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Under sunny skies, UPEl's first graduating class processes down Grafton Street and into the Confederation Centre. Downtown processions for UPEl’s graduates proved shortelived, however: the University’s 1971 graduation cerem0~ nies were held onecampus, and still are today. ,UPE/Arrlir’ve: UPE/i (onvomnon , Photographs , l/emm/ Fr/e,‘

Edward Island‘s first convocation, with a graduating class of 277. “ The day before, Ronald Baker had been installed as President, and Thane Campbell — Supreme Court Cliiefltlstice, ex-Premier, and father of Alex — as Chancellor. Baker beamed; he told the press that it had been a year of students protesting high fees, faculty pro- testing low salaries, and all manner of committee iii—fighting. “Lots ofproblems,‘ admits President Ronald J. Baker happily, ‘butjust the

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problems every university has. “’ In his breezy, three—minute speech to graduates, he proclaimed, “I“or years, it was argued that it would be impossible to have only one university in the Province. At times, it almost seemed as though some people took a perverse pride in the fact that they could not work together for the common good of higher education... 'lhis year, we have proved that we can work together." Never again will there be a UPEI class “which carried

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