SNAP SHOT – PASCALE HOOCK (nee HARTY)
My studies and work life after school:
1990 – 1993: BA (ed), University of the
Four years of pure debauchery. I am ashamed to say that I was the “proud” recipient of two Pisscat of the Year awards at Sunnyside Residence and an Edward Scissorhands award for having the consistently weirdest hairdo on campus (I was doing the goth/punk thing that my parents wouldn’t let me do at home, quite a breakaway from the nerdy school-years). Notwithstanding my shocking behaviour and unruly appearance, I managed to achieve some pretty good results!
1994:
Had to pull up my socks during the daytime here! No miscreants allowed at snobby girls’ schools!
1995:
Geography Honours part-time, University of the
Benson’s Pub & Grill (manager)
This was a semi-alternative bar, restaurant, pool hall. Spent my nights here ... minimal pay, good free food, drinks from the customers, endless rounds of pool (I got quite good). More wild life!
1996: Part-time Geography tutor, University of the
Geography Honours part-time, University of the
Some horrible McGinty’s Pub in an even more horrible Holiday Inn (bar lady)
1997: Centre for Policy Studies,
I did data collection (aerial photograph analysis) for a demographic study of formal and informal housing settlements in
Housing Solutions, Paul Hendler,
I did more data collection concerning national housing delivery statistics.
Geography Masters proposal development
Competed for and won a scholarship from the Institut Francais de’l Afrique du Sud to do research in
1998: Geography Masters part-time, Ecole Normale Superieure,
Spent six months in
Edith Hinds High School,
Mmmmm ... sexy headmaster!!!
1999: Westdene Theatre Cafe,
After financial dire straits brought on by the expensive trip to Paris and the wholesale retrenchment of all teachers without permanent job contracts, I was forced to put the rest of my Masters on ice. Found a great job with excellent people at the theatre cafe where I got to help organise shows with brilliant cabaret artists ... and sit around drinking with actors and Westdene dropouts.
2000- : Fine art,
I do graphics, painting, and photography (some stuff is on my facebook page). Some of my work has been published in the Künstlerbuch by Alexander Fluhr!
2005-2006: Cuttext, Robert Taube, Karlsruhe, Germany
Here I got to be part-time assistant at a company dealing with graphics, media and advertising technology.
2006- : Part-time piano teacher,
2008- : Geography Masters part-time,
After spending some years as an almost full-time mom, it’s time to pick up the threads again and finish what I started all those years ago. My dissertation is about cemetery development (spatial and aesthetic) in Victorian cities around the globe.
Private Life:
After nine and a half turbulent years I met my husband Walter in May 1999. He was a German student doing a practical semester in
Hobbies:
Painting, piano (mainly baroque and romantic), photography, history of cemeteries, geography in general, reading, ... not much sport happening here!
Interesting Travel Destinations:
Lots of SA,
Other Comments:
I probably won’t be able to afford to come to the reunion, but someone had better take lots of photos and post them here!!!! It is good to see that there are so many successful and /or interesting 89ers!
