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     By Michael Hennessey 
     
    
   
   
    
      
     
    
   
   
    
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     _4MAM UPEI Reglstrar 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jim Griffith asked me to write this column 
     
    
   
   
    
     this week, and I must say that i have found it 
     
     rather pleasant wandering down memory lane, re- 
     
     living some of my more youthful days. 
     
    

    
     I have reflected, for instance, that l have 
     
    
   
   
    
     now spent almost a quarter century around this 
     
     campus: seven years as a student, since I took 
     
     three years of high school as well as four years 
     
     of university, and almost l7 years as an employee. 
     
     They weren't consecutive years. After I graduated 
     
     I knocked around here and there for a dozen years 
     
     or so before returning. - > 
     
    
   
   
    
     When i think of things like that, I feel 
     
     almost like an old man; almost, but not quite, 
     
     since it is my firmly held opinion that, in spite 
     
     of chronology, in spite of the wrinkles and the 
     
     balding head, I am still only 25. That, of 
     
     course, is on my good days... 
     
    
   
   
    
     Anyway...... 
     
    

    
     I REMEMBER WHEN~ 
     
    

    
     -The dormitory where we lived as high schOol 
     
     students was on fourth floor Main in the aKea now 
     
     occupied by the SUN and CIMN. Imagine, if you 
     
     will, about 40 young males rushing through their 
     
     ablutions at 7 o'clock on cold frosty mornings, 
     
     then‘hurrying downstairs for morning Mass to the 
     
     warmth of the Chapel on first floor, in space now 
     
     occupied by Student Services. I'm sure many 
     
     religious vocations were spawned by the need to 
     
     get out of that cold dorm in the morning as 
     
     quickly as possible. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Permission to town consisted of every 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thursday afternoon and nine nights per year - one 
     
     a month - until ll:30. Punishment for various 
     
    
   
   
    
     V offences often invOlved loss ofja town permission; 
     
    
   
   
    
     it was surprising how that kind of threat bred 
     
     conformity. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     Almost all students, even those who lived in 
     
     Charlottetown, stayed on campus; The “day 
     
     student“ was a rare bird, and all of us were a 
     
     little bit sorry for those few since we felt that 
     
     they were missing the best part of the whole com- 
     
     munity living experience. ' ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Fire drill-one fall consisted of lowering 
     
     ourselves down a 3-inch rope from the southern I 
     
     dorm windows to theground. This was an emergency 
     
     exit and we had to go thr0ugh one drill, I guess, 
     
     just to show that it c0uld be done. The sheer 
     
     terror of that experience is as fresh in my mind 
     
     today as the memory of the first time I had to 
     
     climb a ship’s mast at sea and edge out along the 
     
     lost‘halyard. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Radios were forbidden on campus. Joe Whelan 
     
     of Boisetown, New Brunswick, kept himself in poc- 
     
     ket monev by building and selling crystal sets. 
     
     It was not unusual after lights‘out in the dorm 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘about then. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘parent compliance of the youth of that era. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     THE UPEI SUN, Nov. Zé, I979, page 12V 
     
    
   
   
    
     to hear the scurrying of feet as sets were brought 
     
     out of lockers, wires grounded to the heating- 
     
     pipes that ran through the centre of the dorm, 
     
     and fastened to bed springs to serve as aerials. 
     
     in the l9h2 Stanley Cup series Toronto, 
     
     came baCk from a 3'0 deficit in games 
     
     to take the next four games from Detroit Red Wings 
     
     and win the cup.» The whole dorm was awake and 
     
     there were wild cheers well into the night of that 
     
     final game. Toronto teams were sbmething to cheer 
     
     Or so it seemed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Shortly after Stanley Cup time, the annual 
     
     pre-examination raid took place and all crystal 
     
     sets were confiscated by the Prefect of ' ;‘ 
     
     Discipline. It was expected that this would 
     
     happen each spring, and if was accepted that it 
     
     was really for our own good. ‘On the last day of 
     
     term the sets were laid out on a table in front 
     
     of the Prefect's door and each owner picked his 
     
     up. In this enlightened age, when so much em- 
     
     phasis is put on the freedom of the individual 
     
     and on human rights, one might wonder at the ap- 
     
     We 
     
     wondered at it ourselves and often objected 
     
     strenwmmly . But having voiced our objections, 
     
     we submitted, mostly graciously, to authority. 
     
     The “in loco parentis” principle was firmly in 
     
     place then and, underneath our sometimes volatile 
     
     surface, we believed in it too. 7 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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