1959 1961 2019 RENISON REPORTS 60 YEARS RENISON PRESIDENT’S REPORTS 05 MESSAGE HOW DID WE Renison University College’s Alumni and Friends Magazine 06 GET HERE? 2019 CONTRIBUTORS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF Wendy Fletcher 08 TOWN & GOWN SOCIETY Cort Egan Fred May and Ruth Argo Michael Watkins RENISON THROUGH Rick Bereti 10 THE DECADES: Todd Hewlin Amie Jeanette Durston Arielle Sheila Barber GALA AND 60TH YEAR Gail Cuthbert Brandt 34 CELEBRATIONS Darrol and Susan Bryant Ted and Ruth Appleyard Vaiva Dzemonia ANTI-RACISM Duncan Bureau CONFERENCE Sandeep Manku 36 Nancy Schnarr 25 YEARS OF LAYOUT DESIGN Tiffany Murphy 38 ONE SKY FESTIVAL WHAT IT MEANS TO Send editorial correspondence to: RENISON REPORTS 42 SUPPORT A STUDENT Office of External Relations and Communications Renison University College 240 Westmount Rd. N ROLLING UP YOUR SLEEVES, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G4 44 FOR GRIEF’S SAKE 519-884-4404 ext. 28657 Email:
[email protected] RESEARCH Address changes can be made at: 47 SPOTLIGHT uwaterloo.ca/renison/ address-information-update AWARDS, GRANTS, Renison University College is an affiliated Board Chairman Carl Dunker, Bishop George Luxton, 50 BOOKS AND ACCOLADES college of the University of Waterloo. and Mrs. Elizabeth Renison participate in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE: College’s official dedication at its original location uwaterloo.ca/renison BY THE NUMBERS on Albert Street, in October 1959. INSIDE 51 2 RENISON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE RENISON REPORTS > ALUMNI AND FRIENDS MAGAZINE 3 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE As I write my reflection for our 60th Anniversary edition Life is beautiful. Life is hard. Holding the paradox of this of Rension Reports, we have just finished our annual with imagination and courage becomes, for us, a window President’s Christmas Lunch! We were delighted to hold through which we make real our hope for the world.