Alumni activities (Page 2)

	PHOTO: Andrew Dobrowolskyj

Extraordinary Class Gift

The Engineering Class of '50 got together for one of the biggest class gifts in McGill history. Their $269,000 donation -- dubbed the Engineering '50 Millennium Project and the result of over three years' work -- will fund the Engineering '50 Learning Centre. Pictured from left are Project leaders Maurice Bluteau, Bob Keefler and Don MacCandlish, all BEng'50, with Dean of Engineering John Gruzleski.

Stephanie Leacock's Luncheon

The head table. Save for MC Derek Drummond, BArch'62, not a Y chromosome in sight.

PHOTOS: Nicolas Morin

Leacock Lecturer Erika Ritter, BA'68, her tongue firmly in cheek, informed homecoming celebrants about Stephen Leacock's smarter, funnier sister Stephanie at the annual Leacock Luncheon, which featured an all-female head table this year.

	PHOTO: Nicolas Morin

Three Ladies of Letters

"Lunch et Livres" guest authors Elaine Kalman Naves, BA'67, Julie Keith and Barbara Meadowcroft, BA'51, PhD'82, take a moment to pose with their oeuvres.

James McGill Dinner

The James McGill Dinner celebrated the 55th Anniversary Class (1945) and earlier classes. Among the attendees were Dr. Simon Gold, BSc'38, MDCM'40, MSc'45, and his wife Lillian.

McGill Choral Society director Mary Jane Puiu, BMus'81, took Rita De Pierro, BA'35, by surprise at the James McGill Dinner. Spotting a face from the past, Puiu ran up and exclaimed, "Oh, Ms. De Pierro, how wonderful to see you! You taught me algebra at Rosemount High."

Honora Shaughnessy, MLS'73, Executive Director, Alumni Relations/Advancement, greets James McGill Dinner guests John Henderson, BSc'40, Roma Henderson, BA'42, Tom Hughes, BEng'40, and Beverly Hughes.

Big Bug Museum

PHOTO: Andrew Dobrowolskyj

At Macdonald's Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Centre, visitors Daniel, Tracey and Ashley Bock examine some beetles. With close to three million specimens, McGill's collection is the largest at any Canadian university.

Wood Wars

The McGill Woodsmen put on a great show at the Macdonald Campus.

PHOTOS: Andrew Dobrowolskyj

Left: Normand Bourgon, BSc(Agr)'77, after letting fly with an axe.

Centre: Tom Lapp, BSc'79, gets vertical in the woodsmen competition.

Right: Bob Robson, BSc(Agr)'65, (left) and unidentified classmates give it their all.