of Heloise Heyne in the VetNews of September 2015: https://www.sava.co.za/vetnews-2015/ South African National Veterinary Museum in the ‘Old Hostel’ at Onderstepoort. Rudolph Bigalke and Heloise Heyne in front of the SA National Veterinary Museum in 2008. «
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