University of Waterloo

Water Under the Bridge

Water Under the Bridge

Water Under the Bridge:
An Unofficial History of the University of Waterloo

By Chris Redmond and Simon the Troll

The book takes the University of Waterloo's history from "roots and tributaries" — St. Jerome's College (1864), Waterloo College (1911) and the College of Optometry (1925) — through University of Waterloo's founding in 1957 and the developments of the decades that followed. Simon winds up his story-telling with 1993, the year James Downey became president. "The essentials are clear," says Simon in an early chapter. "Bulls gave way to bulldozers, and the next thing you know, the biggest product of the place is bull of a whole new kind." He's not a troll to mince words.

Water Under the Bridge was published in book form by the University of Waterloo in 1998, ISBN 0-9682827-1-7.

 

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About the authors

Chris Redmond

Redmond

Chris Redmond is retiring in early 2012 after almost 39 years working in internal communications at the University of Waterloo. He was responsible for the Gazette newspaper from 1973 to 2004, and edited the online Daily Bulletin from its founding in 1993 until November 2011. He also, apparently, talks to trolls.

Simon the TrollSimon the Troll

Simon has lived beside Laurel Creek, on what is now the main campus of the University of Waterloo, for some hundreds of years, if everything he says is to be believed. He has seen what there is to see, and told a good deal of it in Water Under the Bridge, a series first published in the university's Gazette during the 40th anniversary in 1997.