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Wilfrid Laurier Uni- 'versity has trust enrolled the largest first-year class in its 71-year history. James Wilgar, uni- versity registrar, said about 1,400 students are attending first-year classes. He expects the count to be about so or so fewer, the usual drop-off rate, when the omeial count is taken PAGE 4 - UAW W. WV. mu. I” II a move unproces- deuted in Its “1-year history. Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Can ada revealed in a press conference last Wednesday that it has acquired all the shares of Association Life In- surance Co.' Inc., from International Harvest- er Credit Corp. of Mil- wankee, Wisconsin. Mutual Life sets precedent with purchase of company WLU ‘bursting its seams’ with first-year enrolment GROUND I COFFEE $242,. GINGERALE $299 f"""""'"'"'"'?':'?;';'"'?':';;";:",""'"'"""'"'"' ORANGE. "M" JUICE 89' FROZEN E5113 SHORT STOP "momma an Oct. 2mt/SttatBoeettarood8tore tttmr-ttter-tttret-ttti" OPEN T DAYS A WEEK mu. MIDNIGHT chairman ot the be!!! and chic! executive ot- Beet John Panelists termed the occasion "an historic day...that gives Ill international dimension to the Mutu- al Life of Canada." Apart from some business it has con- ducted in the United States under its own Nov. 1. Overall, the universi- ty is Just about burst- ing its seams and straining its resources to the maximum " it accommodates about 3,964 full-time under- graduate students. a six per cent increase over a year ago. In addition Eben are 282 full-time graduate students taking varLout BEECHWOOD PLAZA (Erb a Hellman) Waterloo OLD SOUTH CANADA DRY NABOB mum-mama» my triee, page}: opined outside at Ca- ndi.- borders. One t6tmdintrdtMortotut provinoc's joining Con- federation. and the sec- 0nd instance was In Bermuda prior to WorldWarll. T N that Associa- tilt'tlf,?i',', a "weir managed little com- Part-time registra- tion shows a " per cent decrease to 2,614 in undergraduate 'tNF grams. But part-time graduate student enrol- ment moved up by more than " per cent to 182 students regis- tered by late Sep- tember. E33133 master's courses. a 7.2 per cent increase. " oz. tin Panahaker noted that completion of the transaction is de m dent upon receipt 'f,f'li'l', approval of the Depart- ment of Insurance of Canada and the, Wis- consin Department of insurance. as well as filing with the United States Federal Trade Commission and the us. Department of Justice. He added that the offer involves a cash transaction for an undisclosed price. In Milwaukee. Pm- hnker Maud Mutu- al's ml- nle in the American opernlon will be to plum sup- port services for its but“: ell-m investing!!! operations. Association Life is currently in the busi- ness of individual, group and credit life insurance. as well as individual and group health insurance. A major area of business activity for the com- pany has been group life and health insur- ance for small employ- ers. Association Life has assets of over $29 million and the com- party's total premium income for 1982 is pro- jected at $39 million. Life Insurance in force as of December 31, 1981 was $2.4 billion. The company is li- censed in 46 states and the District of Colum- bia. It is not currently licensed in New York. Maine, New Hamp- shire. or Rhode Island. WE HAVE MOVED 45 Erb St. E. N2J 1L7 Waterloo NEW LOCATION address correspondence to _ New Chronicle Office " of August 26, 1982 45 Erb St. E. N21 1L7 p' Harper, Haney and White Laws0ffice (rear entrance upper floor) Education, preeente the keys of the school’s new gymnasium to Dennls Wylie, principal of MecGregor Senlor Publlc School in Waterloo. The gym we: otfhtuttiy opened last week in a ceremony attended by parents, students, tel-chore and several been! Oman”. mmam 'ftroePittrocht, ghqlrman of the Waterloo County Board ot The 4.800 sq. ft. gym is only one of the many improvements that have been made at MacGregor this year. The renovations began in November l981. ex- MacGregor senior public school on Cen- tral Street in Waterloo has a whole new look this fall. Last week, officials of the Water, loo Board of Educa- tion, teachers, parents and students gathered to open the sehooi's new addition - a dou- ble gym. Pat Amucklo Chronicle Staff New-look MacGregor welcomes addition plained the school's principal Dennis Wylie, because the previous gym facilities in the 30-year-old school were inadequate for the 500 senior public students now attending Mac- Gregor. Built in 1951, Mac- Gregor originally ac- commodated students hom kindergarten to grade eight and only became exclusively senior public in the "The school was not originally used as a senior school,“ he said. The start of con- struction of a new gym "set a chain of events," said Wylie that brought about the addition of a music room, the relo- cation of the library in the former gymnasium and the improvement and enlargement of staff and administra- tive offices. A lunch room was also added above the library to accomodate the large number of students who stay for lunch at the school. Total cost of the ren- ovations was $800,000.