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Reproduction of the article "Sanger recognizes obscure poetic figure" from the Halifax Herald Limited by Bruce Erskine, July 3 2005

Item is a reproduction of the article "Sanger recognizes obscure poetic figure" from the Halifax Herald Limited by Bruce Erskine, July 3 2005. The article discusses a new book by retired Nova Scotia Agricultural College professor and archivist Peter Sanger. White Salt Mountain is a detailed account of the life of Florence Ayscough, the daughter of a Nova Scotia-born businessman Thomas Wheelock who made his fortune in Shanghai where Ayscough was born in 1875. The book then links her life with that of late New Brunswick poet John Thompson (1936-1976) who’s poems, Sanger argues, were greatly influenced by Ayscough’s translated poems from Chinese.

Halifax Herald Limited

Photocopy of a newspaper article “New index will help locate information about agricultural college”

Item is a newspaper clipping dated February 5, 2005 from the Truro Daily News captioned “New index will help locate information about agricultural college”, regarding the index created by Janelle Brenton for Dale Ells' "An illustrated history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College".

NSAC Centennial stickers exhibit opening program

Item is the Nova Scotia Agricultural College centennial anniversary exhibit official opening program. “The Colchester Historical Society Museum salutes the Nova Scotia Agricultural College as it celebrates a century of service.” Has an insert which details some early and more recent NSAC yells.

Photocopy of a newspaper article "Agricultural College builds on a future based on its past”

Item is a newspaper clipping dated January 22, 2005, from the Colchester County News titled "Agricultural College builds on a future based on its past”. The article discusses buildings named after people who have been “at the helm of administering the Bible Hill college during the past century”.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College Alumni directory 2005

Item is a bound volume titled "Nova Scotia Agricultural College Alumni Directory 2005 : 100 years and growing". It includes an illustrated section for campus changes through the years, a guide to the directory and alumni listings by name, and all by class year section geographical section, and career networking section. It includes job title, phone number, and email address for NSAC alumni.

Rural policy forum report and records related to a Rural Communities Impacting Policy meeting

Item is the Rural policy forum report : Rural Communities Impacting Policy. A community - university research alliance. February 26-28, 2004, prepared by Todd Barr and Malcolm Shookner, Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre at Dalhousie University. Prepared for: Rural Communities Impacting Policy Project, June 2004.
There are several other documents in the file, including the agenda and notes for Rural Communities Impacting Policy meeting to discuss Core funding for community development project and community development research findings.

Memories : then and now : autobiographies of the class of '62 [1962] : a look at the past 42 years [Nova Scotia Agricultural College]

Item is a book titled Memories : then and now : autobiographies of the [Nova Scotia Agricultural College]class of '62 [1962] : a look at the past 42 years. It includes the memoirs of professor Ian Fraser, the reprint of the "Class of '62 pip dream, 35 autobiographies, photographs, and an "In Memoriam" section.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Extension Services, and Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture staff directories

Item is one bound volume of the 2002 Nova Scotia Agricultural College Staff Directory. It's divided by department and has black and white photographs, job title, phone number, and email address for campus staff and faculty.
Attached is the 2003 Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Extension Services, and Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture staff phone directory.

Wooden shield with Nova Scotia Agricultural College logo

Item is the Class of 1952 gift - Wooden shield with Nova Scotia Agricultural College logo/crest. The Management Board of the Government provided a designer and a committee of faculty led the process of developing a new logo. The logo, with a shield and the College name, had two symbols: an open book to represent learning and a mold-board plow, which suggests cultivation and agriculture. The College motto inscribed is "Mens agitat molem", which has been translated as "the educated mind animates and enlivens creation". The artist, Bruce Wood, designed the carving using three woods, inlaid to make the shield shaped logo. Was presented to the Library in memory of fellow '52 graduate Dr. Herbert F. MacRae. Dr. MacRae was successful, in 1983, in getting an exemption for NSAC from the new Provincial identity program, which failed to recognize the Atlantic role for the College in both its university and community college - technical programs. at the "Breakfast at the Library" event during the NSAC Homecoming / Alumni reunion October 25, 2003 - from Library Trust Fund Update vol.14:no.1(October 2003)
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