University of Alberta Calgary - Evergreen and Gold Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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OFFICE of the PRESIDENT EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada FROM OUR PRESIDENT A generation of students at a university is usually considered to cover four years and the University of Alberta, Calgary, will celebrate its first quadrennium by holding its own Spring Convocation for those students who have completed the requirements for their degrees on its own campus. This will represent one more in a series of rapid strides towards maturity and independence. The growth in physical facilities in 1963-64 is evidenced by the opening of the magnificent new University Library and the start on the first unit of the new Engineering Complex. Next year should see a surge of building in Calgary that will challenge comparison with that on any other campus in the whole of Canada. In the past four years your enrolment has nearly doubled (from 1331 to 2420), but in the same period the full-time teaching staff has nearly tripled (from 60 to 175) and the non-academic staff has increased more than three times (from 80 to 263). All this is tangible evidence of the deter¬ mination of your Board of Governors, your Government, and your Legislature to provide you with the best facilities and the best instruction possible. But it is you, the students, who will make the reputation of your University in the world around you. If U.A.C. is really to grow in wisdom and in stature, it is you who will provide that growth. I have every confidence in the development of your great institution in the years ahead and in the contribution its students will make in the life of their Province and of the world at large. May you all find happiness and success wherever fate may lead you in the days to come. Walter ' H. Johns, President.