Table of Contents
Foreword, by Dr. Noreen Golfman, Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
1. Introduction: The “MUNographies,” by Roberta Buchanan and Stephen Harold Riggins
PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 2. Memorial University of Newfoundland at St. John's, 19491990, by Melvin Baker 3. The Many Roles of Memorial University Extension, by Jeff A. Webb
PART II: THE OLD PARADE STREET CAMPUS 4. The Creation of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, by David G. Pitt 5. Laying the Foundations: The Years Immediately after Confederation, by John Hewson 6. A New-Found Land: Experiences of a Faculty Wife in the 1950s, by Elizabeth (Herrmann) Willmott 7. Philosophy, Music, and Public Broadcasting: My Life in Newfoundland, by Norman J.P. Brown 8. The English Department at Parade Street, by Sandra (Drodge) Djwa 9. “Forth into the Deep”: How I Became a Sociologist at Memorial University, by Ralph Matthews 10. First Steps Bound for the Smiling Land; Planning the New Campus, by Chung-Won Cho
PART III: NEW DEVELOPMENTS 11. The Grand Opening of the Chemistry-Physics Building, 1968, by Howard Clase 12. Folklore at Memorial, or How I Came to Newfoundland, by Neil V. Rosenberg 13. Philosophy Down to Earth at Memorial, by F.L. (Lin) Jackson 14. Sowing the Seeds of Memorial University Botanical Garden, by Howard and Leila Clase 15. Business @ Memorial: Reminiscences of Progress and People, by Robert W. Sexty and James G. Barnes 16. The Division of Junior Studies, by Michael Collins 17. Bill Pruitt and the Establishment of the Bonne Bay Marine Station, by Don Steele 18. Fire, Floods, and Rumours of a Ghost: Recollections of a Librarian, Dorothy Milne
PART IV: NEW ADVENTURES: ARRIVING 19. Newfoundland's Pull, by Raoul Andersen 20. From Bowling Green to St. John's, and Early Years in the Medical School, by Sharon Buehler 21. The Biophysics of Excitable Tissue: Teaching in the Medical School, by Brian Payton 22. My Introduction to the School of Nursing, by Pearl Herbert 23. Falling on My Feet, by Tony Chadwick 24. Come From Away at Memorial, 1964, by Roberta Buchanan 25. On Being Head of the Math Department, by Bruce Shawyer 26. Coming to Memorial: The Wife's Tale, by Jo Shawyer 27. The Edge of Experience: Coming to Newfoundland in the 1980s, by Marilyn Porter 28. Married Bachelor in the Department of Sociology, by Stephen Harold Riggins
PART V: GROWING PAINS 29. Faculty Women: The Struggle for Equality, by Roberta Buchanan 30. The 1972 Occupation of the Arts and Administration Building: What Happened and Why, by Steven B. Wolinetz 31. My Fifty Years at Memorial University, by Joan Scott 32. Another Viking Invades Newfoundland: The Music School, by Kjellrun Hestekin
Suggested Reading about Memorial University and Education in Newfoundland List of Contributors Index