Celebrating 85 years in Hamilton.

Today is a very special day!

On this day in 1930, the first cohort of students began classes at the new McMaster campus in Hamilton. The move to Hamilton was made possible thanks to donations to the “Bring McMaster to Hamilton Campaign” including a generous gift from the City of Hamilton.

Hamilton has been a special part of the McMaster community experience ever since. So, let’s celebrate this and 85 amazing years of impacting students’ lives at Mac.

Thank you for your support

85 Years. 85 Reasons.


Reasons will be updated through the day.


First from each region
  • Kanthimathinathan Muthusamy – Great Britain
  • Kevin Lockhart – New York
  • Kelly Smith – Maryland
  • Sunday (Sonny) Olatunji – Wisconsin
  • The Hon. Randall S. Bocock – Ottawa
  • Steven Reinhart – Guelph
  • Diana Richardson – St. Catherines
  • Louise Hickey – Sudbury
  • Julie Cork – Newmarket
  • Keith Johnston – British Columbia
  • David Robert Nutchey – Texas
  • Shelley T. Yurko – Ontario
  • Paul Clark – Alberta
  • Brian Le – Saskatchewan
  • Luis Copertari – Mexico
  • Melanie C. Taylor – Arkansas
  • Bilal Mahmood – Pakistan
First from each academic year
  • Joe DiFazio – Class of 1979
  • Glen Hahn – Class of 1981
  • Robert Nixon – Class of 1950
  • Thomas Vane – Class of 1973
  • Yuri Tan – Class of 1987
  • Mariann Hibbard – Class of 1992
  • Cathy Habza – Class of 1995
  • Carla LaBella – Class of 1997
  • Tammy Quigley – Class of 2001
  • Dianne Avery – Class of 2002
  • Venessa Robinson – Class of 2008
  • Neil Monkman – Class of 1980
  • Trish Cordiner – Class of 1998
  • Brenda Becker – Class of 1969
  • John Ching – Class of 1982
  • Kenneth Cooper – Class of 1974
  • Arunas Jonikas – Class of 1975
  • Rosanna Pietrangeli – Class of 1984
  • Adrian Zenwirt – Class of 1988
  • Gary Collins – Class of 1990
  • Nawaaz Makhani – Class of 2007
  • Simone Robbins – Class of 2006
  • Janice Wieler – Class of 2014
  • Peihai Li – Class of 2015
  • David and Shelia Knight – Class of 1976
  • Sharon Arnott – Class of 1989
  • Asghar Bokhari – Class of 1993
  • Edward Faultless – Class of 1996
  • Sarah Wojkowski – Class of 2000
  • Katrina Bell – Class of 2012
  • Catherine Fisher – Class of 1999
  • Mark Cheers – Class of 1994
  • Yongsheng Zhou – Class of 2005
  • Nameer Jiwa – Class of 2010
  • Morganna Tracey-Stone – Class of 2013
  • Robert Corcoran – Class of 1983
First from each faculty/program
  • Bertrand Mendis – Chemical Engineering
  • Kim Norton – Economics
  • Goharik Mirzaian – Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Christopher Petrusic – History
  • Deborah Aitken – MBA
  • James Pantkratz – Religious Studies
  • Stephen Smith – Management Science and Information Systems
  • Alyssa Lai – Communications Studies
  • Karen Cook – Nursing
  • Amber Stuckey – Continuing Education
  • Jared Lenover – Arts and Science
  • Suzanne Craven – Faculty of Humanities
  • Joanna Smith – Faculty of Social Science
  • Hongjin Zhu – Professor, Faculty of Business
  • Yongsheng Zhou – Faculty of Engineering
  • Zara Karimi – Faculty of Science
  • Oleg Bindarovich – Faculty of Health Science
  • Benoit Chapdelaine – French

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