stand the butleting oi‘the 1970s. rlhe university had been especially successful in generating a sense or community. As early as 1972, a UPEI Alumni Association was formed, and hosted its first Alumni Weekend that November, inviting back the 1,000 or so graduates from the classes of’70, ‘71, and ‘72. Flhat same year, Charlottetown businessmen Eugene Cullen and Walter Hyndman co-chaired a funding drive, the Progress Fund, to assist UPEI's capital devel— opment,“ and raised more than $3 million from across the Island and around the BIaritimes. Coupled with more than $7 million in provincial grants, the Progress Fund allowed for the renovation of

existing facilities, plus the building of a new utility plant and — the

capstone a spacious new library. UPEI's first major development on the old St. Dunstan’s campus, Robertson Library, was named

after a long-time president of Prince ofVVales. Today, the University

of Prince Edward Island boasts one of the largest library-holdings—

per—student ratios of any undergraduate university in Canada.

The history of UPEI‘s creation had a beginning, but it has no end. Walk around the campus today, 36 years on, and you see that the university bears many traces of its ancestry. Its coat of arms in— corporates elements from Prince otVVales and St. Dunstan's (and St. Andrews College, SDU‘s predecessor). In 2002, the Confederation Lecture Series was renamed the Dr. Frank i\"IacKiiinon Lecture Se- ries. St. Dunstans crest still tops Dalton Hall. The library's PEI Collection exists in great part thanks to a fund provided by the St. Dunstan‘s Alumni Association. And, even 36 years later, Prince of Wales and St. Dunstan's still live on in the university‘s people. Regis Dufl‘y, from SDU, is now chair or the Board of Governors. Barb IVIullaly, who once taught Phys lid at PWC, is the campus Wellness Director. John Smith and Brendan O'Grady, who taught at PWC and SDU respectively, have each been named Professors Emeriti in

English. And there are many others.

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