St. Olaf College
Global Semester
1978-1979
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St. Olaf College Global Semester 1978-1979 |
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| Lyrics to 1978-79 Global Songs | |||||
| Taiwan Song | "Ode to Vic McGregor" | ||||
| "You're on Global!" | "Sh-dooby-doo-wop" | "All the Global People" | |||
| "Time to Carry On" | "Beautiful" | "Up on the Roof" | |||
| "Alkali" | "You've Heard My Voice" | ||||
| "Ode to Vic McGregor" | |||||
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A young New Zealander working for the Greenland Geological Survey discovered the oldest rocks on Earth. In 1966-7, Vic McGregor deduced that certain rocks in Greenland were exceptionally old but several years elapsed before his conclusions were confirmed by atomic dating methods. By 1970 he had made up his mind to build a house in a remote village on the cost of Greenland, to learn the language from the Greenlander children themselves and then to set up a little school. But McGregor did not abandon his research entirely, and word came from Canada and from England that McGregor's rocks had at last been dated. They were 3700 to 3900 million years old -- and age greater than any determined on this planet before. These venerable rocks occur in western Greenland at the mouth of a fjord Ameralik, not far from the capital, Godthaab. McGregor was led to recognize them as being very old by his reasoning as a skilled field geologist. His chief clue, when he examined the Ameralik rocks, came in bodies of dark rock that had invaded light-colored rock. He deduced that there had been at least two major phases of intrusion.
-- The Restless Earth, A Report on the New Geology By Nigel Calder
Listen children, to our story, that was written about an hour ago... About a man named Vic McGregor, from New Zealand down below. To cold Greenland, he did scurry, seeking rocks so very old... Science laughed and called him "stupid" -- he probably was we'll never know.
CHORUS Go ahead and date your rocks Vic. Tectonics will remember your name. Who'd have thought those Archean relics could've made it all a new ball game, Your rocks will go down in history... But did they bring your fortune and fame? His rocks are frozen in Greenland... Vic McGregor is his name.
Built a house and learned the language from the children living there. Turned around and built a school, showing all his rocks so rare. Still his quest continue onward -- with an ice pick in his hand. Found some rocks and turned them over -- saw intrusions lying there.
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He jumped for joy and then felt Mary, who was standing by him there... Packed his rock up in a box and sent them off to England fair. Waiting for the jury's verdict, were these rocks, the ones so rare. Vic got his answer, yes they were -- you can read it all in Nigel Calder.
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