President, Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto, 1969-1970.

Professor Emeritus of Architecture

Charles Allan Ashley, educator, soldier, and accountant, was born on 21 December 1894 in Willenhall, England, and died on 10 July 1974 at Innsbruck, Austria. He was the son of Samuel Joseph Ashley, a schoolmaster, and Elizabeth Cumming Ashley. He began school in Birmingham and in 1912 articled as a chartered accountant. In 1914 he enlisted in the 2nd Birmingham City Battalion of the Warwickshire Regiment and then transferred to the Royal Engineers, Special Company 189, in July 1915. He saw action at Bethune, Philosophe, Vimy Ridge, and the 3rd Battle of Ypres. He became acting company commander, was mentioned in dispatches, and was wounded. After the war he attended the University of Birmingham, obtaining a B.Comm. in 1921, and he was admitted as a chartered accountant in 1922.He was assistant professor of commerce at Queen‟s University, Kingston, Ontario, for one year and an accountant in Paris, France, before accepting a post at Shanghai in 1924. He returned to Birmingham in 1927, and in 1930 he became assistant professor of commerce at the University of Toronto; he retired in 1962 as professor of commerce and chairman of the Department of Political Economy. Ashley resided in Trinity College, where he participated actively in its affairs and served as an adviser to students for forty-three years until his death in 1974.

Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto

Professor of Library Science. First Director of the Library School at the Ontario College of Education, University of Toronto.

Claude Bissell was born on February 10, 1916, one of ten children of George T. Bissell, a lumberman from Meaford, Ontario, and Maggie Editha Bowen. The family later moved to Toronto where he attended Runnymede Collegiate. He was a very shy but brilliant student, with an Edward Blake Scholarship in English and History. In 1932 he entered University College at the University of Toronto where maintained first-class standing throughout his undergraduate years; the several scholarships he received saw him through financially. He entered graduate school in 1936 as a Reuben Wells Leonard fellow, receiving the following year an MA in English for his study of the satire of Samuel Butler.While at the U of T, he found time for an impressive array of extra-curricular activities. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Club; headed the Forum Club and the Parliamentary Club in third year, and the English and History Club in fourth year. In the latter year he was also vice-president of the Historical Club and editor of the Undergraduate. His active participation in athletics was reserved for the University College lacrosse team.In 1937 Bissell was awarded the Cornell Fellowship in English by Cornell University, drawn there perhaps by Herbert James Davis who had been head of the Department of English at University College but who had just been hired by Cornell. For the next three years he studied English and Philosophy under Davis, Frank D. Curtin, Gustavus Watts Cunningham and Edwin Arthur Burtt. In 1940 his thesis, “Evolutionary ethics in Samuel Butler”, was awarded the Luana L. Messenger Prize for graduate research at Cornell, and was subsequently published, in part, by Cornell University Press. In 1938 Bissell was hired as a part-time instructor in English, teaching an introductory course in English literature, ‘English for freshmen 2’.Bissell returned to University College as an instructor in English in 1941 and in November 1942 he was given leave of absence to enter active service with the Canadian Army. Following training in the Officers’ Course at Trois Rivière and Camp Borden, he was commissioned lieutenant and went overseas in July 1943 as a reinforcement infantry officer. In the autumn he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and served in the campaign in north-west Europe from Caen to Oldenburg, first as a platoon and intelligence officer, and then as an adjutant with the rank of captain. At the end of hostilities he returned to England, “ostensibly to take a course, but really to get married. I made up for a lack of Scottish blood by marrying a Scottish girl,” Christina (later “Christine”) Gray of Bothwell, Lanarkshire. In July of 1945 he joined the staff of Khaki College in England, serving as a member of the selection committee, English department, and warden of a men’s residence. In 1946 he returned to the University of Toronto.He was promoted to assistant professor in English, University College, and on 1 July 1946 succeeded the late Charles N. Cochrane as dean of residence. It was a period of heavy veteran enrolment, and the serious overcrowding at at 43 St. George Street and 78 Queen’s Park (Holwood House) was compounded by the College having no official men’s residence. Bissell skillfully rose to the challenges he faced, a factor in his being made, in 1948, assistant to President Sidney Smith. He served as a general liaison officer between the president and the faculty and students, while continuing with his academic duties. On 1 July 1950, he was promoted to associate professor and two years later was appointed vice-president of the University. In 1956 he left the University to become president of Carleton College in Ottawa, returning two years later as president of the University of Toronto, in succession to Sidney Smith.In 1956 the Varsity Graduate reported that Bissell’s early scholastic “interests had been chiefly in the prose of thought – Butler, Addison, Ruskin and others; his early publications were on Shaw (qua thinker rather than qua playwright) and Butler. A growing fascination with the relationship between literature and society inspired studies of the social observation and analysis in George Eliot’s novels, and of nineteenth-century Canadian literary taste. Since then, Canadian fiction has found in him a perceptive, appreciatively and forthright critic.” Bissell’s interest in Canadian literature was initially reflected in a graduate course, “Studies in Canadian history and letters,” which he developed with Donald Creighton in history and introduced into the curriculum in 1947. By the mid-1950s he had added a course on the “English literary tradition”, a comparative study of American, Australian and Canadian literature. He also developed courses on Victorian thought at the undergraduate level and the late Victorian novel at the graduate level.Bissell was also actively involved in scholarly research, contributing (from 1948 to 1959) his annual “Fiction in ‘Letters in Canada’” to the University of Toronto Quarterly, and articles to a number of other scholarly journals. His interest in history was revealed in University College – a portrait, 1853-1953, marking the centennial of that college. In addition to his administrative duties, Bissell studied the procedures of universities in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia, and his thoughts were reflected in a number of articles on university governance and education that were published in journals and books over the years. A selection of his addresses appeared as The strength of the University (1968).As president of the University of Toronto, Bissell initially faced some very challenging problems: a university bursting at the seams and in desperate need of more buildings and staff to accommodate a tripling of the student body between 1958 and 1971, all to be obtained without lowering standards. During his tenure, the physical plant of the University was greatly expanded, including three new colleges (Innis, Massey, and New) on the St. George campus, as well as two satellite campuses, Erindale and Scarborough Colleges. A host of new academic programmes, interdisciplinary centres and institutes were created, the Arts curriculum was massively overhauled and other curricula were re-examined. Bissell pushed the development of the graduate studies program which coincided with his drive for a new central library complex; by the time he stepped down it was far advanced and irreversible. He also played a major role in launching York University in 1960. As the 1960s progressed, student activism and how to handle it took up a considerable amount of time. His sabbatical at Harvard University in 1967-1968, where he was Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, allowed him to follow closely the even greater turmoil on American campuses. What he observed was a factor in his subsequent decision to revamp the administrative structure of the University, replacing the bicameral Board of Governors and Senate with a unicameral Governing Council.Dr. Bissell maintained his deep interest in education and the arts by serving on many boards and instituting new educational initiatives. He served terms as chairman of the Canada Council (1960-1962), the Canadian Universities Foundation (1962), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario. In 1962 he was elected president of the World University Service of Canada for a two-year term and president of the National Conference of Canadian Universities and Colleges. He was also a member of the Ontario Council of the Arts, a governor the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation, and a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. Dr. Bissell was recognized early and often for his contributions to society. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1957, and was the recipient of 20 honorary degrees, along with fellowships and book awards.After stepping down as president, Bissell retired to his base in Massey College to research, write, and teach. He was an active participant in College affairs, with particular interest in its Library. He returned to teaching English until 1983, with graduate courses on major Canadian writers and Canadian literary criticism. In 1973 he was Commonwealth Fellow at Leeds University, Memorial Lecturer at the University of Ghana in 1976, and in 1983 he delivered a series of lectures at the University of Auckland. Bissell’s reflections on his experiences as a university president appeared in Halfway up Parnassus in 1974, to much popular and critical acclaim. In the 1980s he wrote a two-volume biography of Vincent Massey and Ernest Buckler Remembered, which also won awards. In his later years, he contributed significantly to the writing of the history of his regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. With more leisure time, he enjoyed his membership in the Arts and Letters Club, and the Bissells travelled more and spent longer periods at their summer home in Cape Breton.He died on 21 June 2000 in Toronto, and was survived by his widow, his daughter Deidre Macdonald, and three grandchildren.

Robert Harold Blackburn was born in Vegreville, Alberta on February 3, 1919. He graduated from the University of Alberta in 1941 with an M.A. and then enrolled at the Library School at the University of Toronto in 1941. He graduated with a Bachelor of Library Science degree in 1942. After service in the Royal Canadian Airforce, he worked for a year a the Calgary Public Library. He returned to the University of Toronto as Associate Librarian in 1947. In 1948 he received a M.S. degree from Columbia University. He was appointed University Librarian in 1954, succeeding W. Stewart Wallace. He retired as Librarian Emeritus in 1982.

Born August 14, 1900 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Died in Toronto November 26, 1981. Professor of Economics in the Department of Political Economy (1940-1969). Prof. Bladen joined the University of Toronto in 1921 as an instructor after graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. He became a professor in 1940. In addition to teaching and writing, Prof. Bladen held a number of administrative posts including director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (1946-1950), Director of the Institute of Business Administration (1950-1953) and chair of the Department of Political Economy (1953-1959). He was made Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science in 1959.His academic interests included Canadian economic affairs, industrial organization and the 'literature of political economy'. In 1961 he investigated the auto industry and his report resulted in the establishment of the Adjustment Assistance Board, which he headed for several years. In 1965 he headed the Royal Commission on Higher Education which predicted a mushrooming demand for university programs and recommended government aid to provide the needed facilities.He retired in 1969 and was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1976.

Hermann Boeschenstein, Professor of German at the University of Toronto, was born in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland on May 1, 1900. He attended the University of Zurich and pursued studies as well in Munich, Berlin, Kiel, Konigsberg and Rostock. At the University of Rostock he completed his doctorate with a thesis on the philosophy of J.P. Crousaz in 1924. The next two years were spent largely travelling including visiting Canada and travelling to the West coast. He returned to Switzerland in May 1928 and married his long time sweetheart, Elisabeth Schoch. By August, 1928, they set out for Toronto. He worked at the Banting Institute and University Library, and enrolled for philosophical studies with George Sidney Brett. While at the University he met Prof. G. H. Needler of the University College German Department who recognized Boeschenstein's potential and appointed him to the Department of German in 1930.During the second world war, Prof. Boeschenstein was on leave from the University to serve as the Director for Canada of the War Prisoners' Aid of the Y.M.C.A. One of his duties was to supply German prisoners of war in Canada with up-to-date reading material. On return to his duties at the University he was made a full professor in 1948.In 1956 Prof. Boeschenstein succeeded Barker Fairley as Head of the Department of German. He remained as head of the department until 1967. He continued his academic activities, taking on Visiting professorships at Zurich (1950), University College, London, England (1956), University of Chicago (1963, 1965), New York State University at Buffalo (1968), University of Waterloo (1968-1969), as well as others. He was editorial advisor for the "University of Toronto Quarterly" and also the Canadian-Australian periodical for German Studies, "Seminar". In June 1968 he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. During his career he was the author of nine books and more than 40 articles including a two volume history of German literature 1770-1830 titled "Deutsche Gefuhlskultur".He retired in 1970. He died at his home in Toronto on September 21, 1982.

Member of Governing Council, Chairman of Internal Affairs, University of Toronto, 1972-1973.

James Maurice Stockford Careless is one of Canada’s most distinguished English speaking historians. A professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of History since 1945, Dr. Careless has made significant contributions to Canadian historiography with his seminal works on George Brown, metropolitanism, and urban history.Born in Toronto February 17, 1919, Professor Careless graduated from the University of Toronto Schools in 1936. He then attended Trinity College, University of Toronto, where he received a B.A. in 1940. Professor C9 - )areless went on to graduate studies in history at Harvard University. There, he acquired an A.M. in 1941 and Ph.D. in 1950.During the Second World War, Dr. Careless served with the Canadian Naval Headquarters and the Department of External Affairs. In 1945, he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto as a Lecturer in the Department of History. Dr. Careless was appointed Assistant Professor in 1949, Associate Professor in 1954, full Professor in 1959 (Chairman of the History Department, 1959-1967), and University Professor in 1977. In this capacity, Dr. Careless taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Canadian, political, ethnic, urban and intellectual history. Dr. Careless was made University Professor Emeritus in 1984, Senior Fellow Emeritus of Massey College in 1985, Senior Research Associate at Victoria College in 1987, and Donald Creighton Lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1987.In addition to his responsibilities at the University of Toronto, Professor Careless has traveled and lectured in Canada, United States, Great Britain, Australia, India and Japan. He received the Rockefeller Award to Cambridge University in 1955-1956, the Carnegie Award to Australian universities in 1958, a visiting professorship to the University of Victoria in 1968-1969, and a Senior Research Fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1978.Dr. Careless is the author or co-author of numerous outstanding histories. Most notably, his work, Canada, A Story of Challenge, has been a standard one volume history of Canada for nearly four decades. In 1953, it won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. Similarly, his two volume biography, Brown of the Globe, remains the definitive treatment of Upper Canadian politician and journalist, George Brown. The book won the Governor General’s Award in 1963. Dr. Careless has also published many articles and reviews in both scholarly and popular journals.His many public services include: Member, Ontario Historic Sites Board, 1954-1975; Director, Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1975-1981; Trustee, Ontario Science Center, 1965-1973; Member, Ontario Commission on Post Secondary Education, 1969-1973; Chairman, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 1980-1985; and Chairman, Mult-Cultural History Society of Ontario, 1978-1988. In addition, Professor Careless served as co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review, 1948-1958, and as President of the Canadian Historical Association, 1968-1969. He also acted as advisor to the National Film Board’s historical series from 1961 to 1966 and to the National Museum of Man’s urban historical series from 1976 to 1982. In addition, Dr. Careless has contributed to various radio and television projects for the CBC and TVO.Professor Careless has received many honors and distinctions throughout his career. These include: the Governor General’s Award in 1953 and 1963; the University of British Columbia Medal for Biography in 1960; the Tyrrell Medal, Royal Society of Canada, in 1962; the Cruikshank Medal, Ontario Historical Society, in 1967; and the City of Toronto Awards in 1984 and 1985. He has also been made a Doctor of Laws or Letters from Laurentian University in 1979, Memorial University in 1981, University of Victoria in 1982, Royal Roads in 1983, McMaster University in 1983, University of New Brunswick in 1984 and University of Calgary in 1986. Professor Careless was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981 and the Order of Ontario in 1987. He also received the National Heritage Award in 1987.J. M. S. Careless married Elizabeth Isobel Robinson on December 31st 1940. The couple had five children. He died in 2009.

Secretary to Governing Council

Samuel Delbert "Del" Clark was a Canadian sociologist and professor in the Departments of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Toronto.Born in Lloydminster, Alberta, Clark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history in 1930 and a Master of Arts degree in 1931 from the University of Saskatchewan. From 1932 to 1933, he studied at the London School of Economics. In 1935, he received a Master of Arts degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of Toronto. In 1943, he was awarded a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.In 1938, he started teaching at the University of Toronto in the Department of Political Economy. Through his efforts, sociology gained respect from Canadian scholars who were initially skeptical of the discipline. On July 1, 1963, he led the founding of the Sociology department and served as its first chair until 1969. He retired in 1976, but taught for years as a Visiting Professor at a number of places, including Dalhousie University, Lakehead University, and the University of Edinburgh.As a sociologist, Clark became known for studies interpreting Canadian social development as a process of disorganization and re-organization on a series of economic frontiers. His scholarship won him acceptance at a time when Canadian academics were still skeptical of the new discipline of sociology. Under Clark’s direction, a series on the Social Credit movement produced 10 monographs by Canadian scholars. In the 1960s, Clark’s interest shifted to contemporary consequences of economic changes, especially suburban living and urban poverty.Clark’s publications – mainly books—include The Canadian Manufacturers Association (1939), The Social Development of Canada (1942), Church and Sect in Canada (1948), Movements of Political Protest in Canada (1959), The Developing Canadian Community (1962), The Suburban Society (1966), Canadian Society in Historical Perspective (1976) and The New Urban Poor (1978).Clark was elected president of the Canadian Political Science Association in 1958 and honorary president of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association in 1967. In 1978, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada as "social historian of international repute and, as one of our most distinguished scholars". A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he also served as its president from 1975 to 1976. He was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976. He was awarded the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1960. He received honorary degrees from the University of Calgary, Dalhousie University, Lakehead University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Manitoba, and the University of Toronto.In 1999, the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto instituted the endowed "S.D. Clark Chair" in his honour.Clark died in Toronto on 18 September 2003.

Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, known as Donald, was born on February 9 1907 in Kensington England to parents Harold Coxeter and Lucy Gee. At an early age, he demonstrated a high level of ability in both music and math. His father, realizing his son’s gifts, sought out the advice of the famous philosopher Bertrand Russell who introduced young Donald to mathematician E.H. Neville. At the advice of Neville, Coxeter left boarding school at the age of 15 and was tutored only in Math and German. He entered Cambridge in 1926 on scholarship and received his B.A. in 1929. He continued to study for his doctorate under Britain’s leading figure in geometry H.F. Baker and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1931. As a Fellow, he continued his research at Cambridge and for two years was a research visitor at Princeton working under Oswald Veblen. In 1936, Coxeter married Rien Brouwer of Holland and they set off together to Toronto where Coxeter accepted an appointment to the mathematical department at the University of Toronto. Toronto is where their life settled. They had two children Susan and Edgar.Coxeter was considered a leading mathematician and the greatest geometer of the 20th century. His contributions of fundamental importance have been in the Theory of Polytopes, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Discrete Group and Combinational Theory. Specifically, he is best known among mathematicians for discovering how shapes will behave in higher dimensions – now known as Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagrams. His influence has reached beyond the mathematics world. Coxeter’s work in non-euclidean geometry inspired the “Circle Limits I-IV” by the famous Dutch artist M.C. Escher with whom he shared a life-long friendship. Another strand of his thinking influenced theoretical physics in the area of relativistic quantum field theory. Coxeter numbers and diagrams are used in the study of elementary particle physics. Nobel winning chemists who discovered the Carbon 60 molecule were influenced by Coxeter’s work on iconsahedral symmetries. Over his expansive career, Coxeter published 12 books – at least four of them classics including Introduction to Geometry which first appeared in 1961 and has since seen many editions and has been translated into six languages. He also published over 200 articles and at various times acted as reviewer and referee. He was editor of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics for nearly a decade from 1948 to 1957. He served as president of the Canadian Mathematical Congress (1962-63), Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society, (1968) and president of the International Congress of Mathematicians, (1974). Coxeter was awarded numerous honorary degrees, was a fellow of the Royal Society of London (1950) and of the Royal Society of Canada (1947). In 1997 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.While Coxeter officially retired from the Department of Mathematics in 1980, as Professor Emeritus he continued his engagement with the mathematical world right up to his death. In July 2002 he gave an invited lecture at a conference in Budapest Hungary. H.S.M., “Donald”, Coxeter died in Toronto at the age of 96 on March 31 2003. He is survived by his two children Susan (Coxeter) Thomas and Edgar Coxeter and several grandchildren. A biography, entitled, The King of Infinite Space, Donald Coxeter and the Magical Omnipotence of Geometry is due to be published by Anansi in September 2006.

Dean, Faculty of Education, 1963-1973

Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Member, Search Committee for Director of the School of Architectural Design and Technology, University of Toronto.

Professor of Chinese, Dept. of East Asian Studies; Head of the Dept of East Asiatic Studies; Senior Fellow of Massey College

Professors of Philosophy, University of Toronto.

Thomas Anderson Goudge was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 19 January, 1910. His undergraduate years were spent at Dalhousie University, where he was president of the Arts Class of 1931, associate editor of the student newspaper, and full back of the Arts intramural football team. He was described in Pharos, the University yearbook, as a philosopher, litterateur, and artist; several of his articles were published in campus journals and his sketches illustrated the yearbook.He took his MA at Dalhousie in 1932, and the following year entered his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, majoring in modern philosophy under G. S. Brett. In 1934 he was appointed interim lecturer in philosophy at Waterloo College, University of Western Ontario. In 1935, he was a fellow and assistant in Philosophy at Queen's University. In 1936-1937 a fellowship from the Royal Society of Canada enabled him to spend a year at Harvard, where he continued his research on the theory of knowledge of the American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, whose Collected Papers had just been published. His research paper, "The theory of knowledge in C. S. Peirce," written in the summer of 1936, became his doctoral thesis on his return to Toronto.By the time Goudge received his doctorate in May of 1937, he had published three scholarly papers. He accepted an appointment at Queen's for the academic year 1937-38, when Professor Vlastos, with whom he had worked earlier, was on leave. In 1938 he was offered a lectureship in philosophy at the University of Toronto and never left, despite attempts by other institutions to lure him away. In 1964 he was appointed chair of the department. On his retirement in 1976, he was appointed professor emeritus. He remained actively involved in his discipline until the end of the 1980s, when Alzheimer's disease began to take its toll.Professor Goudge became appreciated quickly for the clarity and probity of his writings and was soon recognized as an outstanding scholar. He made important contributions in two areas of philosophy -- the thought of C. S. Peirce and the philosophy of biology, on which he wrote numerous articles and two books, The Thought of C. S. Peirce (1950) and The Ascent of Life (1961). He was also much sought after as a speaker, both at academic events and more informal gatherings. Following Professor Goudge's retirement, his colleagues honoured him in a festschrift, Pragmatism and Purpose: essays presented to Thomas A. Goudge (1981).

Professor, Dept. of Political Economy, University of Toronto.

William Thomas (Tom) James Easterbrook was a professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Economy from 1961-1970.He was born in 1907 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1933 from the University of Manitoba. Five years later, he earned his Doctorate in Economics from the University of Toronto. He taught for a time at Brandon College, earning a Guggenheim fellowship for his research into the economic history of the Pacific Northwest, before joining the University of Toronto faculty in 1947.Easterbrook wrote a number of books including Canadian Economic History, a textbook that he co-authored with Hugh Aitken; Farm Credit in Canada; and Approaches to Canadian Economic History, a work he co-authored with Mel Watkins. Easterbrook was also Chairman of the Department of Political Economy during an important period in its history. According to Stefan Dupré, who succeeded Easterbrook as chair of the Department from 1971 to 1974 [1], “[D]uring his decade from 1961 to 1970 as head of the family, [Easterbrook] literally created the modern Department of Political Economy, both in size and in scope.” [2] In addition to leading the Department during a time of rapid growth, Easterbrook was partly responsible for the creation of the Institute for Policy Analysis.Easterbrook died in March 1985. He left behind a daughter, Jane, and two sons, Michael and Joel. Hs wife, Mary, predeceased him.[3]

Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto.

Professor Emeritus of Nursing, University of Toronto.

Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Studies; Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.Professor Bernard Etkin was born in Toronto, May 7 1918. He graduated from the University of Toronto in Engineering Physics (B.A.Sc.) in 1941 and was appointed a lecturer in 1942. In 1947, he graduated with an M.A.Sc in Aeronautical Engineering and rose through the ranks becoming full Professor in 1957. He was one of the founding staff members of Institute of Aerospace Studies (IAS), originally called Institute of Aerophysics, and, although he retired from the teaching staff in 1983, he has continued to teach and conduct research as University Professor Emeritus. He designed many of the courses that he taught, some of which were the first of this type to be given in Canada. His lectures in Flight Dynamics resulted in the publication of three editions of a book on this subject for which he is perhaps best known. Etkin also served many administrative roles including chair of Engineering Science (1967-1972) and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (1973-1979).Along side his academic career, Etkin also worked as a consultant to industry and government. During the war years and in the early 1950s, Etkin was also employed and later consulted for several Canadian aircraft firms including de Havilland, Victory Aircraft and A.V.Roe, Found Brothers, Orenda Engines and Avro Aircraft. He was involved in the design, production and/or testing of the following airplanes: DHC Tiger Moth, Hornet Moth, Mosquito, Harvard trainer; Avro Anson, Avro Lancaster, Avro CF 100 Fighter; Avro C102 jet transport, York transport, CF 105 Arrow; DHC Sparrow glider and UofT Loudon glider. For many years, he was also an active consultant to the U.S. and Canadian governments often with the Defence Research Board of Canada and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Much of his consultant work was done as a member of the Aerospace Engineering Research Consultants (AERCOL) that included many of the professors at IAS.His research interests have been broad and have reached beyond the field of Aerodynamics. Many of his publications deal with topics in aircraft structure, wing theory, shock waves, stability and control of aircraft, satellites and re-entry vehicles, aerosonics, air curtains and aerodynamics of small particles. He was responsible for the design of the subsonic wind tunnel and managed all aspects of its funding, construction and installation. His research resulted in significant contributions to the aerodynamic theory of supersonic wings, flight dynamics and flight in turbulent winds as well as to space flight in the area of spin decay of satellites and gravity-gradient stabilization. He has several patents in his name including the Tervel separator – an aerodynamic particle separator – and an air curtain fume cabinet.Professor Etkin has been honoured with many medals and awards. In 2003, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and most recently was given the Engineering Alumni Medal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He continued to reside in Toronto with his wife Maya and to be a mentor to students and faculty at the Institute of Aerospace Studies, until his death on June 26, 2014.

John Robert Evans was born in Toronto on 1 October 1929. He attended the University of Toronto Schools from 1939 to 1946 and then studied medicine at the University of Toronto, from which he graduated with an MD in 1952. Awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for Ontario in 1952, he went to Oxford University where he earned his D.Phil in 1955. Between 1955 and 1961 he did post-graduate training and research in internal medicine and cardiology in London, England, Toronto and at Harvard University. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and in 1960 a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.From 1961 to 1965 he was an associate in the Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a physician at the Toronto General Hospital. In 1965, at the age of 35, he was appointed founding dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McMaster University and Vice-President (Health Sciences). “His recruitment efforts produced a stellar cast of educators who moved the school immediately into the vanguard of advanced medical education and the effective application of clinical epidemiology. Under his leadership, the new school was fertile ground for pioneering work in patient-centred curriculum and innovative problem-based learning, a cumulative integrated, progressive, consistent strategy now refined and used in the world’s most prestigious medical schools” [1].In 1972 Dr. Evans left McMaster to succeed Claude Bissell as President of the University of Toronto, a position he held until 1978. His tenure occurred during a time of increasing financial restraint and began with the report of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario, to which he responded with his own predictions, “naming public accountability and participation in civil society as issues that would mark the future of public higher education” [2]. In 1978 he stood as the Liberal candidate in a federal by-election in Rosedale in Toronto but was defeated by David Crombie.Dr. Evans work had already attracted international attention, and in 1979 he was commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation to head its Commission on the Future of Schools of Public Health, for which he produced an international study of public health and population-based medicine. This led, a few months later, to his joining the World Bank as founding director of its Population, Health and Nutrition Department. Over the course of the next four years, he was “instrumental in introducing broader concepts in health determinants, setting a direction that lead to fundamental contributions to health programs in underdeveloped countries and hearteningly notable changes in infant mortality” [3].In 1982 Dr. Evans joined the board of the Rockefeller Foundation and served as its chair from 1987 to 1995, the first Canadian to do so.In 1983 Dr. Evans joined Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario, as chair and CEO, a position he held until 1990. As such, he established Canada’s first biotechnology company, creating a model for the country’s biotechnology industry. Since 2000 he hasbeen vice-chair of NPS-Allelix Biopharmaceuticals. He has also served as chairman of the board of Torstar (1993-2005), and chairman of the board of Alcan Aluminium Ltd. (1996-2002). In 1997 he was appointed the first chair of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, an independent corporation established by the Government of Canada. He was a moving force behind the creation of the Medical and Related Science Research District in Toronto (MaRS) and is its first chair (from 2000). From 2003 to 2005 he chaired the Ontario Cancer Research Network, and from 2005 has been chair of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR). From 1990 to 2000 he was chair of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation. Dr. Evans is, one of his colleagues has argued, “the most connected person in Canada.” [4]Dr. Evans expertise has been widely sought in the fields of medicine and public health. He has chaired the National Biotechnology Advisory Committee of Canada, the Ontario Premier’s Health Review Panel, the International Commission on Health Research for Development (1997-1998), the African Medical Research Foundation – Canada, and the Pew Charitable Trusts Program Advisory Committees on International Health Policy and Global Stewardship Initiatives (1988-1994). He was a member of the Council for the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Science, the World Health Organization’s Advisory Committee on Medical Research, and the federal Pepin-Robarts Commission on National Unity. He was a member of the Hospital for Sick Children’s Foundation and the Alberta Premier’s Council on Health. He served on the board of MDS from 1989 to 2005.Dr. Evans has been the recipient of many honours. These include several honorary degrees from Canadian universities (for example, LLD, University of Toronto 1980; LLD, University of Calgary 1996), Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and Universiteit Maastricht. He was also elected Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford, the London School of Hygiene and the Royal College of Physicians (London). In 1978 he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada and to the Order of Ontario in 1991. The following year the Gardner Foundation gave him its Wightman Award and in 2000 he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In 2001 he and his wife, Gay Glassco, were jointly honoured by the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. In 2002 he received the F.N.G. Starr Award from the Canadian Medical Association and was honoured when the John R. Evans Chair in Health Sciences Educational Research was established at McMaster University. In 2005 he was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame and in 2007 he was awarded the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.Dr. Evans died at his home of Parkinson’s disease on Feb. 13 2015, at the age of 85NOTES1. ‘F.N.G. Starr Award’, installation ceremonies and awards program, Canadian Medical Association (135 annual meeting, 21 August 2002, Saint John, NB).2. Ibid.3. Ibid.4. Personal communication to the compiler of this finding aid.Obituary in the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-humble-man-of-many-talents-john-evans-reinvented-medical-education/article23349905/

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Professor, Dept. of English, University of Toronto.

Donald Forster was a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Vice President and Provost, and President-Elect at the time of his death in 1983.He studied political science and economics at the University of Toronto (BA 1956 UC), where he later joined the faculty as a lecturer in political economy, after completing an MA at Harvard in 1958. He assumed increasingly important administrative roles at the University, culminating in his service as Vice-President and Provost of U of T from 1972 to 1975. Thereafter he served as President and Vice-Provost of the University of Guelph from 1975-1983.In 1983, he was elected President of the University of Toronto, but sadly died of a heart attack just 23 days before he was due to take office. In addition to his contributions to higher education, he was a member of the Economic Council of Canada and served as an advisor to several governments in the developing world.

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Botany, University of Toronto.

Martin Lawrence Friedland was born in Toronto in 1932. He was educated at the University of Toronto, first in commerce and finance (BCom 1955). He was a member of the Commerce Club, the Hart House Music Committee and Hillel, was successively 3rd year president and president of the University College Literary and Athletic Society, and a champion debater. He also played squash and water polo and was a member of the 1954 champion senior intercollegiate water polo team. He then studied law (LLB 1958), where he was the gold medallist in his graduating year. He took his graduate training at Cambridge University, from which he received his PhD in 1967.Professor Friedland’s career has embraced several areas where he has utilized his knowledge of commerce and finance as well as of law. He has been a university professor and administrator, a shaper of public policy in Canada through his involvement with provincial and federal commissions, committees and task forces, and is an author of international standing.Professor Friedland was called to the Ontario Bar in 1960. His contribution to the formation of public policy in Canada began with his earliest research, a study of gambling in Ontario (1961). Over the next few years his work as a legal associate, consultant, and committee member helped shape the Ontario Securities Act (1965), the Ontario Legal Aid Act (1966), the Ontario Regional Detention Centres Act (1967) and the Ontario Provincial Courts Act (1968). As a member of the Federal Task Force on the Canadian Corporations Act (1967-1968), Professor Friedland contributed to the Canadian Business Corporations Act that was finally passed in 1974.In 1971 he was appointed a full-time commissioner of the Law Reform Commission of Canada, serving only one year before returning to Toronto as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. His study on access to the law was published in 1975 and he continued to do work for the Commission into the 1980s, especially on national security and criminal codification. In the 1990s he contributed to the discussion on the formation of a new Law Commission.In 1975 Professor Friedland served as a consultant to the Solicitor General of Canada’s Task Force on Gun Control and authored a background study on the subject. He has retained his interest and involvement in the issue as it unfolded in the 1990s and beyond. Appointed in 1977 to hear cases under the Ontario Human Rights Act, he sat on a number of boards of inquiry until 1995, when his contract was not renewed. From 1978 to 1980 he was a consultant to the McDonald Commission during its enquiry into the activities of the RCMP and national security, for which he prepared another background study. The result was the Canadian Security and Intelligence Act of 1984.In the 1980s he served as a consultant to the Canadian Sentencing Commission and to the Law Reform Commission of Canada. The principal issues he addressed were the sentencing structure, a review of the Criminal Code, and offences against public order. In 1987-1988 he chaired the Ontario Task Force on the controversial issues of inflation protection for employment pension plans. Though legislation was introduced, the report was not, in the end, implemented. In 1989 he took part in the Royal Society of Canada’s study on tobacco, nicotine and addiction and began serving part-time on the Ontario Securities Commission (until 1991).In 1992 the Canadian Judicial Council commissioned Professor Friedland to undertake a study of judicial independence and accountability in Canada; the report was issued in 1995. He also served as a consultant to the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces in Somalia (1995-1997). Beginning in 1996, a series of contracts with the office of Attorney General of Ontario enabled him to participate in the review of a “range of policy issues that were being debated in the department. These included issues relating to a possible court services agency and questions concerning the devolution of a number of criminal justice matters to other bodies, including devolution of responsibility for the Provincial Offences Act to municipalities.” In addition, his involvement in departmental roundtable discussions and the Crown Policy Manual Review Committee provided insights into the high-profile legal cases of Guy Paul Morin and Paul Bernardo, and issues arising there from, including “jail-house confessions and forensic laboratories”. In July 1997, at the request of the Ontario Legal Aid Review Committee, he submitted a study on the governance of the Ontario Legal Aid Plan, and in 1998 he served as a consultant to the Ontario Criminal Justice Review.Since 2001 and the emphasis on security, Professor Friedland’s experiences from his work with the McDonald Commission has led to participation in a number of workshops and conferences relating to terrorism. The federal Department of Justice asked him to examine and prepare a critical analysis of the government’s proposed anti-terrorism legislation. In 2005 he served as a consultant on the policy aspects of the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. In 2009 he was appointed a member of the Legal Aid Ontario Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice.While carrying out these public duties, Professor Friedland established an impressive record as an academic. His career began at the Osgoode Hall Law School in 1961 but in 1965 he returned to his alma mater as an associate professor in the Faculty of Law. He was promoted to full professor in 1968 and dean in 1972, a position he held for seven years. During his sabbatical in 1979-1980 he was Visiting Professor successively at the faculties of law in the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, and at the Institute of Criminology at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. In 1984 he was cross-appointed to the Centre of Criminology and made a University Professor in 1985. He was a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and from 1986 to 1989 was director of its Law and Society Program. He served as acting dean of the Faculty of Law in 1995 and retired in 1998.Professor Friedland has played a very active role in university governance. He was elected a member of the President’s Council in 1969, the same year that he began chairing the Commission on University Government Programming Committee. This committee reviewed the University of Toronto’s governing structure; the result was the replacement of the bicameral system (Board of Governors and Senate) with the unicameral Governing Council. In the 1960s and the 1970s he served on other committees, including the Human Experimentation Committee (1965-1970), the Presidential Tenure Review hearings (chair, 1973-1975), the Governing Council (1974-1976) and the Research Board (1973-1976). From 1978 to 2008 he was a member (chair from 1995) of the manuscript review committee of the University of Toronto Press and from 1992 to 2007 a member of its Board of Directors.In the 1980s Professor Friedland was a member of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Governing Council (1982-1983), of the Board of Directors of the University Settlement House (1982-1988), and chair of the Provost’s Committee on the Department of Architecture (1984). He has been a senior fellow of Massey College since 1985 and in 1991 served on the Presidential Commission on Conflicts of Interest. In 1995 he served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law. Currently (since 2007) he has chaired the University’s Grievance Review Panel.Professor Friedland has been much sought after as a public speaker and is a prolific author. “Many of his writings have been cited and relied upon in legal research and judicial decisions throughout the common law world.” He has published over fifty articles and chapters in books, beginning with several, while still an undergraduate, in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. These reflect his interest in such subjects as law reform, legal history, access to the law, gun control, and judicial independence. He has also published eighteen books.His first book, "Detention before trial", a study of the bail system in Canada, appeared in 1965. It marked the first time a professor of law in Canada had gathered empirical evidence on the workings of the justice system and it led directly to the Bail Reform Act of 1971.Professor Friedland’s second book, "Double jeopardy" (1969), was based on his doctoral thesis. "Courts and trials" (1975), an interdisciplinary series of lectures given in 1972-1973, was designed to show the link between professionalism and the academic study of law. "Access to the law" (also 1975), prepared for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, was written as a first step in making the law accessible to non-lawyers. His interest in law reform also resulted in "A century of criminal justice: perspectives on the development of Canadian law" (1984), which ranged beyond law reform to include various issues on criminal justice. "National security: the legal dimensions" (also 1984) arose from his involvement with the McDonald Commission.A Canadian Institute for Advanced Research project that began in 1985 produced three studies. "Sanctions and rewards in the legal system" resulted from papers given at a 1986 symposium. The specific issues, ranging from tax compliance to family violence and prostitution, from the second stage of the project were written up as "Regulating traffic safety" (with Professor Friedland as a co-author) and "Securing compliance: seven case studies", both of which appeared in 1990.Professor Friedland’s casebook, "Cases and materials on criminal law and procedure", first appeared in September, 1967. Between then and 2004 University of Toronto Press and Emond Montgomery have put out nine editions. Another volume emanating from the University of Toronto was "Rough justice: essays on crime in literature". It began as a seminar organized with the Department of English in 1986. The material was polished in later seminars and the book appeared in 1991.Professor Friedland has also written three true crime books. "The Trials of Israel Lipski" (1984), about a Polish Jew hanged for murder in London in 1887, won the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Non-fiction and piqued the interest of filmmakers. An early twentieth century Canadian trial is featured in "The Case of Valentine Shortis" (1986). It, too, had film potential, but the untimely death of the National Film Board’s proposed director derailed the project. "The death of Old Man Rice" (1994), about the 1902 trial for the murder of the founder of Rice University, added an American component to Professor Friedland’s crime stories; it also aroused considerable interest. One of his current projects is researching a fourth murder mystery, based in India.His two latest books on legal issues are "A place apart: judicial independence and accountability in Canada" (1995), prepared for the Canadian Judicial Council, and "Controlling misconduct in the military" (1997), a study commissioned by the Somalia Inquiry. The former led to Professor Friedland going to Beijing in 2000 to give a seminar on judicial ethics as a part of the Canada-China Senior Judges training program, and parts of the book have been translated into Chinese. Professor Friedland’s most recent major writing project has been "The University of Toronto: A history", the first university history in seventy-five years, which appeared in 2002 and which was awarded three prizes, the Toronto Heritage Award, the Floyd S Chalmers Award, and the J.J. Talman Award. More recently he has worked on a project, tentatively titled "Criminal justice in Canada revisited", which ended up as his memoirs, "My life in crime and other academic adventures" (2007). One of the many spin-offs from his writing the history of the University of Toronto is his introductory essay to Larry Richards’ "The University of Toronto: an architectural tour" (2009).In recognition of his many services to his profession and his country, Professor Friedland has been the recipient of numerous honours. He was appointed federal Queen’s Council in 1975 and elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. In 1985 he received the Canadian Association of Law Teachers and Law Reform Commission of Canada Award for an “outstanding contribution to legal research and law reform.” In 1987 he received the Alumni Faculty Award from the University of Toronto. Two honours followed in 1990, Officer of the Order of Canada and the David W. Mundell Medal for “distinguished contributions to Letters and Law.” Two more followed in 1994, the Canadian Bar Association’s Raymond John Hnatshyn Award for an “outstanding contribution to the law and legal scholarship in Canada,” and the Criminal Law Association’s G. Arthur Martin Criminal Justice Award. In 1995 he received the Canadian Council’s Molson Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences for “outstanding achievements and exceptional contribution to the enrichment of the cultural life of Canada.” In 1996, in recognition of his academic and administrative achievements, he was named the first James Marshall Tory Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He received an LLD from Cambridge University in 1997, and LLDs (honorary) from the University of Toronto in 2001 and York University in 2003. Also in 2003 he was the recipient of the Royal Society of Canada’s Sir John William Dawson Medal. In 2004 he was inducted as a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 2009 he received a Bachelor of Applied Arts (honorary) from Humber College.Professor Friedland lives in Toronto. His wife, Judith, Professor Emeritus, Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, has written a history of occupational therapy in Canada.

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Geology, University of Toronto.

Herman Northrop Frye (1912–1991) was an internationally recognized literary scholar and academic. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the son of Herman Edward Frye and Catherine Maud Howard. He married Helen Kemp in 1937. Two years after her death in 1986 he married Elizabeth Brown. He died in Toronto, Ontario.Frye spent his childhood in Quebec and New Brunswick. His primary and secondary education in Moncton, New Brunswick, was followed by a business training-course. In 1929 he entered Victoria College, Victoria University at the University of Toronto. He graduated in 1933 in the Honour Course in Philosophy and English. He then studied theology at Emmanuel College, Victoria University, and was ordained to Ministry of the United Church of Canada in 1936. He attended Merton College, Oxford, England from 1936 to 1937 and from 1938 to 1939. He graduated with first class honours in the English School and received an Oxford M.A. in 1940.In 1939 Frye joined the Department of English at Victoria College as a Lecturer. He became Assistant Professor in 1942, Associate Professor in 1946, Professor in 1947, Chairman of the Department of English at Victoria College in 1952, and Principal of Victoria College in 1959. In 1967 he retired as Principal and became University Professor at the University of Toronto. He continued to teach as Professor of English at Victoria College. From 1978 until his death he was Chancellor of Victoria University.Frye lectured at over one hundred universities in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, Australia and the former Soviet Union. He taught a full term or a summer session at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Indiana, Washington, British Columbia, Cornell, Berkeley and Oxford. He gave many special lectures for endowed lecture series. During his career he received numerous awards and honourary degrees, including Companion of the Order of Canada (1972), the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction for Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1987) and the Mondello Prize (1990) in Italy for his lifetime dedication to literature.Frye edited fifteen books, contributed essays and chapters to over sixty others and published over one hundred articles and reviews, including: Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947), Anatomy of Criticism (1957), The Well-Tempered Critic (1963), The Educated Imagination (1963), T.S. Eliot (1963), Fables of Identity (1963), A Natural Perspective (1965), The Return of Eden (1965), Fools of Time (1967), The Modern Century (1967), A Study of English Romanticism (1968), The Stubborn Structure (1970), The Bush Garden (1971), The Critical Path (1971), The Secular Scripture (1976), Spiritus Mundi (1976), Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature (1978), Creation and Recreation (1980), The Great Code (1982), Divisions on a ground (1982), The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare’s Comedies (1983), Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986), No Uncertain Sounds (1988), Northrop Frye on Education (1988), Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974–1988 (1990), Words with Power (1990), Reading the World-Selected Writings, 1935–1976 (1990), The Double Vision (1991), and A World in Grain and Sand: Twenty-two interviews with Northrop Frye (1991).

Assistant Dean and Secretary, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.

Director, Institute of Business Administration, University of Toronto 1953-1960

Georges Maximilien Antoine Grube, Classicist, Trinity College professor, and active member in the C.C.F. and N.D.P., was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 3 August 1899, the son of Antoine and Marie Reiners. At the beginning of the Great War in 1914 he immigrated to England where he attended King Edward's High School, Birmingham. He served briefly with the Belgian army towards the end of the war and after the cessation of hostilities he acted as an interpreter to British forces in Belgium. He completed his education at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A. in classics in 1922 and a M.A. in 1925. It is perhaps by this time that he started generally using the name George Maximilian Antony Grube. He became a naturalized British subject on 25 January 1924, and on 7 August he married in London Gwenyth Deen Macintosh, a fellow graduate in classics at Cambridge.After four years as a lecturer at the University College of Swansea, Wales, George Grube came to Toronto in 1928 to take the position of Professor of Classics at Trinity College. He acted as head of the Depart¬ment of Classics at Trinity College from 1932 to 1965 and as head of the Graduate Department of Classics at the University of Toronto from 1951 to 1966. He retired from Trinity College in 1968, but was re-appointed as a special lecturer during 1968-69 and became emeritus professor of classics in 1969.As a classical scholar, G.M.A. Grube is best known as author of <i>Plato's Thought </i>(1935), <i>The Drama of Euripedes </i>(1941), <i>A Greek Critic: Demetrius on Style </i>(1961), and <i>The Greek and Roman Critics </i>(1965), and as translator of Plato's <i>The Republic </i>(1974), a work that continues to be widely used. He also published over 30 articles in various scholarly journals. He was also involved in public affairs; a founding members of the League for Social Reconstruction, he served as president of the Toronto branch in 1934-35, and he was managing editor of the <i>Canadian Forum</i> from 1937 to 1941. His interest in both cultural and political affairs found further scope in writing political pamphlets and in making frequent contributions to the <i>Canadian Forum</i> and the <i>New Commonwealth</i>. He was also a member of the Toronto Labour Council and of the Civil Liberties Association of Toronto.Grube became a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.) in 1934; he was elected as the first Ontario vice-president and served as president in the 1940s, was a member of the C.C.F. National Council, and president of the C.C.F. in Ontario. He was elected to serve as trustee for Ward 1 to the Toronto Board of Education in 1942 and 1943. He was the C.C.F. candidate in the riding of Toronto Broadview in the general elections of 1940, 1945, and 1950, but was not successful. In 1961 he was co-chairman of the founding convention of the N.D.P. He wrote numerous articles and pamphlets on the C.C.F. and the N.D.P.Grube was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1951. His book, <i>The Greek and Roman Critics</i>, was winner of the American Philological Association's Award of Merit in 1965. After his retirement he was honoured with a festschrift, "Studies Presented to G.M.A. Grube on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday," published in <i>Phoenix</i> in Spring 1969. In 1973 he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Victoria and in 1977 was awarded the Canada Coronation Medal. G.M.A. Grube died in Toronto on 13 December 1982.

James M. Ham, the 10th President of the University of Toronto, first came to the University as a student of Electrical Engineering in 1939. It was a role in which he excelled, graduating in 1943 with the highest marks ever awarded to a student in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. His achievements were recognized with several awards including the Engineering Institute of Canada Prize and the British Association for the Advancement of Science Medal. He spent the remainder of the war in the Royal Canadian Navy and then returned to the University to be a lecturer at the Ajax Campus for 1945-46. He again left the University in September 1946 to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he specialized in computer control. He graduated with his Science Masters in 1947 and his Science Doctorate in 1952. During his time at M.I.T., he held various research fellowships and designed a combined analogue computer. After spending a year teaching as an Assistant Professor, he returned to the University of Toronto as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering where he was responsible for teaching and researching feedback control systems, an area of study vital to automation and automatic control.He rose through the ranks quickly, becoming full professor in 1959, head of the department in 1964, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering in 1966, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in 1976 and finally President in 1978. During his five-year term as President, he oversaw a University coping with the first real constraint on public funding in decades. At a time when the role of the University was under public scrutiny and questioning, Ham was a relentless advocate for the University as a place of knowledge. His philosophical bent meant that he supported a liberal arts education against the growing trend in professional schools. Universities were not “in the business of preparing students for jobs but for careers... The nation is dependent on the quality of imagination and understanding brought to bear on the whole human adventure...” This he stressed in an interview with a Globe and Mail reporter in 1981.Apart from his formidable administrative career at the University of Toronto, Ham was active in many professional engineering associations. Early in his career, he established and chaired the first five years of the National Research Council, Associate Committee on Automatic Control (1959-1964). He also served on the N.R.C. Executive Committee (1969-1974). During the Engineering Centennial of Canada, his expertise was sought out to chair a Technical Program Committee (1985-1987). After his term as President of the University, he was busy founding the Canadian Academy of Professional Engineers, for which he served in the positions of Vice-President (1988-1989) and President (1990-1991). This active involvement speaks to both his dedication to and influence on the engineering profession in Canada.Ham’s expertise and knowledge was not exclusively applied to university administration or engineering associations. His appointment as Chairman to the Royal Commission on Health and Safety of Workers in Mines, (1974-1976), opened up new avenues of interest. After submitting, what was then considered a groundbreaking critical report on mine safety, his services were sought by various government bodies. These include, to name only a few:Chair, Industrial Disease Standards Panel, Ministry of Labour, Ontario (1985-87); Member, Advisory Committee Ontario Nuclear Safety Review, 1987-1988; Member, Technical Advisory Panel on Nuclear Safety, Ontario Hydro 1990-1993. It was his work in this field that led him to take up a Fellowship at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. to do a comparative study on public policy with respect of health and safety in Canada and the United States. Due to Ham’s failing health, the book based on his research was never completed.Dr. James M. Ham was recognized for his contributions to higher education, the engineering profession and his public service by being given several honorary degrees and public awards. In 1980 he was made an officer of the Order of Canada. James Ham died of complications from Parkinson’s disease September 16 1997 at the age of 76. At his funeral service, Professor Emeritus Gordon Slemon noted that “Jim Ham has been a leader in Canadian Engineering. He has made a difference. He will be missed.”

Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toronto.

Chairman, Governing Council, University of Toronto.

Dr. Robin Harris graduated from his B.A. in English Language Literature in 1941 and his M.A. in English in 1947 from the University of Toronto. After completing his Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of Michigan, he returned to Toronto to teach in the Department of English. Over the next 30 years, he held various administrative and academic posts including Director of the President's Committee on Policy and Planning, 1959-62, Principal of University College, 1963-1971 and Professor of Higher Education, 1964-1985. The post for which perhaps he is best know is that of University Historian, to which he was appointed in 1971 by President Bissell. Prof. Harris retired as Professor Emeritus in 1985.

Acting Chairman, Board of Governors; Vice-Chairman, Governing Council, University of Toronto.

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Toronto.

Professor of political science in the Dept. of Political Economy, University of Toronto (1942-1973)

Vice Chairman, Governing Council, University of Toronto.

One of Canada's most prominent astronomers and a world authority on globular clusters, Helen Sawyer Hogg is also credited with helping to popularize the science of astronomy and for providing an important role model for women in the Physical Sciences.Born Helen Battles Sawyer on August 1, 1905 in Lowell, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a banker and schoolteacher from Dunstable, Massachusetts. She attended public school in Lowell and in 1922 she entered Mount Holyoke College, earning an A.B. (Magna cum Laude) in 1926. It was here that she was influenced by the inspirational teachings of Anne Sewell Young, who in no small measure helped to forge her interest in astronomy. It was also at Mount Holyoke she met another major figure in women's astronomy, Annie J. Cannon who was visiting from the Harvard College Observatory. Helen was later offered a Harvard College fellowship to pursue graduate work on globular star clusters where she worked under the leading expert in the field, Harlow Shapley. She obtained her A.M. from Radcliffe in 1928, earned her Ph.D. from the same institution in 1931 and continued to specialize in globular clusters throughout her professional life.She met her first husband, Frank Scott Hogg, a Canadian graduate student, at the Harvard Observatory and was married in 1930. In 1929 Frank Hogg received the first doctorate in astronomy awarded by Harvard College and Helen Hogg's own Ph.D. was only the third accorded by Radcliffe College, its women's college affiliate. In 1931, Frank Hogg accepted an appointment at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria B.C., then under the directorship of J.S. Plaskett. She followed her husband, continuing her research at the observatory, first as an unpaid volunteer and later with the help of foundation grants.In 1935, Frank Hogg accepted a position at the University of Toronto with the David Dunlap Observatory, which was to have its formal opening that year. Initially Helen Hogg once again worked as an unpaid volunteer until receiving an appointment as a research assistant with the University in 1936. She continued to teach at the University and work at the observatory for the following four decades. Frank Hogg became director of the observatory in 1946, a position he held until his death at age 46 in 1951. Career advancement came more rapidly following the death of her husband and Helen Hogg attained the standing of professor with the university in 1957, became research professor in 1974 and professor emeritus in 1976.She interrupted her work at the University twice throughout her career. The first was as Acting Chairman of the Astronomy Department at Mount Holyoke College in 1940-41. The second time was in 1955-1956 when she spent an academic year in Washington as Program Director for Astronomy at the National Science Foundation.Apart from her responsibilities at the University, Dr. Hogg was very active in numerous academic and astronomy associations. Among the many important positions she held were: president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1957-1959); first woman president of the Physical Sciences section of the Royal Society of Canada (1960-1961); president of the Royal Canadian Institute (1964-1965); founding president of the Canadian Astronomical Society (1971-1972). Outside her academic milieu, her leadership was recognized when she was appointed one of the first two women directors of Bell Telephone Company of Canada (1968-1978). She also served on the Advisory Committee of Science and Medicine for EXPO 1967.When her husband Frank Hogg died suddenly in 1951, Dr. Hogg took over the writing of a weekly column "With the Stars" which he had been producing for the Toronto Star. For the next thirty years, she faithfully churned out the column which would provide her with the basis for her popular science work "The Stars Belong to Everyone" (1976). Together, the book and the column, along with a TV Ontario series on astronomy in 1970, established her as one of Canada's best-known popular astronomers. In 1983, Dr. Hogg was the first Canadian to receive the Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for her work in public education, whose past recipients include Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan.In addition to her work in popular astronomy, Dr. Hogg was also a recognized expert in the study of globular clusters, an area of research on which she published over a hundred articles, including several editions of "A Catalogue of Variable Stars in Globular Clusters". In 1972, an International Astronomical Union Colloquium was held in honour of her life work in this field. Another area, which drew her interest, was the history of astronomy on which she was also widely published.Throughout her lengthy career, she received numerous honours, awards and medals including the Annie J. Cannon Prize (American Astronomical Society 1950); the Rittenhouse Medal (< biblio >); the Sandford Fleming Medal (Royal Canadian Institute 1985). In 1967 she was invested into the Order of Canada and in 1976 she attained the Order's highest level when she was made a Companion of the Order, an honour accorded to only 150 Canadians at any one time. She received honorary degrees from Mount Holyoke (1958), University of Waterloo (1962), McMaster University (1976), University of Toronto (1977), Saint Mary's University (1981) and University of Lethbridge (1985). She has had two telescopes dedicated to her: one at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa (1987), the other at the University of Toronto Southern Observatory in Chile (1992). Asteroid 2917 was named Sawyer Hogg in 1984. In 1985 the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada established the annual Helen Sawyer Hogg lectureship in her honour.Intertwined with her career was Dr. Hogg's devotion to her family and friends, an aspect well documented within her personal papers. When she died at the age of 88 on January 28 1993, she was survived by three children, seven grand children and four great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her first husband Frank Hogg and her second husband Dr. F.E.L. Priestly, whom she had married in 1985.

Dean Emeritus, Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto.Norman Hughes earned his Bachelor of Pharmacy (PhmB) degree from the University of Toronto in 1929, a second Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from Purdue University in 1940, and a Master’s degree in physiology from the University of Toronto in 1944.In 1938 Norman Hughes joined the teaching faculty of the Ontario College of Pharmacists, the body that provided pharmacy undergraduate education in Ontario until 1953. He served as assistant dean of the Ontario College of Pharmacists School from 1948 to 1950 and as dean of the School in 1952. He was instrumental in moving the BScPhm program from the College to the University of Toronto in 1953, at which time the Faculty of Pharmacy was created. He was the Faculty’s first dean and served in this position until his retirement in 1973

Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman was a Canadian academic, oceanographer, and fisheries biologist. He is best known for his research on Atlantic salmon and inventing the fast freezing of fish fillets in 1929.He was born in Tintern, Ontario, on 23 November 1883 and died at his summer residence in St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick on 8 August 1973.Huntsman received a BA from University College at the University of Toronto in 1905 and an MB in 1907, having entered the new program in biological physical sciences which combined courses in arts and medicine. After his fourth year in 1904, he was taken on as a class assistant by Professor B.A. Bensley and spent his summers at the Georgian Bay Biological Station at Go Home Bay, where he studied the development of young bass and which gave him a good grounding in biological research.Huntsman’s first academic appointment was lecturer in biology at the University of Toronto in 1907. He spent the summers of 1908 and 1909 at the new Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo and rose to be professor of marine biology (without salary) in 1927, with students both in biology and botany.In 1911 the Biological Board of Canada, with A. B. Macallum as its secretary and supported by Ramsay Wright, appointed him curator and in 1919 director of the Atlantic Biological Station in St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick, where he spent his summers. In addition, he started between 1924 and 1928 the first of the Board’s technological stations for research on fish handling at Halifax. In 1934 he was appointed editor and consulting director by the Board [“kicked upstairs” as he put it in an oral history interview, but the Board “gave me the ability to do…any research I wished and all the facilities I asked for straight through for…20 years”], retiring from the former position in 1948 and from the latter in 1953.“Huntsman felt the need of trying to solve the problem with which fishermen must deal: What fish will be where, and when? This could typify the general problem of what life there will be at any particular place and time, taking into account all the complexities of the organism and its environment…At the Georgian Bay, Pacific and Atlantic stations, ‘he ignored traditional ideas – for example, Aristotle’s teleology and Darwin’s principle of the survival of the fittest – in studying kinds of plants and animals…That the distribution of plants and animals is correlated with physical factors became clear to him when he was associated with Johan Hjort of Norway in the Canadian Fisheries Expedition of 1914-1915, an oceanographic survey in which the Gulf Stream…, the Labrador Current…and the St. Lawrence River…play prominent roles. It seemed obvious to him that each kind was limited in distribution and abundance by its environment. Fitness of the environment rather than the individual, Huntsman concluded, was the key factor in ecology.”Hjort also introduced Huntsman to a process of quick freezing fish that had been developed in Norway. During World War I, with the encouragement of J.J.R. Macleod, Huntsman worked on adapting it at St. Andrew’s. One of the projects at the Halifax station was to perfect the process of handling frozen fish which was then marketed through a private company before the project met other commercial opposition and foundered.“In 1934 Huntsman began an extended study of the behaviour of the salmon (Salmo salar). Those of the Margaree River of Cape Breton Island were causing most concern by not entering the river to become available for angling…Through the years, Huntsman studied other salmon populations living under varied conditions and verifying his inferences as to factors affecting salmon behaviour in laboratory and pond experiments. He came to see that the entrance of salmon into the Margaree River was dependent upon their being concentrated toward the estuary mouth by the hydrodynamic circulation set up by the mixture there of much freshet water with sea water, and through rheotactic guidance of fish through the shallow four-mile estuary by such freshet water. Also, he obtained experimental proof in the Moser River for the inference that salmon ascended with the decline of sharp freshets. The chief variables to which they responded were changes in light, temperature, current, salinity, and character of solutes…Only such complex environmental action accounts for where salmon are found to go in migrating, and it should replace the traditional fixed idea (lacking factual support) that they direct their courses first oceanward and then riverward. This elucidation of the role played by environment has broad implications for life in general, including that of man.”Huntsman became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1917 and its president for 1938. He received the Society’s Flavelle Medal in 1952. In 1969 he received an LLD from the University of Toronto, and in 1978 the Department’s resource centre in the Ramsay Wright Zoological Laboratories was designated the A. G. Huntsman Aquatic Biology Reference Centre in his honour. In 1968, several eastern Canadian universities combined to establish the Huntsman Marine Laboratory at St. Andrew’s for the training of students in marine biology. It officially opened in 1970.Huntsman had an insatiable curiosity and loved a good argument, as noted by his fellow students at the University of Toronto – ‘Though vanquished, he would argue still.’ These traits were reflected in his writings which ranged from purely scientific treatises to philosophical musings. His publications included over 200 articles, numerous reports for the Biological Board of Canada and other scientific bodies, and a book. The number of published pieces declined after his retirement, his principal work from this period being Life and the Universe (1959) which was, a reviewer noted, ‘an attempt to develop a new, simplified approach to an age-old question.’

Wife of George Ignatieff, Provost of Trinity College, 1972-1978.

George Ignatieff, diplomat and educator, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1913 and died on 10 August 1989 in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He was the son of Count Paul Ignatieff and Natalie Ignatieff (née Princess Mestchersky). The family fled to England in 1920 and came to Montreal in 1928. George Ignatieff entered Trinity College, Toronto, in 1932 and graduated with a B.A. in political science and economics in 1936. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and received an M.A. from Oxford in 1938. At Lester B. Pearson's suggestion he wrote the Department of External Affairs examination in 1939, and in that year he began working at Canada House in London. He returned to Canada in 1944 and then went to New York City as a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations. He was ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1956 to 1958, assistant undersecretary of state for external affairs from 1960 to 1962, permanent representative to NATO in 1963, and ambassador to the UN from 1966 to 1969. In 1970 he became permanent representative of Canada to the UN at Geneva, a post he left in 1972 to become ninth provost and vice-chancellor of Trinity College for the period up to 1979. From 1980 to 1986 he was chancellor of the University of Toronto. He was the chair of the National Museums of Canada Board from 1973 to 1978, and in the 1980s was active in Science for Peace. He won the Pearson Peace Prize in 1984 and in 1985 the University of Toronto Press published his memoirs, "The Making of a Peacemonger."George Ignatieff married (Jessie) Alison Grant (1916-1992) in 1944; the couple had two sons, Michael (b.1947) and Andrew (b.1952). George Ignatieff died on 10 August 1989 in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Research Assistant, Office of the President, University of Toronto.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Toronto.

L.E. "Ted" Jones was born in Montreal in 1910. After the First World War, his family settled in Transcona, a suburb of Winnipeg. He completed a B.Sc. in 1931 at the University of Manitoba and graduated as a gold medallist in civil engineering. The following year he moved to Toronto to undertake graduate work in open channel hydraulics at the University of Toronto. After completing his MASc and PhD degrees, he joined the department of applied physics and subsequently the department of mechanical engineering in 1944.Professor Jones was associated with the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering for approximately seventy years. Over his career, he instructed students in fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering, metrology and numerical analysis. His research was primarily focused on open channel hydraulics – the science of water flow in channels like rivers and canals. Jones also undertook consulting work in the area of hydraulics. In addition to his research and teaching activities, he also served as an unofficial ombudsman to students and was famous for his lectures on the use of the slide rule as well as his annual address on dress and deportment, which was delivered before the graduation ball.Professor Jones retired from the University in 1972. He was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1975. Prior to his retirement, and as a consequence of his deep interest in the Faculty’s history, he was appointed Engineering Archivist by Professor James Ham, then Dean, a role he continued to hold until his death.Professor Jones was a man of many interests. Starting from his early years at the University until after his retirement, he sang with the Hart House Glee Club. It was through his singing, while working on a University production of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera that he met his wife Dorothy, whom he married in 1938. He also was actively involved in his church, St. George’s on-the-Hill in Etobicoke, wrote poetry, was a calligrapher who hand-lettered citations and awards bestowed by the University and an avid photographer who recorded notable events. L.E. Jones maintained his connection to the University and pursued many of these activities until his death in 1999.

Lawyer, Judge, member of the Board of Governors, University of Toronto, 1945-1970

President of St. Michael's College, 1958-1978

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of English; Dean of Women, Trinity College.

Principal of Woodsworth College; Dean of Arts and Science

Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Canada.

Douglas LePan was a Canadian poet, writer, diplomat and teacher. Born in Toronto in 1914, LePan received degrees from the University of Toronto and Merton College, Oxford. He taught English literature at the University of Toronto and Harvard between 1937 and 1941, at Queen’s University from 1959-1964 and again at the University of Toronto from 1964-1979. During the Second World War he served as an artillery man in the Italian campaign. He was in the Canadian diplomatic service from 1946 to 1959 and served as the secretary and director of research for the Royal Commission on Canada’s Economic Prospects. LePan’s time in the military inspired much of his poetry and fiction including The Net and the Sword (1953) and the Deserter (1964), both of which won a Governor General’s Award. Later poetry collections including Something Still to Find (1982) and Far Voyages (1990). In 1989, he penned a book of memoirs, Bright Glass of Memory. LePan died in 1998.

Senior Lecturer, Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Toronto.

Secretary to several University of Toronto Presidents.

Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Management Studies, University of Toronto

Praeses of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies; Superior General of Basilian Fathers, 1942-54, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of English, University of Toronto.

Professor of History, University of Toronto.

Consultant in medical research to the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, University of Toronto.

SAC (Student Administrative Council) University Commissioner

Professor of History, University of Toronto

Professor of psychology and supervisor in Institute of Child Studies, University of Toronto.

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

Chairperson, Governing Council, University of Toronto.

Professor of Household Science, University of Toronto.

Professor of Spanish; former Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto.

University Professor, Dept. of English, University of Toronto.

BA (U.C.) 1969. Member, Commission on University Government, University of Toronto.

Dean, Faculty of Education, 1975-1981

Professor of Chemistry; Principal of Erindale

John Mercel Robson was born on May 26, 1927, in Toronto, to William Renton Mercel Robson and Christina Henderson Sinclair. He studied at Swansea Public School and Runnymede Collegiate Institute and received his B.A. (1951), M.A. (1953), and Ph.D. (1956) from University of Toronto. His PhD thesis, “The Social and Political Thought of J.S. Mill” was supervised by A.S.P. Woodhouse.In 1953, he married Prof. Ann Provost Wilkinson Robson, and they had three children: William Bertie Provost (born August 9, 1959), John Sinclair Petifer (born December 9, 1960), and Ann Christine Wilkinson (born December 24, 1962).Robson served as a teaching fellow in the Department of English, University College, from 1952–1954; researcher under G. Tillotson at Birbeck College, University of London, 1954–1956; and instructor with the Department of English, University of British Columbia, 1956–1957. He then joined the Department of English at Victoria College, serving as Assistant Professor from 1958–1963, Associate Professor from 1963–1967, and became Professor in 1967. He also served as Principal of Victoria College from 1971–1976.Robson's most recognized academic accomplishment was his general editorship of the 33 volume Collected Works of John Stuart Mill.He sat on many committees within Victoria University and the University of Toronto, serving as chair of the SGS Dean’s Advisory Committee on Admission to the Graduate Faculty and sitting on the Department of English Graduate Planning Committee. In addition, he served as Chairman of the Manuscript Review Committee at the University of Toronto Press from 1975 until his death. He also served as the general editor of the collected papers of Northrop Frye, until his death in 1995.His other scholarly offices include: Advisory Editor, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; Board of Directors, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; Advisory Board, Victorian Periodicals Review; Advisory Board, Scholarly Publishing; Chairman, Editorial Committee, Disraeli Project, Queen’s University; Bentham Committee, University of London; Advisory Board, Bertram Russell Edition, McMaster University; Advisory Board, Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, Carleton University; Advisory Board, A.M. Klein Edition, Trent University; and Trustee, Dickens Society. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1974, served as its Vice-President from 1980-1982, and its honorary editor in 1984.

Professor of French, Trinity College

Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto.

Professor of Music, University of Toronto.

Former Professor of English and Acting Provost, Trinity College

Former Vice-Principal and Registrar, Erindale College, Special Assistant to the Provost, University of Toronto

Professor of French, University College.

Professor of History, University of Toronto.

Prof. Ezra Schabas was born in New York and received his Diploma in Clarinet (1943) and Bachelor of Science (1948) from the Juillard School. In 1949, he received his Master of Arts from Columbia University. He also studied at the Conservatoire de Nancy, and the Fontainebleau School for the Arts in France between 1945 and 1950. After several appointments at American universities (1948-1952), he joined the staff of the Royal Conservatory of Music as Director of Concerts and Publicity where he arranged concerts for leading young artists across Canada. During the 1950s he was active as a clarinetist and conductor and managed music at the Stratford Festival (1958 and 1961). In 1960 he joined the staff of the Faculty of Music as Special Lecturer, becoming Associate Professor in 1961 and Professor in 1968. From 1978 to 1983, he was Principal of the Royal Conservatory of Music. Prof. Schabas retired as Professor Emeritus in 1985. Prof. Ezra Schabas passed away on October 12, 2020 at the age of 96.

Professor of Classics, University of Toronto

Professor of English; President, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies

Ernest Sirluck was born in Winkler, Manitoba in 1918. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1940 from the University of Manitoba and continued on to the University of Toronto to complete his M.A. in 1941. Shortly after beginning doctoral work in English, he joined the Canadian Army and served overseas. For his distinguished service he was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division), and returned to Canada as a Major.Upon returning to the University of Toronto, he resumed his studies and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1948. He was a lecturer during his schooling at the UofT, and then at the University of Chicago as a Professor from 1947-1962. Ernest Sirluck’s area of expertise was in seventeenth century English Literature, especially the works of John Milton.In 1962 he returned to the University of Toronto and served at various times as Associate Dean, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Vice-President and Graduate Dean. During this time he also continued to work on various boards and committees, as well as continued with extensive academic work. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1967.The University of Manitoba appointed him President and Vice-Chancellor in 1970, a position he held until 1976. At the end of his time in Manitoba, Sirluck returned to Toronto and, in 1996, he published [First Generation: An Autobiography](http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1751849), detailing his life up to that point. He died on 4 September 2013 in Toronto.

Professor of Forestry, University of Toronto.

Harold Gordon Skilling (February 12, 1912 – March 2, 2001) was born in Toronto to Alice and William Skilling, and was the youngest of four boys.In 1925, Skilling registered at Harbord Collegiate Institute where he excelled academically and became involved with several extracurricular activities, such as serving as president of the Literary Society, the associate editor of the Harbord Review, the battalion commander of the cadet corps, and playing basketball on the junior team. Skilling managed to graduate with twelve firsts in twelve subjects and was also awarded the Gundy-Doran scholarship in Canadian history, which helped to secure funding for future studies at the University of Toronto.Skilling went on to study at University College at the University of Toronto. Here, too, he excelled academically and was first in his class in all years except his final year. He was likewise still involved with extracurricular activities, including the University College Literary and Athletic Society (of which he became president in his final year), associate editor of the Varsity, the Historical Club, pledged to the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and continued with studying the piano at the Toronto Conservatory of Music.Skilling credits his time at the University of Toronto as bringing about significant changes in his way of thinking. He had begun to move away from the religious faith of his childhood and become increasingly supportive of socialism. A hitchhiking trip through North America during the summer of 1933 helped to crystallize his politics as he saw the effects of the Depression first hand. Returning to school in the fall of 1933, Skilling helped to organize and became the president of a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) club at the University of Toronto. As his interest in politics grew, he became increasingly interested in and committed to Marxism. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1934.In the autumn of 1934, Skilling left for Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he studied at Christ Church College and focused on interdisciplinary studies of philosophy, politics, and economics, as well as modern history and international relations. Skilling took this as an opportunity to travel throughout England and Europe. During the summer of 1935, Skilling made his first visit to Central Europe and the Jugoslavia [Yugoslavia]. Beginning in Vienna, he took a boat along the Danube through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, and travelled further to Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Croatia. This would be his first introduction to the complex ethnic, cultural, and political landscape of the region.Back in England, Skilling was first introduced to Sally Bright on November 2, 1935. Bright was an accomplished scholar herself, and studied sociology and economics at Barnard College in New York City and was studying at the London School of Economics when she was introduced to Skilling. They were married in Prague on October 16, 1937.Skilling received a Masters degree from Oxford in 1936, and soon after decided to focus his studies on Central and Eastern European studies with a primary interest in Czechoslovakia. He moved to London to pursue a doctorate under the guidance of R.W. Seton-Watson at the University of London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Skilling focused on studying the Czech language and researching Czech history, and began work on his doctoral thesis in May, 1938. Skilling’s doctoral thesis was completed and approved in 1940. It was recommended for publication by the examiners, however, due to wartime pressure, this did not occur.Increasing tensions throughout Europe—including the Spanish Civil War, Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia, and increasing German aggression—strengthened Skilling’s commitment to socialism and convinced him to join the Communist party in 1937. He secured work at the Czechoslovak Broadcasting Corporation in May, 1938, which allowed him to witness firsthand the troubling events in Czechoslovakia in 1938-39. After further travels throughout Europe, Skilling and his wife returned to England only one month before war broke out.In July 1940, Skilling and Sally returned to Canada, and Skilling took up an assistant position at the United College in Winnipeg, followed by a position as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in 1941, and, in 1947, a position at Dartmouth College, where he and his family remained for the next twelve years. Skilling began work in 1946 to revise his doctoral thesis and to extend it to include the period up to 1914 with the intention of eventually publishing the finished work. The new title for the revised thesis is “The Czech-German Conflict in Bohemia, 1867-1914.” Skilling worked on the revision up until at least the 1970s, when it was rejected for publication by the University of Toronto Press. Throughout these years, he also travelled regularly to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In 1958, he accepted a position of head of the Department of Political Science and Economics and a full professorship at the University of Toronto, and in 1962 became the Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES)—a position that he held until 1974. Through his involvement with CREES, Professor Skilling worked to develop exchange programs with the Soviet Union.Skilling’s position at the University of Toronto allowed him ample time for travel and research. In 1961-62 while on sabbatical, Skilling moved his family to Vienna as he travelled through the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Four years later, in 1966, he returned to the Soviet Union to discuss an exchange program. During the summer of 1967 Skilling visited Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland. He returned to Czechoslovakia in May 1968 to witness the Prague Spring and again in the autumn of the same year. In 1969 Skilling again visited Czechoslovakia as well as Yugoslavia in order to gain insight into Yugoslav attitudes toward the events in Prague in the previous year. He would return to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union several more times throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as well as travelling extensively throughout North America for conferences and to give lectures. Professor Skilling also became increasingly active in advocating for human rights in Eastern Europe during this time.In 1981, Skilling stopped teaching and was awarded the rank of professor emeritus. Several other honours soon followed: in 1981, Skilling was awarded the Innis-Gérin medal from the Royal Society of Canada and was made a life member of the Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS) and of the Czechoslovak Society of Science and Art (SVU); in 1982, the University of Toronto awarded Skilling with an honorary LL.D; in 1985 he was awarded the Masaryk Award from the Czechoslovak Association of Canada; in 1987 the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies honoured Skilling for his distinguished contributions to Slavic studies (he had also been elected to the board in 1981); and in 1992, on Skilling’s 80th birthday, President Havel awarded him with the Order of the While Lion—the highest honour for non-citizens. Several other honours and awards followed, some of which are listed below in Series 3.Professor Skilling passed away on March 2, 2001 at his home in Toronto at the age of 89.

Director of Athletics and Physical Education for women, University of Toronto.

John Greer Slater was born in the United States on June 1st, 1930 and immigrated to Canada in the mid 1960’s. His major research interest is the philosopher Bertrand Russell. During his time at the University of Toronto, Professor Slater assembled the world’s largest collection of print material by and about Bertrand Russell. The collection comprises approximately 10,000 items, and helped establish the University of Toronto as a major centre for Russell studies. He also donated 8,500 philosophy books to the Fisher Rare Book Library in 1990 that form a complete collection of American, Canadian and Australian philosophy from 1870 to the time of donation.Professor Slater earned a B.A. with High Honours from the University of Florida in 1955, followed by an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1956. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1961. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was *A Methodological Study of Ordinary Language of Philosophy*.Following his doctoral studies, Professor Slater was a teaching fellow, instructor, and part-time lecturer at the University of Michigan between 1956 and 1961. He was then an instructor at Wayne State University for the spring term of 1960 and 1961. Following those positions, Professor Slater was an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston, before being awarded tenure and being appointed to the Graduate School at the University of Toronto in 1964. Professor Slater was an associate professor of Philosophy from 1964 until 1988, when he was promoted to Professor.Professor Slater mainly taught courses on the history of philosophy, logic, and the foundations of mathematics. He taught Logic, Knowledge and Reality; Modern Symbolic Logic; Bertrand Russell; and Introduction to Political Philosophy at the undergraduate level as well as Political Philosophy; Modern Logic; and Bradley and Russell at the graduate level.At the University of Toronto Professor Slater held a number of administrative positions. Between 1969 and 1974 he served as chairman of the Department of Philosophy, chairman of the Graduate Department of Philosophy, and chairman of the Department of Ethics at University College simultaneously. Between 1981 and 1985 he was acting chairman of the Department of Philosophy, and he also served on all of the department’s standing committees as well as a number of its ad hoc committees.Professor Slater was also active in a number of professional associations, including the American Philosophical Association, the Canadian Philosophical Association, where he served on the Executive Committee between 1969 and 1972, and the Ontario Philosophical Society.Throughout his career, Professor Slater edited five volumes of *The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell*, for which he won three SSHRC grants. He also edited five other books, including *Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge* (1981), and wrote a chapter of the book *Russell in Review* (1976). Professor Slater wrote a number of articles, book introductions, book reviews, papers and addresses, the majority of which reflected his research on Bertrand Russell as well as Logic and Philosophy. Between 1970 and 1983, Professor Slater served on the Bertrand Russell Archives Advisory Committee, and he has been a member of the Editorial Board of *Russell* since 1970.Professor Slater has received honours for his work, including National Science Foundation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Eta Sigma. Professor Slater retired officially on July 1, 1995. He died on November 19, 2022.

Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1966-1976, and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, 1979-1986.

Dean, Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto

John Alvin Surerus (1894-1976) was educated at Victoria College, University of Toronto earning a degree in 1915 and the University of Chicago. He taught in the German Department at Victoria College from 1925 to 1962, serving as head of the department from 1932 to 1962. He married Alys Gertrude Farewell in Winnipeg in 1925.

University administrator and acting University President 1971-72

Professor of Geography, University of Toronto

Student in University Extension, University of Toronto.

Fredrick (Fred) Albert Urquhart was a professor of zoology at the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Scarborough. Born in Toronto in 1911, Urquhart studied biology at the University of Toronto, completing an MA in 1937 and a PhD in 1940. His first attempt at tagging monarchs, in 1937, met with limited success, but led to the development of the Alar Tagging Method in the 1940s. In 1945, he married Norah Patterson, who would become a partner in his research endeavours. He was appointed assistant director of zoology at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1945, becoming director in 1949; at the same time, he was appointed as an assistant professor in zoology at the University of Toronto. Urquhart took on full professorship in 1963. In 1966, he spearheaded a program in zoology at Scarborough College, a position that he held until his retirement in 1977. In 1975, two member of Urquhart’s extensive network of monarch trackers, Ken and Cathy Brugger, discovered millions of monarch butterflies in the Neovolcanic Plateau in Mexico, many of them tagged, proving that monarchs did indeed travel thousands of kilometres to breed. Urquhart and his wife were able to visit Mexico in 1976 to see the monarchs firsthand. An internationally renowned entomologist, Urquhart published both books and articles on the migratory patterns of monarch butterflies. He died in 2002.

Professor of architecture in the Faculty/School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto.

Mary Elisabeth Wallace was a distinguished political biographer and the first female faculty member in what was then known as the Department of Political Economy. She earned a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Toronto (1931) from the School of Social Work, then spent two years at Oxford, obtaining a Master’s degree in 1935. Years of work with the Protestant Children’s Homes, the Children’s Aid Society and The Infants Homes of Toronto, led to her appointment as Secretary of the Canadian Association of Social Workers in 1942. Two years later, she joined the University of Toronto as a lecturer in Social Work, moving to the Department of Political Economy in 1945. She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1950 and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1971.

Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto.

Welsh, Harry Lambert BA 1930, MA 1931, PhD 1936. Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Physics Department.Dr. Harry Lambert Welsh (1910-1984) was a prominent physicist. Born in 1910 near Aurora, Ontario, Dr. Welsh made use of the travelling libraries to Aurora at an early age and gained enthusiasm for the field of astronomy, an interest that eventually spurred his career as a physics professor.Upon completion of high school, Dr. Welsh and his family moved to Toronto, Ontario where in 1926, he enrolled in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto. Despite a strong interest in music and the piano, Dr. Welsh decided to commit himself to the study of physics, and obtained his Master’s degree in 1931. Inspired by a series of lectures delivered by Nobel Laureate James Franck, Dr. Welsh decided to pursue his PhD in Göttingen, Germany under Franck. However, the rise of the Hitler regime in Germany forced Dr. Welsh back to Toronto where he was able to complete his PhD in 1936 on the topic of selective reflection from mercury.Dr. Welsh joined the Department of Physics at the U of T after his graduation, and with the outbreak of World War II, he helped prepare and deliver lectures on electronics and the use of radar to Canadian Armed Forces personnel. In 1942, Dr. Welsh married Marguerite Ostrander and for the final two years of the war, the couple moved to Ottawa where Dr. Welsh worked in operations research for the Royal Canadian Navy. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.When the war ended, Dr. Welsh and Marguerite returned to Toronto where he was able to continue his previous research in molecular spectroscopy, and with the help of colleagues made several important advances in that field. During his time at the U of T, Dr. Welsh helped supervise 65 graduate students, served as the Chairman of Physics (1962-1968), was awarded the Canadian Association of Physicists Medal for Achievement in Physics (1961), was President of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1974-74), and was awarded numerous honorary degrees. In 1972, Dr. Welsh was awarded the Medal of Service and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.Started as a series of lectures to honor Dr. Welsh’s 65th birthday in 1975, the University of Toronto and the Department of Physics established a series of annual lectures every May known as the H.L Welsh Lectureship.Dr. Welsh was well known for his broad knowledge beyond physics – he was a talented musician, a historian, and he was well versed in Russian language and literature, spending much of his free time translating Russian scientific papers for use in English speaking countries.Harry Lambert Welsh died on July 23, 1984 at the age of 74.

Professor of Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Principal of Scarborough College, University of Toronto

Professor of Geophysics; Principal, Erindale College, University of Toronto.

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Toronto.

Acting Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto.

Professor in Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.