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

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Lt-za:ua 1 ,W no AA. , ..., Ins+allaTion of The Memorial Organ in Convocafion Hall-I925 sTallaTion of Telephones in Pembina in I92I. Our own Mamie Simpson ioined The Alumni ranks wilh The Class oT '22-who presenTed The UniversiTy wiTh The Chancellors Chair, sfill used aT ConvocaTion. In I922 The C5aTeway managed To pull Themselves ouT oT a Thousand dollar hole and handed over The publishing oT The yearboolc To a new independenT sTaTT: The Evergreen and Gold. An organ was insTalled in Con Hall in I925, in memory OT The sTudenTs who ToughT in The war. On November 6Th of ThaT year ST. Joseph's College was oTTicially opened and on November 2I The TirsT program was broadcasT over The UniversiTy Radio STaTion CKUA. AlberTa deTeaTed SaslcaTchewan I I-7 in The TirsT game OT The lnTer-VarsiTy Rugby Schedule buT losT To ManiToba in The Tinals. In I928 Dr. RoberT Wallace succeeded Dr. Tory as PresidenT. AT The TirsT all Trosh parTy held ThaT year couples were dancing The CharlesTon and The Blaclc BoTTom. The auThoriTies decided ThaT Too .1 X-rf Where PembiniTes puT on Their weighf in '28, Twenty-eight

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, A M .. ,,,, The furning of +he firsf sod for ihe new Ar+s Building-I9I3. ln i920 lhe l-louse Eccers invaded The Soulh Lab much fo The annoymenl of The engineers who had ruled supreme in lhe building from lhe day il was opened in l9l8. Wilh lhe opening of 'rhe Med Building in I92I, lhe Deparfmem' of Chemislry moved over from Arls fo be squeezed in among fhe Meds and 'rhe sfifls lwho were glad 'ro gel ou'r of fhe Power l-louse.l ln lhe early lwenlies lhe Civil Engineer Club was reorganized becoming lcnown in more refined circles as lhe Engineering Sfudenls' Sociely. The annual banguef was inauguraled and rivalry became hol befween lhe Engineers and lhe rising new Facully of Medicine. A boom lo coed life was fhe ina .:- 'Q 9 5- N , N. ,wA,s,1,..Xm, . v- --suede 'mxi'?s, - af Lf: ., 1:.., is ' .. -f- A X33 ,,,i .e i,.-A--' , K The campus from 'Phe air . . . what no Medical Building! Twenty-seven

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much Time was spenT inTroducing The Treshmen To campus liTe so The iniTiaTion Time was cuT To one week. Pyiama-clad, painT-bedaubed braves climaxed The week wiTh a midnighT war dance in TronT oT Pembina. The Tinancial depression oT l929 decreased enrolmenT buT despiTe The scarciTy of money, The sTudenTs began discussing plans Tor a STudenTs' Union Building Fund. The DenTs came inTo Their own when The FaculTy oT DenTisTry was added in I93O. The decision To leT Them live in The residences resulTed in much reioicing amongsT The Treshmen of l93O, buT many a sad hearT mourned The day when, a year laTer, Pembina was puT under lock and key. in I933 iniTiaTion as iT was in The good old days was abolished. The socieTy page ThaT year TeaTured women's Tashions wiTh The new liTTle-above-The ankle lengTh in aTTernoon dresses. The GaTeway prinTed a humorous ediTion on The plans Tor a STudenTs' Union Building and in i935 began publishing Two ediTions a week. ln I936 Dr. W. A. R. Kerr became The new PresidenT when Dr. Wallace leTT To Take The presi- dency aT Queen's UniversiTy aT KingsTon. AT This Time The Women l-laTers Club were bemoaning The TacT ThaT an increasing number oT Temales were aspiring To higher educaTion. The Engineers were hauled ip, sip. V .Tix li. yl ails--5 .......... . fn v' 1' ' ST. Joseph's College in I925. on The carpeT in I937 by boTh The FaculTy and The CiTy Police Tor enTering and breaking The Med Building wiTh Tire hoses and axes: and in The nexT spring The campus shook wiTh The reverberaTions OT The TirsT Engineers' Ball. Wifh The ouTbreak oT war in I939 compulsory miliTary Training was inTroduced and even Coeds paraded regularly under The command oT Major Owen. ln I94l The R.C.A.F. invaded The residences and The era oT boarding houses was ushered in. Color NiTe originaTed in This same year, Thanks To The eTTorTs oT Cec. Robson. Dr. Kerr reTired and Dr. Robe-rT NewTon became The new PresidenT. ln I943 The overTlow oT eager beavers who haunTed The ArTs Library moved Their books over To The new CaTeTeria. CasualTies Trom The Med-Engineer' Tracas ThaT spring were TreaTed in The new infirmary. In i945 The UniversiTy Took over Training oT all Teachers in The province: consequenTly innocenT Ed sTudenTs began Their daily Treks To The souThern ouTposT oT The campus. The same year Dr. Shel- Twenty-nine