, J. , Celebrate Memorial! ~ Q ~ ~ "% Jl-~ a pictorial history of Memorial University of Newfoundland Celebrate Memorial is a project of Memorial University's Anniversaries Committee to commemorate the Festival of Anniversaries, which over two years marks several important dates in our history.
• 75th anniversary of the founding of Memorial University College in 1925 • 50th anniversary of Memorial University as a degree-granting school in 1949 Table of Contents • 35th anniversary of the Marine Institute's beginnings in 1964 • 25th anniversary of Grenfell College's start in 1975 Chapter 1 1925 to 1949 ...... 1
Since its founding, the university has played a significant role in all aspects of the Chapter 2 1950 to 1959 ...... 17 development of our province. Our 50,000 alumni are leaders in business, Chapter 3 1960 to 1969 ...... 33 industry, education, government and many endeavours at home, in the rest of Chapter 4 1970 to 1979 ...... 49 Canada, and around the world. This book is a pictorial overview of Memorial's history, its accomplishments and its contributions to tl1e provincial community. Chapter 5 1980 to 1989 ...... 65 The first chapter covers the period from 1925 to 1949; in the other five, the story Chapter 6 1990 to 1999 ...... 81 of Memorial's 50 years as a university is told decade by decade, highlighting the development in the life of our academic community. We hope you will enjoy this look back at the people and the events that have shaped our anniversary as Memorial celebrates the past and, with great optimism, looks forward to being by Dr. Melvin Baker and Jean Graham part of the continuing development of Newfoundland and Labrador. Research: Dr. Melvin Baker Kevin Keough Design: Helen Houston Chair, Anniversaries Commillee All photos are courtesy of Memorial University except where noted Memorial university is the consciousness of a community reaching out to a realization of the higher powers of the mind .... Universities enrich the world .... The mandate given the college was not only high, but wide, and not until shared and made serviceable for the wants of all, will it be fulfilled. ''
- President John Lewis Paton at the official opening of Memorial University College on Sept. 15, 1925 CHAPTER 1 •
• 1921 Normal School opens • 1924 Parade Street campus for Normal School opens • 1925 I ,I Memorial University College opens • Appointment of John Lewis Paton as president • 1931 Old Memorials Association formed • First issue of the Cap and Gown yearbook published • 1932 Opening of the new wing • 1933 Appointment of Albert G. Hatcher as president • 1934 Teaching Training Department established • 1935 Memorial University College (Governors) Act • 1936 First issue of the Memorial Times published • 1949 University status for the college The founding trustees of Memorial University College: Arthur Barnes, Wil liam Blackall, Vincent Burke, Levi Cu rtis and Ronald Kennedy.
Memorial's foundations
When Memorial University College opened in 1925, it repre ented appointed deputy minister. Ronald Kennedy replaced Burke a the several years of effort by educators to provide a non-denominational Roman Catholic superintendent. The Normal School rented premises system of post-secondaty education. The superintendents of the from September 1921 until September 1924, when a new two-acre major denominations had been trying to raise teacher training campus opened at Merrymeeting Road and Parade Street in St. standard since at least 1913. John's.
William Blackall (Church of England), Levi CUttis (Methodist) and With no government funding to operate any academic program Vincent Burke (Roman Catholic), with funding from local aside from education, Burke, Curtis and Blackall turned to the businesses, established a joint summer school for teachers in 1917; Carnegie Corporation of New York. In 1924 the corporation agreed the experiment continued the following summer. In Januaty 1919 to an annual grant of $15,000 for five years, provided that the Curtis and Burke sponsored a resolution of the Patriotic Association, government wou ld provide $5,000 a year. Prime Minister Walter calling on the government to construct a training school as a Monroe accepted this offer in 1925 and appointed a board of memorial to ewfoundlanders who had died in the First World War. trustees to administer rl1e Carnegie grant.
In 1920 the government of Richard quire created a Department of On Sept. 15, 1925, the college under President John Lewis Paton Education and established a ormal School to train teachers. Arthur was officially opened by Governor Sir William Allardyce. Barnes became the minister of education and Vincent Burke was
2 Celebrate Memorial l925 The college staff In 1925 • John Lewis Paton, classics and German • Albert G. Hatcher, mathematics • Alfred Hunter, English and French • George O'Sullivan, chemistry and physics • Solomon Whiteway, history; principal of the Normal School • El izabeth McGrath, registrar
The college has been erected as a Memorial to those who fought and fell in the hope that by their sacrifice their country might be made a better and happier place for their fellow men. Can we doubt that those who strove to establish the college and succeeded in spite of all difficulties were inspired with that spirit of service, and is it not possible that the building itself ... is not already endowed with the same spirit? -St. John's Evening Telegram, Sept. 16, 1925
The first students and staff of Memorial University College, 1925-26 Insert: Helena McGrath , the first graduate in 1926.
Celebrate Memorial . President John Lewis Paton
In 1967 President (pro tern) M.O. Morgan wrote of Paton that "his memorial is the achievement of his students. In a real sense Memorial University is Community itself a memorial to him, for he laid the foundation of sound scholarship and quality, of attention to our social and physical environment, of Outreach concern for students and of outreach to the community." To make the college of service to the As a motto for the college, Paton adopted Provehito in altum - "launch forth into the deep." And launch forth he did- with a vision general public implies more than the of a college that would erve evety citizen of Britain's oldest colony. indirect benefits desirable through the Paton was concerned that many otherwise qualified young people would students, and these are many. It is not be able to attend the college for financial reasons. In 1926 he set up a direct service which will popularize the scholarship and loan fund. A. C. Hunter later recalled, "No one knows how institution. This the college proposes to many students had their college fees, and later their univer ity fees, paid by introduce not in the sweet bye and bye, [Paton]." Paton also collected donations from business people and encouraged students to raise funds from concerts and other functions. Within two years the scholarship and but in the living present .... The college loan fund stood at over ~6,000. The interest from this fund made it possible for students, after is opening its doors to all. All may graduating from the college, to finance at least part of their univer ity education abroad. When he become students, if they will. Lost died in 1946 Paton left the college a bequest of $3,000 for student assistance. opportunities may be regained, whilst Paton wa determined to see the college reach out to the public through popular subjects such as new ones are knocking at the doors of art and navigation. Extension courses became a regular feature of college activities. The college all who desire to avail of them. quickly became a social and intellectual centre for St. John's, while graduates carried its influence across the country. -St. John's Daily News, Sept. 17, 1925 Enrolment increased annually, resulting in ~1emorial ' s first overcrowding problem. In 1930 the college was forced to restrict the enrolment of first-year students. Converting the Assembly Hall into a lecture room provided a temporary solution, while the government added a three-storey wing that opened in 1932. Much larger than the original building, the new wing contained a large lecture theatre and a gymnasium, the largest in Newfoundland at that time, which was also used for city sports activities.
4 Celebrate Memorial 1925 • Facilities: assembly hall, library, three laboratories, lecture rooms and offices. • Number of full·time students: 57 • Tuition fee (per academic year): $40 • Number of faculty members: 5
Postage stamp showing Memorial ~n.iversity . 1933 with the 1932 addition on the College m left.
Students writing exams in 1933.
Students in chemistry lab, 1933.
Men's soccer team, 1928.
Celebrate Memorial 5 1935 • Facilities: Gymnasium, four labs, lecture hall, library, lecture rooms, offices • Number of students: 220 • Tuition fee (per academic year) : $50 • Number of faculty members: 12 • Books in library: 8,000 I President Albert George Hatcher
Albert Hatcher was born in 1886 in Moreton's Harbour and attended Methodist College, St. John's; McGill University, Montreal; University of Chicago; and Columbia University, New York. During the First World War, Hatcher served as By the end of the college's first aprofessor in the Royal Canadian Navy at Royal Roads in British Columbia decade its graduates were eagerly and at the Naval College, Halifax. He was later a professor of natural sought by the government for science at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, and in 1925 he joined the positions in a reorgamzed civil staff of the newly created Memorial University College to teach mathematics. service. In the late 1930s, the He retired as president in 1952 for health reasons and accepted the title of thriving college set up two-year president emeritus. He died at St. John's on Oct. 30, 1954. pre-agriculture, -medical, -dertal, and -engineering programs, with In 1933 Paton retired and Albert Hatcher was too, when in humour, and some of the most agreements allowing students to appointed president. Hatcher was one of Memorial amusing after-dinner speeches I have heard were continue their studies at other University College's original faculty members. In a made by President Hatcher at college functions. He colleges and universities. tribute in the 1955 edition of the Cap and Gown had little patience for the familiar academic yearbook, Dean A. C. Hunter wrote that Hatcher controversies. What is uncultural, he would say, was a "man of wide and varied intellectual about training for a vocation? He saw these interest , philosophical, literary and linguistic, as dichotomies as petty and artificial, realizing as he well as mathematical and scientific. But it was not did the truth that the spirit of learning and teaching that that specially distinguished him. It was rather alone counts. Truth is one, not many. The bu iness his intense interest in every single student as a of the university is to seek and disseminate truth. person. He trained and exercised his natural gift Let teacher and student together pursue the search for remembering the names, native places, and and all will be well." Hatcher's legacy was to circumstances of all his students. Students could provide strong and stable leadership during diffcult not fail to be aware of the personal quality in his financial and political years in Newfoundland in dealings with them. He had a pretty turn of wit, the 1930s and 1940s.
6 Celebrate Memorial Original Parade Street building: Insert: Parade Street campus in 1933 with the addition to the left constructed in 1932.
Women 's field hockey team, 1925.
Domestic science class, 1933.
Celebrate Memorial 7 Monnle Mansfield, registrar 1929·1959, and dean of women
Born in Boston in 1895, Monnie Mansfield moved to St. John's with her Newfoundland-born parents and was educated at St. Bride's College. In 1929 she joined the staff of the college as secretary to President Paton and also as registrar. Because of her strong interest in the welfare of students and her "passionate insistence on the individuality of students," as university orator George Story recalled in 1964, She was appointed dean of women in 1944. She 1936 Students' Representative Council. Bottom (1-r) - Walter Macabe, Fabian O'Dea, retired in 1959 and was awarded an Frederick Gover, Margaret Conroy, Charles Roberts. Top (1-r) - Frederick Smallwood, Ruth Summers, Margaret Robertson, Gertrude Butler, Dorothy Milley, Charles Godden. honorary master of arts degree at the 1960 spring convocation, the last official function on the Parade Street campus. She died on Aug. 28, 1963.
8 Celebrate Memorial Being there
My memories of the Parade Street campus go back to 1936 and the beginning for me of the great adventure of higher learning! Flashbacks always include the fatherly smiles of Dr. Hatcher; the professional insights gained in the teacher training program under professor Edward The engineers' banquet, April 27' 1937. Powell; practice teaching at Bishop Spencer College in St. John's under the searching gaze of Miss Violet Cherrington; friendships that have lasted a lifetime; and, above all, the fostering of my life-long affair with English literature. Through such teachers as A. C. Hunter, David Pitt, and Alison O'Reilly Feder, any success I have had in my own career owes much to their guidance, and my hope is that I have been able to share with my own students some of the insights gained in those early days.
-Alice Wareham, '36
c 0 ·~ Women's field hockey team fall1939. Front (1-r) .,_~ - Christine Roberts, Marion Peters. Middle (1-r) 0 ~ -Ainslie Cole, Gladys Harvey, Jean Ross. Back ~ (1-r) - Sally Suckling, Allison Strong, Phyllis ~ 8 Carter, Ruth Halfyard, Gwen Earle. Insert- Eo Georgie Carnel I. .c Q ~------~ Celebrate Memorial 9 ~ Being there
In 1941-42 we were issued khaki coveralls with wedge caps of the same limp-twill material. The shoulders bore a large, bright-red "M" on a small cloth patch of white. We were given basic military training, using World War I weapons, by Sgt. Crump, a feisty little drill instructor from the We lsh Guards. All our training was done at the CLB Armoury.
One evening, on our way home, Len Library in 1933. Porter and I decided to use our quasi-military garb to gain entry to a lively dance "for servicemen only" in In 1946 about 50 ex-servicemen entered Memorial University the Guards ' Club Rooms at the top College. The administration generously provided a room in of Barter's Hill. We were stopped at the basement for use as a club and meeting room. I recall the threshold of a promising evening the many heated discussions on confederation and other by the doorman, who loudly current issues in which veterans and younger members of demanded, "What outfit the student body participated. It was here that past are you fellows with, McKinlay friendships were renewed and new ones Motors?" made that have continued down through -Bruce Woodland, '41 the years. - Heward Peters, '48
10 Celebrate Memorial Alfred Collinson Hunter
A. C. Hunter taught English and French at the college. Avigorous and stimulating teacher, he impressed upon his students the value of clear thinking, accuracy and intellectual integrity. In 1933 he became vice-president. On his retirement from Memorial University in 1958, Hunter was appointed dean emeritus, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the un versity in 1961. In 1971 university orator George Story wrote of Hunter that he was the "dominant figure of the institution by virtue of his fastidious scholarship, Students on the front steps of the college, late 1930s. h1s rigorous and demanding skill as a teacher, and the r'c~n ess of intellectual and moral culture. " Hunter died at St. John 's on May 16, 1971. The war years
For much of the war the college shared its facilities with the Canadian forces. The gymnasium became a hospital ward for sailors. Many students and faculty members volunteered for military service. Under graduate men were required to participate in the college's cadet corps, while the women enrolled in first aid and physical training cia ses. Members of the Canadian armed forces and the Newfoundland military took courses at the college as part of the Canadian Legion' War ervices Education Committee activities.
Women's basketball team, 1944-45. Front (1-r) -Jess Case, Betty Jamieson, Jan Story, Gert Peters. Back (1-r) - J~ne Clouston, Ruth Fraser, Betty Bastow, Marg Garland, Elizabeth Carter.
Celebrate Memorial 1948-1949 • Facilities: Gymnasium, four laboratories, engineering drafting room, lecture hall, library, lecture rooms, offices • Number of full-time students: 329 • Tuition fee (per academic year): $100 • Union fee: $5 per annum for games and societies, payable by all students • Number of faculty members: 26 .~
of Memorial University College in the mid-1930s. Students on steps
1 Celebrate Memorial Women's field hockey team fall1940. Front (1-r) -Shirley Morris, Ruth Butler. Middle (1-r)- Marion Peters, Jean Diamond, Gladys Harvey with athletic letter M, Lorna Collins, Elizabeth Angel, Marjorie Noftle. Back (1-r)- Helen Weir, Mabie Moore, Genevieve Winter, Daphne Barnes, Gwen Earle.
Graduating class parading from Parade Stree t cam pus to Pitts Memorial Hall, June 7, 1941.
Celebrate Memorial 13 Engineering students on geology field trip at Manuels River, 194 7.
Sadie organ, librarian 1934-58.
14 CelebrateM emorial If there was a time to make the college a university, that time is now, University status now that we have become As veterans returned from the Second World War, there was a province of Canada another upsurge in enrolment. In 1946 enrolment peaked at .... We will, as 434 students, declining to 329 two years later. Overcrowded Canadians, gradually, classrooms and laboratories once more became the norm. more especially in Vice-president Hunter later recalled that the ''reading-room planned for 100 had to serve four times that number" and the generations to noted "the utter inadequacy of the teaching staff- in 1946 ... come, gradually and when students numbered over 400, 280 in the first year, the quite inevitably absorb a teaching staff in the Department of English numbered two, wider outlook, a Canadian both engaged at the same time in the Department of Foreign outlook .... All the more reason, therefore, why Languages." we should do something to see to 1t that our As a temporaty solution, the government acquired two distinctly Newfoundland culture and conscious· nearby buildings from the American military, which had established bases in Newfoundland during the war. As the ness do not disappear and are preserved and number of academic offerings grew, the board of governors maintained down to many generations in the and the faculty sought university status, but the government future. And l feel this university will be a great was unwilling to provide capital funding - although it did means toward that end .... At the same time, agree, in 1946, to have the three-year teacher training program included in the regular college curriculum. there is no reason, if we have the vision and if we have the courage, .. . the University of On july 22, 1948, Newfoundlanders voted for Confederation with Canada. On April1, 1949, joseph Roberts Smallwood, Newfoundland for its size should not be the the leader of the Confederate campaign, became premier of most distinguished university in the whole Newfoundland. One of the first acts of the new Newfound world .... land legislature, on Aug. 13, 1949, was the enactment of a bill - Premier Joseph R. Smallwood speaking on elevating the college to the status of a university to be known Aug. 11, 1949, in the Newfoundland House of a Memorial University of Newfoundland. Assembly on second reading of legislation establishing Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Celebrate Memorial 5 Students at the entrance to the college, 1942.
Celebrate Memorial 1950 to1959 his is a provincial university, and the field within which it will have its immediate and greatest opportunity for service will be among the people .... It is most fitting that people should come to the university, but where that ideal is unattainable, within certain fields it can and should go to the people .... [F]or its best work, the university must have the sympathy and support of the public .... It is their university.... ''
- Raymond Gushue at his installation as president, Oct. 8, 1952 CHAPTER 2 Raymond Gushue ·~
Born in Whitbourne 1 19 fir t degree-granting convocation
on June 20, 1900, 1 1952 philosophy 1 Gushue becomes Gushue earned a president 1 Lord Rothermere installed as first chancellor 1 1953 physical education , law degree from geology 1 1954 commerce 1 1956 first Dalhousie in 1925 master's degree (chemistry) 1 sociology, First degree-granting convocation held by Memorial University pre-forestry 1 1957 psychology 1 1958 on June 3, 1950. Seated- (l·r) George A. Hickman (dean, and practiced law master's degree in English 1 1959 sod· Education), Dr. A. C. Hunter (dean, Arts and Science), Dr. until his appoint· turning for new campus Albert G. Hatcher (president), Stanley J. Carew (dean, Applied Science). Standing (l·r)- Thomas J. Strapp, BA; John R. ment as chairman Courage, BA (Ed.); Denise J. Bon nave, BA; Bernard W. March, BA; Frederick J. Newhook, BA. of the Newfound· land Fisheries Board in 1936. He was chairman of the Newfoundland Woods Labour Board Academic foundation (1947-58) and a member of the Royal The newly-formed university's policy was ''to measure designed to accommodate the needs of Commission on Canada's Economic proceed slowly and urely o as to establish a growing student population and faculty. In the Prospects (1955-58). In 1967 he degree patterns on sound academic lines ." Early mid-1950 the university took over an adjoining emphasis was on a broad-based undergraduate government building and erected four pre-fab became the first Newfoundlander program in the arts and sciences. In the mid- buildings, one behind the adjacent USO appointed to the Order of Canada. 1950s, graduate programs in selected disciplines Building, two on the football fi eld, and a student He died Dec. 18, 1980. were added; English and chemi try were the first building adjoining the west wing of the main departments to offer these program. building.
Paton's legacy of acce sibility continued in Chemistry profes or Hugh Anderson later official government policy that the largest recalled in his unpublished memoirs that the two possible number of students be able to attend. tructures on the football field were known as Memorial maintained tuition fee well below the "Tin Can East and West." average for the univer itie in the Maritime In 1958 overcrowding forced the administration Provinces. to impose a cap of 600 on first-year student , a Undergraduate enrolment increased during the quota that remained until 1961, when Memorial decade, and the Parade Street campus inevitably moved to the Elizabeth Avenue campus. became overcrowded despite several temporary
18 Celebrate Memorial Women's basketball team, 1956-57. Front (1-r) Joan Parsons, Georgie Elton, Maxine Guzzwell, Eleanor Squires, Carolyn Pike. Back- (1-r) Professor Doug Eaton (coach), Marg Templeman, Joan Lewis, Shirley Earle Linda Winter, Christine Whelan.
We got a T·E·A·M. That's on the B·E·A·M. We got a team that's on the beam, That's really hep to the jive, Professor Corb Noel (centre) and students in the physics lab. So come on, Memorial, Skin 'em alive! 'Ray!
Celebrate Memorial 19 ~949-1950 • 1949 Unit of the University Naval Training Division established • 1950 Unit of the Canadian Officers Trai ning Corps established University governance
The 1949 legislation appointed or elected under the establishing the university authority of the Board of provided for a chancellor, a Regent . The three faculties board of regents, a president formally recognized in 1950 (appointed by the board), a were arts and science, applied senate, and faculty councils. science, and education.
The Board of Regents oversaw During the 1950s the university the management, admin received its fu nding from three istration and control of the main sources: the annual property, revenue, business operating grant from the E. J. Pratt, addressing convocation on the and affairs of the university. It occasion of the install ation of the Hon. province, stu dent tuition fees, consisted of government the Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted as and, after 1952, the federal appointees and two members first chancel lor and Raymond Gushue as government. Beginning in 1952 second president, Oct. 8, 1952. elected by Convocation. the federal government made annual grants available to Chancellors President Hatcher, the first universities based on a per capita population basis for of Memorial president of the university, retired fromthe position in each province. This financial assistance was critical to University 1952. His successor was Raymond Gushue, a St. John's Memorial's academic growth. (from top left) lawyer who had had a long association with the college. He was a member of the governing board of Although the student base and the research focus were The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Rothermere the college and vice-chairman of the Board of Regents primarily rooted in Newfoundland, Memorial recruited of Hemsted , 1952 - 1961 before his appointment as president. facu lty from many universities and countries. Alarge The Rt. Hon. the Lord Thomson of Fl eet, percentage of new faculty members were British, but Responsibility for academic matters rested with Senate, 1961- 1968 many were American and Canadian, including an appointed body consisting of the president, the Dr. G. Alain Frecker, 1971 -1979 Newfoundlanders. Al ong-termef fect of this hiring deputy minister of education, the deans of faculties, Dr. Paul G. Desmarais, 1979 - 1988 practice was the broadening of the province's cultural a representative of any college or institution affiliated Hon . Dr. John C. Crosbie, 1994 - and ethnic awareness. with the university, and a maximumo f six others
20 CelebrateMe morial 1952 • President Hatcher unveils Memorial's coat of arms • Memorial revives the custom of wearing undergraduate gowns to classes
Engineering students in 1956 conducting survey work at the future site of the newcampus at Hal liday Fa rm. Executive of the Athletic Union, 1952·53. (1-r) Sidney Dyke, Edwin J. Snook, Roland Avery, Darryl Fry, and Roger March.
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. ·ty with engineering students in drafting lab. Open House at the un1vers1
Celebrate Memorial Being there
The Memorial University of the mid-1950s was compact, companionable and collegial. It was also a place of intellectual ferment and great opportunity. The electoral scholarships had just been introduced and these and other awards allowed the best students from across the province to gather on Parade Street. Many of us were the first members of our families to attend university. Newfoundland was very outward-looking in the years immediately after the Second World War, and my contemporaries imagined themselves in careers all Feb. 10, 1959 -Three members of the MUN Radio Society who helped VOCM with over the world. Happily, their dreams came true . announcing during the regular day's program - (1-r) Florence Walsh, Eileen Yard, VOCM announcer Bob Cole and Edwina Suley. -Peter Neary, B.Sc. '59
Chairs of the Board of Regents (from left)
Hon. Sir Albert Walsh, 1950 -1953 Dr. Edmund J. Phelan, 1953 -1968 Hon. Dr. Gordon A. Winter, 1968 · 197 4 Hon. Dr. Frederick W. Russell, 197 4 -1982 Hon. Dr. Charles W. White, 1982 -1991 Dr. Janet Gardiner, 1991- 1997 Edward M. Roberts, 1997 ·
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May 16, 1956 Convocation- Memorial 's first graduate students, from the master of science in chemistry program. (1-r) - Martin B. Sheratte, Audrey S. Ralph, William A. Mueller and Vernon W. Hiscock.
University Day. Each year the university designated a special day to invite the public to tour its facilities and meet the students and staff.
('pfpf'll'nfn M .:-I How the muse was ·~ named Acontest for a name for the new student voice was held but no worthy names were produced. In desperation the staff turned to the English Department.
Asked why the name was chosen, Professor David Pitt said: "A familiar symbol of the university is the letter M. The Greek Mis called mu, which may also be regarded as the symbol of a university whose initial letters are MU. Thus a paper Memorial contingent of the COTC in April1958. Front (1-r)- Robert Furlong, Graham Peddle, Major Jack Blundon, Capt. Mike Stapleton, Capt. Doug Eaton, John Rahal, Robert Kelly. Middle (1-r)- Leonard Cowley, issued by a university, where classical Sid Noel, George Lee, Mike Kennedy, John Small, Desmond Kearney, Francis Barnes, John Sullivan, Miles learning is held in high regard, and whose Tremblett, Harold White, Dave Carmichael, Cyril Boone, George Case. Back (1-r)- Neville Russell, Doug Chaytor, Tom Ressesco, Clyde Wells, Clyde Vincent, Gerald Ryan, Robert J. Olivero. initials are MU, might very appropriately be called 'MU's paper'- which is also a kind of pun on 'newspaper. ' By adding the 'e', all the rich associations of the word Student organizations 'muse' are added. We call the daily Memorial Till)es The Students' Representative Council (SRC) had re ponsibility for athletic, newspaper 'The News'; we call MU's social and other activities. The SRC was elected annually by the student body paper the 'Muse' or Muse paper." to serve as a liaison with the president and faculty. In 1957 it was replaced by the Council of the Students' Union (CSU). - the muse, Mar. 29, 1956 Students quickly formed their own special interest groups such as the pre- medical, engineering, education, arts and science, radio and dramatic The Memorial Times, first societies. On Dec. 11, 1950, the fir t issue of the student newspaper, the published in 1936. muse, was published. The newspaper succeeded the Memorial Times, which had been published on an irregular basis since 1936.
24 Celebrate Memorial 956 • w iam Mueller was the first recipient of th 'othermere Fellowship established by the chancellor, Lord Rothermere. The fellowship enables a Memorial graduate to do post-graduate study at a university in Britain. Being there We were fewer than 1.000 students in what President Gushue call ed ua community of scholars." Coming from town and bay, we argued about Newfoundland in the new Confederation; we discussed ph ilosophy and history - to the amazement of our sociology professor, most of us partied without alcohol! We danced under the mirror ball, played hockey on Bell Island, and drank coffee at the Candlelight. Out of our ~+uden t revolt came the constitution that backs today's CSU. Out of our number came premier, senator, archbishop, airline and university presidents, judges, engineers, teachers, and doctors. We carry the memory and our love for Memorial - we will carry it forever.
-Elizabeth L. Reynolds, BA '58
Joint Services Ball • 195 7 • Faci lities: Three buildings, including library, 18 labs, gymnasium, assembly hall , and bowling alleys • Number of students: 1.134 • Tuition fees per academic year: $100 • Number of faculty members: 72 • Number of staff: 12
"The paper on 'Research in the Language and Research in Place Names of Newfoundland', read to the Canadian Linguistic Association, was received Newfoundland studies with the liveliest interest. One of the purposes of the paper was to describe our work in From the beginning, the university recognized the paramount role Newfoundland in the hope that we might profit Memorial must play in promoting Newfoundland studies, long the domain of amateur enthusiasts and popular writers including Premier from an association with mainland skills and Smallwood. In 1954 the univer ity applied to the Carnegie Corporation financial resources. In the event, this hope for help to establish a provincial archives. The corporation agreed to a was over-optimistic. As soon became apparent, three-year grant of $30,000 on condition that, once established, the in no other English-speaking region of Canada archives would be handed over to the province. is work as advanced in these fields as it is in When the grant expired in 1958, the university received financial Newfoundland, and in no other region is it assistance from the Canada Council and the archives was transferred to being pursued so vigorously. Only in French the province in 1960. As part of this project, librarian Agnes O'Dea began compiling the first comprehensive bibliography of Newfoundland speaking Canada is a comparable effort being and Labrador writings. Her efforts to collect and preserve publications made .... The lively interest shown in our work on ewfoundlancl and Labrador eventually led to the establishment of is flattering, both to the individuals concerned the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. and to the university. " English professors E. R. Seaty and George Story studied the Newfound -Memo written by Dr. E.R. Seary and Dr. George land dialect and the origins of Newfoundland place and family names. Story on July 14, 1957. The work of scholars in the English Department on the Newfoundland language University scientists were active in marine research. Chemist Douglas and family and place names was published between Cooper and William Forbes and physicist Corb Noel studied artificial the 1960s and the 1990s; the latest one, The Place drying techniques for salt cod and de igned an experimental fish plant Names of the Great Northern Peninsula, by Dr. W.J. at Valleyfielcl, Bona vista Bay. Biologist Cater Andrews investigated the Kirwin, Robert Hollett and the late E.R. Seary, will size of fish stocks off ewfoundland and undertook collaborative be published in 1999. research with federal fisheries biologists such as Wilfred Templeman.
2 Celebrate Memorial May 13, 1957- Dr. A.C. Hunter with colleagues who were once his students at Memorial University College. Front (1-r)- Eli Lear, Edna Baird, Moses 0. Morgan, Dr. Hunter, George A. Hickman, Sadie Organ, and Cater Andrews. Back (1-r) - Chesley lvany, Margaret Williams, William G. Rowe, Marina Hann, T. Corb Noel, Anne White, George M. Story, Kathleen Norris, Jack Blundon, Ada Green, John B. Ashley, Jean Pratt, Michael Harrington, Alison O'Reilly, Anthony Nemec and Ruth Trickett.
Celebrate Memorial 27 Photo courtesy of The Telegram
Faculty Fossils basketball and volleyball team. Back (1-r) Bill Forbes (chemistry), Gordon Hyde (captain , resident COTC Winners of the talent show held on Feb. 10, officer), David Baird (geology), Moses Morgan (political 1959, during University Week. Front.(1-r) science). Front (1-r)- David Genge (physics), Hugh Anderson Barbara Hand, John Smith, Marguente Short. P~ofessor Doug Eaton with the candidates for a (chemistry) and Doug Eaton (physical education). Back (1-r) - Melvin Pike, Bruce Hallett, Bob Mtss Memorial contest, 1959. Lockhart, Phillip Patey, David Gill.
University Week- 1958
"The week beginning March 3 saw the celebration of University Week. Mr. Harold Goodridge, and cartoons by Dr. A.A. MacDonald, who, On Sunday students and faculty members attended divine service at incidentally, was awarded a first prize in this year's Arts and Letters various St. John 's churches. On Monday the university played host to contest. members of the public and visitors from the schools. Demonstrations "On Tuesday, March 5, the students staged atalent show (watched with and exhibitions were held in the science laboratories (included in the fear by the faculty members selected as victims) and a debate. The exhibits in the Geology Lab was a large round beach-stone, hopefully afternoon was given up to sport, including the now-classic faculty labeled 'Dinosaur egg'). and the Geography Department, COTC [known as the 'Faculty Fossils'] vs. student basketball game. There was (Canadian Officers Training Corps) and library also had displays. Among a dance in the evening. · the attractions sponsored by the library were exhibitions of paintings by -Memorial University Newsletter, No. 5{Apri/1957)
2 Celebrate Memorial Top: Sodturn ing ceremony for the new university campus on El izabeth Avenue. Ce;ntre: The Physical Education building under construction. Construction Bottom: Bowater and Rothermere Houses under construction. Background photo: View from Mount Scio of Halliday Farm and surro unding area, the site of the Elizabeth Avenue campus. of a new campus
Since becoming a university Memorial has more than tripled its enrolment .... The old parade ground has now reached its capacity for temporary buildings. Only enough space for a parking lot has been left. There is no room to beautify the present campus, which has been dubbed the mud bath' by the students. This is why the situation at Memorial is desperate. It is impossible to expand further on the present university site. The problem of non·existent space was rea'ized last year wnen an enrolment of 1,134, an increase of 250 students over the 1957 enrolmert, was squeezed into the campus buildings. This year lack of space has forced the university to grind down the annually·increasing number of potential students by raismg entrance and examination standards .... The situation at Memorial has long s nee reached the point where it concerns the overall welfare of Newfoundland. Surely this fact alone is enough to warrant an -~---- re·nedy. -the muse, Feb. 9, 1959 1959 Temporary • 1959 In January Memorial University is visited for the first time by a mainland college hockey buildings) team, the University of King's College of Halifax. 1957 ''Three temporary buildings have been added to the campus. One of these is a wooden structure, designed as a student building. It contains common rooms and lounges and offices for the student societies. This has relieved the congestion in other buildings and has given the
5 ,.----~---., students space and ~ ! independence. Two " ~ prefabricated buildings have been placed on the .._. playing.field, both USO Building fronting containing offices Merrymeeting Road. for faculty members and additional lecture and seminar rooms. The space thus provided in the older buildings has been used for much·needed laboratory expansion in the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering and Physics. For the time being, all this has provided a temporary, but needed, easing of congestion." -Memorial University Newsletter, No. 6 (Dec. 1957) Construction scenes of the Elizabeth Avenue campus. Clockwise fromto p left - (two photos) Arts and Administration Building in 1960, interior of the library in 1961.
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Students march to the Colonial Building to protest Term 29, Mar. 26, 1959.
In 1951 the government chose an 80-acre site for a new campus located in a sod-turning ceremony at the site of the new campus. Funding for the new planned suburb the St. John's Housing Corporation had commenced building campus came from the provincial government and the Canada Council. in the mid-1940s. The site on Elizabeth Avenue (then at the fringes of the Students cheered the premier in that year when they staged a public protest city) had been part of the Halliday farm. from the campus to the Colonial Building, the first march by university In October 1952 Chancellor Lord Rothermere presided over an official students on the provincial legislature. Thi protest, differing from those of ceremony to lay the cornerstone for the main building. For financial reasons, later decades, was in support of the provincial government, which wa construction did not commence until1959; by then university and objecting to the federal government's refusal to give the province more government officials had planned every aspect of the university's physical funding under Term 29. and academic needs. On May 23, 1959, Premier Smallwood presided over a CelebrateM emorial 31 Students at the main entrance at the Parade Street campus, 1952.
32 Celebrate Memorial 1960 tol969 o institution can be understood except in relation to its history and the dreams which foreshadow its development. Dreams also provide the inspirational beacon for future development. For Memorial must be not simply a replica of a university to be found elsewhere nor a composite of the features of others that already exist, however established and famous they may be. It is and must remain unique, with its roots deep in the traditions of the university college and more profoundly in the traditions of this province. It must remain of Newfoundland, reflecting the ethos of its people and their aspirations, as it remains both the gateway and a contributor to afuller life. ''
- M.O. Morgan, dean of arts and science, in an address to the St. John 's Rotary Club, Sept. 7, 1961 CHAPTER 3 View of the Elizabeth Avenue campus in October 1961: L-r- Physical Education Building, Eleanor Roosevelt presenting the keys of the Arts and Administration Building, Science Building and the Library. The Dining Hall and university to the chancellor, Lord Thomson, Bowater and Rothermere Houses are behind the Science Building. Oct. 9, 1961. ------The three greatest thing that ever happened to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Premier Smallwood, Newfoundland, according to]. R. Smallwood, were the presidents of 41 of Canada's 42 universities, and its discovery in 1497, its confederation with Canada representatives from d1e United Kingdom, the United in 1949, and "the building of our great university." As States and Portugal. • ~ 9&::' 1 F1 rst honorary degree (Monnie Memorial prepared to move from the cramped Mansfield) • 1961 Elizabeth Avenue campus The key to the university was presented to the new quarters of the old college to spacious new buildings opened • 1962 Dining Hall, Rothermere chancellor by Eleanor Roosevelt. The Monday on Elizabeth Avenue, a great celebration was planned House and Bowater House opened evening banquet with 1,000 guests, including many • 1964 Doyle House opened • 1965 First - including a province-wide holiday. Aspecial ewfoundlanders brought home by the government doctoral programs (English and chemistry) convocation on Oct. 7 installed Roy Thomson, a for the occasion, was held at Holy Heart of Ma1y • 1966 Education Building opened • ETV Canadian-born British newspaper publi her (later established • Division of Student Services High School. Lord Thomson of Fleet), as chancellor. created • 1967 Chemistry-Physics Building In its short history, the university had conferred and Barnes, Burke, Curtis, Biackall , Hatcher, The official opening was held on Monday, Oct. 9. and Squires residences opened • 17 new just one honorary degree - a master's to retiring Fifteen thousand high school and university students, academic departments • 1968 Residence registrar Mannie Mansfield in 1960. As part of the no doubt thankful for the warm, sunny morning, complex named Paton College • Thomson new campus celebrations, on Oct. 10, 1961, the formed ranks at Churchill Square and paraded along Student Centre opened • First issue of MUN university awarded its first honorary doctoral Gazette published • 1969 tri-semester year Elizabeth Avenue. The parade included several degrees. The 19 recipients included Mrs. Roosevelt, instituted marching bands as well as local schools, and service Premier Smallwood, Prime Minister Diefenbaker, and conununity organizations. poet E.]. Pratt and the heads of the major religious On the viewing rand were Eleanor Roosevelt denominations in the province. (representing the president of the United States),
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Students participating in the Oct. 9, 1961, parade celebrating the official opening of the new campus.
Celebrate Memorial 35 Retirement of President .) Gus hue On Feb. 28, 1966, Dr. Raymond Gushue retired as president and vice-chancellor .... To the problems he was called upon to solve, he brought ... qualities and experiences of a special kind: a mind sharpened by training in law, a native son's love of Newfoundland, broad Physical Education Building, 1961. knowledge of its life and economy, and wide experience as an international civil servant. With these went personal qualities ... detached fairness in the strange world of academic debate; After the weekend's festivities, the new campu was open and ready for business in four buildings: the Arts and Administration building, the unruffled calm amid storms internal and Science building, the Physical Education building and the library. external; a deep concern for the quality of The new campus would be home to explosive growth for the young undergraduate life and the expanding role university during the 1960s, as Memorial evolved from a small, primarily of the university in society. The prime undergraduate institution to a comprehensive university offering function of president, he once observed, masters' and doctoral degrees. When the new campus opened in 1961, is to be a good co-ordinator. He, himself, enrolment stood at 1,907; by the end of the decade it had risen to 7,239. excelled in that.. .. He used the powers of his office not to impose a pattern but to Already plans were in the works for more facilities. Anational fund encourage a process, immanent in the raising effort in support of this cau e in the early 1960s raised nearly $5 million. body academic. Sign showing the fund raising objectives of the Despite the many new facilities, rapid growth in enrolment once again - President (pro tern) M.O. Morgan, May 1966 university in its National convocation address Fund campaign, held in re ulted in a shortage of classroom and office space. In 1968 the 1960 and 1961. univer ity opened several one-storey wooden "tempora1y" buildings, some of which were still in use in the '90s.
3.~ Celebrate Memorial School students on parade at the ope ning of the new campus.
May 16, 1964- Premier Joseph R. Smallwood speaking at the official opening ceremony for Doyle House Residence, named in honour of American entrepreneur John C. Doyle. Behind Premier Smallwood are (1-r) John C. Doyle; Edmund Phelan, chair of the Board of Regents; President Raymond Gushue, Chancellor Lord Thomson; and Mrs. Clara Smallwood.
Allcourtesy photos of on The these Telegram two pages Celebrate Memorial E til ~ While the range of formal academic Q) ~ Henrietta programs gre"' rapidly, the university's ~ ... commitment to the province at large Harvey was never forgotten. In 1959 John cdlman was appointed the first head of Research at the university was Extension Service, a the uniwsity given a boost in 1964 when a expanded its outreach program · with bequest was received from the non-credit cour es and educational estate of Henrietta Harvey, the televi ion programs broadcast on local stations. widow of St. John's businessman In 1961, with help from the federal John Harvey. With this gift (valued 1 1968 - unveiling of the master plan for the Department of Fisheries, Memorial Sep. t 1 ' . . f at $650,000 in 1966) the university (1-r) - Hon. Frederick W. Rowe, m.mister o instituted the TV program Decks AU'ash, education; Premier Joseph R. Smallwo~d; Sir Fredenck university established an designed especially to keep fishermen in Gibberd (university architect); and President Lord Taylor. endowment fund in 1967; the touch with technological and scientific Henrietta Harvey Chair, which it advances in the industry.] uly 1968 saw the birth of a magazine of the same name supports, has been occupied by devoted primarily to community and rural some of our most distinguished development issues. faculty scholars. Part of the endow Extension Service also offered programs in art In 1966 President Gushue retired and Mo es 0. ment also went towards a instruction taught by artist Christopher Pratt, "'ho Morgan, dean of arts and science, tepped in to Distinguished Visiting Scholars also managed the small art gallery in the library, serve as president pro tern. While the government fund. In 1970 the building housing and music taught by composer Murray Schafer. searched for a permanent successor, Morgan, ever Ignatius Rumboldt developed the St. John's inclined to action, initiated Senate reviews of the university library was named in Extension Choir and the university established the Memorial's academic and administrative programs. her honour. After the construction St. John's Orchestra. Within a year, the university hacl17 new academic of the new library, the Henrietta departments. Student enrolment after 1965 was greatly boosted Harvey building in the 1980s by Premier Smallwood's decision to provide free The search for a president resulted in the selection became home to the Department tuition and student allowances for all Newfound of the Rt. Hon. the Lord Taylor of Harlow. He of Mathematics and Statistics, the land residents and to pay every student a salary assumed office on June 1, 1967; Dean Morgan was Department of Computing and over and above free tuition. This program lasted appointed vice-president and pro vice-chancellor, until1969 when the province required all and Leslie Harris, who had been acting dean of Communications, the Maritime applicants for financial assistance to borrow a art and science, was confirmed a clean. History Archive, and the Maritime minimum of $400 from the new Canada Student History Group. Loan Plan Program before being approved for free tuition.
38 Celebrate Memorial 1963 • Premier Smallwood lectures 500 students on the art of debating
In Newfoundland and Labrador, in St. Lord Stephen Taylor of Harlow John 's and our other towns, life is Born at Marlow-on-Thames, England, in 1910, Stephen still good and worthwhile. It is part Taylor was a physician who also served as a Labour MP of our duty here at Memorial to see from1945 to 1954. After 1954 he was appointed a that all that is good is preserved as member of the Harlow Development Corporation. In we plan and march forward into the 1958 he was named to the House of Lords as Lord future .... We may count ourselves Taylor of Harlow. In 1966 Premier Smallwood chose him blessed in our faculty - more to be president of Memorial. Following his retirement in international than any other faculty in 1973, Taylor was visiting professor of community Canada. We may count ourselves medicine at Memorial, and in 1986 the university blessed in our staff - devoted and awarded him an honorary degree. He died in Wales diligent.. .. Our duty is plain. We have on Feb. 1. 1988. to be worthy of the confidence that has been placed in us by the people and the government of Newfound land, to be humble and yet proud, to be bold and yet wise. - Lord Taylor, installation address as president of Memorial University, Temporary buildings under construction. Feb. 24, 1968.
CelebrateM emorial 3 From left, clockwise: Dance in the gym of the Phys Ed building. - Students marching in support of free tuition for students at other Canadian universities. -A float in the 1967 Winter Carnival parade celebrated Photos courtesy ofThe Telegram Canada's centenary as a nation. The Council of the Students' Union began holding an annual winter carnival in 1962.- On Sept. 12, 1967, over 1,000 students conducted a clothes drive for the Newfoundland Tuberculosis Association, which distributed the clothes to various charitable organizations. Carl Keeping of St. John's and Roger Crann of Windsor sort out the clothes. -Students participating in the free tuition demonstration.- Sept. 1967 Frosh march to Quidi Vidi Lake.
4 Celebrate Memorial 1967 • The first issue of the The Concrete Vine is published. Edited by John Sutherland, the newspaper provided Being news about residence life. • Memorial students form an anti-war group to protest American military involvement in VietNam. Protesters led by student organizers Andrew Mackey and Shane O'Dea subsequently mount a peaceful demonstration at the office of the American Consulate in St. John's there
It was a time of intense excitement and The professional cataclysmic change for a boy from a one-room schools school in Jackson's In the 1960s Memorial established professional degree programs in Cove, Green Bay. The nursing, medicine, social work, and engineering. In the decade following mind set, for example , the incorporation of the Association of Registered Nurses of to speak out against Newfoundland in 1953, the organization documented the need for a government, the great school of nursing. In 1961 the association presented to Senate its brief provider, required a approving the establishment of a Department of Nursing within the huge leap in attitude Faculty of Arts and Science. In 1965 joyce Nevitt was appointed head of and confidence. the new unit. The first class was admitted to programs for basic and post I remember Doyle RN students in 1966. Registered nurses (RNs) had a head start on the House shenanigans, sock hops, sing-alongs novices; thus four RNs received the bachelor of nursing degree in 1969, in a crammed lobby at Bowater House, while the first basic students graduated in 1971. In 1974 the department rehearsing for Winter Carnival talent shows, was elevated to the status of a school. bonding with the brothers at the Mu Upsilon Nu Fraternity and singing in the Glee Club The creation of Canada's sixteenth medical school wa, the culmination of with Nish Rumboldt. I also have vivid many years of work. The Royal Commission on Canadian Health Services memories of Student Council and several (1961) recommended a medical school for Newfoundland; the university's other campus organizations. They played a own McFarlane feasibility commission report (1966) recommended that a major role in instilling the confidence that medical school and a health sciences complex be built at Memorial; and anything you wanted could be within your the Lord Brain Royal Commission (1966) also recommended that grasp. provision of adequate medical smices could not be achieved without a medical school. With financial commitments from the federal and - Dennis Knight, B.Sc., BA (Ed. ) '67 provincial governments, a medical program was developed. Jan Rusted was appointed dean, and by fall1969, instructor were in place and the first undergraduates in medicine were admitted to Memorial. The first Top to bottom: Joyce Nevitt, graduating class was in 1973. Dr. Angus Bruneau and Dr. lan Rusted.
Celebrate Memorial A St. John's House, the The Maltings at Harlow showing extension to the right constructed in 1988 faculty residence containing staff offices and a lecture room. This building has 11 single and 10 at Harlow. double study /bedrooms for students.
Memorial had offered a three-year diploma program in engineering since 1930. Graduates completed degree requirements outside Newfoundland, usually at the Nova Scotia Technical College. Because of the province's need for civil and electrical engineers, a Senate committee recommended in 1966 that Memorial establish a degree program in engineering. Later that year, Senate and the Board of Regents approved an engineering co-operative program that saw students alternate academic terms with work terms in industry, graduating with a healthy mixture of the theoretical and the practical. In 1968 Angus Bruneau wa appointed dean, and engineering Harlow campus degrees were offered in four disciplines - civil, mechanical, mining and Soon after Lord Taylor was installed as president, Memorial approved electrical engineering - and the first class graduated in 1974. the establishment of a residential campus in the town of Harlow, Diploma courses in public welfare had been offered at Memorial since 1961. England, 37 km northeast of London. During the 1950s Lord Taylor had That expanded in 1963 when the university, in response to a request from the been the town's public medical officer, and he believed that a campus provincial Department of Public Welfare, established a two-year diploma in England would strengthen relations between ewfoundland and program. In 1965 social welfare became a major for the bachelor of arts Britain and help students gain practical experience in engineering, degree, with Ella Brett as the program's first full-time faculty member. A1968 social services and teaching. In 1968 the university purchased several study of needs and potential conducted by the first department head, Frank adjoining buildings to accommodate about 70 students and in the Turner, led to the approval of a five-year bachelor of social work degree following year opened its Harlow campus with a board of trustees to program, which had its first graduating class in 1970. oversee its affairs.
42 Celebrate Memorial The College of Fisheries, Navigation, Marine Engineering and Electronics opened on Jan. 14, 1964, at Memorial's former Parade Street campus. In 1992 the government merged the college, renamed the Marine Institute in 1984, with the university.
Students at the College of Fisheries in the 1970s.
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Clockwise from left: In 1964 and 1965 the Biology Department acquired five specimens of the giant squid from fishermen in Newfoundland. The tentacles of the squids varied in length from 7 to 10 metres. -The Marine Sciences Research Laboratory at Logy Bay opened on June 22, 1967.- Dr. Fred Aldrich.- The new seismograph, a machine used to detect and measure earthquakes, being inspected on June 2, 1964, by (1-r) Adrian Walsh, Physics Department; Gordon Winter, vice·chair, Board of Regents; F. Lombardo, federal Department of Mines and Technical Surveys; President Gushue; and Dr. Ernst R. Deutsch, Physics Department. Research
The expansion of the 1960s was not merely gained an international reputation for scholarly programs, buildings and student numbers. New research and publishing. and exciting research programs reflected In 1967 the Marine Sciences Research Laboratory Memorial's continuing committment to the at Logy Bay, with Dr. Fred Aldrich a director, province. In 1961 the univer ity established the wa · established with the financial assistance of Institute of ocial and Economic Re earch (I ER) the National Re earch Council of Canada and the to examine rele\'ant i sue in the province. e\\'foundland government. Aldrich had already Under the direction of !an Whitaker and Parzival generated a lot of public attention as a result of Copes (and, after 1965, Robert Paine), ISER his research on the giant squid.
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Above: Academic procession, May 16, 1964, to the gymnasium of the Physical Education Building. In 1972 the university began holding convocation in the Arts and Culture Centre. Below: Olga Broomfield receives the hood for master of arts at the university's 15th spring convocation, May 16, 1964.
The Department of English language and Literature had been Archive, more familiarly known as MUNFLA. There was a researching Newfoundland place names and language, with the growing collection of sound recordings, manuscripts, artifacts encouragement of Canada Council grants, since the late 1950s; and audiotapes, mo t of it resulting from student research. the chief researchers were professors Ronald Seary and George Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland (Halpert and Story, eds., Storv ln 1959 and 1962 they were joined by William Kirwin 1969), an interdisciplinary study of the tradition of mumming and Herbert Halpert as specialists in linguistics and folklore (also known as mummering or jannying), was the first major respt.:ctirely. Seary subsequently published books on family study of Newfoundland culture published by Memorial. The names and place names, while Story, with Kirwin and john book represented for many the growing maturity of research Widdowson, toiled on The Dictionary of Newfoundland on topics close to home. Under Halpert's leadership, the Englisb, which was published to great critical acclaim in 1982. Department of Folklore became the first and only one of it kind in English Canada, offering bachelors', masters', and When the Department of Folklore was established in 1968, it doctoral degrees in that discipline. came complete with the Newfoundland Folklore and Language
Celebrate Memorial 45 "Bowater girls" participating in skits at Winter Carnival.
Residents of Curtis House, 1968-69. Being there Residence life in the mid-1960s gave me lifelong friendships, developed - we helped each other through the difficult times and treasured memories, and valuable experiences I will never forget. celebrated the good times together. We had great fun at Bowater House was the only women's residence at that time, residence-sponsored dances and sports activities; we even had flanked by the mens' houses of Rothermere and Doyle, with the our own newspaper for a while - The Concrete Vine. Winter Dining Hall as the meeting place. It was here that we spent many Carnival was the time when competition was highest among hours engrossed in conversation: politics, sports, exams, and Memorial's faculties and our residences. Who can forget the relationships. For many of us it was our first time away from Bowater Girls winning skits in the Winter Carnival Concert and the home. Many came alone, the only one representing her small floats we built with the boys of Rothermere? community, nervously anticipating what lay ahead. Friendships -Diane Lomond, BA (Ed) '67
Celebrate Memorial 968-1969 • 1968 Amaster plan drawn up by the university architect, Sir Frederick Gibberd, for the future expansion of the campus of Memorial University is unveiled. • 1969 The University Counselling Centre is established with Dr. Charles Preston as director.
The Fogo Process In 1967 the Extension Service's Fred Earle and the National Film Board, under its senior producer, Col in Low, made 28 short films totaling six hours in which residents of Fogo Island discussed community development interests. One month after each film was made, the film was shown to residents of the island; they began to recognize the problems they had in common and asserted their identity as Fogo islanders who had pride in their communities. The films were also Above: Students in the Dining Hall in the late 1960s. shown to politicians and civil servants Left: View of the Dining Hal l. to present the views and aspirations of the residents. This technique became a model for community development media programs outside Newfoundland.
Celebrate Memorial 4' Memorial University hockey team- Boyle Trophy champions, 1964-1965 Front row (1-r) - John Smith, Neil Winsor, Tom Collingwood, ian Campbell (capt.), Wayne Bradbury, Doug House, Ray Halley, Ed Hunt (manager). Middle row (1-r)- Barry Fraser, Roland Martin, Don Campbell, Barry James, Bob Smith, Gar Pynn, Foster Lamswood, Michael Donovan, Bob Davis. Back row (1-r)- Orin Carver (coach), Terry Haire, Vic Parsons, Roger Flood, Doug Moores, Rhodie Mercer, Ed Browne (assistant coach).
48 Celebrate Memorial ______I ''G he Report of the Task Force on University Priorities set forth the ... essential nature of a university, its basic objectives, and the purposes it should be pursuing- under- graduate programs of high quality; graduate programs in selected areas; research, particularly that related to the needs and opportunities of this province; student services, designed to provide a proper climate for the intellectual, social, and cultural development of our students; and community services, planned to meet the needs and aspirations of our people. These are, in fact, the purposes that this university has been pursuing, with uncertain financial support, since 1949. ''
- Convocation address by President Moses 0. Morgan, Oct. 30, 1976 CHAPTER 4 1970-1979
• 1970 Mun radio installs a Broadcast News wire service • 1971 Maritime History Group established • 1972 Burton's Pond apartment complex opened • Botanical Garden established • 197 4 French study institute opened in Saint· Pierre • Rrst PhD in ocean engineering awarded • C·CORE opens • 1975 coast campus opened with Arthur Sullivan as principal • Institute for Research and Development established • Three new education programs instituted • School of Business Administration and Commerce established • Department of Music established • Nutrition/dietetics (biochemistry) • Community nursing and psychiatric nursing • Building for Engineering, C·CO and Geology opened • 1976 Provincial art gallery responsibility given to Memorial • 1977 Newfoundland Institute of Cold Ocean Science opens within Science Faculty • Cyril Poole named principal at Corner Brook campus • Botanical Garden opened to public • 1978 P.J. Gardmer Institute opened • Archaeology Unit • Computer Science Department • Health Sciences opened • 1979 Corner Brook campus re-named Sir Wilfred Grenfell College • Engineering Building named for S. J. Carew • Fundraising for new library building started
Aerial view of the campus in the early 1970s showing the temporary buildings.
Student occupation of the Arts and Administration Building; at far right is Earle McCurdy. - 50 Celebrate J1emorial Being there
Student activism at MUN in the late 1960s and early 1970s had its roots in the "student power" movement and the general youth rebell iousness of the era. Our protest and issues were basic principles of participatory democracy and the right to have input into the decision-making process that had impact on our lives. The occupation of the Arts and Administration Building in 1972 is probably the most telling example.
Many of the activists of that era went on to become the activists, organizers and spokespeople of today's social, environmental, feminist, and po litical groups. It was a time of heady rebel liousness in an intellectual environment that encouraged a challenging of the status quo and a questioning of rigid bureaucratic tudent occupation regulation.
Memorial had its share of the student activism that was prevalent on American When I travel around the province today, and meet and Canadian campuses during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Perhaps the best people who were students of MUN during the occupation, known incident took place in November 1972. they take pride in telling stories about what they did and Hundreds of students occupied the Arts and Administration Building to protest how they were part of winning that battle. The student the decision by the Board of Regents to stop collecting compulsory student fees activism of the 1960s and 1970s was the spark that on behalf of the CSU. The CSU leadership under acting president Wayne Hurley, ignited the flame of the social conscience that continues preferring that any change be delayed until it held a referendum on the matter, to flicker bravely into the 1990s. considered the board's decision to be an attempt by the administration to - Bob Buckingham, BA '73 weaken the students' union. The occupation began on November 14 and ended 10 days later when both sides accepted the appointment of an independent arbitrator and the board decided to reverse its position.
In a February 1973 referendum, students voted to retain compulsory students' union fees. CelebrateMemo rial 511 President Moses 0. Morgan Following Lord Taylor's retirement as president in August 1973, the Board of Regents selected M.O. Morgan as president.
Born in Blaketown, Trinity Bay, Almost immediately upon his appointment, in 1917, Mose Morgan Morgan reorganized the university administration, attended Memorial University appointing several new senior academic administrators to reflect an expanding academic College and then Dalhousie program. Leslie Harris later observed that Morgan's University, where he received a "favorite technique was to identify the right person bachelor's degree. The for a particular role and then, followi ng the Newfoundland Rhodes Scholar military strategy of reinforcing success, offer to for 1938, he delayed graduate such a person unstinting loyalty and such financial, administrative and moral support as the study at Oxford University until resources of the university could command or as after the Second World War. governments or private corporations could be From 1940 to 1942 he taught cajoled or browbeaten into providing. Areas of at King's College School in particular intere t were those that combined the greatest potential for community development Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1942 with the best opportunities for high class he enlisted in the Canadian Dr. G.A. Hickman, dean of Education, and Dr. A.A. Bruneau, scholarship. " dean of Engineering and Applied Science, place the robe on Army and saw service in Europe In a 1995 tribute to Morgan, former president President Morgan, Feb. 9, 1974. as a platoon commander. After Leslie Harri observed that "there can be no doubt the war he completed a that [his] first loyalty was to the university. Nor can master's degree in classics at Dalhousie followed by further graduate studies at we doubt his belief that in serving that institution well he wa serving the entire province. But his Oxford. He joined the faculty of Dalhousie in 1948 and came to Memorial in 1950 to university was no ivory tower. There was, within teach political science. Morgan played a prominent role in the development of his composition, a strong pragmatic streak coupled academic policy at Memorial, and from the late 1950s his influence as dean of arts with an unyielding commitment to the idea that and science was second only to that of President Gushue. He was president (pro tem) the special expertise that could be mobilized and 1966-67 and president 1973-1981. He died in St. John's on Apr. 24, 1995. brought to bear by the university was that which would ... move the ewfoundland community towards appropriate development. "
52 Celebrate Memorial Model of a proposed universit . two buildings: an arena-audito~i centre In 197 4 consisting of capacity of 5 ooo d . um (nght) With a seating , an a social-cultural-service centre.
Lobby of the Thomson Student Centre.
In 1974-75 the university celebrated the 50th anniversaty of the founding of Memorial University College and the 25th anniversary of the college becoming a university. In addition to public lectures, the Jubilee Year included a February 1975 conference to provide an open forum for public debate about the role of the university, past, present and future. The celebration was a special pleasure for President Morgan: He had come to Memorial as a student Classroom in a temporary building. in the mid-1930s, returned as a professor in 1950, and later helped to shape its academic development. Celebrate Memorial 53 1971 • E.R. Seary's Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland was Being there published by the University of Toronto Press.
I was astudent at Memorial from 1965 to 1975 and the recipient of four university New initiatives degrees from this marvelous institution. During the 1970s Memorial's annual enrolment averaged about 10,000 students. The 1960s were interesting times, There was continued growth and consolidation of academic programs and characterized by vociferous student Memorial established a strong research presence in Newfoundland and in the debate all over North America and Canadian university community. evidenced at Memorial with student sit ins and other peaceful demonstrations New academic initiatives continued to enrich life at the university and within the against the political authorities of the province. In 1974 Memorial established an institute (later named Institut Frecker) day. And yet, those were the days of at Saint-Pierre, where students could spend a semester immersed in French free tuition, student stipends, student language, culture and literature. frivolity, and growing student enrolment, In 1975 the Institute for Educational Research and Development was established which mirrored an accessibility to to undertake and sponsor research in Newfoundland's educational philosophy higher education of which most young and practice. Newfoundlanders and Labradorians had previously only dreamed. In 1974 the Department of Commerce evolved into the School of Business Administration and Commerce. In 1978 the school established the P.]. Gardiner The early 1970s saw the continuance of debate but heralded a focus Institute for Small Busines Studies to provide as istance to small businesses; to discourse and undergraduate degrees - I began studies at Memorial was the first university in Canada to establish this type of consulting Memorial's new Faculty of Medicine! Aschool of medicine was new to centre. Memorial, new to St. John 's, new to our province, and very new to those first few classes of students and their teachers. The class of In 1978 psychologist Jon Lien's ongoing research on whales led to the formation 197 4 began and finished in hastily built "temporary buildings'' where of the Whale Research Group, best known for its ongoing work in helping to the Queen Elizabeth II Library now resides. free whales caught in fishing nets.
It was an exciting time of study and introduction for students and Five years after the Maritime Hist01y Group was formed to study the maritime patients alike! The medical school at Memorial has been the single and economic history of Newfoundland and the North Atlantic region, Memorial and most important determinating factor for the quality of health care received a five-year Canada Council research grant to study the rise and fall of and its accessibility in our province's recordable history! I am the shipping indu try of eastern Canada in the 19th century. In 1978 the extremely proud to be agraduate of Memorial University! Department of Anthropology established an Archaeology Unit with James Tuck as director. He had excavated a large Maritime Archaic cemetery at Port au - Linda lnkpen, B.Sc. '69, BA (Ed) '70, BMS '72, MD '74 Alumna of the Year 1988 Choix in 1968; during the 1970s and early 1980s, the work of Tuck and his graduate students concentrated on a large Basque whaling station at Red Bay,
54 Celebrate Memorial Historian David Alexander researching the history of the 20th-century salt fish industry in Newfoundland.
Delegates registering for the 1971 Learneds Conference held at Memorial.
Labrador, which had been first brought to the public's attention by historical researcher Selma Barkham.
The establishment of the Department of Music in 1975, with the appointment of Donald Cook as head, marked another major development for the maturing univer ity. The mu ic department's mandate wa twofold: to educate and train musical performers and music educators to contribute to the musical development of the province, and to enrich the musical life of the province by sponsoring concert tours by student performing groups.
The arrival of oil exploration on Canada's east coa t in the 1970s made a major contribution to the development of unique research program and academic options covering a broad pectrum of ocean engineering.
Celebrate Memorial 55 1972 • Memorial University awarded an honorary doctor of letters to Newfoundland artist Christopher Pratt. Acollege is born
A far back as 1966, a enate committee had recommended that Corner Brook was cho en as the site for the first branch campus. Memorial establish a number of junior colleges throughout the The official opening was held on Oct. 24, 1975, with a special province, reflecting President Morgan's belief that it was more convocation the next day to honour several prominent west practical, academically and financially, for Memorial to establish coast residents. The single building of the West Coast Regional these colleges to allow students outside the Avalon Peninsula to College- renamed Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 1979- study closer to home. housed 400 students who registered for first- and second-year courses in arts, cience and education. The college began to In 19 2 the univer ity approved the creation of branch campuses develop the interdi ciplinary nature that would later become the to erre 1,000-1,500 students and offer the fir t two years of hallmark of its degree programs. tudy in arts, science and education programs. 1973 • Memorial University receives 100 acres of land from Bowater Newfoundland Limited as the site for the university's new regional college at Corner Brook. • NAPE Locals 7801 and 7803 sign first collective agreements with the university.
Top left- In August 1978 a student brass quintent made athree -week tour of coastal Labrador, performing in communities as far north as Nain; right- Music student Elizabeth Brennan with a member of the Nain Moravian brass band.
Fi rst graduating class in the Department of Music 1979 (1-r) - Carl Goulding, Karen Keirstead Mills, Glenda Abbott, Prof. Don Cook (department head), Andrea Rose and Rex Bowering.
Celebrate Memorial 57 Botanical Garden
In 1972 the Botanical Garden at Oxen Pond (within C.A. Pippy Park) was established to preserve and promote the natural history of the province. The garden opened to the public in July 1977, displaying plants native to the province and cultivating plants suitable to the local climate. It also provides access to several habitats with a trail system. The garden is a resource centre for basic and applied botanical research and education with Distance education students in rural Newfoundland a particular interest in the flora of viewing a videotaped lecture by Dr. Robert Crocker. Newfoundland and Labrador. It fosters an appreciation of natural Studio audience at an ETV video taping. history in the development and future of the university and the province. The garden became a not-for-profit corp Distance education oration in 1994. Initial development Prior to 1969 university credit courses were offered off-campus in only a few location ; cour es were began in 1971 on one hectare of taught by local instructors certified by the university and administered by its appropriate departments. In 1969 the Division of Summer Session and Extramural Studies was established, along with off land. The garden now covers 44.5 campus centres in 12 areas. Eleven courses were taught by local instructors and other courses were hectares, including the six hectares taught by instructors commuting from the university. that Oxen Pond occupies. Also in 1969 Memorial pioneered in Canada the use of educational television (ETV) as part of off campus course offering . Lectures for a psychology course were videotaped and made available to six video playback centres in the province. By the mid-1970s this system had expanded to included 30 playback centres and 17 courses. In 1977 the Division of Part-Time Credit Courses was established with responsibility for all distance education courses.
58 Celebrate Memorial • CUPE Local1615 signed its first collective agreement with the university.
Telemedicine In April1977, ETV and the Faculty of Medicine inaugurated an experimental telemedicine project: The campus in St. John's was connected by satellite hook-up with hospitals in Goose Bay, Labrador City, St. Anthony and Stephenville. The pioneering project proved the practical use of communications technology in medicine and, during the late 1970s, the Faculty of Medicine expanded its teleconferencing facilities to provide consultations to and receive diagnostic tests fromremote areas of the province. Medical professor Maxwell House founded the Telemedicine Centre in 1976 and developed a province-wide teleconferencing system used in health care and education, in addition to world-wide projects in medical communications.
First graduating class in the Faculty of Medicine, 1973, top to bottom (1-r): Ross Penney, All ister Paul Terrence Delaney, Diane Banikh in, Daniel Shu. showing the Health Albert Giovanni , Douglas Simms, Richard Mead, John James Hardy, Albert Pike Aerial view of the ~amp)uasnd the S. J. Carew Sciences centre (nght Mark Chalom, Paul Hart, Stephen Shore Neva Hilliard, Oleh Whaler, David Moores, Adaani Frost building (left). Francis Tudiver, Rosemary Hutchison, Howard Strong Donald Eddy, Thomas Noseworthy, Raymond Shandera
Celebrate Memorial 59 Photo courtesy ofThe Telegram Winter Carnival Parade, 1971.
Winter Carnival1971.
60 Celebrate Memorial Photo courtesy ofThe Telegram Men's soccer team, 1970-71 National College Soccer Champions. Front (1-r)- Geoff Babstock, Byron James, Mike Reddy, Ed Arnott, Bob French, Ron Price, Brian Murphy, Len Davis Back (1-r)- Roland Dawe (manager), Blair Leonard, Keith Farrell, Don Pike, Ray Hurley, Alistair Rice, Chris Facey, Sandy Gibbons, Gus Crotty, Alan Ross (coach).
1978-79 women's volleyball! team Front (1-r) - Sandra Fole M - AAUA champions J y, aude Hynes s anes. Back (l·r) -Joan Churchill ( ' ue Rendell and Sharon 1978-79 men's basketball team- Front (1-r): Tony Wakeham Ma k D ff coach), Kathy Noseworthy (co- ca tm.anager), .Zita Dalton (assistant (co-captain), Anne English Bill Thplstalm)(, Debbie Eaton, Shelly Orr Sean Brown, Dave Kielly, Glenn Normore. Back (1-r)- Frank Butlerr u ' ' e coach). (coach), Frank Foo, Dick Power, Glenn Stanford, Glenn Willar, Doug Spurell. Insert: Roland Smith (manager).
Celebrate Memorial 61 1.977-1978 • 1977 -The Alumni Association of Memorial University launched its first Annual Fund Appeal. • 1978- Dr. George M. Story, professor of English language and literature and public orator at Memorial University, won the Molson Prize, given for outstanding contributions to the arts, humanities and social sciences in Canada. I ~
Campaign for space Opened in 1961, the university library had outgrown its ability to meet the ever-increasing demands of both faculty and students by the early 1970s. Built to meet the needs of 2,000 students in 1961, the library was hard pressed to accommodate approximately 10,000 students almost two decades later.
In 1979 Memorial launched a fund-raising campaign to construct a library and a commerce building, and to establish funds for scholarships and research.
On july 27, 1978, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh presided over the ceremony to turn the sod symbolizing the start of construction of the new library - named the Queen Elizabeth II Library in her honour.
(1-r) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Chancellor Dr. Alain Frecker, President Moses Morgan and Mrs. Grace Morgan.
62 Celebrate Memorial The Queen turning the ceremonial sod for the new library. The Queen Elizabeth II Library is now widely recognized as one of the best university libraries in Canada.
The Queen viewing a model of the new library.
Celebrate Memorial 63 Honorary graduate Dr. Donald Hebb (extreme right) addressing Convocation, May 28, 1977.
64 Celebrate Memorial 1980 tol989 t is largely in consequence of our having recognized the importance of playing to local strengths that we have been able to build solid graduate studies programs in so many areas. The physical environment in which the university is set, the rock and the sea, have in no small measure given us enviable opportunities upon which to build. At the same time, a unique history and a unique pattern of socio-economic development has produced a cultural environment as distinctive as the natural setting and one that has invited the enthusiastic attention of substantial scholars. ''
- President Leslie Harris, report to convocation, Oct. 29, 1983 CHAPTER 5 President Leslie Harris
Born in St. Joseph's, Placentia Bay, on Oct. 24, 1929, Leslie Harns is a graduate of Memorial, receiving his BA(Ed.) in 1956, and his MA (history) m1959. His PhD in Asian history was conferred by the University of London in 1960. From 1960 Queen Elizabeth II Library and the St. John's campus of the 1980s. to 1962 he served as director of the Tri-College C()-()perattve Program {Asran Studies) at Sweet Bnar, Lynchburg College and Randolph-Macon
Worren's College in Virginia. He also served as Pre ident Morgan retired on Aug. 31 , 1981. Leslie Harris director of the Summer Institute (As1an Studies) at was hi succe sor, the first Memorial Univer ity graduate the Uni ersity of Virginia in 1962. to fill the po t. During the 1980s he presided over a period of growth in academic programs at the In 1963 Dr. Harris joined emorial as an assistant undergraduate and graduate le\·el a enrolment oared professor of history. He later became department annually, doubling from 9,000 students in 1978 to 18,000 head. erved as dean of arts and science and, in in 1991. The university added extra classrooms and teaching staff but remained underfunded becau e the 197 4, as named vice-president {academic). pro\'incial grant, plus revenues from the lowest tuition Appo·nted president m1981, he retired on fees in Atlantic Canada, failed to keep pace with Aug. 31. 1990. increasing cost .
66 Celebrate Jtemorial • 1980 Centre for Management Development established • 1981 Morgan retires as president, succeeded by Leslie Harris • Captain Robert A. Bartlett Building opens to house C·CORE • 1982 Earth Sciences Department created • Centre for Offshore &Remote Medicine established • 1983 Centre for Earth Resources Research established • 1984 Don Snowden Centre for Development Support Communications founded • 1985 Department of Music becomes School of Music • NRC opens Institute for Marine Dynamics on campus • 1986 Construction on Earth Sciences building begins • Chair in Industrial Research in Ocean Engineering established • MUN and Ml create Canadian Centre for International Rsherles Training • 1987 Industrial Research Chair in Marine Crustal Seismology established • Seabright Corporation reactivated • 1988 Chair in Fisheries Oceanography established • Ocean Sciences Centre established • Centre for Material Culture Studies established • Fine Arts degree programs 1980 student protest following the launched at Grenfell • Fine Arts Building accidental death on Prince Ph ilip opens at Grenfell • Telemedicine and Drive on Oct. 17, 1980, of Judy Technology Agency (TETRA) established Lynn Ford, a 20-year-old fourth-year • 1989 Queen Elizabeth II Library student from Port-aux-Basques. provides computer access to its public Student protests led to the catalogue • Telemedicine links high construction of a skywalk over the schools in Newfoundland and Quebec as parkway. part of a French language instruction program
CelebrateJ! emorial 67 Indeed, it is apparent that wherever we look throughout the university we find New initiatives
evidence that we are taking very seriously When the university moved to the Elizabeth to promote marine communications research, our mission to be a major developmental Avenue campus in 1961, Memorial was a small development and technology transfer. liberal arts institution with minuscule graduate influence in this province. Whether in the In 1988 Memorial consolidated its marine programs, limited research facilities and almost fine arts, the core disciplines of arts and research facilities by merging the Marine no professional schools. By the 1980s, Memorial Sciences Research Laboratory at Logy Bay and science, or in the professional schools, we was a significant research establishment with the Newfoundland Institute for Cold Ocean are using the resources accessible to us professional schools that provided high level Science (established in 1979 in the Faculty of training and professional development in in what we believe to be a responsible Science to co-ordinate research in ocean meeting the many social requirements of the manner to promote excellence, as a proper sciences) to form the Ocean Sciences Centre province. university should, and, at the same time, (OSC) at Logy Bay. The OSC researched the The university's expanding research efforts development of aquaculture through the to serve the interests of the province and recei1·ed considerable national and international commercial cultivation of mussels, scallops, the region. Nor have we conceived those recognition and funding support. By the 1980s arctic char, cod and salmon. interests in purely material terms, but Memorial was internationally known for its The university's explosive growth in research rather in recognition of the fundamental research activities in specialized fields including and outreach was not centred solely in t. archaeology, folklore, linguistics, biochemistry, proposition that appropriate development John's. During the 1980s, the Labrador Institute marine biology, earth sciences, ocean in any cufture demands attention to the of orthern Studies (based in Goose Bay) engineering, and telemedicine - all, of course, organized conferences on community problems spirit as well as to the body. In an effort to directly related to the university's mandate of in Labrador and studied the natural resources establish a proper balance in this regard serving its unique environment. and wildlife of the region. It also promoted we have, in recent times, fostered Our scholars were also working with experts at research on the community of Battle Harbour. developments in the domain of the fine the Institute of Fisheries and Marine Technology This led to the formation of the Battle Harbour arts. (Marine Institute) to enhance fisheries research. Historic Trust, which successfully raised funds to In 1988 Memorial and the Marine Institute restore the community's buildings to an 18th -Dr. Leslie Harris, President's Report, 1987-88, Part I, pp.6-7. signed a memorandum of understanding to century period. It made Battle Harbour a foster greater collaboration in marine research significant tourist attraction, along with Red Bay and educational programs. They also established in southern Labrador excavated by Memorial's the Marine Communications Applications Centre Dr. Jim Tuck.
Celebrate ,llemorial 1982 • On Sept. 12 aYouth Festival was held on the north campus during the visit of Pope John Paul II.
In 1982 the Newfoundland gm·ernment established the annual james G. Channing Fellowship, which enables senior government executives to work at the university, teach in their professional disciplines and conduct research in areas of public policy. The fellowship also enables a faculty member to work in gomnment in an area of professional academic and research interests.
On the international front, research was fostered in 198-± through the creation of the Don Snowden Centre for Development Support Communications. Named for the former director of the Extension Service who had died while working in India, the centre worked with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helping Third World countries with community development techniques and small business management.
Sciences Centre at Logy Bay.
Dr A Maxwell House, director of the Telemedicine Centre usi~g . teie~riter equipment as Malachy Mandeville, director of the DIVISIOn of Continuing Studies, looks on.
CelebrateJt emorial 69 1984 • The Board of Regents approved the establishment of a fine arts program at Grenfell College.
Research and teaching awards
Memorial established prestigious research awards in 1984. One was the President's Award for Outstanding Re earch; the fir t winnL1·s were Chester Jablonski (Chemistry), john Malpas (Eartl1 Sciences), and Michael Stones (Psychology). Another was the title University Re earch Professor, which Memorial reserves for its most distinguished scholars. The first recipients were Jim Tuck (Archaeology) and Harold Williams (Earth Sciences).
Archaeologist Dr. Jim Tuck in the field.
Sh e O'Dea with students Tim Power and Mary Jane ~uxley exammmProfe~~org1 a a9n14 ·Insurance map as part of their research into histone buildings in St. John's.
7Q Celebrate Memorial Teaching accomplishments were not overlooked. In 1988, with the financial support of the MUN Alumni Association, Memorial established the President's Awards for Distinguishing Teaching to recognize performance and innovation. The first winners were Dr. Sheldon Being there MacKenzie, Religious Studies, and Shane O'Dea, English, who was also namecl1988 In the 1980s student Canadian Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. enrolment was on the rise, yet Memorial kept its friendliness; it was as if you were in a small community. Student Newfounolanu activities were rich and diverse. This was an era of growth in student services on campus: We established a student volunteer bureau, saw a new Breezeway and a new child care centre, and introduced student health plans. CHMR moved to U !riff open-air FM broadcast. Students played active leadership roles in provincial and national student organizations. We achieved solid representation in university governance, in particular on the Board of Excerpts from the Dictionary Regents. Socially, we enjoyed Winter Carnivals, Super of Newfoundland English TSC Nights, lobby parties and Dining Hall dances. We catalina stone n- pyrite debated the merits of free trade and Meech Lake, and coaker n- gasoline fueled took on anyone who dared to threaten our pride in engine used in fishing boats c1920s and named for Sir Memorial. William Coaker, president of •...... ) The students of the '80s are already making their the Fishermen's Protective .-' . Union. impact as business leaders, policy makers, politicians, dwy, also dwey, dwigh, and award-winning musicians! dwoi, dwoy dwye n- brief shower or storm These books represent -Ann Marie Vaughan, BA '86, B. Ed. '94 fun v- of the wind, to die research started in the down, abate 1950s. They have /un a- also lund - found awide audience. sheltered
Celebrate Memorial 711 In 1989 the Registrar's Office introduced telephone registration for undergraduate students. This eliminated the traditional and sometimes frustrating line-up in the TSC gym. Memorial was the second university in Canada to provide this service.
Snow sculptures, Winter Carniva/1988.
Rock concert in the TSC , 1986.
72 Ce/ehratl! .11r!morial CSU-sponsored clown troupe at the 1985 St. John's Regatta.
Summerfest 1987.
Celebrate Memorial The Fine Arts Building built especially for Grenfell 's new theatre and visual arts programs. New buildings
In 1981, with funding of $1 million from the provincial government, Memorial constructed the Captain A. Robert Bartlett Building to house C-CORE. The building is named in honour of the early 20th-century Arctic explorer who was born in Brigus and who captained the boat that carried American explorer Robert Peary to the North Pole.
The Department of Music was elevated to school status in 1985 and housed in its own new building, funded by $2 million from the federal government and $3 million from a special fund-raising campaign headed by businessman Victor Young. It was officially opened on Nov. 1, 1985, and named in honour of M.O. Morgan in 1989. In 1987 a major extension was made to the building housing the Faculty of Business Administration, with funding from the province and a special fund-raising campaign.
During the late 1980s the Health Sciences Centre was expanded to include the Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy, the Telemedicine Centre (which also houses Medicor), and the Telemedicine and Technology Agency (TETRA), established in 1988 as a joint venture of the Telemedicine Centre and the Division of Educational Technology.
One major addition to the St. John's campus in 1985 was the Institute for Marine Dynamics, built and operated by the National Research Council of Canada. In 1978 the National Research Council of Canada had chosen Memorial as a site for one of the Centres of Excellence to be established in various parts of Canada. Constructed on a 20-acre site on the On May 3 1980 Memorial replaced its telephone switchbo~rd s~st~.ml'w~h a new tel~phone' system known as Centrex, which all~wed direct-In· Ia In north side of the campus, the facility has a 80m x 16m ice and transfer from one extension to anotherl (1-r~Ph~::a (~~~~:~~::.a~~;~da tank and other open-water tanks for precise scale-model experiments in simulated ocean conditions. The tanks are chief operator. ~~~~ji~~~ ~r~~~::r~~:;~~·a~~~~ :e~~~ :~~ A~~e ~ercer, available to industry, university and government agencies for research in transportation and resource development in ice covered waters.
74 Celebrate Memorial English Department undergraduates Sean McCann and Janet Edmonds in 1890s costume for roles in William Shakespeare's Love 's Labour's Lost, staged July 27-30, 1989. The production in the Reid Theatre included 25 actors and actresses and was directed by Dr. Gordon Jones for MUN Drama.
John Russell and Agnes McCarthy in a scene from Gilbert and Sull~~·~ HMS Pinafore, ajoint production of the School of Music and the Arts an u ure Centre, May 1988.
- Celebrate Memorial 7 "The role of the smaller, regionally based college is of particular and unique importance to Being our province. Many more people will have the opportunity to further their education, for now they can do so without completely uprooting themselves. The smaller college also allows for There • • •' I closer communication between teachers and students and in doing so promotes better understanding between both groups. n
on Corner Brook -Premier Frank Moores, at the official opening of the college, Oct. 27, 1975 like a bolt out of the blue. For a while people Sir Wilfred Grenfell College didn 't know what Throughout the 1980s, The college established co-operative relationships to make of us. I Grenfell College expanded with recreational groups in Corner Brook and on remember a on its road to fulfilling a the west coast. Recreational facilities were shared by comment in the dream beyond the all. Academically, the college reached out to Western Star. imagination of many who residents outside Corner Brook by offering a variety "You 've probably attended its official of off-campus credit courses through extension seen some of opening. services. the faculty from the new college around town. Alot of them "Who can imagine the Under the leadership of Dr. Cyril F. Poole, who was have beards and long hair, but they seem development that will principal from 1977 to 1990, the college gradually pretty harmless." occur?" asked Dr. Arthur expanded, offering four-year fine arts degree Dr. Cyril F. Poole Sullivan, the college's first programs in theatre and visual arts. In 1988 Grenfell Things gradually changed. We became ,______, principal, in his address at College opened its School of Fine Arts Building, less isolated from the community, started the opening. "I will only say that the development with a black box theatre, rehearsal hall, studios, contributing more to it. We added degree is certain to be a challenging and exciting one. 1 darkrooms and art gallery to support these programs and constructed new buildings. think that we- faculty, staff and students of the programs. Grenfell now has the feel of a real college - are exceptionally privileged to be able to university campus. Students still come participate in this important event." back to see us, years after they have graduated , when they return to the area to The presence of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, as it visit parents or relatives. wa officially named in 1979, had an enormous - Adrian Fowler, BA '66, MA '77 influence on the west coast community academically, culturally and recreationally. The changes were seen almost immediately, and became firmly established during the 1980s as local school and community groups used college facilities for tournaments, meetings, rehear als, and conferences. Theatre students in dress rehearsal for a production of Marat-Sade.
76 Celebrate 1 m 987-1988 • 1987 On Jan. 7 CHMR Radio commenced broadcasting on the FM band • Fine arts degree program launched at Grenfell College
Inside the Fine Arts Bui lding: right, an open staircase highlights a lobby flooded with natural light. Inset: a student at work in one of the studios. PatonMid 1980s Coli aerial view of the st . Jo h n , s campus showmg. the residence complex ege (foreground), and the Chemistry-Physics Building (background). '
1984-85 men's varsity swimming team, AUAA champions. Front (1-r) Chris Daly, John Gillis, Jim Tuck, Carson Noel, Shenley Orr. Back (1-r) Greg Hennebury, Andrew Rowsell, Sean Roach, Marc Campbell, Vincent Gogan, Ralph Wheeler (coach).
78 Celebrate J1emorial • Memorial University Faculty Association (MUNFA), representing the university's faculty and librarians, signed their first collective agreement on Mar. 16, 1989
Residents of Squires House, 1987.
Celebrate Memorial 7 Exam time in the Thomson Student Centre, captured through a photographer's wide-angle camera lens in 1987.
8 Celebrate Memorial he mission of Memorial University of Newfoundland derives from three realities: that it is a university, that it is the only university in the province, and that the province and the university are located where they are. Therefore, the university has a special obligation to educate the citizens of this province, a special obligation to focus its research on the problems this province faces, and a special obligation to share its expertise with the local community.''
- President Arthur W. May, address to convocation, Oct. 31, 1992
CHAPTER 6 90-1999 Arthur W. May • 19S Earth Sciences Building opens • President Harris retires •President May appointed • 1991 Dr. Albert Cox retires as vice-president (academic); succeeded by Dr. Jaap Tuinman • Dr. Kathryn Bindon Arthur May was born in St. John's in 1937. He appointed principal, Grenfell College • 1992 Marine Institute merges with Memorial • Arts and Administration Annex opened • Animal Care /Biotechnology building opened • 1993 Multi-media was educated at Memorial University, w~ere he classrooms established • 1994 Centre for International Business Studies established • Grenfell BA, received B.Sc.(Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees, and B.Sc. degrees established • 1995 Marine Institute introduces bachelor of technology and bachelor of maritime studies degrees • Chair in Telelearning established • Smallwood Centre for Newfoundland McGill University, where he received a PhD in Studies activated • Canada Games Park transferred to MUN • Grenfell's Library and Computing Building marine sciences. He opened • 1996 Grenfell introduces BA programs in environmental studies, historical studies • BN (Collaborative) introduced at St. John's and Corner Brook campuses • Forestry program moves to Grenfell has worked as a College • Fisheries Conservation Research chair established • 1997 Marine Institute introduces master fisheries scientist, a of marine studies degree • Memorial hosts the Learneds • Opportunity Fund launched • Grenfell's Student Centre Annex opened • Adrian Fowler appointed principal, Grenfell College • 1998 Dr. Tuinman fisheries manager retires as vice-president (academic); replaced by Dr. Evan Simpson • Forest Centre opens, Grenfell and an international College • 1999 President May retires; succeeded by Dr. Axel Meisen • 1999 Grenfell introduces BA negotiator, and has programs in humanities, social and cultural studies been the CEO of several public service organizations. He In 1991 there were four was deputy minister Newfoundland-born of the federal Dr. Robert Crocker (dean of presidents of Canadian education) helps with the universities - Drs. Department of robing of Dr. May at his Downey, Ivany, May and Fisheries and Oceans installation as president, Strong - and they were Feb. 2, 1991 recognized with honorary from 1982 to 1985, degrees at the convocation president of the installing President May. Front (1-r) Dr. James Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Downey, Dr. George Ivany Council of Canada from 1986-1990, and and Dr. David Strong. Back (1-r) Dr. Albert Cox, president of Memorial University from 1990· vice-president (academic), 1999. Named Memorial's Alumnus of the Year in Charles White (chair, Board 1983, he received a honorary degree from of Regents), The Hon. James McGrath, Lieutenant Memorial in 1989. He was appointed an Officer Governor, President May, of the Order of Canada in December 1995. Dr. Philip Warren (minister of education), and St. John's Mayor Shannie Duff.
82 Celebrate Memorial 996 • 1996 Students can pay their fees by credit card using the telephone registration system
If the history of Memorial to 1990 had been one of almost constant growth and expansion, the last decade of the 20th century brought sudden changes: wage restraint, cost reductions, tuition increases, organizational changes and staffing reductions. These moves were a necessary response to massive funding cuts by the provincial and federal government .
During the 1990s the provincial government, in an effort to reduce its deficit, regularly reduced the annual grant to the university, often unpredictably. In 1996, faced with the likelihood of yet another reduction, Memorial negotiated an agreement for a three-year plan to manage the institution's finance and accommodate the reductions. "Memorial University of Newfoundland is a strategic resource of knowledge, technology and expertise" - President Arthur May, Oct. 31, 1992. Despite the cuts, the decade has also seen the university enhance it existing research infrastructure, add new degree programs and conduct a successful fund-raising campaign.
President Harris retired on Aug. 31, 1990, and wa succeeded by Dr. Arthur development of the province. The mi sion statement says that Memorial May, a Memorial graduate (B.Sc., 1958) who had most recently been University is "committed to excellence in teaching, re earch and president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of scholar hip, and ervice to the general public." It also "recognize a special Canada. His appointment coincided with the beginning of reduced grants obligation to educate the citizen of ewfoundland and Labrador, to for the university; the challenge during his tenure was to maintain the undertake research on the challenges this province faces and to hare its quality of education and research. expertise with the community." Entitled Launch Forth, the strategic plan In 1993 Memorial developed a mission statement and adopted a strategic was intended to provide a planning guideline for teaching, research and plan defining the university's role in the future social and economic budgeting priorities.
Celebrate Memorial 83 Launch Forth - A Strategic Plan jGr Memorial University of Newfoundland
1. Quality The university will systematically act to enhance quality in all of its services: to students, to the rest of the university community and to external stakeholders. Marine Institute. 2. Outreach Education The university will adapt its programs and services to meet the changing needs, expectations and characteristics of students. The Marine Institute 3. Community Resource In 1992, following a review of the Marine Institute and the community college system, the provincial government decided that the Marine Institute The university will enhance educational programs, should merge with the university. Throughout the decade MI added degree its presence in the community research activities and programs at the undergraduate and masters levels, while maintaining the and create means for our community services. diploma programs, hart-term training and industry research for which it had community to learn about and 5. Expanding Horizons developed an international reputation. to utilize the resources of the community. The university will develop its In 1999 the MI can boast more than 4,500 students instructed by 130 faculty international linkages to members. About 1,500 are "traditional" students, in that they attend classes 4. Mid·North/ Atlantic promote individual, cultural full-time from September to June. Several thousand others, though, benefited The university will take and economic growth, and to from MI's fisheries and marine expertise, coming to either the St. John's or advantage of its mid-north provide a means to contribute Foxtrap facilities or receiving instruction in their own areas of the province. and Atlantic location in to the world community. Increasingly, MI is becoming a site for national and international training.
84 Celebrate Memorial Students in the environmental technology program.
Full-mission ship's bridge simulator.
The institute has several major research facilities: a flume tank, one of only a few in the world capable of testing scale models of fishing equipment; and a complex of hip's bridge, ballast control and engine room simulator that allow hips' officers and crews to practice routine and emergency situations in total safety. The complex is used by industrial clients to develop new equipment and by researchers to conduct experiments under carefully controlled conditions. In 1995 the Marine Institute offered its first degree programs - bachelor of technology and bachelor of maritime studies; the master's degree in marine studies was introduced in 1997.
MI is the only unit of Memorial that actually receives a majority of its funding from outside the university/government granting scheme. In 1998, almost 70 per cent of Leonard Lahey, .~anager of the Marine Institute's aquaculture facility, feeding fish being used . its operating budget came from corporate and other clients. research project. In a
Celebrate Memorial 85 1997 • Students can apply for undergraduate admission and can access their records, including final grades, New using the Web initiatives It's only natural that we attract people The profile of research within the university was businesses, providing information on international interested in oceanography, marine boosted when the post of vice-president (Re earch) business issues such as markets, business was created. Dr. Kevin Keough was appointed and conditions, cultural differences and identi~ing biology, ocean engineering, marine given responsibility for admini tering all of potential trading partners. The centre also co geoscience and so on .... Nobody else Memorial's research and technology transfer ordinates student exchanges between Memorial and is in such a good position to deal with programs. In 1994 the university converted much of universities in other countries. Spencer Hall into a technology incubator centre to the physics of sea ice or the engin In 1995 the university established a chair in encourage the establishment of new research and eering of offshore structures. We have telelearning in the Faculty of Education with development companies. While Y!emorial funding of $1.5 million from Industry Canada and the (National Research Council) ice encouraged new re earch effort in the province, it the Atlantic Canada Opp01tunities Agency/Human tank on campus and we certainly have was not forgetting those in which it already had Resource Development. This was the first chair of expertise. benefitted from the merger of the this kind in Canada. In 1996 the university added to Marine Institute with us. During the 1990s archaeologist Jim Tuck undertook expertise in telecommunications with $1.8 million a major restoration of Lord Baltimore's 17th-century funding for a chair in telecommunications That is our natural role, as it is for colony at Ferryland. Graduates of the master's engineering and information technology, a joint maritime history, folklore , music and program in archaeology also commenced their own initiative of Memorial, NewTel Communications, theatre which tell of our evolution as a research programs at Cupids, Dildo Island, Burnside Northern Telecom ( ortel), and SERC. and Bird Island. Many of these projects combined coastal people and how people In 1996 a research chair in fisheries conservation an interest in preserving the past with a community interact with the sea .... This is our was established, with initial funding for five years economic development component. By 1998 the from the provincial and federal fisheries territory and we should decide to be Ferryland site, for example, was attracting more departments, NSERC and Fishery Products the best in that game, forego other than 15,000 visitors a year and providing seasonal International. Ba eel at the Marine Institute the employment to 50 to 70 people. games, and put our resources there." chair provides an integrated focus for fisheries -President May, Evening Telegram, Mar. In 1994 the Faculty of Business Administration research, with particular emphasis on under 29, 1998 established the Centre for International Bu iness standing groundfish stock dynamics and Studies to help local businesses, students and supporting the development of a conservation faculty connect to the international business based fishery in the province. community. ClBS also acts as a resource for local
86 Celebrate Memorial Above(l-r) -Professor Derek Wilton and earth sciences graduate students in the field in northern Labrador 1994; archaeology students at work at the Colony of Avalon site in Ferryland.
In September 1995, with a $950,000 endowment from the J.R. Smallwood Heritage Foundation, the university activated the J.R. Smallwood Centre for Newfoundland Studies, a research facility to investigate and document Newfoundland culture and history. The centre made possible the 1998 re-publication of E.R. Seary's popular Family Names of Newfoundland and Labrador (1977). It also initiated, in conjunction with the Bronfman Foundation of Montreal, a Web page (http://www.heritage.nfca) devoted to Clockwise: Faustina Hwang (graduate student, seated), Patricia Lefeuvre (research engineer at C-CORE and t t' t d ) · . par - 1me graduate Newfoundland and Labrador culture. s u ent , Jamie Kmg (graduate student) Peter W d ( . . undergraduate) with Dr. Ray Gosine Dr 'Go . , oo man engmeenng . · · sme s research team carnes out research into improved methods for h - b Interaction. uman ro ot
Celebrate Memorial 87 1997 -Members of the "Creaking Bones· group, which consists of former and present employees who have been meeting socially since 1962 to celebrate their friendship. Front (1-r)- Helen Hinchy (Registrar's Office), Carmel Woodford (Mail Room), Grace Layman (Education), Mary MacDonald (Bursar's Office), Maureen Stapleton (President's Office, now Faculty of Business Administration), Phyllis (Dunne) Delaney (Switchboard). Back (1-r) Theresa Stokes (Education), J h 's campus in 1997. Frances Healey (Registrar's Office), Rosemary Barron Tree lighting ceremony at the St. o n (Chemistry), Marjorie (Dodge) Frampton (Administrative Services), Helen Carew (President's Office), Lillian Sullivan (Biology), and Jo Barron (Physics).
1997 Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Founder's Lobby, Arts and Administration Building.
88 Celebrate Jfemorial Cast of the 1960s rock opera Tommy produced b Culture Centre, Apr. 7-9, 1999. Ystudents of the School of Music at the Arts and
Term 7 civil engineering students Jason Phillips (bow) and Trevor Bolt Students in th Q (stern) paddle Lukey's Boat during the concrete canoe's christening e ueen Elizabeth II Library. in the engineering wave tank. The vessel was awarded first place for presentation and innovation at the National Concrete Canoe Competition in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in May 1999.
Celebrate Memorial 89 New buildings and services Although restraint and cutbacks may have been It was a sign of changing times that better the themes of the decade, several necessary daycare facilities were desperately needed on changes and improvements were made to campus. This need was largely met in 1992, facilities. The denominational colleges were when the CSU and the community officially closed in the early 1990s and were acquired by opened a new building dedicated to thi the government, which in turn transferred purpose, replacing the childcare services that ownership to the university. had operated since 1976 in the Burton's Pond residential complex. In January 1992 a five-storey annex to the Arts Delegates relaxing outside the Thomson Student and Administration Building opened to provide In 1994 the CSU arranged to lease space on the Centre. badly needed teaching and office space for first floor of the TSC from the univer ity. In this several departments housed in the "temporary space, the tudents' union established a food buildings" near the Queen Elizabeth II Library court, a postal outlet, a photocopying centre, a and in Queen's College. Later that year, an travel agency, a pharmacy and other services to 1997 Learneds animal care and biotechnology facility opened meet the ongoing needs of the campus In 1997 Memorial hosted North America's largest adjacent to the Chemistry-Physics Building. community. annual interdisciplinary gathering of academics in the humanities and social sciences. More than 5,000 delegates visited the St. John's campus to attend the Congress of Learned Societies ("the Learneds"), held from May 31to June 14, 1997. The conference Guest speaker Rex contributed between Murphy and Learneds $5 and $7 million to delegate Joan Bessey. the local economy.
90 Celebrate Memorial 1997 • MUNet, Memorial's computer network, becomes part of the Smithsonian Institution's Pennanent Research Collection of Infonnatlon Technology Innovation.
Earth Sciences Building. - THE OPPORTUNITY FUND
FORA BETTF.ll TOMORROW
In summer 1999 the University Centre, on the St. John's campus, is near completion. Insert: Memorial Tower (artist's rendering).
Student Centre Annex, Grenfell College, The Opportunity Fund Corner Brook.
In March 1997 the university launched a fund-raising campaign to The Johnson Family Foundation has provided funding for the provide scholarships, support for teaching and research initiatives, and construction of a Memorial Tower adjacent to the new centre. The to construct badly needed student services facilities at St. John's and rotunda inside the base of the tower will feature a display of the Corner Brook, and an athletics complex at the St. John's campus. The university's history. goal of the Opportunity Fund was to raise $50 million for 50 years, $25 million from the private sector. Planning and preliminary fund-raising began in 1995 under the leadership of Chancellor John C. Crosbie. The provincial government promised a dollar-for-dollar The proposed Field House complex, on the St. John's campus (artist's rendering) match to a maximum of $25 million (for a total of $50 million); however, at the campaign launch Premier Brian Tobin committed the government to matching all monies raised. By April1999 the original goal had been met and the campaign stood at $25.2 million.
9 Celebrate Memorial Grenfell College 1990s From a single complex, housing classrooms, laboratories, library, bookstore, gym, pool, dining hall and residence, Grenfell has developed into a liberal arts institution of 1,200 students, with five modern buildings. The Grenfell College of the 1990s now offers 11 distinct Memorial degree programs: six bachelor of arts programs, one bachelor of science in two streams, the fine arts programs, the bachelor of nursing and, ince 1996, the fir t two years of a forestry degree de igned to be completed at the Univer ity of ew Brunswick.
The Forest Centre, which opened in 1998 to meet the needs of this collaborative program, is shared with the Newfoundland Division of the Canadian Forestry Service and the We tern Newfoundland Model Fore t Above: Grenfell's first BFA Incorporated graduates, theatre and visual arts, May 1992. The Library & Computing Building opened in 1995. In Front (l·r) - Ruby LeRiche November of that year, the library itself was dedicated Beaumont, Mary Jenkins, Audrey Marie Feltham (v); in memory of E.J. Ferriss Hodgett, Grenfell's first vice Deborah Anne Joseph, principal, who had always displayed unconditional Maria Annette Bourgeois, commitment to the College. Janice Kitchen, Donna Humber (t); Helly Greenacre The Student Centre Annex was added in 199 ; it is a (v). Middle (1-r) - Phil Matz (t); Darren Cranford, Brian place students call their own, complete with a food Ball (v); James Davis (t); court, student lounge , meeting rooms, student union Joanne Snook (v); Todd offices and a licensed lounge. Hennessy (t); Paul Hewson, Dale Roberts (v). Back (1-r) Although Grenfell College has developed into a bigger -Maurice Smith, Michael s· Payne, Neil Robbins, Carol lr Wilfred Grenfell College Student Centre Annex, Corner Brook. campus, serving three times the number of tudents it Nelson, Michael Fenwick, had in 1975, its commitment and focus remain the Jeffrey Boone (t); Bradley same. Memorial's west coast campu prides it elf on Colbourne (v). providing a personalized, interactive and interdisciplinary education for every student.
Celebrate Memorial 93 999 • Students can vote for CSU elections using the web.
Now the largest university in Atlantic Canada, Memorial Memorial in 1999 in 1999 ha approximately 16,000 students, consisting of 14,200 undergraduates and 1,600 graduates. It has approximately 800 tenured faculty members and nearly . . I And the wmner 1s .... 2,100 full-time and contractual support staff in six Dr. Neil Rosenberg of the Dr. Elizabeth Miller's Folklore Department was the faculties and seven chools. Of these numbers, over research on Bram Stoker's co-winner of a 1998 Grammy 150 are international undergraduate students and 195 classic vampire novel has in the Best Album Notes earned her international are international graduate students. category. The album was An recognition. In 1995, at the Anthology of American Folk World Dracula Congress _ Although Memorial is a relatively young university, it Music, released by held in Transylvania, of ha been shaped by and has helped to shape, the Smithsonian/Folkways course - she was named a Recordings. people and economy of ewfoundland and Labrador Baroness of the House of in the latter half of this century. It ha lived up to the Dracula. She teaches the ...__ ___...J novel in her first-year English promise of 1949 with its profound impact on the and third-year Gothic fiction cultural, economic and social life of Newfoundland and courses. Four of our alumni made Labrador. It has awarded more than 50,000 degree , it big in the '90s. Great most to re ident of the province. By far the great Big sea is a recognized majority of people in leadership positions in name on both sides of the Atlantic. They are Newfoundland and Labrador are graduate of Memorial (clockwise from bottom) - in government, bu iness, education, the professions Alan Doyle, BA '92, and the arts. Many thousands of graduates are Darrell Power, BA contributing to Canadian prosperity elsewhere in B.Ed.'91, Sean McCann, BA'89, Bob Hallett, the country. BA'90. 1994-95 women's varsity basketball team, AUAA champions. Front (1-r)- Doug Partridge (coach), Lisa ~yan, Karen . Cameron, Jaime Hearn, Lori Squires, Sandi Blundon, Michelle Healey. Back (1-r)- Bill Wiseman (assistant coach~, Janlc.e r Gillingham , Angela Torraville, Judy Byrne, T.ara Bulgm, Jemfe Devereaux, Andrea Dinn, Tani Pennell (assistant coach).
1996-97 men's varsity basketball team. Front (1-r)- Shane Harte, John Coaker, Loren Kielly, John Devereaux, Jermaine Bruce, Peter Benoite, Paul Byrne (assistant coach). Back (1-r) - Howie Greene (manager), Glenn Taylor (coach), Marc Woods, Darren Payne, Leon Peddle, David O'Keefe, Glen Squires, Matt Woods, Mike Woods (assistant coach). The Arts and Administration Building Annex.
96 Celebrate Memorial Acknowledgments
We greatly appreciate the assistance of the staff of the Centre for Newfoundland Aconsiderab lenumber of people have helped with the preparation of material for Studies Archives - Bert Riggs, Susan Hadley, Gail Weir and Linda White - and the this book. In particular, we would like to thank Eleanor Bennett, Joan Bessey, staff of Photographic Services, Division of University Relations- Chris Hammond, Dr. Jim Black, Frank Butler, Mike Callahan, lan Campbell, Helen Carew, Glenn Patricia Adams and Sharon Merils -for making their photograph collections so Collins, Victoria Collins, Roger Flood, Deryck Harnett, Leslie Harris, Eric Hart, readily available. Thanks to Scott Courage of The Telegram, who gave us access Dr. Doug House, Ed Hunt, Leo Mackey, Arthur May, Maire O'Dea, Rick Predham, to the newspaper's extensive photographic files. Readers for the manuscripts Gar Pynn, Margaret Pynn, Linda Russell, Ernst Rollmann, Sheila Singleton, Kevin were Dr. lain Bruce, Dr. J. Douglas Eaton, Dr. Brian Johnston, Dr. Malcolm Smith, Harold Squires and Bill Woolgar. Macleod, Professor Shane O'Dea, Bert Riggs and Bruce Woodland. Pam Gill For more information on Memorial's history, visit the Celebrate Memorial website was instrumental in ensuring we had Grenfell College information and pictures. at www.mun.caj celebrate.
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