you'll end up at a page that tells you everything
you could ever want to know about Porcellino, the boar who now lives in
the arts quadrangle. Now what could be a richer fragment of UW's
history than that?
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So . . . a committee is at work to plan celebrations for UW's 40th anniversary next year. "More than most places," says president James Downey, "we need to remind ourselves to celebrate our many accomplishments." The emphasis in marking UW's 40th ("ruby") anniversary will be on ways of celebrating that won't cost much money and won't put a strain on people who already have plenty to do.
The planning committee is chaired by chief librarian Murray Shepherd, who said he'd like to hear from anyone who might want to be part of a sub-group to work on such matters as people recognition, special events, the 40th anniversary image and logo, campus decorations, merchandising, budget and publicity. He can be reached at ext. 2281, e-mail mcshephe@library.
Choose that link and you get to http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoipa/history.html, a page that lists various kinds of available information -- Highlights; "Legends, Nostalgia and Trivia"; "Senior administrative officers" (nice juxtaposition there); a list of campus buildings and when they were erected; and a pointer to the UW library's archives, or more accurately to its special collections department.
If you choose that page
and end up at
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/SpecColl/Special1.html, you'll see a
lot of information about the rare books room in the Dana Porter Library,
and -- at first -- not much that seems to be about UW's history. In part
that's because not everything the library wants to put onto the Web has
gotten there yet; the word "Archives", part way down the page, isn't yet
a hotlink to anywhere, for example. However, if you choose "Exhibits",
after the third bullet, you might get lucky. Follow the path to
"Celebrating the Boar", and
you'll end up at a page that tells you everything
you could ever want to know about Porcellino, the boar who now lives in
the arts quadrangle. Now what could be a richer fragment of UW's
history than that?
The Boar page, by the way, also has a link to information about the dance collection in the rare books room, which was given to UW by the same donor who made the Boar a resident here. Among the pictures you can see there is a photo of a ballerina who, to all appearances, is balancing a bar code on her fingers.
Ken Lavigne currently is Associate Registrar, Admissions and Student Awards at Waterloo, a position he has held since March 1990. Prior to that he was Associate Registrar, Graduate Studies for a brief period in 1989-90, an Assistant Registrar from 1981 to 1989, and the Registrar at St. Jerome's College from 1976 to 1981.And, as of July 1, UW's third Registrar.
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