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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:
- The
faculty association holds
a special general meeting at
3:30 this afternoon in Davis Centre room 1350. On the agenda:
election of two members to the board of directors, the association's
budget, a report from the compensation committee (the people who
negotiate salaries with UW management), and a discussion of revisions
to the association's
Memorandum
of Agreement with UW management. Looks as though all the really
interesting stuff at the meeting will be done in confidential
session.
- The co-op department says that Job Posting #1 for winter term
co-op jobs will go up on bulletin boards and on the Student Access
System at 10:00 this morning. More postings follow every couple
of days, and employer interviews begin October 7.
- Tennis players need to hurry: tomorrow is the last day to
register for this year's Downey Tennisfest, which takes place
September 29. More information: Shirley Fenton, ext. 4074, or Linda
Howe, ext. 3580.
- An official opening takes place at 6 this evening, in Matthews
Hall, for the new UW-CMCC Chiropractic Clinic, which was celebrated on
the front page of yesterday's Gazette.
- A job fair sponsored by several local high-technology companies
runs from 10:00 to 3:30 today (and again tomorrow) in the Davis Centre
lounge. It's part of an effort to get co-op students and new graduates
to think about staying in Kitchener-Waterloo to work.
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