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A once fallen cedar will stand once more. Royal Roads University’s 75th anniversary celebrations continued this week with the raising of a 25-foot tall totem pole welcoming students, faculty and the community to the national historic site, with the open arms of a man and the open wings of an eagle. Wayne Standlund, who commissioned and gifted the totem Arnold lim to the school, said the artwork represents Reporting everything the longstanding university stands for. “The university is a place of great love (for me). I wanted to leave them with something that was meaningful and consistent with all the virtues and principals of the university,” he said. “I was pleased the university allowed me to do this.” The pole, which cost more than $30,000 to commission and erect, not to mention hundreds of hours of carving under the skilled hands, watchful
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eye and sharpened blades of carver Tom LaFortune, is a symbolic gift also reflecting what the university means to the community. Strandlund said it was aptly named Harmony. “Harmony is one of many things RRU is all about. It is really a community event and all universities are communities, but at RRU we are the stewards of roughly 600 acres of the most beautiful land,” he said. “Stewards are people who take care of that land; take care of all the people associated with it who visit, come to study and teach.” Exactly 25 feet tall and 21.5 inches across, it’s made of a single wind-fallen, second-growth red cedar from the forest in Royal Roads University, dragged into the boathouse near Esquimalt Lagoon for LaFortune and his nephew, Howard LaFortune, to whittle down. The totem ended up being five pieces: the main pole, made up of a single tree from top to bottom; the two arms added for the welcome figure near the bottom of the pole, and the two wings for the eagle at the top. “When people ask me how long it took me, I tell them 42 years because that is the time it took me to become the carver I am today,” LaFortune said. PlEASE SEE: Carving process, Page A4
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Workers at Royal Roads University erect the school’s first totem, titled Harmony, near the main entrance to the university grounds off Sooke Road. The pole, carved by Tom LaFortune, was commissioned and gifted to RRU by its chancellor, Wayne Strandlund.
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