Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Recalling Life and Livelihoods at WLU ix
4. Foundations
5. Money: Counting It and Making It Count 3
6. Waterloo College Student to University Lawyer: On the Legal Side of Things 10
7. The Bookstore Grows Up 15
8. Odyssey: Waterloo College, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, WLU 19
9. An R.C. Comes to WLU: Early Days of Social Work and a Threefold Maturation Process 26
10. Getting Started
11. From Two to Four and More— Early Days in Chemistry at WLU 33
12. The Best Job I Ever Had 37
13. Spatial Memories, Mostly Geographical, Mostly of the Sixties and Seventies 41
14. In the Beginning: Life at Biology— and Off Campus 46
15. Physics, Administration, Astronomy— and Music 49
16. Community Psychology, Community Building, and Social Justice 56
17. Our Home on Native Land: Digging Up a Pre-Contact Site (and Beyond) 60
18. “Lutheran” to “Laurier”
19. Putting a New University on the Map 69
20. The Perks and Perils of a University Photographer 76
21. A University Press Comes into Being 80
22. Procurement: A New Day 86
23. The Library—Growing with a Growing University 90
24. The Computer Comes to WLU: Honeywell 316, Xerox Sigma 7— and Great People 96
25. Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover (Or, Peeling the Onion) 99
26. Making Canadian History 102
27. From Poverty to War: An Historian’s Odyssey 109
28. Multiculturalism at WLU: Opening to the Wider World 113
29. Reflections: One Person’s Perspective 118
30. Old English, Old Norse, Dr. Roy (and Bishop Berkeley): Fifty Years at WLU 121
31. Laurier Looks Abroad: Waterloo, Marburg, and Laurier International 128
32. The Golden Hawks Take Flight 133
33. Quotidian: The Day-to-Day (Or, Keeping the Wheels Turning)
34. Getting Everyone and Everything Just Right 141
35. Five Years as University Secretary 148
36. On Students and Deaning 153
37. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words—AV and Beyond 158
38. I Came to WLU (Where’s That?)
39. How I Almost Got a Job at a New University Down the Street and Instead Found a Career at WLU 165
40. One Job + One Job + One Job = A Job 171
41. French House: A First, and Then Some 177
42. Peripatetic Peregrinations 181
43. Arts and Culture
44. Voices from the “Scales House”: Music at WLU 1965–76 189
45. The First Four Years: Foundations for the Next Thirty-Three 195
46. Remembering Maureen Forrester 202
47. About the Editors and Contributors 205
48. I Remember Laurier: Photo Album 211