Generous

In 1960 Albert Young praduated from Saint Dun- tan’s University and, after

year at McGill Univer- ity, made his way back to ong Kong where he has ecome an extremely suc- -essful investor and devel- bper. This summer, when he became aware of the hallenge of the 80’s Capi- ral Fund Raising Campaign ht the University of Prince dward Island he sent a rift of 30,000 earmarked for he eventual renovation of the UPEI rink. The an- ouncement of the dona- ion was made September

by UPETI President Dr. .W.J. Eliot.

This gift is of particular ignificance, not only be- ause it is a large gift, but or two other reasons. It

dedicated to the memory

f Albert Young’s father, .W. Young, and because he UPEI Rink played a ather significant part in he life of Albert Young hen he was a freshman.

A HISTORY:

Albert Young arrived Saint Dunstan’s cam- is in the autumn of 1956 1ortly after his 19th birth- ay. The SDU_ campus would come to know as a small but lively one.

ove to be a bit of a nui- nee to the legal patrons.

The wet/dry system As been adopted on a trial Asis. Says SU President eve Wynne, “We’re not en sure whether this is bing to work.” If there are P major problems with en- rcing the system and get-

& patrons of main events

His graduating class in 1960 would consist of 40 men and 7 women.

It was a campus -hat prided itself on the cali- bre of its education. — It was a time when almost all of the students lived on campus and were permitted to visit Charlottetown once a week. Although within the Charlottetown area the campus had a rural envi- ronment complete with a herd of dairy cattle. The men lived on the campus and the women the farm house belonging to Saint Dunstan’s Orphan-

lived in

age across the highway. It was a time when all of the students knew each other. It was a time when _ bas- ketball games were followed by sock-hops, girls’ team nabbed the in- . tercollegiate debating tro-

when the

phy, when students thrilled to the close game. It was a time when students waged vig-

Saints winning a

orous election campaigns, and when a subscription to the campus literary maga- ‘The Red and White’ cost one dollar (‘* payable in advance”). In those days groups of students put on

zine

parties and band concerts for the children of the Saint Vincent Orphanage across

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to cooperate, the wet/dry idea may become a perma- nent fixture of main events at the Barn.

The new program may also affect bar sales. Meyer predicts that initially there will be some loss of sales (due to the minor inconve- nience imposed), but that

as people become more ac-

customed to the idea it will have little impact: “Ev- erybody’s just going to be

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the road. The Red and White reports that the chil- dren, many of whom had never heard a band before, had such a good time that “long after Christmas the children were still talking about “the party the Col- lege boys put on™’. However in the midst of all and social activity one of the things that attracted Al- bert Young was the. skat-

the academic

ing in the rink after the evening meal. In 1956, when he arrived the rink and skating in the rink was an older wooden struc- ture with only natural ice, and the strength of the hockey team depended in large part, on the weather. The rink and skating so at- tracted the young science student that at 4 o'clock in the morning he and his friend Michael Liu would make their way across a snowy, dark campus to hose down the ice surface for the skating that evening.

It was during Albert Young’s years on campus that the old rink was lev- elled and the existing steel frame structure was erected on the Un- der construction in 1957, the new rink was hailed by

same site.

the students on their re-

able to party together,” she says. ‘

Meyer is positive about the Panther Lounge, de- spite the possibility of a drop in sales. “What I’m going to concentrate on this year is my lounge,” she says. “I’m going to do ev- erything in my power to make IT the place where they (the of-age students) want to come for a few hours anyway.”

turn from Christmas holi- days. The march 1957 is- sue of the Red and White records: of the finest of its kind, and has the largest ice surface of

* the rink is one

any college rink in the Mar- itimes... that old menace —— mild weather — has been

overcome”.

Commenting on the current condition of the rink, UPEI President Eliot note “Unfortunately the rink is now 30 years old and is in much need of elec-

rink restoration

trical and mechanical up- As well, sulation is required. These

dating. new in- eventual renovations made possible by the generosity of Mr. Young, will im- prove and extend the life span of the dynamic part of our campus.”

The UPEI Rink is used by the Hockey Panthers for practice sessions, by a large number of community groups, and by the University for

hockey and _ skate

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