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An early convocation with Erindale graduates being congratulated by Professor Robinson (l) and Principal J. Tuzo Wilson. Note the students’ hair styles, characteristic of the era.

Celebrating Erindale’s 10th birthday (l-r) Martin Dobkin, Doug Kennedy, Paul Fox, Rt. Honorable Pauline McGibbon and John Evans.

Alumni representatives Hans von Monsjou and Doug Leeies (far left and far right) join Principal Tuzo Wilson and Mrs. Wilson in 1974, to unveil the plaque dedicating the J. Tuzo Wilson Research Laboratories.

Erindale’s first artist-in-residence/curator David Blackwood is one of Canada’s foremost printmakers and painters. The Blackwood gallery In the Kaneff Centre is named in his honour. Rebecca Sisler, curator from

1985-1988, is an accomplished author, sculptor and arts administrator. She curated the Baker Fairley retrospective in the former Erindale College Art Gallery.

The Lady Godiva Band, courtesy of University of Toronto’s Engineering faculty, makes an impromptu visit to a calculus class during the 70’s.

Alumni gather each year to man the telephones for the Annual Fund campaign. Graduates donate approximately $50,000 annually to support College projects.

The 1984 Scholarship Fundraising Campaign raised over $500,000 in scholarship donations for Erindale. Students and the City of Mississauga both contributed generously to the fund.

The installation of Professor Desmond Morton as principal in 1986 was attended by a number of dignitaries, including (front row) former Chancellor John Black Aird, alumnae Anne-Marie Haig-Applin and George

Connell, former president of the University of Toronto.

A collection of Erindale authors in 1986 established a listing of recently published works by faculty, which ran 22 feet long.

An impressive collection of local flora samples was donated to the College by Alan Coventry. Accepting the gift are botanists Peter Ball (l) and Paul Maycock (r).

The academic workshop creates everything from custom-blown glassware to scientific equipment used to measure the properties of moon rocks, to flow meters in zebra mussel research, to equipment designed

to investigate soil erosion and desert formation in China.

Jutta Stein, Erindale’s horticulturalist, attends the plants in her greenhouse, one of the College’s most popular attractions during the Annual Science Expo and Open House in February. Stein was a recipient of the College

Life Award.

Two of Erindale’s faculty (l-r) Ron Pruessen Professor Phil Pointing (Biology) was the popular and Josef Skvorecky were recognized for their recipient of an OCUFA provincial teaching award, writing excellence. Pruessen (History) was thanks to his colourful classroom style. In 1992, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Literature Pointing was honoured by the alumni with the Paul and Skvorecky (English) was a candidate for W. Fox award, in recognition of his continued post- the Nobel Prize in Literature. retirement efforts on campus.

Local business and community leader Ignat Kaneff lent his impressive skills to Erindale’s $3 million Breakthrough Campaign, which reached its goal in May ’90. Kaneff and Principal Desmond Morton review

the plans for the Kaneff Centre, which was opened in September, 1992.