Page 14-B ‘The Guardian - The Evening Patriot Figures released by St. Dun. stan’s University show an esti- maied annual expenditure in the city of Charlottetown of more than one and onehalf muilion dollars for 1995-66, which pcints Higher education | is big business—| university ir entail an ex- penditure of $370,000 for a total of 112 employee. ‘This figure has in¢reased by $60,000,000 over last year and a further increase to $450,000 is . expected next to the fact thaat SDU is prob: | year . babiy one of the largest con- certs doing business in the city. The expenditure is based on four factors: student svendirg, building cost, payroll expenses. and food, supplies and services. According to figures arrived at from Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates, SDU stu- dents will spend approximately $300,000 this year in the city of Charlottetown over and above their university fees. This would include. such items as clothing, entertainment and _ recreation outlay of of $70,000 monthly over A further amount of $130,000 is spent annually in Char- lottetown for food, supplies and services such as fuel, light, pow. er, water and telephone. This academic year is $1,640,000 ‘and confirms that higher education is big business in the city of Charlottetown a-fact that is con- sidered not generally known to means the total revenue brought | to the city for the current) DOCTOR APPEALS HAMILTON (CP)—A Hamil- ton surgeon, Dr. 900 Playing a "vital part . In the economic growth of ~ PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND for.. i TOWN of SOURIS © Home of the dragger ce ‘beaches of the nation. | INCORPORATED 1910”. 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Supplies © Lawn mowers and © Hardware and Tool Garden Tools Centre 7 © Small Electrical © Seeds and Agricul- Supplies - tural Chemicals e Dog and Cat Foods | ® Twine, Wire and e eae Petroleum * | | mementos Building Supplies AGRO CcO-O Phone 2-1671 a Exhibition Drive "Next to Island Fertilizers Cy Fe Bi \" sft LT etranded since Sunday after. | goon. : | Kelley Memorial and the Students’ Union Coffee, Shop, the university is at the || constructing a new) z£ cand Nei g - Eg RFEs* seal si 5 # ie & i ryt fie i ¢¢ bee] e ape auditorium wat land the S! ire ee ee tie custome, dress and music of ~ SCIENCE BUILDING Ambitious building scheme NEARS COMPLETION RT. REV. G. MacDONALD ey Championship last year ane versity in the semi-finals, but lost only two games all: season. St. Dunstan’s debaters ended the season in a first- ,place tie for the Maritime ‘crown, but lost out in a debate-off. SDU debat- ers have won the Maritime title eight times, the Déminion of Ca- nada crown twice and have been in the Canadian finals on _ Six other occasions. In national student organiza- tions, SDU took part in the Can- adian Union of Students Interre- gional. Scholarship. E x ¢ h ange Plan for the first time and this, year Daniel Murray. of Camp- bellton, N.B., who completed his first two university years. at SDU, is taking his junior year at the University of British Co 1- umbia. St..Dunstan'salso-teok -an —ac- tive part in the Canadian Univer- sity Service Overseas program, enjoyed a very productive year on campus, and terminated it with Catherine Duffy, a senior arts student from Kinkora, travelling to Sarawak, North Borneo, where she will teach for two years. A renewed interest in the World University Service of Ca- nada took place this year when SDU junior arts student Doug- las Richard of. Montreal . topp-| im graduate schools and the United States,” Master, and the University of hattan, Boston College, Boston ‘University, Springfield and the ‘Catholic University of Ameri- ca in the United States;,and Ox- ford University and lin Uni- versity in Europe as a few of the places where ‘St. n’s gra- ‘}duates have taken and are’ now | taking post-gradilate woek. |MUST KEEP MOVING . SDU president, Rt. Rev. G. A. '|MacDonald, who was elevated to the rank of Domestic Pre- late with the title of Monsignor by Pope Paul V1 on January 10 1965, said -in assessing the. past year: ‘We have had a suc- . jcessful year, but we must keep moving ahead with the times. I mentioned it last year, and it, is still the case, that there is some ture but we hope the recom- mission will be implemented at an early date. We cannot wait re long - we expect 1,200 student on the campus by 1972 and we must plan for that number now.” -Rev._Dr. Owen Sharkey, who ing and counselling service on the campus, says of the incom- ing students: ‘In the year 1964- 65, we reached a peak we had ne- Freshmen. This was the best class we had since we began a re- judging by the aptitude test re- sults and the results of the Christmas examinations. the -top- three--quartiles,””. the lower quartile and these stu- dents have higher marks than men. It would appear that our improved counselling service has helped in this matter, plus ithe fact that all faculty mem- ibers have become aware of the tering ed several students- from other universities to become one of a| number of Canadian _ students | who will travel to Turkey this summer to take part in the WU- SC seminar. 3 Rey. Walter McGuigan, - one | of St. Dunstan's most , widely - | known. staff members, died on ory 3, 1965. Father McGuigan had taught at SDU longer than any other faculty member and | during his 37 years in the his-| tory department maintained contact with former students from all parts of the globe. In addition to teaching, Fry] McGuigan was active in‘athle- | tics and coached basketball‘ and football at SDU for 25 years. An innovation this year was| TEACHERS SEMINARS ejthe institution of seminars for high school teachers in the fields mathematics, biology — and ‘chemistry. } These consist of two-hour ses- “fsions on*Saturday mornings for the purpose of assisting Island high schoot teachers in keep- | ing abreast of the most recent} developments-.in these areas of knowledge. New courses have sis been added to the SDU curriculum this year in the,fields of biology chemistry, French and the. so- cial studies, In addition to the regular scho- larships .as outlined in the uni- versity calendar; the Catholic Girls’ Scholarship Association granted 52 scholarships to girls last fall, while SDU itself grant- ed 21 scholarships and 31. bur- ses to other students. A further increase in the num- ber of students continuing on to post-graduate work was re- vealed by the Dean of Studies, Maghan said: “Of last year’s| graduating class of 67 students 20 went on to take post-gradu- | ate work. This is an average of | about 30 per cent and represents an increase of eight per cent over the previous year’s figure’ The Dean said that this figure | ig above average of other uni- versities offering general de- grees, and speaks well for the abu.” of work being done at} _“As long as our students have the required marks’, he said, | “they have no difficulty in be- ing accepted at the best post - Rev. V. G. Murhaghan. Fr. Mur- 9 | Telephone calls — at record level y More Islanders made more telephone calls during 1965 than ever before, the Island Tele- phone 5 = day, and company investment behirid each te! rose to in Canada Fr. Murnaghan mentioned the | ‘University of Toronto, McGill) | |Dalhousie, Queens, Ottawa, Mc- | Alberta in Canada; Fordham, | Notre Dame, Columbia, Man.- | uncertainty regarding our ° fu- j mendations of the Royal .Com- | is in°charge of the student test- J ver attained before with our | gular testini program about 10 | years ago. This year’s class, | however, is every bit as good | “There is not too much differ- | ence between the two Rosi d ee Sharkey said, “‘but there ris ‘ wer of this year’s Freshmen in | last year’s lower quartiel Fresh- | ifficulties encountered by en- | = Freshmen students and | at areca a oo interest | SALES company’s. construction pro gram andée $1,444,000 “and this meant the investment per telephone rose from the pre- vious year's record of $410. “We are particularly pleased with our progress in ‘rural line relief,” he said. “By mid-year, 1965, there were 61 overloaded y lines, and by the end of the year a $240,000 pro- gram of construction had reduc- ed this to just eight... “We hope to haye them all eli- minated by the end of 1966" he stated. During the year, the Island A progressive firm oan. progressing with P. E. I. by offering complete company acquired the assets of am ®t ‘unereticesd ‘Hurioner, Howgh Producis Ltd. Koenring- Waterous Ltd:, Galion manufacturing of Canada Ltd. 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