![[University of Waterloo]](/images/logobars/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Montgomery]](/images/2005/0802montgomery.jpg)
The foundation is a private fund that supports health, education and youth initiatives in the local community. It has supported a number of UW projects including a three-storey addition to the Lyle S. Hallman Institute for Health Promotion at Matthews Hall. It has also funded the Hallman Director of the new UW school of pharmacy and provided support for the Kids in Action program for children who are overweight and obese.
![[Peters]](http://www.graphics.uwaterloo.ca/photo/archivesimages/20041046.jpg)
Montgomery, who has worked in the UW office
of development and alumni affairs since 2003, will be the foundation's
inaugural executive director.
When asked what she will miss about UW, she mentioned "my colleagues especially" and "the constant exposure to new and challenging ideas." She said she will also miss a great deal about the campus itself -- "the peregrine falcons, the stream and the green areas, the dinosaur museum, and the college chapels."
As of August 1, Avvey Peters (left) of communications and public affairs is interim director of government relations and development.
Connection over a phone line through a "terminal server" costs 40 cents an hour and offers speeds of "up to 33.6Kbps", compared to 4 Mbps -- more than 100 times as fast, for large data downloads -- from a commercial high-speed Internet provider.
| POSITIONS AVAILABLE |
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On this week's list from the human resources department:
Longer descriptions are available on the HR web site. |
"IST first offered a dialup service in the early 80s primarily to provide access to the University's mainframe computers. Demand for the service continued to grow and a chargeout service utilizing Xylogics Annex TServers was introduced in 1992. Usage levels peaked at close to 200 concurrent users in 1998.
"As high speed, always-on alternatives have become available from local internet service providers, use of and the need for the IST dialup service have declined. Inexpensive dialup services have also become available.
"The exact date of service termination will depend upon usage levels. Current users of the service will be notified with more details of the plans and available alternatives."
In an unrelated change, IST has announced that as of tomorrow, e-mail addressed to users on various "retired" UW computers will be bounced back to the sender. Says an IST memo: "Currently, IST has in place a temporary forwarding mechanism that automatically forwards the retired email addresses to the corresponding userid at admmail. Now IST would like to remove the forwarding mechanism due to the generation of spam to the retired server addresses."
Affected is any mail addressed to adm1nt1, adm2nt1, adm3nt1, echnt1, hrnt, mc6adm, nh1adm, nh2adm, nh4.adm, pltopnt, pomsnt1, uwpnt, provost-admin, and secretariat.
"These server names were retired long ago," says IST. "But those names might still be buried in address books, majordomo lists, mailman lists, printed publications or on the web. Prior to August 3, 2005 you should change all those email addresses to the form userid@uwaterloo.ca."
Earlier in July, IST announced a third change: the introduction of a new, lower-cost backup service for computers anywhere on campus. Details are available online.
![[McTavish]](/images/2005/0804mctavish.jpg)
A 13-year veteran, McTavish works as a business analyst, says the profile, "and is responsible for client services with duties that include looking after the online financial reporting to University department heads and administrative staff, through the online reporting environment called Fore. Doug works on developing new reports and setting up training sessions for new users.
"I've also been involved with several projects in Finance including the recent Fixed Asset system project and last year's Oracle Financial System upgrade," he says.
What do you like most about your job? "The diverse nature of what I do and the wide variety of people that I get to meet every day."
Why do you feel the University needs funds today? "With government funding for universities in Ontario being among the lowest if not the lowest in North America, the cost of running the University is creating more of a burden on students and their families by way of rising tuition fees. Any additional funding from donations that can help lessen this burden is very important."
To what project have you designated your gift? "I observed the rising cost of tuition and was motivated to donate to undergraduate scholarships (in the Faculty of Arts) because of it. University is far more expensive than it was when I attended in the 1980s. By donating to undergraduate scholarships, I hope that my donation will help students attend UW who might otherwise not be able to."
What do you like to do in your spare time? "I've just completed the Diploma in Business Administration at Wilfrid Laurier University, so going to school part-time has occupied a lot of my spare time the last few years. I also went on a trip of a lifetime to Africa this past winter with my sister and my nephew. We visited Victoria Falls and Lusaka, and went on a five-day safari at the South Luangwa National Park where we saw elephants, hippos, lions, baboons, and antelope. We were even lucky enough to see a leopard in daylight."
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Certificate in University Teaching research presentations by
graduate students: today 11:30,
Friday 1:00, Math and Computer room 5136. Audience registration
online.
Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology presents Mark Morton of LT3, "Cui Bono? A Review of the Literature Pertaining to the Efficacy of Online Instruction", Thursday 2:30, Needles Hall room 3001, registration online. Waterloo Public Interest Research Group general meeting Thursday 5:30, Student Life Centre room 2134, information online. |
The administration and maintenance office in UW Place -- the residence complex south of University Avenue and just east of campus -- has been in a temporary location for the past year or so, but will move (back) to its permanent site as of tomorrow. As renovations to UW Place near an end, the office will move from Wilmot Court South (161 University Avenue) to Waterloo Court North (106 Seagram Drive), writes Rachel Dolson of the housing and residences department.
"July was another hot month," writes Frank Seglenieks of the UW weather station, pointing out something many people knew already. (He was on CKCO television news last night, I noticed, talking about recent conditions.) "The average daily high and low temperatures were about 1.5 degrees C above what we would expect," Seglenieks says in his monthly summary. "What made the temperature feel even worse was that during the middle of July, when daytime highs were way above average, the overnight lows were also very high. This made it difficult for a lot of people without air conditioning to cool down at night." However, he says, July is generally the hottest month of the year, and July 2005 didn't set any records as June did. The maximum temperature for the month was 34.1, the minimum was 9.0, and the average daily high was 27.4. Also noted: it was a wet month as well as a hot one, and July 16 brought the most precipitation in a single day in the seven-year history of the weather station.
Since the beginning of the spring term, the "call centre" in UW's development office has raised $1,065,734 from alumni and other donors, says an update issued a few days ago by senior director Bob Copeland. He notes that during that time, students working at the centre have made 114,884 phone calls, reached 11,675 people, and received 3,931 gifts and pledges to UW -- almost half of them from first-time donors. Targets of the calls change from time to time; recent groups have included arts and environmental studies alumni, current donors whose pledges are about to expire, friends of St. Paul's College, and UW alumni working at two major firms: Towers Perrin (management consulting) and Stantec (design and engineering).
Creation of the planned student dental plan is clearly moving ahead, as last week's issue of Imprint carried an ad looking for two part-time coordinators to work on campus this fall. . . . With a couple of weeks to go in the auction organized by Orchestra@UWaterloo, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 is in the lead as the main piece to be played in the December 1 concert. . . . The alumni newsletter from St. Jerome's University announces a reunion of "female frosh from 1990 to 1993" to be held this Saturday (information: s2daly@uwaterloo.ca). . . .
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