35
years ago
A first for engineering
March 1970 — A total of 63 second-year engineering
students are participating in the first work-term of the new
Co-operative Engineering Program. The students are working
at jobs located primarily on the island, however 14 are in
Labrador, four in the Maritimes and two others are in Calgary.
All students are members of the first class of engineers who
will graduate from Memorial with a bachelor of engineering
degree in 1974.
30 years ago
Million dollar shortfall
March 1975 — Memorial is faced with a shortfall
of between $1 million and $1.5 million in its 1975-76 budgetary
requirements. University President M. O. Morgan said the university
must find ways to further reduce costs and also find additional
revenue. Although the provincial government grant to the university
is $6 million more than last year, Memorial is facing extra
expenses including $2.5 million for the opening of the West
Coast Junior College in Corner Brook, the new Engineering
building on campus, the new Central Heating plant and the
Vivarium.
25 years ago
Arthritis funding
March 1980 — The Arthritis Society has allocated
$91,640 to Memorial’s Faculty of Medicine and the Rheumatic
Disease Unit at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital for important
research and clinical work.
20 years ago
CUPE accepts offer
March 1985 — Local 1615 of the Canadian Union
of Public Employees, representing 675 administrative, technical
and technical support personnel at the university, has voted
to accept the university’s latest contract offer. The
outstanding issue in the contract was money, and the union
has agreed to accept a lump sum payment of $750 per member
and three increases of two per cent each at four-month intervals,
starting April 1, 1985.
15 years ago
First halibut hatch
March 1990 — The halibut research group is delighted
that the first hatched Atlantic halibut larvae in North America
are filling nearly every spare container in their hatchery
at the university’s Ocean Sciences Centre. The tiny
halibut larvae are described as looking like “garter
snakes that have climbed on top of basketballs.” The
hatch represents the successful completion of an important
stage in the development of halibut aquaculture.
10 years ago
New grants support innovation
March 1995 — Five faculty members were rewarded
for their ingenuity in the classroom this month with the first-ever
Instructional Development Grants from Memorial. The first
recipients were Drs. Trevor Bell and John Jacobs, Geography,
Dr. Georg Gunther, Mathematics (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College),
Dr. Tom Scott, Medicine, and Dr. Michael Bruce-Lockhart, Engineering.
Each grant is valued at about $3,000, with the money coming
from the School of Continuing Education.
Five years ago
Sea-hawks win
March 2000 – The Memorial Sea-Hawks are the 1999-2000
AUAA women’s basketball champions, following up a win
at the AUAA’s by the women’s volleyball team last
month. |
