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Thursday, December 7, 1995
A high-tech concert hall
The Davis Centre will serve in that capacity today. The sixth annual
Christmas concert in the DC great hall is set to run from 12:15 to
about 1:00. Conducted by Leonard Enns of Conrad Grebel College, it
features the University Choir, Chamber Choir and Chapel Choir,
as well as some audience caroling.
The concert happens each year with cooperation from the audio-visual
centre, central stores, and the
plant operations department,
to get things set up and to keep the doors, ventilators and other
equipment of the Davis Centre from providing a percussion accompaniment.
A little cooperation from the DC Library doesn't hurt either.
Crowds for the annual event are usually in the hundreds.
Looking ahead to next week: next Wednesday (December 13) another building
lobby will be the venue for some Christmas music. The annual carol-sing,
led by Jake Willms of the dean of arts office, is set for that day in
the Modern Languages foyer.
More about early retirement
The first of several scheduled information sessions about UW's
early
retirement program will be held tonight from 7 to 9 p.m.
A second session is scheduled for tomorrow morning, and there will
be sessions also on December 11, 14 and 15 and January 4, 5 and 8.
Says a letter addressed to the 550 people who are eligible for
early retirement: "We realize that the decision to retire early is
significant and the information we have provided may be complex. To
help you understand the material, . . . Linda Bluhm and Wanda Speek of
Human
Resources will be conducting group sessions. . . . Please call
Anne Wagland at Ext. 2078 to confirm the location of the session you
wish to attend."
Early retirement applications under the special program will be
accepted starting January 15.
Jewish studies chair is launched
UW's Chair of Jewish Studies is to be officially launched
tonight
at a reception at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo
to coincide with the opening of a Ceramics Israel exhibition.
It is hoped the chairholder position will be filled within a year
or so once the needed $2 million, which would include research funds,
is raised, says Paul Socken, chairman of the Dean's Advisory Committee on
Jewish Studies and chair of the French studies department. He said about
$500,000 has been pledged to date.
The fund drive was launched with a $200,000 contribution from
Czech Holocaust survivor Alexander Raab, the former owner of White
Rose Nurseries. Money to assist with the
program and visits of prominent scholars has come from Beth Jacob
Congregation in Kitchener, of which Socken is a former president.
Thanks to accounting firms
A thank-you luncheon is being held in Toronto today for 22
chartered accounting firms that donated a total of $1.6 million to
Campaign Waterloo for the
school of
accountancy. UW's president, James Downey, is hosting the event
at the University Club. It marks the end of "phase 2" of the
school's fund-raising campaign -- an "unprecedented outpouring of
support", according to John Waterhouse, director of the accounting
school.
Sorry, the elves are busy
No more tickets are available for Sunday's "Winterfest" skating event
and family party sponsored by the staff association, says a note from
the association's social committee.
If you need your loan money
Here's an urgent note from Joanne Wade of the student awards office:
We still have hundreds of loan documents for students which must be
picked up and negotiated at their banks prior to December 31,
1995. These documents will become stale-dated at that time and cannot be
reissued. If students need these funds they had best make an effort
to come to the student awards office, 2nd floor, Needles Hall, to
pick them up prior to closing December 22, 1995.
Book now, the A-V people say
And from Mark Ritchie of the audio-visual centre:
The Audio-Visual Centre Media Library reminds everyone to make
their film and videotape bookings for use during the first weeks
of January now. It will not be possible to guarantee that your
desired film or videotape will be available for the first weeks of
January unless bookings are made well before the 15th of December.
What's happening on campus today
Besides the continuation of the federal-provincial conference
simulation, carried on by bright loud high school students in
the Modern Languages building . . .
- "The Network" and the
Institute for
Peace and Conflict Studies host their fourth annual mediation
conference for secondary school students, taking place at Conrad
Grebel College. It's "an opportunity for teenage mediators to
sharpen their mediation skills . . . and examine conflict resolution
skills that can transform relationships".
- Renison College hosts an "open house and Christmas tea" with
artists Laurie Richardson and Marc Bauer-Maison, whose textiles and
photographs are on display at the college through December 15. The
open house and tea run from 7 to 9 this evening.
- The "Guse Family Christmas Show" goes on in the
Humanities Theatre at 1:30 this afternoon, sponsored by Travel Ventures.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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