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Douglas College loses a good friend.

Bill Morfey, the College’s first
employee, passed away last week
in Calgary while awaiting emergen-
cy surgery.

His colleagues remember him
as a man of goodwill, common
sense, and fairmindedness.

Douglas College President Bill
Day was saddened by the sudden
loss of a person whom he described
as a good, kind man and a steadfast
friend.

“Bill was a wonderful person to
work with. There wasn’t a mean
bone in his body,” said Day.

The popular Morfey entered
the academic world in 1969, when

 

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Bill Morfey Scholarship 2
Thomas Haney Centre 3
Chilean Arpilleras 3
Pianist Returns to College 4
Mary Burns Publishes Book 4
Briefs 5
Coming Events 6
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he was hired by the Douglas Col-
lege board as the first bursar.

As College President Bill Day
recalls, Morfey performed a variety
of tasks in the College’s early years.

“He was the College’s first staff
employee, and he did everything.
He was the payroll officer, the ac-
countant, the office manager. He
built the College's first budgets and

no capital and little operating
money, and during restraint in 1981
to 1986. Bill’s skill at using the cash
flow helped us tremendously,” said
Day.

Morfey was a Commerce
graduate from UBC. He had
worked for Canadian Industries
Ltd. for 20 years, and had attained
a senior financial management posi-

 

 

 

 

 

helped set up tion in that com-
the first staff- pany before
ing policies.” coming to

The Col- Douglas Col-
lege owes lege. During
much of it’s his nineteen
early develop- years here, his
mental success gentle manner
to the skill and good
with which humour
Morfey carried earned him the
out his many friendship of
assignments, the many
said Day, and people with
the credit for whom he
surviving the worked.
difficulties “I always
brought on by enjoyed work-
the restraint ing with him,”
years in the said his long-
early 1980’s time secretary
should also go and friend
to Morfey. Gena Ballan-

“He was a shrewd financial
strategist. He understood money
movements and it served us in ex-
cellent stead during two very vul-
nerable periods of the College’s life
— in the beginning when we had

tyne, who retired in early 1989. “He
was an excellent boss, kind but
firm. He was very level-headed,
and he guided the College through
the difficult restraint years.”

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