Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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THE Faculty of l.t. W. S. Armstrong, m.a. H. S. Braun, b.a., principal C. }. Campbell, b.sc.f. Mrs. T. F. Carr, assistant librarian J. H. Charnock, c.a. G. L. Clendenning, b.a. L. Dubinsky, secretary D. M. Fisher, b.a., b.l.s., librarian

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THE s.A.c. T resident s message The Lakehead Technical Institute is about to die, and be ' gloriously ' reincar- nated as the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology. The Lakehead should be proud of this educational ad- vance. The people are proud, or so they say. Are the people of the Lakehead being hypo- crites? Sons and daughters are being sent to the big universities, rather than to the Lake- head Technical Institute. Why do not the parents actively support advanced educa- tion right at their doorsteps? Mostly pride! It sounds better today My son is at Queen ' s (or University of Toronto) , than to say he went to lowly L.T.I. They have also man- aged to find specious excuses which hide the real cause of this hypocrisy. Local educators recommend L.T.I, if you can ' t afford to go away to university. This type of support from the secondary school level is not going to boost the enroll- ment at the College any more than it did at the Technical Institute. I can give no ex- planation of this attitude. The effect is evi- dent, when at least ninety per cent of the university students at L.T.I, openly admit that they attended primarily because of fi- nances. We, as students, have failed to stand be- hind our school. (Exception must be made of those in technical courses, who generally exhibit more enthusiasm about the school.) We must remember that L.T.I, cannot be like the big universities which have taken nearly a hundred years to build up what are sometimes not too enviable reputations (e.g. University of Toronto ' s reputation for over- sized classes.) It will take time for the new College to achieve great stature. For the sake of the future of the school, let your pride in it appear and mention the good pomts of L.T.I., and not the petty little an- noyances which we must learn to accept, for they will always appear in life, and must be accepted. As one student stated, we are guinea pigs in the formation of a new college. Let us think of the resulting improvements to be brought about for our successors, and not of the easily overcome handicaps imposed upon us. Admittedly, this charitable attitude is sometimes hard to sustain when someone asks us what we are doing this year. The answer that we are going to the L.T.I. is greeted with this comment. What are you doing there? I thought you graduated from Grade XIII last year. Thus, it is plain that the local populace must be informed, not of what we shall have in twenty years, but of what we have now. Without support from students, parents, educators and the population in general, the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology will suffer a quick death in spite of the efforts of an enthusiastic i .d- visory Committee and a tireless Principal. President 8

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E. Green, b.a. I R. Lehtovaara, b. com. W. D. McKinnon, b. sc. eng. T. B. Miller, b.a., ph.d. T. W. Page, B. sc. E. G. Pye, m.a., ph.d. Mrs. R. W. Stevenson, b.a. 10