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I lived in Halifax from September 1974 through to December 1976 while I was a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. It was an amazing time of growth- both for me personally (I was 23 when I arrived) and also for NSCAD as an art college.

I took the train from Victoria where I was living, across Canada to Halifax arriving in late August 1974. I arrived to register for my classes in the old Anna Leonowens Gallery on Coburg Road. It was the last semester that NSCAD was still located at the Coburg Road campus. A beautiful brick building on the edge of Dalhousie University on Coburg at LeMarchant. The first person that I remember is Colette Urban. She was working for the school helping students register into their classes. I didn’t know her name, of course, but I remember being struck by how interesting I thought she looks and how at ease she was with how the school worked- she had been there for a while and know how the school worked and seemed to know everybody and had great confidence. I didn’t get to know her for a few years.

I can remember that first registration day and a dance that evening that the students organized in Gallery.

All the people I remember from when I lived in Halifax:

The students: Collette Urban, Madeline Palko, Todd Davis, Johanna Van Waarden, Doug Kirton, Peter Haaren, Rose Zgodzinski, Eva Scopino, Mary Grimes, Carl Affarian, Ann Prim, Tony Duggan-Smith, Charles Lewton-Brain, Julie Duschenes, Gerry McGrath, Kirby Dick, Robert Hamon, Mary Williams, Jeff Balsmeyer, Rick Harder, Gerry Morehead, April Gornik, Robin Peck, Howard Mussells, Will Gorlitz, Brad Brace, Jeff Spalding, Brian McNiven, Ian Murray, Claire Larson, Charlene Reader, Oliver Girling, Susan Britton, Ellen Rumm, Oliver Girling, Sandra Meigs, Wayne Packer, Debbie McCarthy, Harris Edelman, Graham Dubé, Richard Purdy, Alex Salter, Rick Harder, Janet Morgan, Cyne Cobb, Michael Fernandes, Cordell Wynne, Katherine, Knight, Tom Nickson, Minna Zelonka, Jeff Spalding, Alan Barkley, Rick Rofihe, Todd Davis, Christina Richie, Andrea Wexler, Spring Hurlbut Williamson, Heidi Schoemaker, Alex Salter, Jim Schaeufele, Paul Hess, Servie Janssen, Bart Robbett, Gordon Voisey, Joseph Bartscherer, Tony Brown, Nelda Swinton, Howard Edelman, Alan Barkley, Tony Brown.

The staff, faculty and vsiting artists: John Murchie, Tom Klenck, Garry Kennedy, Robbie Zuck, Mary Snider, Martin Barlofsky, Richards Jarden, Eric Fischl, Mira Schor, John Hutcheson, Kasper Koenig, Marion Robertson, Terry Johnson, Stephanie Boyd, Gerald Ferguson, Tim Zuck, Pat Kelly, David Askevold, Alan MacKay, Graham Dubé, Robert Berlind, John Fernie, Dennis Gill, John Greer, Robert Berlind, Elliot Schwartz, Harriet, Ernie, Bruce Ferguson (at Dalhousie Art Gallery), Colin Campbell, Marilyn Lenkowsky, Jack Butler, Pat Steir, Emmett Williams, Donald Kuspit, Michael Snow, Peggy Gale, John Torreano, Martha Wilson, Victor Bergin, Jim Starrett, Joel Fisher, David Rabinowitch, Karl Beveridge, Carole Conde, Paul Brach, Miriam Shapiro, Ron Martin, Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Dan Graham, John Knight.