THE RED &WHITE

BORN — 1917 DIED — 1969

VITAL ORGANS PRESERVED

YOU SAY YOU WANT A

REVOLUTION?

April ii, 1969: The Red & White, SDU’s long-running student newspaper, releases its last issue. The bottom photo shows the SDU campus sign covered by a sheet bearing the name ”Uni—

versity of Prince Edward Island” in}? new White, voi. 9.12, April H, 7969, UPE/ Art/river: St, Dunstan's University A Newspapers — Red 8r White ~ Vertiru/ Friei

holding its simultaneously first and last convocation.” Valedictorian of the Class of ’69 Edward Boates, channeling the ghost of Frank lVlacKinnon, took the opportunity to eviscerate the new university and its champion, Alex Campbell, sitting behind him onstage. "So today," he said in one of his more restrained remarks, “we are hav- ing a memorial service for Prince of Wales and the irony is that the perpetrators of the travesty are pallbearers at its funeral“? Boates’ opinion was certainly on the extreme side, but it represented a com- mon local feeling: that Prince Edward Islanders were giving up a bit

of the past, without knowing what exactly was comingr to replace it. 23?

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