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TURN IT £¥#2) EZ2 \\// r~@ ‘“‘\/// e 4 Te < ON TO PAGE 8 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1992 "Making that engine the best on the river was his glory in life and, having a glory, he had everything. The only sure way out of suffering that I know is to find a ‘glory‘ and give it the strength we might otherwise spend in despair." Ne "When I asked the old engineer how in the world he manâ€" aged to clean up the old engine and engine room, he answered in words that would go far toward solving life‘s main problems for many people. ‘Cap‘n‘, he said, nodding fondly in the direcâ€" tion of the engine, ‘it‘s just this way: I got a glory.‘ _ It‘s quite a story, isn‘t it? You‘ll find the counterpart of this man in every possible field of human endeavour, and whatever it is you will find a happy, busy person. _ _ 7 Take another look at the last paragraph of that story. What is your glory? What have you found that gives meaning and fulfillment to your life? Somewhere there is something for each of us, something that was meant for us to do and do well. *He sat in his doorway to the engine room; he was fat, squat but immaculate, and in his eyes was the splendour of ancient wisdom and peace with the world. As I paused to talk with him I noticed that the characteristic odours that had always emanated from the engine room were no longer there. And the engine! It gleamed and shone. From beneath its seat all the bilge water had gone. Instead of grime and stench I found beauty and order. $ Margaret Laurence and W.O. Mitchell found it in writing, Tom Thomson in painting. The most fortunate are those who found it in their daily work, whether it is waiting on tables, driving a cab, teaching or entertaining. Others find it in their recreation and hobbies. But what percentage of the population to you suppose never find it? In fact, I often wonder how many people give themselves a chance to find it before they bury themselves in some munâ€" dane work they take on as a matter of expediency, and then spend their spare time in pursuits calculated to help them escape from life, rather than enter into it. I wonder, too, how many know that there is a glory for them. Each of us has a special vocation. Our talent is the call to the one direction in which all is open to us. We have faculâ€" ties silently inviting us to endless exertion, exertion that is not work because it is selfâ€"fulfilling. Archibald Rutledge tells a little story that describes this well. He wrote: "On a day memorable to me, I boarded a tiny tugboat that I used often in crossing a southern river and saw we had a new negro engineer. If you are still waiting to find out what direction your life should take, you could do nothing better than join in the 27 hours of selfâ€"discovery known as ‘Adventures in Attitudes‘, being given at Conestoga College Doon Campus starting on September 21. Through total involvement in 70 lifeâ€"related projects you will not only find your vocation, but the selfâ€"confiâ€" dence to follow it. Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute, tel. 623â€"0283, Cambridge, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. In every field you will find the exceptional person, from the humblest line of work to the highest. Every once in a while you will run into the rare individual who has made of their work something extra â€" something great, to them. camnada‘s fgs{ country newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, as well as thouâ€" sands of slides, still pictures and film footage. Oktoberfest president Glen Walker says the festival, which is proud of its contribution to the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo area, is marking its silver jubilee with the donation to the university library. "Our 25th anniversary celebration is a perfect time to ensure that our history is well documented and we could have no better partner than the University of Waterloo to professionally manage our archives and historical records," Walker says. In announcing the joint venture, UW librarion Murray Shepherd says the collection will enable the library to continue its commitment to provide research materials to students and faculty, "while at the same time preserve an important source documenting our local heritage." Students and researchers in history, public hisâ€" tory, German language and literature, and sociolo gy will be particularly interested in the collection, as will arts management, recreation and business students, organizers say. ‘‘These records not only harken back to the very early Saengerfestes, that is German singing festiâ€" vals, of the 19th century, but also are evidence of the resurgence of interest in German traditions in the postâ€"war years," says prof. Kenneth McLaughâ€" lin, a UW historian who has recently written about local history. William Poole, director of the UW Centre for Cultural Management, says the Oktoberfest records will provide students with both "unique examples and a historical perspective in managing and organizing an important cultural event." The collection includes 17,000 slides, 14,000 Library staff members at the University of Waterloo have their work cut out for them, and they have Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Oktoberfest to thank for Kâ€"W Oktoberfest announced today it is donating the popular cultural festival‘s archives and records to the university‘s library. And over the next year, library staff will be organizing, cataloguing and indexing the massive collection. The collection â€"â€" now contained in 75 large boxes â€"â€" consists of records dating back to Oktoberfest‘s early days in the 1960s, including minutes of board Kâ€"W Oktoberfest donates archives to UW library umm‘ommmsuunsmm" and Jane Britton (right) Dolores M.mmmmugm“\.uuh(fl.m Tune it in ... Turn it up The "personal collections" of volunteers and committee members will be particularly important in documenting the earliest years of Oktoberfest when central files were not systematically saved. While Oktoberfest today is .a major. toursit attraction, its roots stem from the traditional event in Munich, Germany, as / wellâ€"as from activities organized by local ethnic associations, including Alpine Club, Concordia Club, German Hunting and gfl“ Club, Schwaben Club and Transylvania A few of those activities are described in the historical records at the UW library. On file, for example, are diaries and a picture of one of the first local celebrations of German culture â€"â€" the Friedenâ€" fest, or Peace Festival, of 1871, held to mark the end of the Francoâ€"Prussian War. Canadians of both Germanic and nonâ€"Germanic origins participated in the festival, and the diary of Louis J. Breithaupt â€" then only 16 â€"â€" details the arrival by train of thousands of people to the town then known as Berlin. Two years after the Friedenfest, one outgrowth of the festival was the formation of a male chorus named "Concordia" at the suggestion of newpaper publisher John Motz. Details on the Concordia Choir â€" the genesis of today‘s Concordia Club â€" are found in the Motz family papers, on file at the UW Kâ€"W Oktoberfest Inc. is helping to fund part of the cost of maintaining and processing the collection, which will be open to researchers next year. A muMbifimdmm&hwhtb 1993. photographs and several hundred linear feet of correspondence and other records, It will be housed intbelihury’lDorichwiaRanBookRoom,an environmentally controlled location. The Oktoberfest archives will complement other local and urban history collections already stored at the university library, says Susan Saunders Bel{ lingham, head of the library‘s special collections department. t i premrnt The archives and records will M‘W existing local history collection in the university hhnry,&nndnnndlughmmidflnmm ation is also seeking further donations of historical materials from member clubs and volunteers to add to the collection.