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, J. , Celebrate Memorial! Q "% Jl- a pictorial history of Memorial University of Newfoundland
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, J. , Celebrate Memorial! ~ Q ~ ~

"% Jl-~ a pictorial history of Memorial University of Newfoundland

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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

• 35th anniversary of the Marine Institute's beginnings in 1964

• 25th anniversary of Grenfell College's start in 1975

Since its founding, the university has played a significant role in all aspects of the

development of our province. Our 50,000 alumni are leaders in business,

industry, education, government and many endeavours at home, in the rest of

Canada, and around the world. This book is a pictorial overview of Memorial's

history, its accomplishments and its contributions to tl1e provincial community.

The first chapter covers the period from 1925 to 1949; in the other five, the story

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

part of the continuing development of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Kevin Keough Chair, Anniversaries Commillee

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1925 to 1949 ........ 1

Chapter 2 1950 to 1959 ...... 17

Chapter 3 1960 to 1969 ...... 33

Chapter 4 1970 to 1979 ...... 49

Chapter 5 1980 to 1989 ...... 65

Chapter 6 1990 to 1999 ...... 81

by Dr. Melvin Baker and Jean Graham

Research: Dr. Melvin Baker Design: Helen Houston

All photos are courtesy of Memorial University except where noted

Memorial

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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

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• 1921 Normal School opens • 1924 Parade Street campus for Normal School opens • 1925 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

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• 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 Curtis

and Ronald Kennedy.

Memorial's foundations When Memorial University College opened in 1925, it repre ented

several years of effort by educators to provide a non-denominational system of post-secondaty education. The superintendents of the

major denominations had been trying to raise teacher training standard since at least 1913.

William Blackall (Church of England), Levi CUttis (Methodist) and Vincent Burke (Roman Catholic), with funding from local

businesses, established a joint summer school for teachers in 1917; the experiment continued the following summer. In Januaty 1919

Curtis and Burke sponsored a resolution of the Patriotic Association, calling on the government to construct a training school as a

memorial to ewfoundlanders who had died in the First World War.

In 1920 the government of Richard quire created a Department of

Education and established a ormal School to train teachers. Arthur Barnes became the minister of education and Vincent Burke was

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appointed deputy minister. Ronald Kennedy replaced Burke a the

Roman Catholic superintendent. The Normal School rented premises from September 1921 until September 1924, when a new two-acre campus opened at Merrymeeting Road and Parade Street in St.

John's.

With no government funding to operate any academic program aside from education, Burke, Curtis and Blackall turned to the

Carnegie Corporation of New York. In 1924 the corporation agreed to an annual grant of $15,000 for five years, provided that the government would provide $5,000 a year. Prime Minister Walter Monroe accepted this offer in 1925 and appointed a board of

trustees to administer rl1e Carnegie grant.

On Sept. 15, 1925, the college under President John Lewis Paton

was officially opened by Governor Sir William Allardyce.

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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 first students and staff of Memorial University College, 1925-26 Insert: Helena McGrath, the first graduate in 1926.

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

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Community Outreach

To make the college of service to the

general public implies more than the

indirect benefits desirable through the

students, and these are many. It is

direct service which will popularize the

institution. This the college proposes to

introduce not in the sweet bye and bye,

but in the living present .... The college

is opening its doors to all. All may

become students, if they will. Lost

opportunities may be regained, whilst

new ones are knocking at the doors of

all who desire to avail of them.

-St. John's Daily News, Sept. 17, 1925

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. 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

itself a memorial to him, for he laid the foundation of sound scholarship and quality, of attention to our social and physical environment, of

concern for students and of outreach to the community."

As a motto for the college, Paton adopted Provehito in altum -"launch forth into the deep." And launch forth he did- with a vision

of a college that would erve evety citizen of Britain's oldest colony.

Paton was concerned that many otherwise qualified young people would

not be able to attend the college for financial reasons. In 1926 he set up a

scholarship and loan fund. A. C. Hunter later recalled, "No one knows how

many students had their college fees, and later their univer ity fees, paid by [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 loan fund stood at over ~6,000. The interest from this fund made it possible for students, after

graduating from the college, to finance at least part of their univer ity education abroad. When he died in 1946 Paton left the college a bequest of $3,000 for student assistance.

Paton wa determined to see the college reach out to the public through popular subjects such as art and navigation. Extension courses became a regular feature of college activities. The college

quickly became a social and intellectual centre for St. John's, while graduates carried its influence across the country.

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.

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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 in chemistry lab, 1933.

Students writing exams in 1933.

Men's soccer team, 1928.

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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

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By the end of the college's first

decade its graduates were eagerly

sought by the government for

positions in a reorgamzed civil

service. In the late 1930s, the

thriving college set up two-year

pre-agriculture, -medical, -dertal,

and -engineering programs, with

agreements allowing students to

continue their studies at other

colleges and universities.

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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

a professor in the Royal Canadian Navy at Royal Roads in British Columbia

and at the Naval College, Halifax. He was later a professor of natural

science at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, and in 1925 he joined the

staff of the newly created Memorial University College to teach mathematics.

He retired as president in 1952 for health reasons and accepted the title of

president emeritus. He died at St. John's on Oct. 30, 1954.

In 1933 Paton retired and Albert Hatcher was

appointed president. Hatcher was one of Memorial

University College's original faculty members. In a

tribute in the 1955 edition of the Cap and Gown yearbook, Dean A. C. Hunter wrote that Hatcher

was a "man of wide and varied intellectual

interest , philosophical, literary and linguistic, as

well as mathematical and scientific. But it was not

that that specially distinguished him. It was rather

his intense interest in every single student as a

person. He trained and exercised his natural gift

for remembering the names, native places, and

circumstances of all his students. Students could

not fail to be aware of the personal quality in his

dealings with them. He had a pretty turn of wit,

too, when in humour, and some of the most

amusing after-dinner speeches I have heard were

made by President Hatcher at college functions. He

had little patience for the familiar academic

controversies. What is uncultural, he would say,

about training for a vocation? He saw these

dichotomies as petty and artificial, realizing as he

did the truth that the spirit of learning and teaching

alone counts. Truth is one, not many. The bu iness

of the university is to seek and disseminate truth.

Let teacher and student together pursue the search

and all will be well." Hatcher's legacy was to

provide strong and stable leadership during diffcult

financial and political years in Newfoundland in

the 1930s and 1940s.

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Women's field hockey team, 1925.

Domestic science class, 1933.

Original Parade Street building: Insert: Parade Street campus in 1933 with the addition to the left constructed in 1932.

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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

retired in 1959 and was awarded an

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.

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1936 Students' Representative Council. Bottom (1-r) - Walter Macabe, Fabian O'Dea, Frederick Gover, Margaret Conroy, Charles Roberts. Top (1-r) - Frederick Smallwood, Ruth Summers, Margaret Robertson, Gertrude Butler, Dorothy Milley, Charles Godden.

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The engineers' banquet, April 27' 1937.

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-E I o Georgie Carnel . .c

Q~--------------------~

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

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

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Library in 1933.

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In 1946 about 50 ex-servicemen entered Memorial University

College. The administration generously provided a room in

the basement for use as a club and meeting room. I recall

the many heated discussions on confederation and other

current issues in which veterans and younger members of

the student body participated. It was here that past

friendships were renewed and new ones

made that have continued down through

the years.

- Heward Peters, '48

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 Welsh Guards.

All our training was done at the CLB

Armoury.

One evening, on our way home, Len

Porter and I decided to use our

quasi-military garb to gain entry to a

lively dance "for servicemen only" in

the Guards ' Club Rooms at the top

of Barter's Hill. We were stopped at

the threshold of a promising evening

by the doorman, who loudly

demanded, "What outfit

are you fellows with, McKinlay

Motors?"

-Bruce Woodland, '41

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Alfred Collinson Hunter

A. C. Hunter taught English and French at

the college. A vigorous 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,

h1s rigorous and demanding skill as a teacher, and the

r'c~ness of intellectual and moral culture. " Hunter died

at St. John's on May 16, 1971.

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.

Students on the front steps of the college, late 1930s.

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. Under­graduate 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.

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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 . ~

teps of Memorial University College in the mid-1930s.

Students on s

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S t pus to Pitts Memorial Graduating class parading from Parade tree cam

Hall, June 7, 1941.

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.

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Engineering students on geology field trip at Manuels River, 194 7.

Sadie organ, librarian 1934-58.

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University status As veterans returned from the Second World War, there was

another upsurge in enrolment. In 1946 enrolment peaked at

434 students, declining to 329 two years later. Overcrowded

classrooms and laboratories once more became the norm. Vice-president Hunter later recalled that the ''reading-room

planned for 100 had to serve four times that number" and noted "the utter inadequacy of the teaching staff- in 1946 ...

when students numbered over 400, 280 in the first year, the teaching staff in the Department of English numbered two,

both engaged at the same time in the Department of Foreign Languages."

As a temporaty solution, the government acquired two

nearby buildings from the American military, which had

established bases in Newfoundland during the war. As the

number of academic offerings grew, the board of governors

and the faculty sought university status, but the government

was unwilling to provide capital funding - although it did

agree, in 1946, to have the three-year teacher training

program included in the regular college curriculum.

On july 22, 1948, Newfoundlanders voted for Confederation

with Canada. On April1, 1949, joseph Roberts Smallwood,

the leader of the Confederate campaign, became premier of

Newfoundland. One of the first acts of the new Newfound­

land legislature, on Aug. 13, 1949, was the enactment of a bill elevating the college to the status of a university to be known

a Memorial University of Newfoundland.

If there was a time to make the college a

university, that time is now,

now that we have become

a province of Canada

.... We will, as

Canadians, gradually,

more especially in

the generations to

come, gradually and

quite inevitably absorb a

wider outlook, a Canadian

outlook .... All the more reason, therefore, why

we should do something to see to 1t that our

distinctly Newfoundland culture and conscious·

ness do not disappear and are preserved and

maintained down to many generations in the

future. And l feel this university will be a great

means toward that end .... At the same time,

there is no reason, if we have the vision and if

we have the courage, ... the University of

Newfoundland for its size should not be the

most distinguished university in the whole

world ....

- Premier Joseph R. Smallwood speaking on Aug. 11, 1949, in the Newfoundland House of Assembly on second reading of legislation establishing Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Students at the entrance to the college, 1942.

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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

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Raymond Gushue · ~

Born in Whitbourne

on June 20, 1900,

Gushue earned a

law degree from

Dalhousie in 1925

and practiced law

until his appoint·

ment as chairman

of the Newfound·

land Fisheries

Board in 1936. He was chairman of the

Newfoundland Woods Labour Board

(1947-58) and a member of the Royal

Commission on Canada's Economic

Prospects (1955-58). In 1967 he

became the first Newfoundlander

appointed to the Order of Canada.

He died Dec. 18, 1980.

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1 19 fir t degree-granting convocation 1 1952 philosophy 1 Gushue becomes president 1 Lord Rothermere installed as first chancellor 1 1953 physical education, geology 1 1954 commerce 1 1956 first master's degree (chemistry) 1 sociology, pre-forestry 1 1957 psychology 1 1958 master's degree in English 1 1959 sod· turning for new campus

First degree-granting convocation held by Memorial University on June 3, 1950. Seated- (l·r) George A. Hickman (dean, Education), Dr. A. C. Hunter (dean, Arts and Science), Dr. Albert G. Hatcher (president), Stanley J. Carew (dean, Applied Science). Standing (l·r)- Thomas J. Strapp, BA; John R. Courage, BA (Ed.); Denise J. Bon nave, BA; Bernard W. March, BA; Frederick J. Newhook, BA.

Academic foundation The newly-formed university's policy was ''to

proceed slowly and urely o as to establish

degree patterns on sound academic lines." Early

emphasis was on a broad-based undergraduate program in the arts and sciences. In the mid-

1950s, graduate programs in selected disciplines were added; English and chemi try were the first departments to offer these program .

Paton's legacy of acce sibility continued in

official government policy that the largest

possible number of students be able to attend.

Memorial maintained tuition fee well below the average for the univer itie in the Maritime Provinces.

Undergraduate enrolment increased during the

decade, and the Parade Street campus inevitably became overcrowded despite several temporary

measure designed to accommodate the needs of

a growing student population and faculty. In the mid-1950 the university took over an adjoining

government building and erected four pre-fab buildings, one behind the adjacent USO

Building, two on the football field, and a student

building adjoining the west wing of the main building.

Chemistry profes or Hugh Anderson later

recalled in his unpublished memoirs that the two

tructures on the football field were known as "Tin Can East and West."

In 1958 overcrowding forced the administration

to impose a cap of 600 on first-year student , a quota that remained until 1961, when Memorial

moved to the Elizabeth Avenue campus.

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Professor Corb Noel (centre) and students in the physics lab.

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, So come on, Memorial, Skin 'em alive!

'Ray!

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Chancellors of Memorial University (from top left)

The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted, 1952 -1961

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Thomson of Fleet, 1961- 1968

Dr. G. Alain Frecker, 1971 -1979

Dr. Paul G. Desmarais, 1979 -1988

Hon. Dr. John C. Crosbie, 1994 -

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~949-1950 • 1949 Unit of the University Naval Training Division established • 1950 Unit of the Canadian Officers Training

Corps established

University governance The 1949 legislation establishing the university provided for a chancellor, a board of regents, a president

(appointed by the board), a senate, and faculty councils.

appointed or elected under the

authority of the Board of Regent . The three faculties

formally recognized in 1950 were arts and science, applied science, and education.

The Board of Regents oversaw

the management, admin­istration and control of the property, revenue, business

and affairs of the university. It

consisted of government appointees and two members elected by Convocation.

E. J. Pratt, addressing convocation on the occasion of the installation of the Hon. the Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted as first chancellor and Raymond Gushue as second president, Oct. 8, 1952.

During the 1950s the university received its funding from three

main sources: the annual

operating grant from the province, student tuition fees,

and, after 1952, the federal

government. Beginning in 1952 the federal government made

annual grants available to President Hatcher, the first

universities based on a per capita population basis for president of the university, retired from the position in

each province. This financial assistance was critical to 1952. His successor was Raymond Gushue, a St. John's lawyer who had had a long association with the

college. He was a member of the governing board of the college and vice-chairman of the Board of Regents

before his appointment as president.

Responsibility for academic matters rested with Senate, an appointed body consisting of the president, the deputy minister of education, the deans of faculties, a representative of any college or institution affiliated with the university, and a maximum of six others

Memorial's academic growth.

Although the student base and the research focus were primarily rooted in Newfoundland, Memorial recruited

faculty from many universities and countries. A large percentage of new faculty members were British, but many were American and Canadian, including Newfoundlanders. A long-term effect of this hiring

practice was the broadening of the province's cultural and ethnic awareness.

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1952 • President Hatcher unveils Memorial's coat of arms • Memorial revives the custom of wearing undergraduate gowns to classes

Executive of the Athletic Union, 1952·53.

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. ·ty with engineering students in drafting lab. Open House at the un1vers1

Engineering students in 1956 conducting survey work at the future site of the new campus at Hal liday Farm. (1-r) Sidney Dyke, Edwin J. Snook, Roland Avery, Darryl Fry, and Roger March.

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Feb. 10, 1959 -Three members of the MUN Radio Society who helped VOCM with announcing during the regular day's program - (1-r) Florence Walsh, Eileen Yard, VOCM announcer Bob Cole and Edwina Suley.

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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

over the world. Happily, their dreams came true.

-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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University Day. Each year the university designated a special day to invite the public to tour its facilities and meet the students and staff.

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.

('pfpf'll'nfn M .:-I

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How the muse was ·~

named A contest 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 M is called mu, which may also

be regarded as the symbol of a university

whose initial letters are MU. Thus a paper

issued by a university, where classical

learning is held in high regard, and whose

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

'muse' are added. We call the daily

newspaper 'The News'; we call MU's

paper the 'Muse' or Muse paper."

- the muse, Mar. 29, 1956

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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, Sid Noel, George Lee, Mike Kennedy, John Small, Desmond Kearney, Francis Barnes, John Sullivan, Miles 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.

Memorial Till)es

Student organizations The Students' Representative Council (SRC) had re ponsibility for athletic, social and other activities. The SRC was elected annually by the student body

to serve as a liaison with the president and faculty. In 1957 it was replaced by the Council of the Students' Union (CSU).

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.

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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 called ua

community of

scholars." Coming

from town and bay,

we argued about

Newfoundland in the

new Confederation;

we discussed

philosophy 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 ~+udent 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

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• 19 5 7 • Facilities: 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

Place Names of Newfoundland', read to the

Canadian Linguistic Association, was received

with the liveliest interest. One of the purposes

of the paper was to describe our work in

Newfoundland in the hope that we might profit

from an association with mainland skills and

financial resources. In the event, this hope

was over-optimistic. As soon became apparent,

in no other English-speaking region of Canada

is work as advanced in these fields as it is in

Newfoundland, and in no other region is it

being pursued so vigorously. Only in French­

speaking Canada is a comparable effort being

made .... The lively interest shown in our work

is flattering, both to the individuals concerned

and to the university. "

-Memo written by Dr. E.R. Seary and Dr. George Story on July 14, 1957. The work of scholars in the English Department on the Newfoundland language and family and place names was published between the 1960s and the 1990s; the latest one, The Place Names of the Great Northern Peninsula, by Dr. W.J. Kirwin, Robert Hollett and the late E.R. Seary, will be published in 1999.

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Research in Newfoundland studies From the beginning, the university recognized the paramount role

Memorial must play in promoting Newfoundland studies, long the

domain of amateur enthusiasts and popular writers including Premier

Smallwood. In 1954 the univer ity applied to the Carnegie Corporation

for help to establish a provincial archives. The corporation agreed to a

three-year grant of $30,000 on condition that, once established, the

archives would be handed over to the province.

When the grant expired in 1958, the university received financial

assistance from the Canada Council and the archives was transferred to

the province in 1960. As part of this project, librarian Agnes O'Dea

began compiling the first comprehensive bibliography of Newfoundland

and Labrador writings. Her efforts to collect and preserve publications

on ewfoundlancl and Labrador eventually led to the establishment of

the Centre for Newfoundland Studies.

English professors E. R. Seaty and George Story studied the Newfound­

land dialect and the origins of Newfoundland place and family names.

University scientists were active in marine research. Chemist Douglas

Cooper and William Forbes and physicist Corb Noel studied artificial

drying techniques for salt cod and de igned an experimental fish plant

at Valleyfielcl, Bona vista Bay. Biologist Cater Andrews investigated the

size of fish stocks off ewfoundland and undertook collaborative

research with federal fisheries biologists such as Wilfred Templeman.

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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.

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Photo courtesy of The Telegram

Winners of the talent show held on Feb. 10, 1959, during University Week. Front. (1-r)­Barbara Hand, John Smith, Marguente Short. Back (1-r) - Melvin Pike, Bruce Hallett, Bob Lockhart, Phillip Patey, David Gill.

P~ofessor Doug Eaton with the candidates for a Mtss Memorial contest, 1959.

Faculty Fossils basketball and volleyball team. Back (1-r) ­Bill Forbes (chemistry), Gordon Hyde (captain, resident COTC officer), David Baird (geology), Moses Morgan (political science). Front (1-r)- David Genge (physics), Hugh Anderson (chemistry) and Doug Eaton (physical education).

University Week- 1958 "The week beginning March 3 saw the celebration of University Week.

On Sunday students and faculty members attended divine service at

various St. John's churches. On Monday the university played host to

members of the public and visitors from the schools. Demonstrations

and exhibitions were held in the science laboratories (included in the

exhibits in the Geology Lab was a large round beach-stone, hopefully

labeled 'Dinosaur egg'). and the Geography Department, COTC

(Canadian Officers Training Corps) and library also had displays. Among

the attractions sponsored by the library were exhibitions of paintings by

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Mr. Harold Goodridge, and cartoons by Dr. A.A. MacDonald, who,

incidentally, was awarded a first prize in this year's Arts and Letters

contest.

"On Tuesday, March 5, the students staged a talent show (watched with

fear by the faculty members selected as victims) and a debate. The

afternoon was given up to sport, including the now-classic faculty

[known as the 'Faculty Fossils'] vs. student basketball game. There was

a dance in the evening.·

-Memorial University Newsletter, No. 5 {Apri/1957)

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Top: Sod turning ceremony for the new university campus on Elizabeth Avenue. Ce;ntre: The Physical Education building under construction. Bottom: Bowater and Rothermere Houses under construction. Background photo: View from Mount Scio of Halliday Farm and surrounding area, the site of the Elizabeth Avenue campus.

Construction 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

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Temporary buildings) 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 Merrymeeting Road.

containing offices

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)

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1959 • 1959 In January Memorial University is visited for the first time by a mainland college hockey team, the University of King's College of Halifax.

Construction scenes of the Elizabeth Avenue campus. Clockwise from top 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 planned suburb the St. John's Housing Corporation had commenced building in the mid-1940s. The site on Elizabeth Avenue (then at the fringes of the city) had been part of the Halliday farm.

In October 1952 Chancellor Lord Rothermere presided over an official

ceremony to lay the cornerstone for the main building. For financial reasons, construction did not commence until1959; by then university and

government officials had planned every aspect of the university's physical and academic needs. On May 23, 1959, Premier Smallwood presided over a

sod-turning ceremony at the site of the new campus. Funding for the new campus came from the provincial government and the Canada Council.

Students cheered the premier in that year when they staged a public protest

from the campus to the Colonial Building, the first march by university students on the provincial legislature. Thi protest, differing from those of

later decades, was in support of the provincial government, which wa objecting to the federal government's refusal to give the province more

funding under Term 29.

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Students at the main entrance at the Parade Street campus, 1952.

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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 a fuller life. ''

- M.O. Morgan, dean of arts and science, in an address to the St. John 's Rotary Club, Sept. 7, 1961

CHAPTER 3

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View of the Elizabeth Avenue campus in October 1961: L-r- Physical Education Building, Arts and Administration Building, Science Building and the Library. The Dining Hall and Bowater and Rothermere Houses are behind the Science Building.

Eleanor Roosevelt presenting the keys of the university to the chancellor, Lord Thomson,

• ~ 9&::' 1 F1rst honorary degree (Monnie Mansfield) • 1961 Elizabeth Avenue campus opened • 1962 Dining Hall, Rothermere House and Bowater House opened • 1964 Doyle House opened • 1965 First doctoral programs (English and chemistry) • 1966 Education Building opened • ETV established • Division of Student Services created • 1967 Chemistry-Physics Building and Barnes, Burke, Curtis, Biackall , Hatcher, and Squires residences opened • 17 new academic departments • 1968 Residence complex named Paton College • Thomson Student Centre opened • First issue of MUN Gazette published • 1969 tri-semester year instituted

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Oct. 9, 1961.

The three greatest thing that ever happened to

Newfoundland, according to]. R. Smallwood, were

its discovery in 1497, its confederation with Canada

in 1949, and "the building of our great university." As

Memorial prepared to move from the cramped

quarters of the old college to spacious new buildings

on Elizabeth Avenue, a great celebration was planned

- including a province-wide holiday. A special

convocation on Oct. 7 installed Roy Thomson, a

Canadian-born British newspaper publi her (later

Lord Thomson of Fleet), as chancellor.

The official opening was held on Monday, Oct. 9.

Fifteen thousand high school and university students,

no doubt thankful for the warm, sunny morning,

formed ranks at Churchill Square and paraded along

Elizabeth Avenue. The parade included several

marching bands as well as local schools, and service

and conununity organizations.

On the viewing rand were Eleanor Roosevelt

(representing the president of the United States),

------Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Premier Smallwood,

the presidents of 41 of Canada's 42 universities, and

representatives from d1e United Kingdom, the United

States and Portugal.

The key to the university was presented to the new

chancellor by Eleanor Roosevelt. The Monday

evening banquet with 1,000 guests, including many

ewfoundlanders brought home by the government

for the occasion, was held at Holy Heart of Ma1y

High School.

In its short history, the university had conferred

just one honorary degree - a master's to retiring

registrar Mannie Mansfield in 1960. As part of the

new campus celebrations, on Oct. 10, 1961, the

university awarded its first honorary doctoral

degrees. The 19 recipients included Mrs. Roosevelt,

Premier Smallwood, Prime Minister Diefenbaker,

poet E.]. Pratt and the heads of the major religious

denominations in the province.

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Photo courtesy of The Telegram

Students participating in the Oct. 9, 1961, parade celebrating the official opening of the new campus.

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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

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;

unruffled calm amid storms internal and

external; a deep concern for the quality of

undergraduate life and the expanding role

of the university in society. The prime

function of president, he once observed,

is to be a good co-ordinator. He, himself,

excelled in that.. .. He used the powers of

his office not to impose a pattern but to

encourage a process, immanent in the

body academic.

- President (pro tern) M.O. Morgan, May 1966 convocation address

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Physical Education Building, 1961.

Sign showing the fund­raising objectives of the university in its National Fund campaign, held in 1960 and 1961.

After the weekend's festivities, the new campu was open and ready for

business in four buildings: the Arts and Administration building, the Science building, the Physical Education building and the library.

The new campus would be home to explosive growth for the young

university during the 1960s, as Memorial evolved from a small, primarily undergraduate institution to a comprehensive university offering

masters' and doctoral degrees. When the new campus opened in 1961,

enrolment stood at 1,907; by the end of the decade it had risen to 7,239.

Already plans were in the works for more facilities. A national fund­

raising effort in support of this cau e in the early 1960s raised nearly $5 million.

Despite the many new facilities, rapid growth in enrolment once again

re ulted in a shortage of classroom and office space. In 1968 the

univer ity opened several one-storey wooden "tempora1y" buildings, some of which were still in use in the '90s.

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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.

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Henrietta Harvey Research at the university was

given a boost in 1964 when a

bequest was received from the

estate of Henrietta Harvey, the

widow of St. John's businessman

John Harvey. With this gift (valued

at $650,000 in 1966) the

university established an

endowment fund in 1967; the

Henrietta Harvey Chair, which it

supports, has been occupied by

some of our most distinguished

faculty scholars. Part of the endow­

ment also went towards a

Distinguished Visiting Scholars

fund. In 1970 the building housing

the university library was named in

her honour. After the construction

of the new library, the Henrietta

Harvey building in the 1980s

became home to the Department

of Mathematics and Statistics, the

Department of Computing and

Communications, the Maritime

History Archive, and the Maritime

History Group.

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E til

While the range of formal academic ~ Q)

~ programs gre"' rapidly, the university's ~

... commitment to the province at large

was never forgotten. In 1959 John

cdlman was appointed the first head of

Extension Service, a the uniwsity

expanded its outreach program · with

non-credit cour es and educational

televi ion programs broadcast on local

stations.

In 1961, with help from the federal

Department of Fisheries, Memorial

instituted the TV program Decks AU'ash,

designed especially to keep fishermen in

touch with technological and scientific

advances in the industry.] uly 1968 saw

the birth of a magazine of the same name

devoted primarily to community and rural

development issues.

S t 11 1968 - unveiling of the master plan for the ep. ' . . f

university (1-r) - Hon. Frederick W. Rowe, m.mister o education; Premier Joseph R. Smallwo~d; Sir Fredenck Gibberd (university architect); and President Lord Taylor.

Extension Service also offered programs in art

instruction taught by artist Christopher Pratt, "'ho

also managed the small art gallery in the library,

and music taught by composer Murray Schafer.

Ignatius Rumboldt developed the St. John's

Extension Choir and the university established the

St. John's Orchestra.

Student enrolment after 1965 was greatly boosted

by Premier Smallwood's decision to provide free

tuition and student allowances for all Newfound­

land residents and to pay every student a salary

over and above free tuition. This program lasted

until1969 when the province required all

applicants for financial assistance to borrow a

minimum of $400 from the new Canada Student

Loan Plan Program before being approved for free

tuition.

In 1966 President Gushue retired and Mo es 0.

Morgan, dean of arts and science, tepped in to

serve as president pro tern. While the government

searched for a permanent successor, Morgan, ever

inclined to action, initiated Senate reviews of

Memorial's academic and administrative programs.

Within a year, the university hacl17 new academic departments.

The search for a president resulted in the selection

of the Rt. Hon. the Lord Taylor of Harlow. He

assumed office on June 1, 1967; Dean Morgan was

appointed vice-president and pro vice-chancellor,

and Leslie Harris, who had been acting dean of

art and science, was confirmed a clean.

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1963 • Premier Smallwood lectures 500 students on the art of debating

Lord Stephen Taylor of Harlow Born at Marlow-on-Thames, England, in 1910, Stephen

Taylor was a physician who also served as a Labour MP

from 1945 to 1954. After 1954 he was appointed a

member of the Harlow Development Corporation. In

1958 he was named to the House of Lords as Lord

Taylor of Harlow. In 1966 Premier Smallwood chose him

to be president of Memorial. Following his retirement in

1973, Taylor was visiting professor of community

medicine at Memorial, and in 1986 the university

awarded him an honorary degree. He died in Wales

on Feb. 1. 1988.

Temporary buildings under construction.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, in St.

John's and our other towns, life is

still good and worthwhile. It is part

of our duty here at Memorial to see

that all that is good is preserved as

we plan and march forward into the

future .... We may count ourselves

blessed in our faculty - more

international than any other faculty in

Canada. We may count ourselves

blessed in our staff - devoted and

diligent.. .. Our duty is plain. We have

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, Feb. 24, 1968.

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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 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.

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1967 • The first issue of the The Concrete Vine is published. Edited by John Sutherland, the newspaper provided 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

Top to bottom: Joyce Nevitt, Dr. Angus Bruneau and Dr. lan Rusted.

The professional schools In the 1960s Memorial established professional degree programs in nursing, medicine, social work, and engineering. In the decade following the incorporation of the Association of Registered Nurses of

Newfoundland in 1953, the organization documented the need for a school of nursing. In 1961 the association presented to Senate its brief approving the establishment of a Department of Nursing within the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 1965 joyce Nevitt was appointed head of

the new unit. The first class was admitted to programs for basic and post­

RN students in 1966. Registered nurses (RNs) had a head start on the

novices; thus four RNs received the bachelor of nursing degree in 1969, while the first basic students graduated in 1971. In 1974 the department was elevated to the status of a school.

The creation of Canada's sixteenth medical school wa, the culmination of

many years of work. The Royal Commission on Canadian Health Services (1961) recommended a medical school for Newfoundland; the university's own McFarlane feasibility commission report (1966) recommended that a

medical school and a health sciences complex be built at Memorial; and the Lord Brain Royal Commission (1966) also recommended that provision of adequate medical smices could not be achieved without a

medical school. With financial commitments from the federal and 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 graduating class was in 1973.

Being there

It was a time of intense

excitement and

cataclysmic change for

a boy from a one-room

school in Jackson's

Cove, Green Bay. The

mind set, for example,

to speak out against

government, the great

provider, required a

huge leap in attitude

and confidence.

I remember Doyle

House shenanigans, sock hops, sing-alongs

in a crammed lobby at Bowater House,

rehearsing for Winter Carnival talent shows,

bonding with the brothers at the Mu Upsilon

Nu Fraternity and singing in the Glee Club

with Nish Rumboldt. I also have vivid

memories of Student Council and several

other campus organizations. They played a

major role in instilling the confidence that

anything you wanted could be within your

grasp.

- Dennis Knight, B.Sc., BA (Ed.) '67

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The Maltings at Harlow showing extension to the right constructed in 1988 containing staff offices and a lecture room. This building has 11 single and 10 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

degrees were offered in four disciplines - civil, mechanical, mining and

electrical engineering - and the first class graduated in 1974.

Diploma courses in public welfare had been offered at Memorial since 1961. That expanded in 1963 when the university, in response to a request from the provincial Department of Public Welfare, established a two-year diploma

program. In 1965 social welfare became a major for the bachelor of arts degree, with Ella Brett as the program's first full-time faculty member. A 1968 study of needs and potential conducted by the first department head, Frank

Turner, led to the approval of a five-year bachelor of social work degree program, which had its first graduating class in 1970.

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St. John's House, the faculty residence at Harlow.

Harlow campus Soon after Lord Taylor was installed as president, Memorial approved the establishment of a residential campus in the town of Harlow,

England, 37 km northeast of London. During the 1950s Lord Taylor had been the town's public medical officer, and he believed that a campus

in England would strengthen relations between ewfoundland and Britain and help students gain practical experience in engineering, social services and teaching. In 1968 the university purchased several

adjoining buildings to accommodate about 70 students and in the

following year opened its Harlow campus with a board of trustees to oversee its affairs.

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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

programs, buildings and student numbers. New

and exciting research programs reflected

Memorial's continuing committment to the

province. In 1961 the univer ity established the

Institute of ocial and Economic Re earch (I ER)

to examine rele\'ant i sue in the province.

Under the direction of !an Whitaker and Parzival

Copes (and, after 1965, Robert Paine), ISER

gained an international reputation for scholarly research and publishing.

In 1967 the Marine Sciences Research Laboratory at Logy Bay, with Dr. Fred Aldrich a director,

wa · established with the financial assistance of

the National Re earch Council of Canada and the

e\\'foundland government. Aldrich had already

generated a lot of public attention as a result of his research on the giant squid.

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Photo courtesy ofThe Telegram

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

researching Newfoundland place names and language, with the

encouragement of Canada Council grants, since the late 1950s; the chief researchers were professors Ronald Seary and George

Storv ln 1959 and 1962 they were joined by William Kirwin and Herbert Halpert as specialists in linguistics and folklore

respt.:ctirely. Seary subsequently published books on family

names and place names, while Story, with Kirwin and john

Widdowson, toiled on The Dictionary of Newfoundland

Englisb, which was published to great critical acclaim in 1982.

When the Department of Folklore was established in 1968, it

came complete with the Newfoundland Folklore and Language

Archive, more familiarly known as MUNFLA. There was a

growing collection of sound recordings, manuscripts, artifacts

and audiotapes, mo t of it resulting from student research. Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland (Halpert and Story, eds.,

1969), an interdisciplinary study of the tradition of mumming (also known as mummering or jannying), was the first major

study of Newfoundland culture published by Memorial. The

book represented for many the growing maturity of research on topics close to home. Under Halpert's leadership, the

Department of Folklore became the first and only one of it

kind in English Canada, offering bachelors', masters', and

doctoral degrees in that discipline.

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"Bowater girls" participating in skits at Winter Carnival.

Being there Residence life in the mid-1960s gave me lifelong friendships,

treasured memories, and valuable experiences I will never forget.

Bowater House was the only women's residence at that time,

flanked by the mens' houses of Rothermere and Doyle, with the

Dining Hall as the meeting place. It was here that we spent many

hours engrossed in conversation: politics, sports, exams, and

relationships. For many of us it was our first time away from

home. Many came alone, the only one representing her small

community, nervously anticipating what lay ahead. Friendships

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Residents of Curtis House, 1968-69.

developed - we helped each other through the difficult times and

celebrated the good times together. We had great fun at

residence-sponsored dances and sports activities; we even had

our own newspaper for a while - The Concrete Vine. Winter

Carnival was the time when competition was highest among

Memorial's faculties and our residences. Who can forget the

Bowater Girls winning skits in the Winter Carnival Concert and the

floats we built with the boys of Rothermere?

-Diane Lomond, BA (Ed) '67

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968-1969 • 1968 A master 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.

Above: Students in the Dining Hall in the late 1960s. Left: View of the Dining Hal l.

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

shown to politicians and civil servants

to present the views and aspirations of

the residents. This technique became a

model for community development

media programs outside Newfoundland.

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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).

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''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

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Aerial view of the campus in the early 1970s showing the temporary buildings.

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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

Student occupation of the Arts and Administration Building; at far right is Earle McCurdy.

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tudent occupation Memorial had its share of the student activism that was prevalent on American and Canadian campuses during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Perhaps the best­

known incident took place in November 1972.

Hundreds of students occupied the Arts and Administration Building to protest

the decision by the Board of Regents to stop collecting compulsory student fees on behalf of the CSU. The CSU leadership under acting president Wayne Hurley,

preferring that any change be delayed until it held a referendum on the matter,

considered the board's decision to be an attempt by the administration to

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.

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 political

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

regulation.

When I travel around the province today, and meet

people who were students of MUN during the occupation,

they take pride in telling stories about what they did and

how they were part of winning that battle. The student

activism of the 1960s and 1970s was the spark that

ignited the flame of the social conscience that continues

to flicker bravely into the 1990s.

- Bob Buckingham, BA '73

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President Moses 0. Morgan

Dr. G.A. Hickman, dean of Education, and Dr. A.A. Bruneau, dean of Engineering and Applied Science, place the robe on President Morgan, Feb. 9, 1974.

Born in Blaketown, Trinity Bay,

in 1917, Mose Morgan

attended Memorial University

College and then Dalhousie

University, where he received a

bachelor's degree. The

Newfoundland Rhodes Scholar

for 1938, he delayed graduate

study at Oxford University until

after the Second World War.

From 1940 to 1942 he taught

at King's College School in

Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1942

he enlisted in the Canadian

Army and saw service in Europe

as a platoon commander. After

the war he completed a

master's degree in classics at Dalhousie followed by further graduate studies at

Oxford. He joined the faculty of Dalhousie in 1948 and came to Memorial in 1950 to

teach political science. Morgan played a prominent role in the development of

academic policy at Memorial, and from the late 1950s his influence as dean of arts

and science was second only to that of President Gushue. He was president (pro tem)

1966-67 and president 1973-1981. He died in St. John's on Apr. 24, 1995.

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Following Lord Taylor's retirement as president in

August 1973, the Board of Regents selected M.O.

Morgan as president.

Almost immediately upon his appointment,

Morgan reorganized the university administration,

appointing several new senior academic

administrators to reflect an expanding academic

program. Leslie Harris later observed that Morgan's

"favorite technique was to identify the right person

for a particular role and then, following the

military strategy of reinforcing success, offer to

such a person unstinting loyalty and such

financial, administrative and moral support as the

resources of the university could command or as

governments or private corporations could be

cajoled or browbeaten into providing. Areas of

particular intere t were those that combined the

greatest potential for community development

with the best opportunities for high class scholarship."

In a 1995 tribute to Morgan, former president

Leslie Harri observed that "there can be no doubt

that [his] first loyalty was to the university. Nor can

we doubt his belief that in serving that institution

well he wa serving the entire province. But his

university was no ivory tower. There was, within

his composition, a strong pragmatic streak coupled

with an unyielding commitment to the idea that

the special expertise that could be mobilized and

brought to bear by the university was that which

would ... move the ewfoundland community

towards appropriate development."

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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

in the mid-1930s, returned as a professor in 1950, and later helped to shape its academic development.

Classroom in a temporary building.

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.

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Being there I was a student at Memorial from 1965 to

1975 and the recipient of four university

degrees from this marvelous institution.

The 1960s were interesting times,

characterized by vociferous student

debate all over North America and

evidenced at Memorial with student sit­

ins and other peaceful demonstrations

against the political authorities of the

day. And yet, those were the days of

free tuition, student stipends, student

frivolity, and growing student enrolment,

which mirrored an accessibility to

higher education of which most young

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians had previously

only dreamed.

The early 1970s saw the continuance of debate but heralded a focus

to discourse and undergraduate degrees - I began studies at

Memorial's new Faculty of Medicine! A school of medicine was new to

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

197 4 began and finished in hastily built "temporary buildings'' where

the Queen Elizabeth II Library now resides.

It was an exciting time of study and introduction for students and

patients alike! The medical school at Memorial has been the single

and most important determinating factor for the quality of health care

and its accessibility in our province's recordable history! I am

extremely proud to be a graduate of Memorial University!

- Linda lnkpen, B.Sc. '69, BA (Ed) '70, BMS '72, MD '7 4 Alumna of the Year 1988

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1971 • E.R. Seary's Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland was published by the University of Toronto Press.

New initiatives During the 1970s Memorial's annual enrolment averaged about 10,000 students.

There was continued growth and consolidation of academic programs and Memorial established a strong research presence in Newfoundland and in the

Canadian university community.

New academic initiatives continued to enrich life at the university and within the

province. In 1974 Memorial established an institute (later named Institut Frecker)

at Saint-Pierre, where students could spend a semester immersed in French language, culture and literature.

In 1975 the Institute for Educational Research and Development was established

to undertake and sponsor research in Newfoundland's educational philosophy

and practice.

In 1974 the Department of Commerce evolved into the School of Business

Administration and Commerce. In 1978 the school established the P.]. Gardiner

Institute for Small Busines Studies to provide as istance to small businesses; Memorial was the first university in Canada to establish this type of consulting centre.

In 1978 psychologist Jon Lien's ongoing research on whales led to the formation

of the Whale Research Group, best known for its ongoing work in helping to free whales caught in fishing nets.

Five years after the Maritime Hist01y Group was formed to study the maritime

and economic history of Newfoundland and the North Atlantic region, Memorial

received a five-year Canada Council research grant to study the rise and fall of

the shipping indu try of eastern Canada in the 19th century. In 1978 the

Department of Anthropology established an Archaeology Unit with James Tuck as director. He had excavated a large Maritime Archaic cemetery at Port au

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,

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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.

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1972 • Memorial University awarded an honorary doctor of letters to Newfoundland artist Christopher Pratt.

A college is born A far back as 1966, a enate committee had recommended that

Memorial establish a number of junior colleges throughout the

province, reflecting President Morgan's belief that it was more

practical, academically and financially, for Memorial to establish

these colleges to allow students outside the Avalon Peninsula to

study closer to home.

In 19 2 the univer ity approved the creation of branch campuses

to erre 1,000-1,500 students and offer the fir t two years of

tudy in arts, science and education programs.

Corner Brook was cho en as the site for the first branch campus.

The official opening was held on Oct. 24, 1975, with a special

convocation the next day to honour several prominent west

coast residents. The single building of the West Coast Regional

College- renamed Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 1979-

housed 400 students who registered for first- and second-year

courses in arts, cience and education. The college began to

develop the interdi ciplinary nature that would later become the

hallmark of its degree programs.

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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.

First 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.

Top left- In August 1978 a student brass quintent made a three-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.

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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

a particular interest in the flora of

Newfoundland and Labrador. It

fosters an appreciation of natural

history in the development and future

of the university and the province. The

garden became a not-for-profit corp­

oration in 1994. Initial development

began in 1971 on one hectare of

land. The garden now covers 44.5

hectares, including the six hectares

that Oxen Pond occupies.

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Studio audience at an ETV video taping.

Distance education students in rural Newfoundland viewing a videotaped lecture by Dr. Robert Crocker.

Distance education Prior to 1969 university credit courses were offered off-campus in only a few location ; cour es were

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

campus centres in 12 areas. Eleven courses were taught by local instructors and other courses were taught by instructors commuting from the university.

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.

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• 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

from remote 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):

showing the Health Aerial view of the ~amp)uasnd the S. J. Carew Sciences centre (nght building (left).

Ross Penney, All ister Paul Terrence Delaney, Diane Banikhin, Daniel Shu. Albert Giovanni, Douglas Simms, Richard Mead, John James Hardy, Albert Pike Mark Chalom, Paul Hart, Stephen Shore Neva Hilliard, Oleh Whaler, David Moores, Adaani Frost Francis Tudiver, Rosemary Hutchison, Howard Strong Donald Eddy, Thomas Noseworthy, Raymond Shandera

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Winter Carnival Parade, 1971. Photo courtesy ofThe Telegram

Winter Carnival1971.

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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 men's basketball team- Front (1-r): Tony Wakeham Ma k D ff Sean Brown, Dave Kielly, Glenn Normore. Back (1-r)- Frank Butlerr u ' (coach), Frank Foo, Dick Power, Glenn Stanford, Glenn Willar, Doug Spurell. Insert: Roland Smith (manager).

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

coach), Kathy Noseworthy (co- ca tm.anager), .Zita Dalton (assistant (co-captain), Anne English Bill Thplstalm)(, Debbie Eaton, Shelly Orr

' e coach).

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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 ~

(1-r) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Chancellor Dr. Alain Frecker, President Moses Morgan and Mrs. Grace Morgan.

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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.

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The Queen viewing a model of the new library.

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.

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Honorary graduate Dr. Donald Hebb (extreme right) addressing Convocation, May 28, 1977.

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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

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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)

m 1959. His PhD in

Asian history was

conferred by the

University of London

in 1960. From 1960

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

director of the Summer Institute (As1an Studies) at

the Uni ersity of Virginia in 1962.

In 1963 Dr. Harris joined emorial as an assistant

professor of history. He later became department

head. erved as dean of arts and science and, in

197 4, as named vice-president {academic).

Appo·nted president m 1981, he retired on

Aug. 31. 1990.

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Queen Elizabeth II Library and the St. John's campus of the 1980s.

Pre ident Morgan retired on Aug. 31, 1981. Leslie Harris

was hi succe sor, the first Memorial Univer ity graduate

to fill the po t. During the 1980s he presided over a period of growth in academic programs at the

undergraduate and graduate le\·el a enrolment oared

annually, doubling from 9,000 students in 1978 to 18,000

in 1991. The university added extra classrooms and

teaching staff but remained underfunded becau e the

pro\'incial grant, plus revenues from the lowest tuition

fees in Atlantic Canada, failed to keep pace with increasing cost .

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• 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 launched at Grenfell • Fine Arts Building opens at Grenfell • Telemedicine and Technology Agency (TETRA) established • 1989 Queen Elizabeth II Library provides computer access to its public catalogue • Telemedicine links high schools in Newfoundland and Quebec as part of a French language instruction program

1980 student protest following the accidental death on Prince Phil ip Drive on Oct. 17, 1980, of Judy Lynn Ford, a 20-year-old fourth-year student from Port-aux-Basques. Student protests led to the construction of a skywalk over the parkway.

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Indeed, it is apparent that wherever we

look throughout the university we find

evidence that we are taking very seriously

our mission to be a major developmental

influence in this province. Whether in the

fine arts, the core disciplines of arts and

science, or in the professional schools, we

are using the resources accessible to us

in what we believe to be a responsible

manner to promote excellence, as a proper

university should, and, at the same time,

to serve the interests of the province and

the region. Nor have we conceived those

interests in purely material terms, but

rather in recognition of the fundamental

proposition that appropriate development

in any cufture demands attention to the

spirit as well as to the body. In an effort to

establish a proper balance in this regard

we have, in recent times, fostered

developments in the domain of the fine

arts.

-Dr. Leslie Harris, President's Report, 1987-88, Part I, pp.6-7.

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New initiatives When the university moved to the Elizabeth

Avenue campus in 1961, Memorial was a small

liberal arts institution with minuscule graduate

programs, limited research facilities and almost

no professional schools. By the 1980s, Memorial

was a significant research establishment with

professional schools that provided high level

training and professional development in

meeting the many social requirements of the

province.

The university's expanding research efforts

recei1·ed considerable national and international

recognition and funding support. By the 1980s

Memorial was internationally known for its

research activities in specialized fields including

archaeology, folklore, linguistics, biochemistry,

marine biology, earth sciences, ocean

engineering, and telemedicine - all, of course,

directly related to the university's mandate of

serving its unique environment.

Our scholars were also working with experts at

the Institute of Fisheries and Marine Technology

(Marine Institute) to enhance fisheries research.

In 1988 Memorial and the Marine Institute

signed a memorandum of understanding to

foster greater collaboration in marine research

and educational programs. They also established

the Marine Communications Applications Centre

to promote marine communications research,

development and technology transfer.

In 1988 Memorial consolidated its marine

research facilities by merging the Marine

Sciences Research Laboratory at Logy Bay and

the Newfoundland Institute for Cold Ocean

Science (established in 1979 in the Faculty of

Science to co-ordinate research in ocean

sciences) to form the Ocean Sciences Centre

(OSC) at Logy Bay. The OSC researched the

development of aquaculture through the

commercial cultivation of mussels, scallops,

arctic char, cod and salmon.

The university's explosive growth in research

and outreach was not centred solely in t.

John's. During the 1980s, the Labrador Institute

of orthern Studies (based in Goose Bay)

organized conferences on community problems

in Labrador and studied the natural resources

and wildlife of the region. It also promoted

research on the community of Battle Harbour.

This led to the formation of the Battle Harbour

Historic Trust, which successfully raised funds to

restore the community's buildings to an 18th

century period. It made Battle Harbour a

significant tourist attraction, along with Red Bay

in southern Labrador excavated by Memorial's

Dr. Jim Tuck.

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1982 • On Sept. 12 a Youth 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.

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.

Sciences Centre at Logy Bay.

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Archaeologist Dr. Jim Tuck in the field.

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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).

Sh e O'Dea with students Tim Power and Mary Jane ~uxley Profe~~org1 a9n14 ·Insurance map as part of their research into histone exammm a buildings in St. John's.

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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 MacKenzie, Religious Studies, and Shane O'Dea, English, who was also namecl1988

Canadian Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Newfounolanu

U !riff

Excerpts from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English

catalina stone n - pyrite coaker n - gasoline fueled engine used in fishing boats c1920s and named for Sir William Coaker, president of the Fishermen's Protective Union. dwy, also dwey, dwigh, dwoi, dwoy dwye n - brief shower or storm fun v- of the wind, to die down, abate /un a - also lund -sheltered

•....... ) .-' .

These books represent research started in the 1950s. They have found a wide audience.

Being there In the 1980s student

enrolment was on the

rise, yet Memorial kept its

friendliness; it was as if

you were in a small

community. Student

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

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

Regents. Socially, we enjoyed Winter Carnivals, Super

TSC Nights, lobby parties and Dining Hall dances. We

debated the merits of free trade and Meech Lake, and

took on anyone who dared to threaten our pride in

Memorial.

The students of the '80s are already making their

impact as business leaders, policy makers, politicians,

and award-winning musicians!

-Ann Marie Vaughan, BA '86, B. Ed. '94

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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.

Rock concert in the TSC, 1986.

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Snow sculptures, Winter Carniva/1988.

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CSU-sponsored clown troupe at the 1985 St. John's Regatta.

Summerfest 1987.

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The Fine Arts Building built especially for Grenfell 's new theatre and visual arts programs.

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

and transfer from one extension to anotherl (1-r~Ph~::a (~~~~:~~::.a~~;~da ~~~~ji~~~ ~r~~~::r~~:;~~·a~~~~ :e~~~ :~~ A~~e ~ercer, chief operator.

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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

north side of the campus, the facility has a 80m x 16m ice

tank and other open-water tanks for precise scale-model experiments in simulated ocean conditions. The tanks are

available to industry, university and government agencies for research in transportation and resource development in ice­

covered waters.

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John Russell and Agnes McCarthy in a scene from Gilbert and Sull~~·~ HMS Pinafore, a joint production of the School of Music and the Arts an u ure

Centre, May 1988.

-

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.

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Being There ' I

• • •

on Corner Brook

like a bolt out of

the blue. For a

while people

didn't know what

to make of us. I

remember a

comment in the

Western Star.

"You 've probably

seen some of

the faculty from

the new college around town. A lot of them

have beards and long hair, but they seem

pretty harmless."

Things gradually changed. We became

less isolated from the community, started

contributing more to it. We added degree

programs and constructed new buildings.

Grenfell now has the feel of a real

university campus. Students still come

back to see us, years after they have

graduated, when they return to the area to

visit parents or relatives.

- Adrian Fowler, BA '66, MA '77

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"The role of the smaller, regionally based college is of particular and unique importance to

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

closer communication between teachers and students and in doing so promotes better

understanding between both groups. n

-Premier Frank Moores, at the official opening of the college, Oct. 27, 1975

Sir Wilfred Grenfell College

Dr. Cyril F. Poole

Throughout the 1980s,

Grenfell College expanded on its road to fulfilling a

dream beyond the imagination of many who

attended its official opening.

"Who can imagine the

development that will

occur?" asked Dr. Arthur Sullivan, the college's first

,___ ____ _, principal, in his address at

the opening. "I will only say that the development is certain to be a challenging and exciting one. 1

think that we- faculty, staff and students of the college - are exceptionally privileged to be able to

participate in this important event."

The presence of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, as it

wa officially named in 1979, had an enormous

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.

The college established co-operative relationships

with recreational groups in Corner Brook and on the west coast. Recreational facilities were shared by

all. Academically, the college reached out to residents outside Corner Brook by offering a variety

of off-campus credit courses through extension services.

Under the leadership of Dr. Cyril F. Poole, who was

principal from 1977 to 1990, the college gradually expanded, offering four-year fine arts degree

programs in theatre and visual arts. In 1988 Grenfell College opened its School of Fine Arts Building,

with a black box theatre, rehearsal hall, studios, darkrooms and art gallery to support these

programs.

Theatre students in dress rehearsal for a production

of Marat-Sade.

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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.

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Mid 1980s aerial view of the st J h , . Paton Coli . o n s campus showmg the residence complex ege (foreground), and the Chemistry-Physics Building (background). '

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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).

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• 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.

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Exam time in the Thomson Student Centre, captured through a photographer's wide-angle camera lens in 1987.

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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

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Arthur W. May Arthur May was born in St. John's in 1937. He

was educated at Memorial University, w~ere he

received B.Sc.(Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees, and

McGill University, where he received a PhD in

marine sciences. He

has worked as a

fisheries scientist, a

fisheries manager

and an international

negotiator, and has

been the CEO of

several public service

organizations. He

was deputy minister

of the federal

Department of

Fisheries and Oceans

from 1982 to 1985,

president of the

Dr. Robert Crocker (dean of education) helps with the robing of Dr. May at his installation as president, Feb. 2, 1991

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research

Council of Canada from 1986-1990, and

president of Memorial University from 1990·

1999. Named Memorial's Alumnus of the Year in

1983, he received a honorary degree from

Memorial in 1989. He was appointed an Officer

of the Order of Canada in December 1995.

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90-1999 • 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

appointed principal, Grenfell College • 1992 Marine Institute merges with Memorial • Arts and Administration Annex opened • Animal Care /Biotechnology building opened • 1993 Multi-media classrooms established • 1994 Centre for International Business Studies established • Grenfell BA, 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 Studies activated • Canada Games Park transferred to MUN • Grenfell's Library and Computing Building

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 College • Fisheries Conservation Research chair established • 1997 Marine Institute introduces master 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 retires as vice-president (academic); replaced by Dr. Evan Simpson • Forest Centre opens, Grenfell

College • 1999 President May retires; succeeded by Dr. Axel Meisen • 1999 Grenfell introduces BA programs in humanities, social and cultural studies

In 1991 there were four Newfoundland-born presidents of Canadian universities - Drs. Downey, Ivany, May and Strong - and they were recognized with honorary degrees at the convocation installing President May. Front (1-r) Dr. James Downey, Dr. George Ivany and Dr. David Strong. Back (1-r) Dr. Albert Cox, vice-president (academic), Charles White (chair, Board of Regents), The Hon. James McGrath, Lieutenant Governor, President May, Dr. Philip Warren (minister of education), and St. John's Mayor Shannie Duff.

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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 May, a Memorial graduate (B.Sc., 1958) who had most recently been president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of

Canada. His appointment coincided with the beginning of reduced grants for the university; the challenge during his tenure was to maintain the

quality of education and research.

In 1993 Memorial developed a mission statement and adopted a strategic plan defining the university's role in the future social and economic

development of the province. The mi sion statement says that Memorial University is "committed to excellence in teaching, re earch and scholar hip, and ervice to the general public." It also "recognize a special obligation to educate the citizen of ewfoundland and Labrador, to undertake research on the challenges this province faces and to hare its

expertise with the community." Entitled Launch Forth, the strategic plan was intended to provide a planning guideline for teaching, research and

budgeting priorities.

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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.

2. Outreach Education

The university will adapt its programs and services to meet the changing needs, expectations and characteristics of students.

3. Community Resource

The university will enhance its presence in the community and create means for our community to learn about and to utilize the resources of the community.

4. Mid·North/ Atlantic

The university will take advantage of its mid-north and Atlantic location in

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educational programs, research activities and community services.

5. Expanding Horizons

The university will develop its international linkages to promote individual, cultural and economic growth, and to provide a means to contribute to the world community.

Marine Institute.

The Marine Institute In 1992, following a review of the Marine Institute and the community

college system, the provincial government decided that the Marine Institute should merge with the university. Throughout the decade MI added degree

programs at the undergraduate and masters levels, while maintaining the diploma programs, hart-term training and industry research for which it had

developed an international reputation.

In 1999 the MI can boast more than 4,500 students instructed by 130 faculty members. About 1,500 are "traditional" students, in that they attend classes full-time from September to June. Several thousand others, though, benefited

from MI's fisheries and marine expertise, coming to either the St. John's or Foxtrap facilities or receiving instruction in their own areas of the province.

Increasingly, MI is becoming a site for national and international training.

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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 its operating budget came from corporate and other clients.

Leonard Lahey, .~anager of the Marine Institute's aquaculture facility, feeding fish being used . research project. In a

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New initiatives It's only natural that we attract people

interested in oceanography, marine

biology, ocean engineering, marine

geoscience and so on .... Nobody else

is in such a good position to deal with

the physics of sea ice or the engin­

eering of offshore structures. We have

the (National Research Council) ice

tank on campus and we certainly have

benefitted from the merger of the

Marine Institute with us.

That is our natural role, as it is for

maritime history, folklore, music and

theatre which tell of our evolution as a

coastal people and how people

interact with the sea .... This is our

territory and we should decide to be

the best in that game, forego other

games, and put our resources there."

-President May, Evening Telegram, Mar. 29, 1998

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1997 • Students can apply for undergraduate admission and can access their records, including final grades, using the Web

The profile of research within the university was boosted when the post of vice-president (Re earch) was created. Dr. Kevin Keough was appointed and

given responsibility for admini tering all of Memorial's research and technology transfer

programs. In 1994 the university converted much of Spencer Hall into a technology incubator centre to

encourage the establishment of new research and

development companies. While Y!emorial

encouraged new re earch effort in the province, it was not forgetting those in which it already had

expertise.

During the 1990s archaeologist Jim Tuck undertook

a major restoration of Lord Baltimore's 17th-century colony at Ferryland. Graduates of the master's

program in archaeology also commenced their own research programs at Cupids, Dildo Island, Burnside and Bird Island. Many of these projects combined

an interest in preserving the past with a community

economic development component. By 1998 the

Ferryland site, for example, was attracting more

than 15,000 visitors a year and providing seasonal

employment to 50 to 70 people.

In 1994 the Faculty of Business Administration

established the Centre for International Bu iness

Studies to help local businesses, students and

faculty connect to the international business community. ClBS also acts as a resource for local

businesses, providing information on international

business issues such as markets, business conditions, cultural differences and identi~ing

potential trading partners. The centre also co­

ordinates student exchanges between Memorial and

universities in other countries.

In 1995 the university established a chair in telelearning in the Faculty of Education with funding of $1.5 million from Industry Canada and

the Atlantic Canada Opp01tunities Agency/Human Resource Development. This was the first chair of

this kind in Canada. In 1996 the university added to expertise in telecommunications with $1.8 million

funding for a chair in telecommunications engineering and information technology, a joint

initiative of Memorial, NewTel Communications, Northern Telecom ( ortel), and SERC.

In 1996 a research chair in fisheries conservation was established, with initial funding for five years

from the provincial and federal fisheries departments, NSERC and Fishery Products

International. Ba eel at the Marine Institute the

chair provides an integrated focus for fisheries research, with particular emphasis on under­

standing groundfish stock dynamics and supporting the development of a conservation­

based fishery in the province.

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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

Newfoundland and Labrador culture.

Clockwise: Faustina Hwang (graduate student, seated), Patricia Lefeuvre (research engineer at C-CORE and t t' t d ) · . par - 1me graduate 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

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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), Frances Healey (Registrar's Office), Rosemary Barron (Chemistry), Marjorie (Dodge) Frampton (Administrative Services), Helen Carew (President's Office), Lillian Sullivan (Biology), and Jo Barron (Physics).

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1997 Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Founder's Lobby, Arts and Administration Building.

J h 's campus in 1997. Tree lighting ceremony at the St. o n

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Term 7 civil engineering students Jason Phillips (bow) and Trevor Bolt (stern) paddle Lukey's Boat during the concrete canoe's christening 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.

Cast of the 1960s rock opera Tommy produced b Culture Centre, Apr. 7-9, 1999. Y students of the School of Music at the Arts and

Students in th Q e ueen Elizabeth II Library.

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Delegates relaxing outside the Thomson Student Centre.

1997 Learneds In 1997 Memorial hosted North America's largest

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.

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New buildings and services Although restraint and cutbacks may have been the themes of the decade, several necessary

changes and improvements were made to facilities. The denominational colleges were

closed in the early 1990s and were acquired by the government, which in turn transferred

ownership to the university.

In January 1992 a five-storey annex to the Arts

and Administration Building opened to provide badly needed teaching and office space for

several departments housed in the "temporary buildings" near the Queen Elizabeth II Library

and in Queen's College. Later that year, an animal care and biotechnology facility opened

adjacent to the Chemistry-Physics Building.

It was a sign of changing times that better daycare facilities were desperately needed on

campus. This need was largely met in 1992, when the CSU and the community officially

opened a new building dedicated to thi

purpose, replacing the childcare services that

had operated since 1976 in the Burton's Pond residential complex.

In 1994 the CSU arranged to lease space on the first floor of the TSC from the univer ity. In this

space, the tudents' union established a food

court, a postal outlet, a photocopying centre, a

travel agency, a pharmacy and other services to meet the ongoing needs of the campus

community.

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1997 • MUNet, Memorial's computer network, becomes part of the Smithsonian Institution's Pennanent Research Collection of Infonnatlon Technology Innovation.

Earth Sciences Building.

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In summer 1999 the University Centre, on the St. John's campus, is near completion. Insert: Memorial Tower (artist's rendering).

The Opportunity Fund In March 1997 the university launched a fund-raising campaign to provide scholarships, support for teaching and research initiatives, and to construct badly needed student services facilities at St. John's and Corner Brook, and an athletics complex at the St. John's campus. The 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

- THE OPPORTUNITY

FUND

FORA BETTF.ll TOMORROW

Student Centre Annex, Grenfell College,

Corner Brook.

The Johnson Family Foundation has provided funding for the construction of a Memorial Tower adjacent to the new centre. The rotunda inside the base of the tower will feature a display of the university's history.

government promised a dollar-for-dollar 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.

The proposed Field House complex, on the St. John's campus (artist's rendering)

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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 Incorporated

The Library & Computing Building opened in 1995. In

November of that year, the library itself was dedicated in memory of E.J. Ferriss Hodgett, Grenfell's first vice­

principal, who had always displayed unconditional commitment to the College.

The Student Centre Annex was added in 199 ; it is a place students call their own, complete with a food court, student lounge , meeting rooms, student union

offices and a licensed lounge.

Although Grenfell College has developed into a bigger campus, serving three times the number of tudents it

had in 1975, its commitment and focus remain the same. Memorial's west coast campu prides it elf on providing a personalized, interactive and

interdisciplinary education for every student.

Above: Grenfell's first BFA graduates, theatre and visual arts, May 1992. Front (l·r) - Ruby LeRiche­Beaumont, Mary Jenkins, Audrey Marie Feltham (v); Deborah Anne Joseph, Maria Annette Bourgeois, Janice Kitchen, Donna Humber (t); Helly Greenacre (v). Middle (1-r) - Phil Matz (t); Darren Cranford, Brian Ball (v); James Davis (t); Joanne Snook (v); Todd Hennessy (t); Paul Hewson, Dale Roberts (v). Back (1-r) -Maurice Smith, Michael s· Payne, Neil Robbins, Carol lr Wilfred Grenfell College Student Centre Annex, Corner Brook.

Nelson, Michael Fenwick, Jeffrey Boone (t); Bradley Colbourne (v).

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999 • Students can vote for CSU elections using the web.

Memorial in 1999 . . I

And the wmner 1s .... Dr. Neil Rosenberg of the Folklore Department was the co-winner of a 1998 Grammy in the Best Album Notes category. The album was An Anthology of American Folk Music, released by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.

Dr. Elizabeth Miller's research on Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel has earned her international recognition. In 1995, at the World Dracula Congress _ held in Transylvania, of course - she was named a Baroness of the House of Dracula. She teaches the

...__ ___ ...J novel in her first-year English

Four of our alumni made it big in the '90s. Great Big sea is a recognized name on both sides of the Atlantic. They are (clockwise from bottom) Alan Doyle, BA '92, Darrell Power, BA B.Ed.'91, Sean McCann, BA'89, Bob Hallett, BA'90.

and third-year Gothic fiction courses.

Now the largest university in Atlantic Canada, Memorial

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 2,100 full-time and contractual support staff in six faculties and seven chools. Of these numbers, over

150 are international undergraduate students and 195 are international graduate students.

Although Memorial is a relatively young university, it ha been shaped by and has helped to shape, the

people and economy of ewfoundland and Labrador in the latter half of this century. It ha lived up to the

promise of 1949 with its profound impact on the cultural, economic and social life of Newfoundland and

Labrador. It has awarded more than 50,000 degree ,

most to re ident of the province. By far the great majority of people in leadership positions in Newfoundland and Labrador are graduate of Memorial - in government, bu iness, education, the professions

and the arts. Many thousands of graduates are

contributing to Canadian prosperity elsewhere in the country.

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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).

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The Arts and Administration Building Annex.

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Acknowledgments

We greatly appreciate the assistance of the staff of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives - Bert Riggs, Susan Hadley, Gail Weir and Linda White - and the staff of Photographic Services, Division of University Relations- Chris Hammond, Patricia Adams and Sharon Merils -for making their photograph collections so readily available. Thanks to Scott Courage of The Telegram, who gave us access to the newspaper's extensive photographic files. Readers for the manuscripts were Dr. lain Bruce, Dr. J. Douglas Eaton, Dr. Brian Johnston, Dr. Malcolm Macleod, Professor Shane O'Dea, Bert Riggs and Bruce Woodland. Pam Gill was instrumental in ensuring we had Grenfell College information and pictures.

Published by the Division of University Relations for Memorial University's Anniversaries Committee 042-017-08-99-5,000 (c)1999 ISBN 0-88901-364-0

A considerable number of people have helped with the preparation of material for this book. In particular, we would like to thank Eleanor Bennett, Joan Bessey, Dr. Jim Black, Frank Butler, Mike Callahan, lan Campbell, Helen Carew, Glenn Collins, Victoria Collins, Roger Flood, Deryck Harnett, Leslie Harris, Eric Hart, Dr. Doug House, Ed Hunt, Leo Mackey, Arthur May, Maire O'Dea, Rick Predham, Gar Pynn, Margaret Pynn, Linda Russell, Ernst Rollmann, Sheila Singleton, Kevin Smith, Harold Squires and Bill Woolgar.

For more information on Memorial's history, visit the Celebrate Memorial website at www.mun.caj celebrate.

M. Baker and J. Graham

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