Janet Hermans (1936 –2014)

Abstract

Janet Hermans was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and while at Mount Holyoke, she did a semester at Oxford University. Later in life, she also earned a master’s degree in Applied Anthropology from American University. Janet Hermans, as many will know, died in California on 18 September 2014. She had left Botswana earlier in the month in order to be a family stand-in. She had a sudden pain, was whipped into hospital, diagnosed with extensive cancer and within days, was gone. The shock waves reverberated and in no time the brilliantly created ‘We Love Janet’ website with its subtitle, the story of an inspiration, was inundated with comment from around the world. If there are others who still wish to add a comment, they may find http://www.janet.hermans.net/ to be a revelation.