Harold Remus

I Remember Laurier

Reflections by Retirees on Life at Wlu
Herausgeber: Blackmore, Rose; McDonald, Boyd

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781554583836
• ISBN-10: 1554583837
• Artikelnr.: 34769812

Autorenporträt

General editor Harold Remus, professor emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University, is the former executive officer of the Council on the Study of Religion and the former director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He is past president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and the founding managing editor of Religious Studies Review. His publications include "Pagan-Christian Conflict over Miracle in the Second Century," "Jesus as Healer," and various articles in scholarly journals and encyclopedias.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
I Remember Laurier: Reflections by Retirees on Life at WLU, Harold Remus,
general editor, Rose Blackmore and Boyd McDonald, editors
Preface: Recalling Life and Livelihoods at WLU
Part I: Foundations
Money: Counting It and Making It Count Tamara Giesbrecht
Waterloo College Student to University Lawyer: On the Legal Side of Things
Reginald A. Haney
The Bookstore Grows Up Paul Fischer
Odyssey: Waterloo College, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, WLU Delton J.
Glebe
An R.C. Comes to WLU: Early Days of Social Work and a Threefold Maturation
Process Frank Turner
Part II: Getting Started
From Two to Four and More-Early Days in Chemistry at WLU Ray Heller
The Best Job I Ever Had Ralph Blackmore
Spatial Memories, Mostly Geographical, Mostly of the Sixties and Seventies
Herbert A. Whitney
In the Beginning: Life at Biology-and Off Campus Robert W. McCauley
Physics, Administration, Astronomy-and Music Arthur Read
Community Psychology, Community Building, and Social Justice Ed Bennett
Our Home on Native Land: Digging Up a Pre-Contact Site (and Beyond)
Eduard R. Riegert
Part III: "Lutheran" to "Laurier"
Putting a New University on the Map Arthur Stephen
The Perks and Perils of a University Photographer James Hertel
A University Press Comes into Being Doreen Armbruster
Procurement: A New Day Bob Reichard
The Library-Growing with a Growing University John Arndt
The Computer Comes to WLU: Honeywell 316, Xerox Sigma 7-and Great People
Hart Bezner
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover (Or, Peeling the Onion) Bruce Fournier
Making Canadian History Barry Gough
From Poverty to War: An Historian's Odyssey Terry Copp
Multiculturalism at WLU: Opening to the Wider World Josephine C. Naidoo
Reflections: One Person's Perspective William Marr
Old English, Old Norse, Dr. Roy (and Bishop Berkeley): Fifty Years at WLU
Peter C. Erb
Laurier Looks Abroad: Waterloo, Marburg, and Laurier International Alfred
Hecht
The Golden Hawks Take Flight Rich Newbrough
Part IV: Quotidian: The Day-to-Day (Or, Keeping the Wheels Turning)
Getting Everyone and Everything Just Right Jim Wilgar
Five Years as University Secretary Frank Millerd
On Students and Deaning Fred Nichols
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words-AV and Beyond Wilhelm E. ("Willi")
Nassau
Part V: I Came to WLU (Where's That?)
How I Almost Got a Job at a New University Down the Street and Instead
Found a Career at WLU Loren Calder
One Job + One Job + One Job = A Job Harold Remus
French House: A First, and Then Some Joan Kilgour
Peripatetic Peregrinations Andrew Lyons
Part VI: Arts and Culture
Voices from the "Scales House": Music at WLU 1965-76 Walter H. Kemp
The First Four Years: Foundations for the Next Thirty Paul Tiessen
Remembering Maureen Forrester Gordon Greene
About the Editors and Contributors
I Remember Laurier: Photo Album
About the Editors and Contributors
The Editors
Rose Blackmore was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Social
Work (later renamed the Faculty of Social Work) from 1970 to 1993. She has
been a member of the WLU Retirees Association almost since its inception
and served for many years on the executive committee.
Boyd McDonald taught piano, harmony, and counterpoint in the Faculty of
Music 1976-1996. He became interested in fortepiano in 1980 and has since
recorded Beethoven, Brahms, and Molique using various fortepianos.
Following retirement, he taught piano part-time until 2008 and served for
many years on the executive of the WLU Retirees Association.
Harold Remus came to WLU in 1974, teaching in Religion and Culture and as
adjunct faculty in Waterloo Lutheran Seminary; he served as director of
Wilfrid Laurier University Press (1978-83) and as executive officer of the
Council on the Study of Religion (1977-85) when its office was located at
WLU. He retired as professor emeritus in 1994.
The Editorial Committee
Robert Alexander taught philosophy at WLU from 1964 to 1984, including four
years as chair of the department. Since retiring from the Ontario civil
service in 2002, he has been teaching courses for the Laurier Association
of Lifelong Learning.
Loren Calder was born in Trail, B.C., in 1929. He joined the WLU Department
of History in 1960, where he taught Russian, Soviet, and modern diplomatic
history, serving at times as department chair; he retired in 1994.
Joan (Weber) Kilgour taught French language, literature, and culture at WLU
from 1964 until her retirement in 2007.
Frank Millerd joined the Department of Economics in 1970, serving as chair
of the department from 1987 to 1993 and as university secretary from 1994
to 1999. He retired in 2006.
Baldev Raj, professor emeritus, School of Business and Economics, came to
WLU in 1972. The former editor of Empirical Economics, he was honoured as
university research professor for 1989-90 and has held visiting
professorships in the UK, Norway, Austria, Australia, Japan, New Delhi, and
Canada, and now serves on the executive of the WLU Retirees Association.
The Photographer
James Hertel began his career at WLU on September 1, 1977, after being
hired by Dr. Flora Roy and Willi Nassau with the title of University
Photographer, retiring from 2009 from a career he had always dreamed of.
The Authors
John Arndt graduated from WLU in 1964; the holder of the B.L.S. and M.L.S.
degrees from the University of Toronto, he came to the WLU library in 1967,
where he served variously as head of information services, collections
management, and acquisitions. He retired in 1999.
Doreen Armbruster began at WLU in 1973 in Academic Publications, the
forerunner of the Wilfrid Laurier University Press (established in 1974).
Production Coordinator for two decades until retiring in 1998, she
continues as a freelancer on the production of the Press's sixteen-volume
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale.
Ed Bennett taught in the WLU Department of Psychology from August 1971
until his retirement in June 2005. He introduced community psychology
courses and community-service learning at WLU and served as the director of
the Community Psychology M.A. program for many years.
Hart Bezner obtained a B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from McMaster
University. He was a member of WLU's Department of Physics from 1967 until
retiring in 2003, during which time he also served for twenty-three years
as director of Computing Services.
Ralph Blackmore (1916-2002) began teaching economics in the School of
Business and Economics in 1966 after serving as financial editor at The
Globe and Mail and in public relations at Massey Ferguson. He retired from
WLU in 1981 and again in 1991. The Ralph Blackmore Award is given annually
to a first-year student in honours Economics.
Terry Copp joined the Laurier Department of History in 1975, retiring in
2004 to become director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and
Disarmament Studies, a position he still holds.
Peter C. Erb was a student in Honours English at WLU from 1961 to 1965,
taught English in the English 10 program in 1966-67, in the Department of
English 1971-1984, and in the Department of Religion and Culture 1984-2008.
In 1989 he was honoured with Laurier's Outstanding Teacher Award.
Paul Fischer, after nine years in a parish ministry, served as manager of
the WLU bookstore from 1965 until 2004.
Bruce Fournier joined the School of Business and Economics in 1978, after
seventeen years spent hunting submariines and conducting personnel research
in the military. In addition to teaching management and organizational
behaviour he served as associate dean and in the Research Centre for
Management of New Technology and in the Laurier Institute for the Study of
Public Opinion and Policy. He retired in 2002.
Tamara Giesbrecht began in accounting at WLU in 1960, became comptroller in
1963, and vice-president: finance in 1967, retiring in 1978. She was also a
member of the Board of Directors of Equitable Life Insurance Co. from 1970
to 2002.
Delton Glebe (1919-2011) graduated from Waterloo College (1947) and
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary (1950). He chaired the Board of Governors when
Waterloo Luterhan Univeristy was established, taught at the seminary and
university 1960, and served as the principal-dean of the seminary 1970-84.
Barry Gough joined the Department of History in 1972. He was university
research professor and served as assistant dean of Arts and Science. In
2004 he reitred to Victoria, B.C., as professor emeritus.
Gordon Greene joined WLU as professor of music history in 1978. A year
later he became dena, serving for ten years, and again in 2005-06. The Aird
Building was constructed during his tenure in the 1980s.
Reginald A. Haney taught law in the School of Business and Economics from
1970 to 1995 and also served as university solicitor for a period of fifty
years, from 1960 to 2010.
Alfred Hecht taught in the Department of Geography and Environmental
Studies from 1972 to 2006 and served as director of Laurier International
from 1999 to 2005.
Ray Heller was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry from 1966
until his retirement in 1997, teaching various levels of introductory,
organic, and industrial chemistry as well as biochemistry.
Walter H. Kemp began at Waterloo College in 1965, coordinating and
developing musical activities. These led to the founding of the Department
of Music, of which he was chair until it became the Faculty of Music in
1975. During those years he presided over the implementation of the
Bachelor of Music program and the expansion of the faculty foster. He also
directed the WLU choir.
Andrew Lyons taught in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from
1977 to 2004 and in the Department of Anthropology from 2004 to 2009.
Bill Marr was a faculty member in the Department of Economics from 1970 to
2009 and served as assistant dean of Graduate Studies and Research,
associate director of Instructional Development, and chair of the Research
Ethics Board during parts of those years.
Robert W. McCauley was a member of the original Biology department of
Waterloo Lutheran University, joining in 1965 and continuing on into the
Laurier years until retiring in 1992. He taught aquatic ecology and carried
out research on the role of temperature in the life of fish.
Josephine C. Naidoo joined the Department of Psychology in 1969, retiring
at the rank of professor in 1997. Alongside professorial duties she was
involved in a wide range of activities at WLU as well as at local,
national, and international levels; in retirement she served as president
of the WLU Retirees Association.
Wilhelm E. (Willi) Nassau began at WLU in 1969 as director of Audio-Visual
Resources; in addition he taught courses in film and other media. One of
the founders of Telecollege, he retired in 1989.
Rich Newbrough started at WLU in 1968 as an assistant football coach and
lecturer in Physical Education. He became head football coach and director
of Athletics in 1984, retiring in 1997. He coached the WLU football team
that won the 1991 Vanier Cup.
Fred Nichols served as dean of students from the time of his arrival on
campus in 1963 until 1997. The Campus Centre now bears his name; in
retirement he assists the WLU development office in fundraising.
Arthur (Art) Read taught in the WLU Department of Physics and Computer
Science from 1966 to 2005. After serving as dean of Arts and Science from
1983 until 1998, he was named the first dean of the new Laurier Brantford
satellite campus, serving from 1998 to 2000.
Robert J. (Bob) Reichard found a home at Laurier for twenty years (1976 to
1996) as manager of Material Management, which included many hat changes
along the way.
Eduard Richard Riegert was a professor of homiletics at Waterloo Lutheran
Seminary 1965-1006 and Affiliated Faculty in Religion and Culture, WLU,
1970-1988.
Arthur Stephen joined Laurier in 1974 as a junior admissions officer. Over
the next twenty years he was director of liaison, director of institutional
relations, and in his last fifteen years as vice-president: advancement was
responsible for recruitment, public affairs, alumni, and development. He
retired in January 2011.
Paul Tiessen taught in the Department of English (now the Department of
English and Film Studies) from 1974 until his retirement in 2011, serving
as chair for three terms (1988-97).
Frank Turner was appointed in 1966 as the first full-time faculty member
after the dean in the Graduate School of Social Work. He served as dean
(1969-79) as well as acting as vice-president: academic for one year.
Following stays at Laurentian, York, and Case Western, he returned to
Laurier to serve as interim dean of Social Work (1994-96), following which
he served as head of Laurier International for one year.
Herbert Whitney joined the WLU Department of Geography, Geology and
Planning in 1965, where he taught historical/cultural geography, East Asia,
environmental perception, and history and philosophy of geography. He
retired in 1993.
Jim Wilgar received his B.A. from Waterloo Lutheran University (1960) and
an M.A. in geography and resource management (1972). He served as director
of admissions and liaison at WLU until 1970, when he became director of
admissions at the University of Western Ontario; in 1977 he returned to WLU
as registrar and secretary of senate. From 1984 until his retirement in
1997 he served as associate vice-president: student services and personnel.