Memo

From: MRO McGill Staff

Sent: January 4, 2009

To: x-All McGill Staff; x-All Students

Re: To the Members of the McGill Community

What an extraordinary year 2009 has been for us at McGill. There has been much to celebrate in all corners of the University. And by all corners of the University I am of course referring to those renovated stairs in front of McConnell Engineering. In the still stuttering economic recovery, it is truly outstanding that we were financially able to tear down and rebuild an existing structure that had/has no educational value.

Now, as we venture on to the new year of 2010, I would like to express my sincere hope that each of you had a wonderful holiday season, celebrating whichever of the many diverse winter holidays you chose to celebrate, or that you parents chose for you to celebrate. That is of course unless you don’t celebrate any winter holiday at all, in which case I’d like to express my hope that you had a wonderful two-to-four weeks of doing nothing. At any rate, I hope that you were able to share more time than you usually have with your dear ones, no matter how loving or dysfunctional your relationships with them may be.

At this special time of year, I’d like to welcome all of you back, each and every one of you, and wish you a great semester. Please do your best to bring honor, prestige, and monetary funds to this institution.

Warm Regards,

Heather Munroe-Blum

Principal and Vice-Chancellor

McGill University