June 1954 2 the Poslgrad ,======OUR COVER======.-, ALUMNI AWARD WINNER: One of the Most Popular Students at Sir George
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Printed for the publishers by Rapid Press Ltd., : Montreal. Edi(or: BoB H AYES, B.A. VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 VACATION ISSUE J U NE 1954 CONTENTS Grad Reception Huge Success 3 The President's Page 5 Convocation Address 6 281 Students Graduqte . 12 Valedictory Address . 19 Postgrad Patter 23 The Year In Review 25 Per Ardua Ad Astra 28 Lost Alumni 29 " Home Of Its Own" . 33 Baccalaureate Service Address 38 "MY BANH" Greenshields & Co Inc TO 2 It/WON CA NADIANS V~, and Dl,D-i6a-. of Canadian Securlo- I.,,_ ~ 507 Place d'Ar:mes, Montreal BANK OF Ottawa Quebec Sh. erbrvoke Toronto MONTREAL WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 June 1954 2 The Poslgrad ,======= OUR COVER=======.-, ALUMNI AWARD WINNER: One of the most popular students at Sir George . during his four years, Bob Fraser, right, is shbwn being congratulated by Gordon C. Donaldson, alumni president, on receiving the Association of Alumni Award. Presentation of the ~ward was made at the 1954 Convocation. Bob was given an engraved silver cigarette case as a momento of the occasion and with it went the best wishes of the faculty, the alumni association and his fellow students. ·1 "NEW LOOK" College Registration GRAD RECEPTION Totals 6,819 Students TOTAL of 6,819 students were HUGE SUCCESS A registered in the college and its schools during the 1953-54 term-an ORE than 600 attended the increase of 262 over the previous year, M Alumni Association's "new Douglass B. Clarke, registrar announced look" graduation reception held on recently. Friday, June 4, in the Champlain It was noted that registration in the Room of the Mount Royal Hotel. college itself totalled 3,844, made up of The reception, which followed 3,_112 evening students and 732 day the college's 1954 convocation, was students. During the 1952-53 term, 3,550 described by many "as. the best students attended both divisions. ever." A b_reakdown of registration figures For the first time in the college's for the past term, with 1952-53 figures history, the affair featured a musi in brackets, are: evening high school, cal trio, including a vocalist, and a 1,448 ( 1,425 ); evening elementary pair of ballroom dancers. Graduates, school, 200 (146 ); business school, 1,053 both new and old alike, seemed to (1,163); school of art, 253 (273 ); school appreciate the inovation. of retailing, 21. No classes in the latter school were held the ,previous year. The reception had been original Day and evening courses were given ly planned .for the Windsor Hall. o:f in the college, business school, and school the Winds!)" Hotel, but a few weeks of art during the year, Mr. Clark~ said. prior to tlie ~vening the alumni was advised that the, hall 4ad been re~ , · H e also announced that registration served for a civic reception in .h_onor figures for the summer term in all units of Emphor Haile Selassie. · stood at 1,113. Last year at this time 935 students were enrolled . A total of Through. the-kind . cooperation of 11913 registered for the 1952-53 term. the Mount Royal, a , last-minute switch was made and the affair .went · on as planned. Much credit goes to Social Chairman Frank Stannard and President Gordon Donaldson for their hard wo~k in connection SPECIAL with the arrangem~mts. With the affair's success, ·many POSTGRAD ISSUE graduates and alumni members were discussing the possibility of IN SEPTEMBER another "get-together"-before next year's annual reception rolls around again. June 1954 3 • • • keep the flame · constant Elie offers you automatic advance oil deli very based on continuing records of your fuel oil needs ... to guarantee you con stant comfort every day of the year. Elie also assures you of service night and day on all makes and types of burners ... expert maintenance ·and repair to give you clean, safe and economical operation. Now is the time to have your heating system cleaned and overhauled - ready for the first cold snap. Call Elie today for a quick, professional job. There's an at- · tractive discount offered to early-summer customers. 1944 Dorches.ter Street West - Montreal - WEiiington 8403 1944 Dorchester Street West - Montreal - WEiiington 8403 4 The Po5'grad THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE Dy GORDON C. DONALDSON President, Association of Alumni, Sir George Williams College NOTHER academic year has passed and we again welcome a new Alumni A group. It is hoped that these m embers will continue their College interes ts as they so ab1y demonstrated as undergraduates. Unfortunately, graduation to many, often means a severing of the c!Qse ties which existed while you were students. Marked enthusiasm was noticed during our recent Building Fund Campaign. Now that preparations for this project have started, we feel sure that you will now, more than ever, want to become closer to your Association of Alumni. BE IN THE SWIM Go East TH IS SUMMER THE ALGONQUIN St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, N.B. Open June 7 to Sept. 9 Spend sun-filled, sea-cooled days in Canadian Pacific's Atlantic Coos! Resorts. Three famed hotels to add zest to your rest , . , New Brunswick's Algonquin, Nova Scotia's Digby Pines, and Lake DIGBY PINES side Inn at Yarmouth. Fast, corrifortable trains to get you there. Digby, N.S. Open June 21 to Sept. 8 LOW ROUND TRIP-RAIL FARES Information and reservations from any Canadian Pacific agent or LAKESIDE INN write hotel managers. Yarmou th , N.S. Open June 26 to Sept, 12 June 1954 .5 CONVOCATION ADDRESS Q"4J SluuJJ Be flaw (ieH,d,ol/. SIR GEORGE ON "RIGHT' TRACK" T IS A pleasure to be pre_sent at a Coi:ivocation of Sir ~eorge Willia~s Colleg~; I Thomas Ca·rlyle once said: "There 1s properly no history; only b10graphy. According to him, "The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Sir George Williams was a great man, and he has been responsible for a great deal of history, including this great university with its ever increasing body of graduates. But even so great a man as Sir George Williams could not do more than set things in motion. It was only in so far as the thing that made him what he was, inspired others to take up where he left off, that his life and work and the institutions of which he laid the foundatioµs, including this institution, were perpetuated. In extending to me the invitation of the Board of Governors, the Chairman sent me a copy of the college calendar. I had turned over but the first page when I read this: "The fundamental educational philosophy of Sir George Williams College is that its chief concern shall be the development of persons." There came at once into my mind that statement of the late President Wilson, himself a former university president, in which he said that "not the least of the returns in life is the immense satisfaction which comes from the development of personality, which derives as a consequence of a life devoted to the nearest _duty." How better could it be put? Many of us, if not all of us at times, are tempted to slight the duty immediately at hand, promising ourselves that we will attend to the very next one. Nothing could be more false or more fatal. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick tells of his father, a high school principal, bidding his mother good-bye on the front steps one morning and saying: "Tell Harry that This year's convocation speaker was The Hon. Mr. Justice Roy Lindsay Kellock, Q.C., B.A., LL.D., of the Supreme Court of Canada.