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November 22, 2001

posted on Nov. 22: Arthur Bourns Building employee lounge open for business

The room is bright and airy, with giant poster board art on the walls. It's filled with navy comfy couches, blonde wood tables, plants, a fridge, microwaves and a sleek, black computer. Rather than punch in numbers to a key pad, employees swipe a proximity card to get access to the room 24 hours a day. Quite a change from the janitor's room with its mops and cleaners that constituted the lunchroom for physical plant co-workers Dora Bianchi and Jackie Emery. The two women were guests attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday in the newly-refurbished employee lounge in the Arthur Bourns Building (ABB). "This is nice and bright," said Emery. "It's good to get away from the work area with the janitor supplies. You don't want to see that on your lunch hour. Here you get to meet new people, socialize. That's important. It's good for your health." The ABB lounge (Room 273) is the first designated employee lounge to be refurbished through an initiative that grew out of recommendations from the Employee Lounges Implementation Team. The team is one of four formed in February to work on recommendations from the staff survey. Click on New lounge space for employees in Arthur Bourns, Burke Science to read an earlier Daily News story about the lounges initiative. Karen Belaire, vice-president administration, told yesterday's gathering that the ABB lounge improvement project is the "first of many." She thanked the employee lounge steering committee, led by Ingrid Ellis, for the work put into the lounge renovations and the physical plant projects team, led by Peter Whitaker, for the work that group did on the room. Ceremony guests: (Front L to R) Dora Bianchi, Jackie Emery, Karen Belaire, Ingrid Ellis, Leah Allan, Sandra Sullivan, Mary Williams, Muriel McKay; (Back L to R) Peter Sutherland, Stephen Shurvin, David Kidney, Peter George. Photo by Ron Scheffler

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November 22, 2001

posted on Nov. 22: Feedback solicited on draft campus master plan

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/CampusplanNovopenhouse1.final.jpg”]The campus master plan steering committee wants feedback on a draft campus master plan. Dozens of members of the McMaster community on and . . .

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November 21, 2001

posted on Nov. 21: McMaster solar car heats up Santa Claus parade

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/SolarcarSantas.final.jpg”]The McMaster Solar Car Project team helped spread holiday cheer, along with awareness of renewable energy resources, at the Hamilton Santa Claus parade . . .

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November 21, 2001

posted on Nov. 21: President emeritus Alvin Lee receives first Library Advocate award

In 1960, Alvin A. Lee, then a brand new assistant professor, had a dream. The brash young professor wanted to establish and build a research library at McMaster. With this in mind, he visited University librarian Marget Meikleham and left her office with a fund to begin a collection in his specialty areas of Old and Middle English. This was the beginning of Lee's 41-year relationship with the Library. On Nov. 8, Lee's numerous contributions to the development of the Library and his untiring support were recognized when he was presented with the first Library Advocate Award. In his remarks, University librarian Graham R. Hill said, "There is no doubt that a vital university library is the product of the intense interest and vigorous advocacy by the faculty that it serves...In his role as president and vice-chancellor from 1980 to 1990 and again as co-chair of the community campaign in the recent Changing Tomorrow Today campaign, Alvin Lee has constantly demonstrated his belief in the priority of the Library, and the continuing need for its growth and development." Accepting the award, Lee recalled that in 1962, having heard from the head of the English department, Roy Wiles, that the senior administration wanted arts departments like English to establish doctoral programs, he and another equally-brash colleague went off to see the then dean of graduate studies, physicist Harry Duckworth. Their purpose was to point out that building a research library would require significant new funds. Asked what he thought was needed, Lee replied that a million dollars a year for the next 10 years would be a realistic start. Within a few months the University was providing this money in the budget. Lee also recalled with pleasure the opportunity, during the Centennial Campaign in the late 1980s, to play the leading role in raising the $21-million of public and private money to expand and renovate Mills Memorial Library. To commemorate his award, the Library will inscribe two books that Lee has selected: The Encyclopaedia of Canadian Literature  which, when it is published next year, will be the most complete and up-to-date reference work on Canadian literature ever published  and The Diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942-1955, Volume 8 of The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Now retired from the University, Lee continues the demanding leadership of the editorial project to publish The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. He has also given of his time, energy and knowledge to work with the Library to raise funds for the Library of the Future Endowment Fund in the belief that the McMaster community must support the continued excellence of its library collections in this time of severe economic stress. (End of story)

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November 21, 2001

Community of Distinction inductees

John Basmajian John Basmajian MD is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of rehabilitation science, specifically in the area of electromyography. At McMaster . . .

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