THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on November 15 in the years identified:

1975:installed Sir Allen Lewis is

chancellor of the University of the West Indies, in the Assembly Hall of the Mona campus in the presence of a fair-sized crowd head by Governor General Florizel Glasspole and Mrs Glasspole. Allen is the third chancellor of the 26-year-old university. He succeeds the late Hugh Wooding, who was appointed following the resignation of the first chancellor, Princess Alice, in 1971. 1975:Grants The University

Committee (UGC) meets again at Mona in an effort to complete its programme proposals, which include regrading of salary for academic and other staff represented by WIGUT on the three UWI campuses of Cave Hill, Mona and St Augustine. An ad hoc committee of the UGC met with representatives of WIGUT from the three campuses on Wednesday, November 12, to hear representation on the salary issue and the full UGC has been meeting since Thursday, November 13, 1975 with their Civil Service advisers in attendance. 1980:Station Trench Town Fire

on Spanish Town Road, opposite the May Pen Cemetery, closed by an escalation of violence in the area in October 1980, reopens. During the closure, the telephones at the station were stolen so persons requiring the services of the men to fight fires or deal with other emergencies should telephone 22121 or 22122 until further notice, Fire Chief Alan Ridgeway says.

– The Gleaner Archives