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Murray Newman fonds
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Aquarium newsletters

Series consists of runs of the Aquarium newsletter which was authored by Dr. Newman during this period.

Certificates and awards

File contains the following: AAZPA Board Member certificate, 1972-1975; AAZPA Outstanding Service certificate, 1983; AAZPA Outstanding Service certificate, 1989; Royal Life Saving Society Rescue Commendation, 1992.

Certificates/Awards

Series consists of various oversize award plaques awarded Dr. Newman over the course of his career.

Consultant reports

Series consists of reports generated by Dr. Newman's Aquarium consulting business, M.A. Newman Associates. There are reports for proposed aquarium sites in the following cities: Corpus Christi, Edmonton and St. John's, as well as the Tynehead Zoological Park in Surrey.

Correspondence

File contains the following: newspaper clippings; notes; a photograph from Acapulco; a photograph of Paul Newman (Dr. Newman's brother); 12 photographs of collecting expeditions aboard the "Aquarius".

Correspondence

File contains the following: a corporate canvassing list; a report on the Halifax Aquarium; a "Reader's Digest" clipping regarding Moby Doll; Dr. Newman's American passport; newspaper clippings regarding Moby Doll, Aquarium expansion and Romeo Namu; 4 photographs of Dr. and Mrs. Newman tuna fishing; a St. John's, Newfoundland, Aquarium report; a report on the Aquarium expansion project; a report on Vancouver Museums.

Correspondence

File contains the following: Aquarium pamphlets; correspondence regarding the death of John Lecky; travel to Africa; general Aquarium business; newspaper clippings.

Correspondence

File contains the following: a button regarding Kathy Newman's campaign to be elected a school trustee; a photograph of Murray and Kathy Newman at the Aquarium "experience auction"; a notebook; newspaper clippings regarding marine mammal health.

Correspondence

File contains the following: newspaper clippings, research publications, a photograph of Dr. Newman at a conference in Antwerp.

Correspondence

File contains the following: personal correspondence, overview of the Aquarium, programs of Aquarium, Task Force on Stanley Park, Round Table membership, newsclippings on whales.

Correspondence

File contains the following: notes of congratulations on retirement from the Aquarium and on publishing "Life in a Fishbowl"; a notebook; reviews of "Life in a Fishbowl"; certificate, Governor General of Canada, in recognition of significant contribution to Canada.

Correspondence

This folder includes the following: 4 photographs; school tickets to the Aquarium, a B.C. tourist pamphlet; a copy of Mr. Newman's paper, "Social Behaviour & Interspecific Competition in Two Trout Species"; an Aquarium tourist pamphlet; correspondence from colleagues and family; copies of newspaper clippings.

Correspondence

File contains the following: "fish tickets" created by Dr. Newman for educational purposes and given to school children; an itinerary for a trip to Mexico with H.R. MacMillan; a photo of Dr. Newman with a "Life" magazine reporter and Pat McGeer at Burrard Drydock seeing Moby Doll, the first Aquarium killer whale; newspaper clippings, mostly regarding Moby Doll; minutes from an American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting; a pass to see Moby Doll at the temporary Jericho Beach pen created for her.

Correspondence

File contains the following: newspaper clippings regarding the Aquarium expansion project, fish health issues, dolphins, and a worker's strike; field record of a fish capture in Mexico; the news release about the new B.C. Tel porpoise pool, a notebook about a visit to the historical Whaling Station at Coal Harbour on Vancouver Island; postcard of a whaling ship; correspondence regarding Moby Doll; an envelope containing clippings and a photograph regarding H.R. MacMillan; a notebook.

Correspondence

File contains the following: notes regarding Paul Spong's behaviour (a U.B.C. behavioural psychologist doing research with the killer whales); newspaper clippings regarding pollution, whales, Paul Spong; general correspondence, notes for manuscript; one photograph of a beluga whale; one photograph of a turtle; 5 wallet size photographs of Dr. Newman.

Correspondence

File contains the following: Aquarium pamphlets; newspaper clippings; an American Society of Mammologists meeting program; correspondence and materials regarding Prime Minister Trudeau's visit to the Aquarium, Hyak, the killer whale; a notebook and 13 photographs regarding a trip to Florida.

Correspondence

File contains the following: newspaper clipings regarding shark collection; conservation; a CBC series called "World Aquarium", school visits to the Aquarium, controversy over capturing killer whales, Park Board politics; family correspondence; invitations; an Aquarium statement of revenue and expenditure; an Aquarium budget; Aquarium pamphlets; a wallet size photograph of Dr. Newman; a report and design concepts bulletin on the J.S. Graham Pavilion.

Correspondence

File contains the following: correspondence regarding travel, narwhals and family; newspaper clippings; three photographs; Harry the Harbour Seal, Tokai University, Japan and Mervin Larson with Dr. Newman.

Correspondence

File contains the following: correspondence regarding Dr. Newman's appointment to the Order of Canada, family, and other aquariums; eight mounted photographs from San Francisco, eight loose photographs from Japan and Chicago.

Correspondence

File contains the following: two photographs of the Amazon gallery opening and the Queen's visit to the Aquarium; correspondence regarding the U.S. Pacifist Party, Bill Reid sculpture, invitations; notebooks; Aquarium publications; four photographs of the Queen's visit; an Aquarium annual report; one photograph of Dr. Newman in Boston.

Correspondence

File contains the following: a proposal for an Arctic exhibit; material regarding the unveiling of Bill Reid's Orca sculpture; correspondence regarding travel, Disney's "Living Seas" exhibit; invitations, expanded whale habitat, CBC television series "Danger Bay"; an Aquarium annual report; one photograph of Dr. Newman at Bamfield.

Correspondence

File contains the following: one photograph of Dr. Newman in Tokyo; two photographs of Dr. Newman in the Queen Charlotte's; nine photographs at the Murray Newman Field Station; an Aquarium annual report.

Correspondence

File contains the following: three photographs taken of the Newman Lab on Popham Island; two photographs of the Texas State Aquarium; the funeral program for Emperor Hirohito; materials regarding speaking engagements by Dr. Newman.

Correspondence

File contains the following: a proposal for multi media exhibit; three photographs from a conference; newspaper clippings; materials regarding Aquarium speaking engagements; two photographs of Hon. Titus Allooloo; an Aquarium annual report.

Correspondence

File contains the following: notes of thanks; two photographs of Maako Yamaguchi; personal correspondence, and history of Round Table.

Correspondence

File contains the following: 15 photographs from the Vancouver Public Aquarium annual meeting, correspondence regarding Dr. Newman's retirement, his forthcoming book "Life in a Fishbowl", seven photographs from Taiwan.

Correspondence

Series consists of files containing original copies of incoming correspondence, some early (1955) copies of outgoing correspondence signed by Dr. Newman, newspaper clippings, photographs, Aquarium promotional materials, and conference information. Each file is divided chronologically by year and remains in the same physical arrangement as was maintained by Dr. Newman.

Correspondence

This folder includes the following: typed correspondence from Murray Newman to his father from the South Pacific with handwritten editorial notes, 1943-1945; his 1943 graduation certificate from the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps School; letters from California to his father; offer of employment in Vancouver; notes for his book; a photograph titled "Los Angeles 1952", correspondence as Curator of the Vancouver Aquarium (good luck notes, inquiries about employment, queries about fish identification, feeding and care issues, and letters of thanks); also copies of outgoing correspondence relating to the above issues.

Correspondence

File contains the following: 3 photographs for an Aquarium guidebook; the Public Aquarium Guidebook; the convocation program from Dr. Newman's Ph.D convocation; a graduation book for 1960 at U.B.C.; an Aquarium tourist pamphlet; postcards to Dr. Newman's wife, Kathy, from a trip to Europe; an envelope of "thesis photos"; newspaper clippings; an address book.

Correspondence

File contains the following: an invitation to preview the Aquarium's expansion; a program for an American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting with a list of members and handwritten notes; an invitation to the opening of the Aquarium extension; newspaper clippings regarding school trips to the Aquarium and whales; 18 photographs regarding a trip to Acapulco aboard H.R. MacMillan's yacht "Marijean"; correspondence regarding glass for the porpoise pool and invitations; a map of Acapulco, a photoengraver plate of Alan Best, Stanley Park zoo curator; Aquarium promotional materials.

Correspondence

File contains the following: newspaper clippings regarding alligators; Aquarium pamphlets; correspondence with Paul Newman; one photograph of Jim and Isobelle Graham; minutes from the Building Committee; notes from a trip to Dean River; two photographs of Murray Newman and one of Kathy Newman.

Correspondence

File contains the following: correspondence regarding the Aquarium's Silver Jubilee materials, new killer whales, Finna and Bjossa from Iceland, travel, and insurance evaluation for the Aquarium and three photographs of Dr. Newman.

Correspondence

File contains the following: minutes from a finance committee meeting; an Aquarium progress report; invitations; four photographs of Dr. Newman; Aquarium promotional material; material regarding Dr. Newman's consultative work; materials regarding a speaking tour; an Aquarium annual report; material regarding Dr. Newman's West Vancouver 75th Anniversary Achiever's Award.

Correspondence

File contains the following: correspondence regarding Dr. Newman's upcoming retirement as Director of the Vancouver Public Aquarium, travel, and speaking engagements; newspaper clippings regarding the death of a baby killer whale; one photograph of Murray and Kathy Newman in Indonesia; one photograph of Dr. Newman at the Arctic Canada Exhibit; two photographs from the convocation of Dr. Newman's Royal Life Saving Society Bravery Award; an Aquarium annual report.

Correspondence

File contains the following: Dr. Newman's American passport; newspaper clippings; a notice for a lecture given by Dr. Newman in San Francisco; materials for the Symposium of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists sponsored by U.B.C.; itinerary for a trip to Mexico with H.R. MacMillan; general correspondence.

Correspondence

File contains the following: postcard of killer whales; newspaper clippings regarding whales and the Aquarium volunteer program; a photograph of Skana the killer whale with her trainer, Terry McLeod, a photograph at Pender Harbour; a paper on the Aquarium expansion; correspondence from Dr. Newman's father, the Park Board invitations; Canadian Centennial Medal.

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