Remembrances of Memorial past...
30 years ago
MUN hosts soccer tourney
November 1973 – The Loyola University Warriors
of Montreal, representing the province of Quebec, eliminated
the host Memorial University Beothuks and went on to win
the Canadian Intercollegiate soccer championships in a tournament
played in St. John’s this month.
25 years ago
Research grants for engineering projects
November 1978 – Federal Strategic Research
Grants totalling $156,000 are awarded by the Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council for two engineering projects
at Memorial. Professors A.D. Dunsiger, T.R. Chari, and A.
Zielinski are working on a project to find a rapid, reliable
and automatic method of determining the composition and
properties of the ocean floor. Professor J.D. Malcolm’s
research project is aimed at providing basic information
on the way oil from a potential spill would behave in ice-infested
water.
20 years ago
Mobil funds telemedicine project
November 1983 – Mobil Oil Canada Limited
gives $20,900 to the Faculty of Medicine in support of an
ongoing trial of a telemedicine communications system linking
an offshore drill rig with the Health Sciences Centre in
St. John’s. The rig, the Sedco 706, is leased to Mobil
and is operating in the North Dana site, 386 kilometers
east-south-east of St. John’s. The offshore satellite
field trial uses the Anik B satellite to link a stabilized
earth terminal on the rig with an earth terminal at Memorial
and with the switching network of the Newfoundland Telephone
Company.
15 years ago
Committee reports on state of education
November 1988 – The report of the Presidential
Committee to Review Teacher Education is released this month.
The report, Focussing Our Future, contains 98 recommendations
relating to the training of teachers in the province. Included
in the recommendations is a call for a total reorganization
of the Faculty of Education including increasing admission
standards, improving academic rigour and scholarship in
the faculty’s programs, strengthening the academic
component for primary and elementary teachers, reorganizing
the professional program in undergraduate and graduate degree
programs, and restructuring the faculty’s administrative
organization.
10 years ago
President decries Macleans ranking
November 1993 – President Arthur May calls
this month’s ranking of Memorial by Macleans magazine
“absurd.” Memorial had refused to participate
in the Macleans survey on the basis that it is neither statistically
nor academically sound but the magazine included Memorial
in its rankings.
Five years ago
Doug Moores Alumnus of the Year
November 1998 – Harbour grace lawyer Douglas
Moores is this year’s Alumnus of the Year, a tribute
to his volunteer service to the community.
