THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA NEWSPAPER

June 3, 1998

1998 Spring Convocation

Degree to be conferred upon 50,000th graduate

 

The University's first graduate was Sandra Anne Came (above left) who received her degree from Chancellor Joseph B. Clearihue during the new University's first Convocation held on the Gordon Head campus in the Old Gym in 1964.

Spring Convocation ceremonies will include a significant milestone this year when Chancellor Dr. Norma Mickelson (top left photo) confers UVic's 50,000th degree during the afternoon ceremony on June 5. In 1963, UVic was an undergraduate university offering courses at both the Lansdowne campus (now Camosun College) and at its one classroom building at the current Gordon Head campus. Today, more than 17,500 undergraduate and graduate students attend UVic each year. The convocation processions today (top right) have grown since the students immediately above walked in the first convocation procession past the army huts on their way to the Old Gym.

"When a language perishes, a whole way of looking at the world perishes, too. Every language is associated with a literature, so every time we lose a language, we lose access to its literature. If we lose access to its literature, then we lose an alternative way of thinking about the world -- and then we lose the beauties that are expressed in that literature, beauties that are lost forever."

--Dr. James Young (Philosophy)

On the extinction of languages and resulting diminishing of meaning and cultural diversity that is occurring in B.C., among Aboriginal peoples, and throughout the world.

Vancouver Sun May 2, 1998

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