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Letter from the Dean

elebrating an anniversary presents had to appear in front of the Judicial
Cus with an opportunity to look Committee of the Student Council. Ian
Dean’s message thought the time was ripe to explore Weekend festivities and invites to
back and assess the past. As this is the
and Sylvia Tyson and Ronnie Hawkins
had been booked for that year’s Winter
year the Faculty of Science turns 50, we
Carleton’s archives and see what life
perform had also gone out to the Glenn
Miller Band and the Tommy Dorsey
was like here years ago. A treasure
Band. But the big issue in the fall of
trove of campus photographs showed
1963 was over the safety of the road
the progression from an empty field
access to campus. Student protests
bordered by the Canal, the Rideau
River and Bronson Avenue in the late
1950s to the bustling campus of over
of Sunnyside Ave. with accompanying
40 buildings it is today. In 1963, when had resulted in a proposed extension
traffic lights at Bronson Ave. See the
the Faculty of Science was created, November 8, 1963 issue in our Stories
the 496 Science students (out of a section of carleton.ca/science/
student population of just over 2,200 science50.
students) took their science classes Other articles in these back issues
in one building – the Henry Marshall made us proud to be part of the Faculty
Tory Building for Science. The Steacie, of Science. Mathematics student
Herzberg, Nesbitt and Life Sciences Ivan Fellegi had been awarded the photo: Chris Strangemore
buildings were yet to come. We’ve University’s first PhD in 1961. Dr. Fellegi
shared some of our photographic finds went on to become Chief Statistician
on pages 10 and 11. of Canada from 1985 to 2008 and has
We also looked through back issues been an active member of the Carleton some of the people (students, staff and
of the student newspaper, The Carleton community for many years. Also in 1961, faculty) within them to tell us more
(now called The Charlatan), and found Carleton had its first Rhodes Scholar in about where we’ve been and where we
some gems. Back in 1963, a pepperoni Boudewijn Van Oort, a geology student. are going. To further celebrate our 50th,
pizza from an establishment on Bank These firsts were just the beginning of we are organizing a series of events to
Street cost $1.50, and room and board a series of achievements by our faculty be held this fall tied in to the return of
in a double room in the newly built and students that followed, many of Homecoming and football to Carleton
Lanark House residence (for men) which we have profiled in past issues of (September 19-21), and you are cordially
and Renfrew House (for women) cost Eureka! magazine. invited to join us. Hope to see you in
$675 per academic year. Varsity sport In this issue of Eureka! we turned September.
scores were heavily reported and mis- our attention to the departments and
behaving students at the Panda game schools in the Faculty of Science and Malcolm Butler
Dean, Faculty of Science

EUREKA On the cover

An aerial photograph of
Editorial Advisory Board Carleton University’s campus
Malcolm Butler, Dean, Faculty of Science in 1963.
Naomi Cappuccino, Professor, Biology
Marie-Eve Noël, Administrative Officer, Faculty of Science All historical photographs
Mistalyn Seguin, Senior Development Officer, Faculty of Science are from the Heritage
Editor: Ann Anderson Photograph Collection,
Design: Nanci Jolicoeur Archives and Research
Collections, Carleton
University Library.
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