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Thursday, September 19, 1996

Convocation honours are announced

Four people will become "honorary members of the university" at the fall convocation on October 26, UW's news bureau announced yesterday.

All are retired staff and faculty members. They are Lynn Watt of electrical and computer engineering, who was dean of graduate studies 1972-1983 (and acting dean twice later); Sister Leon White of St. Jerome's College; Shaun Sloan, long-time director of plant operations; and Florence Thomlison, who created UW's office of services for people with disabilities.

Also at fall convocation, four retired faculty members will become "professors emeritus": John Brzozowski of computer science, Mircea Cohn of civil engineering, Ron Mullin of combinatorics and optimization (who was UW's first-ever graduate, in 1959), and Ken O'Driscoll of chemical engineering. A fifth faculty member -- David Sprott of statistics and actuarial science, who was the first dean of mathematics -- will also become "professor emeritus" but will not be able to attend convocation.

Three people will be receiving honorary degrees at convocation. They are Dorothy Duncan, executive director of the Ontario Historical Society; Thomas Pashby, an ophthalmologist who specializes in hockey players' eye injuries; and Ivan Kuscer, a prominent physicist at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

A correction to the Gazette

Portraying Ron Scoins of the mathematics faculty in yesterday's Gazette, I managed to present some garbled information. Here, I think, is what's correct. As of July 1, Scoins is associate dean (external relations) for the math faculty. He's taking over the job previously done by Ron Dunkley, now retired, whose title was associate dean (faculty programs). Scoins is a lecturer attached to the dean of mathematics office, and has been director of the math teaching option.

Meetings and announcements today

It's a gorgeous morning, the sunlight slanting onto leaves that have just barely begun to show a hint of fall colours. And we have another busy day before us:

A party at Married Students

Married Students' Apartments folks are invited to their first ever "community life night" tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. behind West Tower. It's an opportunity for residents of the complex to meet the neighbours, enjoy the free (all-beef) hotdogs, and get acquainted with campus and community organizations such as the Waterloo Fire Department, Humane Society, Childfind, WalkSafe, Welcome Wagon, International Students Office, Campus Recreation, and Health and Safety. Anyone wishing to attend the evening of "entertainment, information and education", according to organizers, should pre-register by phoning Barb Robbins at ext. 3391.

Many other things to do

Two art shows are opening in UW galleries today. In the main gallery in Modern Languages, the exhibition is "With Minimal Means", prints by John Hartman, circulated from McMaster University's museum of art. An opening reception begins at 4:00 this afternoon, and the show continues in the gallery until October 25. Over at East Campus Hall, an exhibition of work by Rene Pierre Allain, curated here at UW by James D. Campbell, is opening in the Artspace gallery. The opening reception begins at 5:30 today, and the show continues until October 27.

It's "Nerd Night" in the Davis Centre: the film "Triumph of the Nerds", about the so-called desktop computer revolution, will be shown at 7 p.m. in room 1302 as a fund-raiser for the Commercial Computer Museum in Waterloo. Admission is $10, students $5, and there are "cool prizes". More information: 744-2900.

The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group has something special going this evening too. "John Todd builds Living Machines," a news release says. "As the name suggests, Living Machines are structures comprised largely of living organisms brought together to perform a particular type of work. They are engineered with the same design principles that nature uses to build and regulate its great ecologies in forests, lakes, prairies and estuaries." Todd, who heads Ocean Arks International, will speak at 7:00 in Davis Centre room 1351.

Elections for the UW senate

The university secretariat has issued an official notice of election for two seats on the UW senate, the university's academic governing body. One is for a representative of full-time graduate students; the other, for a representative of faculty at large. The notices appeared in yesterday's Gazette and can be found on the secretariat's Web pages through UWinfo.

CAR

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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