Fwd: Re: Yoruba Affairs - Re: Fwd: Re: Yoruba Affairs - University of Ibadan at 60

[Toyin Falola]

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>Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:11:19 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Molara Ogundipe <mol...@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: Yoruba Affairs - Re: Fwd: Re: Yoruba Affairs -
>University of Ibadan at 60
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>Thank you for the detailed historical information,
>Dr./Professor(?) Adeboye. Small addition that, not
>only direct entry students but also those of us who
>came in by entrance examination in 1958 and earlier
>also earned London degrees.
>
>Prof. Molara Ogundipe
>--- Adeniran Adeboye <aade...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> CORRECTION OF Correction.
>>
>> The University of Ibadan legally came into
>> existence in 1962 by an
>> act of the Nigerian Parliament. Formally though, the
>> university was
>> opened on November 17, 1963 at a ceremony in which
>> the Prime
>> Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, was installed as
>> the first
>> Chancellor, Okechukwu Ikejiani as the first
>> Pro-Chancellor, and
>> Keneth Onwuka Dike as the first Vice-Chancellor. At
>> that ceremony in
>> Trenchard Hall, the first Principal of the
>> University College,
>> Ibadan, Kenneth Mellanby, was in attendance and he
>> formally announced
>> the transfer of the properties of the university
>> college to the
>> university, as per the act establishing the
>> university. Factually
>> (and this may be what Professor Molara Ogundipe has
>> in mind), the
>> first earned degrees of the University of Ibadan
>> were conferred in
>> 1965, not surprisingly, to those students who gained
>> direct entry in
>> 1962 when the university legally came into being.
>>
>> The seamless transformation of the university
>> college to a university
>> legitimizes calling this year's event the 60th
>> anniversary of the
>> university. Havard University lays claim to being as
>> old as the
>> original Harvard College. Other such examples abound
>> in Europe and
>> the US. It is particularly important to recognize
>> those students who
>> were admitted by the university college and then
>> graduated from the
>> university as trusses in the bridge of a smooth
>> transition.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Adeniran Adeboye
>> (UI 1963-1967)
>>
>> On May 7, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Toyin Falola wrote:
>>
>> >
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>> >> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:03:12 -0700 (PDT)
>> >> From: Molara Ogundipe <mol...@yahoo.com>
>> >> Subject: Re: Yoruba Affairs - University of
>> Ibadan at 60
>> >> To: yorubaaff...@googlegroups.com
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>> >>
>> >> Correction: University College of London, Ibadan
>> is
>> >> 60; the University of Ibadan was instituted in
>> 1965.
>> >> Could you get this correction to the right places
>> >> please? Thank you.
>> >>
>> >> Prof. Molara Ogundipe
>> >> --- Toyin Falola <toyin....@mail.utexas.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Celebrating UI at 60
>> >>>
>> >>> By Sunday Saanu
>> >>>
>> >>> Wed. 7th May, 2008
>> >>>
>> >>> The premier university in Nigeria, the
>> University
>> >>> of Ibadan, admirably referred to as the "first
>> >>> and the best" is 60 years old this year, having
>> >>> being established in 1948. And to mark the
>> >>> diamond occasion, a year - long celebration was
>> >>> flagged off by the former Pro- Chancellor and
>> >>> Chairman of Council, Mr. Gamaliel Onosode
>> during
>> >>> the 59th convocation ceremony. The anniversary
>> >>> has since begun. It will come to a glorious
>> >>> crescendo on November 17 this year.
>> >>>
>> >>> It must not therefore surprise anyone
>> henceforth,
>> >>> whenever one activity or the other is carried
>> out
>> >>> and publicized as part of the 60th anniversary.
>> >>> The mood in the sprawling campus is already
>> >>> depicting commemoration: repairing and
>> >>> repainting, re- fixing and replacing damaged
>> >>> infrastructural facilities - all in preparation
>> >>> for the grand celebration of 60 years of
>> academic
>> >>> excellence. It is worth it! Yes, drums should
>> be
>> >>> rolled out, glasses must be clunk, fireworks
>> must
>> >>> be displayed and the fatted calf must be
>> killed.
>> >>> The university which started out with the 104
>> >>> foundation students at the old site previously
>> >>> used by the 56th Military General Hospital,
>> about
>> >>> eight kilometers away from the present
>> permanent
>> >>> site, is today, globally recognized as one of
>> the
>> >>> best universities in Africa and the flagship of
>> >>> post graduate studies in Nigeria. The
>> University
>> >>> of Ibadan which has produced the movers and
>> >>> shakers of the society has remained a lighting
>> >>> rod for all other universities across the
>> country
>> >>> with U.I products illuminating dark places of
>> the
>> >>> world.
>> >>>
>> >>> U.I 's achievements over the years are too
>> >>> formidable and considerable to be contested,
>> yet
>> >>> indispensable in the scholastic enterprise. The
>> >>> truth is that this great institution shall
>> >>> continue to live as long as there are those who
>> >>> bear the stamp of its influence.
>> >>>
>> >>> They are everywhere, in and outside the
>> country,
>> >>> research has shown that there is no country in
>> >>> the world without U.I products holding one
>> >>> sensitive position or the other. As an elder
>> >>> talks with the authority of experience, so is
>> U.I
>> >>> pontificating as a result of its pedigree.
>> Still,
>> >>> effluxion of time has not eroded the prevailing
>> >>> culture of intellectual osmosis peculiar to the
>> >>> institution.
>> >>>
>> >>> Who will say the university that produced the
>> >>> Wole Soyinkas of this world, the Chinua Achebes
> > >>> among numerous notable world figures does not
>> >>> deserve fanfaronade at 60? The clues to U.I's
>> >>> greatness are everywhere, begging to be
>> >>> interpreted!
>> >>>
>> >>> The gigantic clock mounted against the tower at
>> >>> the university which is quite visible at the
>> >>> entrance of the institution has not stopped to
>> >>> chime, and it is a metaphorical expression of
>> the
>>
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