Flash from the Past: Memories of wilder days at University of Waterloo

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Flash from the Past: Memories of wilder days at University of Waterloo

jgsz

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10-27-2015, 11:16 AM (This post was last modified: 10-27-2015, 11:24 AM by jgsz.)

[attachment=501 Wrote:insider pid='12931' dateline='1445954534']Thanks for posting this! Do you know which house on Westgate Walk was the president's house? Is it still UW's property?

I believe it was 12 Westgate Walk, Kitchener.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4504899,-...56!6m1!1e1

The house was purchased for UW President Burt Matthews and in 1971, as part of orientation (I think it was called initiation back then), a large group of students walked from campus to Westgate Walk to "capture the mansion."

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Link on page 2.

Well, IIRC it turned out to be quite a party. There was lots of beer -- delivered by someone with access to a Canada Post van!! -- as well as hash and marijuana. Some played "football" with watermelons which smashed and created a mess. I remember a young women asked Mrs Matthews for a dollar bill and she rolled a joint in it and lit it in front of her. Yeah, those were the days. I think that was the one and only "capture the mansion" event at UW.

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