Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, March 7, 1995

PETRI IS MOURNED:  The funeral is being held today for Woldemar
(Peter) Petri of UW's civil engineering department, who was thought to
be the oldest professor teaching at a Canadian university.  He died
Thursday at the age of 88.  The funeral is at 2 p.m. at the Barthel
Funeral Home in Cambridge, Ontario.

Petri, who was born in Moscow and came to Canada in 1953, began teaching
after he retired from his consulting firm in 1977.  In recent years he
taught a one-day-a-week graduate class as an adjunct professor.  Petri was 
an engineering designer, whose work included aircraft, truck bodies, 
transportable bridges, and the overhead sign supports seen on highway 401.  
"When I'm teaching young people, I forget how old I am," he said in a 1993 
interview that appeared in newspapers internationally.

THE NEW CALENDAR is out: the 1995-96 undergraduate calendar, just in time
for preregistration week.  Students can pick up their copies at the
registrar's office in Needles Hall.  The new book has the same panoramic
picture of the campus (Porter Library, Math and Computer and the Davis
Centre) that's been used for several years; this year the border is
a deep green, replacing last year's red.  When I first looked at the two
books side by side, I thought the colour tones in the photo itself were
also different, but I guess it's just that my 1994-95 calendar has faded
in the light.

TODAY, BRIEFLY:  Escart Press and Geography Publications are holding a
sale of their products in the Environmental Studies 1 foyer today.

The St. Bede's Lecture Series at Renison College starts tonight, with
Joel Majonis speaking at 7:30 p.m. on "Orderings Between God and
Humanity within Anglican Theology".  The talk is in Siegfried Hall of
St. Jerome's College.

A preview performance of "Les Belles Soeurs", the drama department's big
presentation for the winter term, takes place tonight in the Humanities
Theatre.  The invited guests are students who are on the dean's honours
list in the arts faculty.  A reception follows.  Public performances of 
"Les Belles Soeurs" run tomorrow night through Saturday; tickets, 888-4908.

FINALLY, birthday greetings to Marg Letter in the human resources
department, who's reached a major milestone.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca