I Remember Laurier Reflections by Retirees on Life at WLU

Author/Creator:

Remus, Harold, author
Remus, Harold Corporate Author

Publication/Creation:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2011

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

I Remember Laurier Reflections by Retirees on Life at WLU / Harold Remus, general editor ; Rose Blackmore and Boyd McDonald, editors

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Additional Author/Creators:

McDonald, Boyd, 1932-
Remus, Harold, 1928-
Blackmore, Rose

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Wilfrid Laurier University--Faculty--Biography
Wilfrid Laurier University--Employees--Biography
Wilfrid Laurier University--History
Retirees--Canada--Biography

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Foundations -- 1. Money: Counting It and Making It Count / Tamara Giesbrecht -- 2. Waterloo College Student to University Lawyer: On the Legal Side of Things / Reginald A. Haney -- 3. The Bookstore Grows Up / Paul Fischer -- 4. Odyssey: Waterloo College, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, WLU / Delton J. Glebe -- 5. An R.C. Comes to WLU: Early Days of Social Work and a Threefold Maturation Process / Frank Turner -- pt. Two Getting Started -- 6. From Two to Four and More---Early Days in Chemistry at WLU / Ray Heller -- 7. The Best Job I Ever Had / Ralph Blackmore -- 8. Spatial Memories, Mostly Geographical, Mostly of the Sixties and Seventies / Herbert A. Whitney -- 9. In the Beginning: Life at Biology---and Off Campus / Robert W. McCauley -- 10. Physics, Administration, Astronomy---and Music / Arthur Read -- 11. Community Psychology, Community Building, and Social Justice / Ed Bennett -- 12. Our Home on Native Land: Digging Up a Pre-Contact Site (and Beyond) / Eduard R. Riegert -- pt. Three "Lutheran" to "Laurier" -- 13. Putting a New University on the Map / Arthur Stephen -- 14. The Perks and Perils of a University Photographer / James Hertel -- 15. A University Press Comes into Being / Doreen Armbruster -- 16. Procurement: A New Day / Bob Reichard -- 17. The Library---Growing with a Growing University / John Arndt -- 18. The Computer Comes to WLU: Honeywell 316, Xerox Sigma 7---and Great People / Hart Bezner -- 19. Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover (Or, Peeling the Onion) / Bruce Fournier -- 20. Making Canadian History / Barry Gough -- 21. From Poverty to War: An Historian's Odyssey / Terry Copp -- 22. Multiculturalism at WLU: Opening to the Wider World / Josephine C. Naidoo -- 23. Reflections: One Person's Perspective / Bill Marr -- 24. Old English, Old Norse, Dr. Roy (and Bishop Berkeley): Fifty Years at WLU / Peter C. Erb -- 25. Laurier Looks Abroad: Waterloo, Marburg, and Laurier International / Alfred Hecht -- 26. The Golden Hawks Take Flight / Rich Newbrough -- pt. Four Quotidian: The Day-to-Day (Or, Keeping the Wheels Turning) -- 27. Getting Everyone and Everything Just Right / Jim Wilgar -- 28. Five Years as University Secretary / Frank Millerd -- 29. On Students and Deaning / Fred Nichols -- 30. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words---AV and Beyond / Wilhelm E. ("Willi") Nassau -- pt. Five I Came to WLU (Where's That?) -- 31. How I Almost Got a Job at a New University Down the Street and Instead Found a Career at WLU / Loren Calder -- 32. One Job + One Job + One Job = A Job / Harold Remus -- 33. French House: A First, and Then Some / Joan Kilgour -- 34. Peripatetic Peregrinations / Andrew Lyons -- pt. Six Arts and Culture -- 35. Voices from the "Scales House": Music at WLU 1965-76 / Walter H. Kemp -- 36. The First Four Years: Foundations for the Next Thirty-Three / Paul Tiessen -- 37. Remembering Maureen Forrester / Gordon Greene.

Summary:

I Remember Laurier is the story—actually, thirty-seven stories—of the little university that could, told by some of those who devoted themselves to transforming the school from its modest beginnings into a superb small liberal arts college, and in turn to the university whose growth, diversification, research, and partnerships characterize it today. Although the stories are diverse in content, viewpoint, and tone, readers will note a number of unifying themes, one being nostalgia for a small university where faculty, staff, and students were close and new initiatives were readily approved and easily implemented. Here too are reflections, sometimes bemused and sprinkled with humour, on professors, administrators, and students, the “Laurier Experience,” and significant events such as “WLU” becoming “WLU” (Waterloo Lutheran University was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University in 1973). Evident throughout is the pride of the contributors in the development of the university to its current status and in having played a role. In the photo album at the back of the book readers will find vintage prints of the authors and of many others mentioned in the book. More photos will soon be available on the website of the Wilfrid Laurier Retirees’ Association: http://www.wlu.ca/retirees.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937378764302486

ISBN:

1-55458-412-4
1-55458-411-6

OCLC Number:

745900443

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.51644/9781554584116