Four to receive honorary degrees

U.P.E.I. Information Office Marita McNulty Information Officer

The Senate of the University of Prince Edward Island has an- nounced the names of four per- sons who will receive doctor of laws degrees at Convocation on Sunday, May 11. They are social activist Dr. Muriel H. Duckworth; internationally acclaimed contralto Maureen Forrester, who is. chair- man of the Canada Council; folk- lorist Dr. Edward ‘Sandy’ Ives, and the dean of the Ontario Agricultural College, Dr. Freeman L. McEwen.

DUCKWORTH

Born in Austin, Quebec in 1908 Dr. Duckworth graduated from McGill University earning a bachelor of arts degree and teaching diploma in 1929. She spent the following year at the Uion Theological Seminary in New York City.

Dr. Duckworth has been a found- ing member of. several Canadian organizations.. Among them are Voice of Women; Canadian Con- ference on the Family, (now the Vanier Institute on the Family); Canadian Association for the ad- vancement of Women and Sport; Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, of which she is past executive director and president; the Nova Scotia Fesitval of the Arts, and the Canadian Coun- cil for International Cooperation. She has represented the Voice of Women internationally at the United Nations Conference on” Women,

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Conference of Women for Peace, Moscow, (1967) and Paris, 1968, and

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Dr. Duckworth has been an active member of the New Democratic Party of Canada and of N.S., run- ning as a candidate in provincial elections of 1974 and 1978. She is the recipient of honorary degrees from Concordia University, 1983, Mount St. Vincent University, 1978, McGill University, 1984. In 1984 she was made a member of the Order of Canada.

FORRESTER

The world renowned contralto Forrester has performed under the baton of great conductors including Bruno Walter, Bernstein, Beecham, von Karajan, and has sung in concert halls throughout the world. The Montreal-born artist studied under Bernard Diamant, and the expenses of launching her career were as- sumed by the Montreal Star publisher J. W. McConnell. :

Maureen Forrester made her New York debut in 1956 in Town Hall, and shortly afterwards, at the re- quest Mahler’s Second Symphony, in Walter’s farewell performances with the New York Philharmonic Or- chestra at Carnegie Hall. By 1960 she had sung 23 times with that orchestra under various conductors.

Then began a demanding schedule of recitals, oratorio appearances, and broadcasts in Canada and abroad. Her career continues at an. overwhelming pace which she manages to combine with her posi- tion as chairman of The Canada Council. She was appointed to that positions by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1983.

She has been honoured many times by Canadian ‘universities with honorary degrees. In 1967 she was

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named’a companion of the Order of Canada, and in 1971 was the reci- pient of theMolson Prize awarded by Canada Council for outstanding cultural achievement.

In 1954 she married violinist Eugene Kash and they have five children.

IVES

Folklorist Ivens, born in White Plains, N.Y. in 1925, is a graduate of Hamilton College with a bachelor of arts degree (1948). He tood medie- val literature at Columbia University earning a master’s degree (1950), and folklore at Indiana University, ‘re- ceiving his doctorate (1962). He has been a director of folklore arid oral history at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine since 1971.

Dr. Ives is well-known in P.E.I. where he has lectured at the summer school of the Atlantic Canada in- stitute at UPEI. He will again lecture at the summer school of ACI. in August when it will be located at Mount Allison University. Among

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his seven books are: ‘Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer-Post of Prince Edward Islarid”, published by the University of Maine Press in 1971, and ‘Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Song’’, published by Arno Press in 197, Z

He -has been ‘the recipient of several honors and awards including aG im F ip 1965-66, and the National Advisory Board Award ‘“‘Foxfire’’, 1973-74. Dr. Ives was Folk Arts panelist for the National Endowment Folk Art grant valued at $83,081, from the National Endowment of the Arts. He has written many monographs on folk- songs and folktales of the northeast, especially about the Miramichi, P.E.I. and Maine.

MCEWEN

Born in Bristol, P.E.I, in 1926 Dr. McEwen attended Prince of Wales College before entering Macdonald College of McGill University where he received his bachelor of science degree in 1950. He pursued studies at the University of Wisconsin where

! | he earned his master’s degree and: doctorate in entomology and plant physiology.

* Following graduation, Dr. McEwen worked briefly with the Canada De- partment of Agriculture in Char- lottetown before assuming teaching positions at Cornell University, be- coming head of the Department of

in 1964. His associ

with the University of Guelph began in 1968 when he was professor of zoology for three years prior to be- coming chairman of environmental biology department, For several years he also served as provincial entomologist in the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

He assumed the position of dean Of the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph in 1983. Dr. McEwen’s major areas of interest is in teaching and research- ing pesticides in the environment, and in control of vegetable insects, He has written extensively in papers published in refereed journals. He is married and has tiuee sons.

Budget has no good news

OTTAWA (CUP) — Fifty dollars. That’s what Finance Minister Michael Wilson’s Feb. 26 budget will mean to most college and university students. " The $50 is a refund on federal sales tax the government will send this spring to every student who

files a tax return and whose annual income is under $15,000. Most students: fall into this category.

Apart from this, the budget contains little good news for students over -the short term.

While Wilson boasted in his bud- get speech that “restraining the rate of growth of transfer pay- ments to the provinces for health care and post-secondary educa- tion” showed his government's committment to reducing the federal deficit, he did not announce any new funding or tax measures that will benefit students or im- proverished institutions of higher learning. :

In fact, students who benefit from federal programmes will be hit with the same. restraints as all other sectors by a two per cent reduction in spending on all government programmes not covered by law. “Particular em- phasis will be placed on grants and contributions, capital and general operations and main- tenance (in the spending cut)’

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according to the budget papers.

Among affected programmes that benefit students are federal summer employment schemes, the Canada Student Loan Programme and a large number of programmes in multi-culturalism and employ- ment and immigration that pro- evide subsidies for study and train- ing. By 1987, the government plans to spend less on these pro- grammies than in 1984.

On top of this two per cent government-wide cut (which does not apply to national defence or international assistance spending) the “government will. reduced spending on the Canada Jobs Strategy from $900 million this year to $800 million next year.

The Job Strategy is the federal training programme designed partly to ‘‘help youth and women make the transition from school or home to the labour market.”

An official of the finance de- partment who asked not to. be named said Canada Jobs Strategy funding is less urgent because the unemployment rate is dropping and provincial and private parti- cipation in the training scheme is

on the increase. e But the official said the govern- ment’s good news for students is that their odds of landing a job on graduation are increasing. Wilson

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projects unemployment wiil drop to nine per cent from a current 9.8 per cent in the next 20months.

The government will cut total spending on job creation by $300 million in the next two years.

The official said “the best thing the government can do for stu- dents is to say they won’t have to pay incredible taxes on the debt’* when they do get a job.

Still, the budget’s challenge to private industry that it will match any business’s grant to the three federal research councils “dollar for dollar up to six per cent-of the council’s budgets may mean. more research money for some graduate students.

“If they (business. and the granting councils) get it together, they may well oversee one of the ‘astest-growing programmes in the government,” according to Robert Rand, another official.

Students will soon know more about the federal government’s priorities in cutting programmes

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cost $6 billion this year. Wilson announced all the study team re- ports of the Nielson Task Force on Programmes Reveiw will be made public March 11. The study team on education and research, formed last fall, had a mandate of seeking out “waste and duplica- tion” in the programmes.