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Mieczyslaw Kolinski, ethnomusicologist and composer, was born in Warsaw September 5, 1901 and died in Toronto, Ontario May 7, 1981. He taught ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto from 1966 to 1976.

Prof. Larry S. Bourne (1939- ) is a Professor of Geography and Planning, leading expert on urban issues, and a pioneer of urban studies at the University of Toronto.

He received his BA from the University of Western Ontario (1961), MA from the University of Alberta (1963), and PhD from the University of Chicago (1966). He joined the University of Toronto as a lecturer (1966), Assistant Professor (1966-1969), Associate Professor (1969-1973) and Professor (since 1973).

Prof Bourne also served as Director of the U of T Centre for Urban and Community Studies (1973-1984) and later of the Cities Centre (2007-2008) and as Director of the Graduate Program in Planning (1996-1998).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and received the 2004 Massey Medal for outstanding achievement in Canadian geography.

James Edwin Guillet was born in Toronto on 14 January 1927, the son of Edwin Clarence Guillet, a prominent historian. He attended Huron Street School, the University of Toronto Schools, and then entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1944 in the honours program in mathematics and physics. In second year he switched to chemistry and physics, where he excelled, but also found time for many extra-curricular activities. His passion for photography drew him to the Camera Club where he won a competition judged by Yousuf Karsh; it also helped him find summer jobs with Eastman Kodak. While a student he was a member of the Canadian Officers Training Corps and the Royal Canadian Air Force and later, while at Cambridge, served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a pilot.

Following graduation with honours in 1948, Guillet moved to Rochester, New York and later Kingsport, Tennessee, as a research chemist for Eastman Kodak where he worked on new types of graft and block polymers which led to the commercial development of new acrylic fibres. In 1952 he married Helen Bircher and the following year they left for St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied under R. G. W. Norrish, a future Nobel laureate. He obtained his doctorate in photochemistry in 1955, after which he returned to Kingsport where he worked first as a senior research chemist in the Eastman Laboratories. In 1963 he became research associate in charge of polyolefin research for Tennessee Eastman. Later that year he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto with the status of associate professor. In 1969 he was appointed full professor and in 1991 professor emeritus. By the time of his death he had authored or co-authored over 300 papers, had registered more than 100 patents, and had written two books on polymers.

John Polanyi, a member of Guillet’s hiring committee, noted that, although he had a string of patents to his name (30 American ones in 1963), “his bent was to do academic science and to figure out why things happened rather than how useful they were. He warned all the time against letting the application of science dominate the university agenda.” His main areas of research involved studying the ways polymers react to light. His specialty was polymer science, particularly as it relates to synthetic fibres, coatings, and plastics. At the University of Toronto he began work on the photochemistry of polymeric materials (plastics) and held basic patents on the processes for the synthesis of photo- and biodegradable plastics (which he assigned to the U of T), high density polyethylene, polyolefin waxes and coatings resins, and peroxides and other catalysts for olefin polymerization. In the 1970s and the 1980s his lab was regarded as the “best in the world in photophysics and photochemistry and ‘supervisors were fighting’ to find places for their students ‘to work with Jim Guillet’.”

While he and the University could not interest any Canadian companies in his inventions in biodegradable plastics, there was a great deal of interest from other countries so Professor Guillet set up three high-technology companies that were based on inventions and technology originating at the University of Toronto. EcoPlastics Limited manufactured degradable plastics and polymer flocculants and also carried out contract research on tar sands recovery, light sensitive plastics, greenhouse films and related products. Medipro Sciences Limited was founded in 1976 to research medical applications of plastics materials and is noted for its development of ‘artificial skin’ for burn victims. Solarchem Corporation developed proprietary methods for making pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals using sunlight as the primary energy source. Guillet served as president of each company at various times (EcoPlastics, 1976-1985; Solarchem, 1984-1985, and Medipro, 1985-1993). EcoPlastics and Medipro achieved modest commercial success (Medipro was purchased by Pharma Patch PLC in 1993) and Solarchem became a major manufacturer of equipment for the decontamination of water and air using high-intensity UV lamps.

Throughout his years at the University of Toronto, Professor Guillet was very active in administrative work. From 1969 to 1976 he sat on the University of Toronto Patents Committee and in 1977 was appointed chair of the University’s Task Force on Patent Policy. From 1983 to 1984 Professor Guillet was Associate Dean for Research and Planning at Scarborough College and served on numerous committees relating to policies for invention and other intellectual property. Other University bodies he served on included the Innis College Council (1969-1970), the Faculty of Arts and Science Council (1971-1973), the Department of Chemistry’s undergraduate curriculum committee (1971-1975), as a fellow of New College (1975-1979), on the Faculty Club’s board of directors, on the review panel for physical sciences for the Connaught Committee (1977), as chair of the Wiegand Committee (1982-1983), and on the Decanal Promotion Committee (1983). In 1986 he chaired the Research Board’s Computer Software Taskforce and in 1987 the Ad Hoc Committee on the PhD/MBA Program.

Professor Guillet was renowned for his ability to attract students and researchers to his laboratory and for forging links with chemists in other countries, more than 30 in all. He “immersed himself in the lives and problems of his students and the scientists who came from around the world to work with him…‘[he] would spend hours and hours tutoring them [his students] if they were having a problem’.” “‘He was just incredible…He knew what their log jam was and who they should speak to.’” During his career he supervised 28 Ph.D. theses, 26 masters degrees and 50 post-doctoral fellows and research associates. He was also active in giving lectures about science to primary and secondary students in Ontario schools.

Professor Guillet had numerous visiting academic appointments. The principal institutions he was invited to were Vanderbilt University in Tennessee (twice), the CNRS Macromolecular Institute (Strasbourg, France), Acadia University, Kyoto University; the University of California at San Diego, IBM Research Laboratories (San Jose, California), the University of Mainz, St. Andrew’s University, St. John’s College, Cambridge, and the International School of Advanced Studies in Polymer Science (Ferrara, Italy).

Professor Guillet held numerous offices in scientific societies and attended many conferences where he often delivered plenary lectures. He organized seven international meetings in chemistry, including the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). At the Chemical Institute of Canada he chaired several committees. He served on the editorial advisory boards of five important international scientific journals and was an active reviewer of publications and research proposals in Canada and the United States. In 1987 he co-founded the Polymers and Composites Program of the Ontario Centre for Materials Research, a consortium of five university research groups. In 1988 he acted as an adviser to the Foundation for Research and Development in South Africa.

Professor Guillet received numerous honours for his work, beginning in 1967 with a fellowship in the Chemical Institute of Canada. In 1977 he was awarded the Gold Medal and Canada’s patent number 1,000,000 for the invention of degradable plastic. In 1981 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and received a Guggenheim Fellowship, which was followed by a Killam Fellowship in 1987. He received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1974 and the Chemical Institute of Canada awarded him its Montreal Medal in 1998. In 1999 the Society of Polymer Science of Japan presented him with its International Award.

Professor Guillet died in Toronto on 23 September 2005, from complications following successful bypass surgery.

Raffi Armenian, conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher, was born in Cairo, Egypt June 4, 1942; naturalized Canadian 1971. Armenian joined the teaching staff at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in 1999 as the Director of Orchestral Activities. He conducted the University of Toronto Chamber Orchestra and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 2008, he became director of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal.

Oswald Hall was a Professor in the Departments of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Toronto from 1956-1974. His primary practical research interests centered on the sociology of work and the professions, especially medicine, focusing on doctors, chiropractors and paramedical specialties. He served on both the Royal Commission on Health Services and the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. After retiring from the University of Toronto, he held sessional appointments with the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, the University of Waterloo, the University of Guelph, Trent University and Memorial University. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Carleton University in 1976 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1977. He died in Ottawa on 31 August 2007.

Henry John Cody (December 6, 1868 – April 27, 1951) was a Canadian clergyman and President of the University of Toronto from 1932 to 1945 and Chancellor from 1944 to 1947. Born in Embro, Ontario, the eldest son of Elijah Cody and Margaret Louisa Torrance, he attended Gait Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. He was ordained a Church of England priest in 1894 and later served in Toronto at St. Paul's, Bloor Street. He was an Ontario MPP for Toronto Northeast — Seat A from 1918 to 1920 and was Minister of Education from 1918 to 1919. He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1943. He married Florence Clarke on August 15, 1894 in England. In 1897, his son,Maurice was born. He drowned on a camping trip in Northern Ontario in 1927; Florence Cody died of a heart attack on September 26, 1932. In December, 1933 he married Barbara Blackstock, a long time family friend 22 years his junior.

Robert Allan Spencer, historian, educator and administrator, was born in Montreal on 9 November 1920. Following his undergraduate degree from McGill (BA 1941), he served with the Canadian Forces in Britain and Northwest Europe (1942-1946). After obtaining his MA in 1947 (University of Toronto) and his DPhil (St John's College, Oxford) in 1950, he joined the Department of History at the University of Toronto as a Lecturer. By 1964, he had achieved the position of full professor and in 1986, Professor Emeritus.

During his early years at McGill, Spencer joined the McGill University Canadian Officers Training Corps as a Cadet in 1941. By 1944, he had been promoted to Captain. After World War II, from 1958 to 1966, he served in the University of Toronto Contingent, Canadian Officers Training Corps as a Major, then as a Lieutenant Colonel and commanding officer (1962-1966). He then served on the COTC’s Board of Trustees to 2001.

In addition to serving as Associate Chairman of the Department of History from 1964 to 1967, Professor Spencer also served as Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Division I (Humanities) from 1973 to 1976, and Director of the Centre for International Studies, which was established under his initiative in 1976. He was also instrumental in formulating the International Studies Programme from 1967 to 1972. During his tenure, he has taught courses on European history, with emphasis on German history during the 19th and 20th centuries. Related fields of interest include international relations, Canadian foreign policy and East-West relations in Europe, and he has researched, spoken and written extensively on these subjects both internationally and in Toronto.

Fluent in English, French and German with some knowledge of Italian, Spencer has served as a visiting professor at Historische Kommission zu Berlin, Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin (1970), Facolta di Giurisprudenza, University of Siena (1985), St. Anthony’s College at Oxford (1986) and as a visiting fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University (1987). Over the years, he as has been co-editor of the International Journal, and been an active member of several organizations and institutions including: the Canadian Historical Society, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA), the Canadian German Conference, Atlantik-Brücke, the Atlantic Council of Canada, the Committee on Atlantic Studies and the Canadian Council for European Affairs. He also produced radio talks and documentaries for CBC.

During his sixty-year career as both an academic and a military commander, Professor Spencer has received numerous awards and recognition for his achievements. Most notably, he was awarded the Canadian Decoration (1964), the Jubilee Medal (1978), the Goethe Medal (1983) and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany (1986). He has also received numerous research grants, including managing a major research grant of $275,000 from the Donner Canadian Foundation from 1978 to 1986. In 1998 he was given an Honorary Fellowship by Trinity College.

In 1948 Professor Spencer married Ruth Margaret Church. The couple had three children, Charles, Valerie Spencer Keyes and Katherine Spencer-Ross. Professor Spencer lives in Ottawa.

Harold Adams Innis was born on November 5, 1894 near Otterville in Ontario's Oxford County, the eldest son of William Anson and Mary Adams Innis. He attended Woodstock Collegiate Institute, received his B.A.(1916) and M.A. (1918) from McMaster University in Toronto, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1920. From 1916 to 1917 Innis served as a signaller with the Fourth Battery of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Western Europe. Innis joined the staff of the University of Toronto's Department of Political Economy in 1927, rising to the post of Head of the Department by 1937. Under his direction, economic history grew to a position of respected importance. As a teacher of economic staples theory, Innis interpreted Canadian history through the perspective of the fur trade, the fisheries, and the wheat and lumber economies. His interest in railways and transportation spawned studies of communication and the history of information technology.

From 1947 until his death in 1952, Innis assumed the additional responsibility of Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Beyond his academic duties, he participated in such professional organizations as the Royal Society of Canada, the American Economic Association, the Canadian Social Science Research Council and the National Conference of Canadian Universities. Innis' concern for continuing education found him chairing the Workers' Educational Association of Canada. Recognition of his professional expertise earned Innis respected advisory positions on numerous royal commissions of economic inquiry.

Innis' international reputation as an economist took him on the lecture circuit. The most prestigious of these was the British tour in 1948 of the Beit, Cust and Stamp lecture series in Oxford, Nottingham and the University of London respectively. As well, Innis was a featured participant in conferences at home and abroad. In Tune of 1945 he traveled to Russia on a special invita¬tion to join the 220th Anniversary meeting of the Academy of Sciences in U.S.S.R.

In May of 1920 Harold Innis married Mary Quayle. They had four children: Donald, Mary Ellan, Hugh and Anne. Innis died on November 8, 1952 at the age of 58, after a prolonged battle with cancer.

Ron (Ronald William) Collier was a composer, arranger, conductor, trombonist, and teacher. Born near Lethbridge, Alberta on July 3, 1930, he received his early musical training in the Kitsilano Boys' Band in Vancouver, British Columbia (1943-1950). He then studied composition in Toronto with Gordon Delamont (1951-1954) and in New York with George Russell and Hall Overton (orchestration) (1961-1962).

In the 1950s, Collier played trombone in various Toronto dance bands, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Ballet, the Canadian Opera Company orchestras, and for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television groups. He was also a member of Norman Symonds' jazz octet, and formed his own jazz group in 1954, which started as a quartet (1954-1957), then a quintet (1957), dixtuor (1960), and, for Expo '67 and other special occasions, a big band.

In 1972, Collier became the composer-in-residence at Humber College in Toronto, and continued to teach there from 1974 until 1979. His students included Pete Coulman, Scott MacMillan, Jim McGrath, John Roby, Ilmars Sermulis, and Doug Wilde. Collier composed several works within the Third-Stream idiom, wrote scores for the plays, various films, and the ballet Aurora Borealis, and many works for big band.

Collier was named an officer of the Order of Canada in 2003. He passed away in Toronto, Ontario on October 22, 2003.

Hugh Donald Forbes (Donald) was born in Regina Saskatchewan on February 23 1942. He attended high school in Winnipeg and afterward graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1963 with a B.A. in Political Science. He then attended Yale University where he graduated with an M.A. (1966) and a Ph.D. (1976).

In 1969, prior to completing his Ph.D., Prof. Forbes returned to Canada as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto. He rose to Associate Professor upon completing his Ph.D. in 1976 and in 1994 was appointed full professor.

His main research has been in the field of Canadian Politics, Anglo-American political thought, nationalism, ethnic conflict and multiculturalism. He has published four books: Canadian Political Thought (edited, 1985); Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Personality (1985); Ethnic Conflict (1997); George Grant: A Guide to His Thought (2007). He is currently working on a book on multiculturalism and is expected to publish a second edition of Canadian Political Thought. Throughout his career, he has been a member of the Canadian Political Science Association and has been a referee for several professional journals. As a teacher, he has taught varied graduate and undergraduate courses mainly relating to the study of Canadian political science and has supervised numerous graduate students.

Colin Tilney, harpsichord and forte piano, was born in London, England October 31, 1933. He moved to Canada in 1979 where he taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music and at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

Gena Branscombe was born in Picton, Ontario on November 4, 1881. She was a composer and conductor, and left Canada in 1897 to study and work in the United States. Her piano pieces, songs, and choral and orchestral works were published and performed in both countries. In 1934, she founded The Branscombe Choral (1934-1954) in New York, for whom she composed and arranged works. The choir also premiered various musical works by other female composers. Branscombe died in New York on July 26, 1977.

Sir Ernest MacMillan, conductor, organist, pianist, composer, educator, writer, administrator, was born in Mimico (Metropolitan Toronto) on August 18, 1893, and died in Toronto on May 6,1973. He was one of the most influential Canadian musicians of the middle 20th century.

James Bruce Falls was born in Toronto on 18 December 1923, the son of a civil engineer Orville M. Falls (BASc 1914) and Hazel Ranney. He attended Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute and in the autumn of 1942 entered the “science” program at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. In his second year he began studying biology but withdrew in October to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned to his studies in 1945. His extra-curricular activities included being on the Biology Club executive from his second year and president in his fourth year, and a member of the Hart House Glee Club. He received an honours BA in biology in 1948, having been awarded the Edward Blake Scholarships in biology and mathematics, and graduating in first class with a British Association for the Advancement of Science medal (U of T).

That fall he registered as a doctoral student in zoology at the University where he studied under Kenneth Fisher. During his last year, 1952-1953, he lectured in the Department and received his doctorate at the spring convocation. The title of his thesis was ‘Activity and local distribution of deer mice in relation to certain environmental factors.’ Later in 1953, as a National Research Council of Canada overseas fellow, he left for Oxford University where he did post-doctoral research in its Bureau of Animal Population.

In 1954 Falls returned to the University of Toronto as a lecturer in the Department of Zoology, was promoted to assistant professor in 1957, associate professor in 1961, and professor in 1966. He held that position until 1989 when he retired as professor emeritus.

He served as undergraduate secretary in the Department from 1969 to 1975, as Associate Chairman (Undergraduate Affairs) from 1975 to 1980, and on numerous departmental committees, several of which he chaired. He was a member of the council of the Faculty of Arts and Science (beginning in1957) and active as a member or chair of a number of its committees. He also sat on the Innis College Council from 1963-1970 and on its academic affairs committee. He represented the Department of Zoology on the Users’ Committee of the Wildlife Research Station in Algonquin Park. As professor emeritus he was reappointed to the graduate faculty of the Department of Zoology until 1994.

During his academic career, Professor Falls spent some time at other universities. On sabbatical during the first half of 1964, he was Visiting Scientist at the Division of Wildlife Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, in Canberra, Australia. In 1973, again on sabbatical leave, he was Visiting Scientist, Institute of Animal Resource Ecology at the University of British Columbia. In 1980 he was Visiting Scientist at the Field Research Centre at Rockefeller University in New York City. The next year and again in 1988 he was Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College and Visiting Scientist at Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Department of Zoology, at Oxford University.

At the University of Toronto Professor Falls taught undergraduate courses in behaviour, evolution, zoogeography, ecology and field biology. The principal ones were Zoology 223 (ecology) which was succeeded in 1974 by Zoology 323 (animal ecology); Zoology 327 (general ecology), 328 (animal geography), 472 (behavioural ecology) and 484Y (ecological seminar). He also taught Biology 110Y (nature of living organisms) and Biology 300 and 490 (both field biology), where he was in charge of instruction and arrangements for zoology. By the time he retired, Professor Falls had supervised the research of 20 masters students and 16 doctoral students, and four post-doctoral investigators had been associated with him.

Professor Falls’ research focused on behavioural mechanisms contributing to population regulation and the dispersion and use of resources by wild species. Continuing themes are acoustic communication and territoriality and research has been approached from causal (experimental) and evolutionary perspectives. By the time of his retirement in 1989 he had, with his students, investigated 13 topics in ornithology, seven in mammalogy and one in herpetology. This research had resulted in 58 refereed publications in scientific journals, seven general articles and chapters in books and the co-editorship of one book. Between 1975 and his retirement he presented 44 papers at scientific meetings and from 1973 had given 23 invited lectures at universities.

In 1989 Professor Falls listed his professional affiliations and activities as: associate editorship of the Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1982-1987, membership in the American Ornithologists’ Union (elective member, 1975, fellow from 1983), American Society of Mammalogists, Animal Behaviour Society, Canadian Society of Zoologists, Cooper Ornithological Society, Deutsche Ornithologen Gesellschaft (corresponding fellow from 1988), Ecological Society of America, International Ornithological Committee (member from 1978, chair of the Scientific Programme Committee of the XIX International Ornithological Congress in Ottawa, 1983-1986), Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University (from 1960), Wilson Ornithological Society (council member, 1962-1964), and
the Canadian Society of Ornithologists (councillor from 1987).

He also listed his conservation activities as: membership in the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (director, 1946-1974; president 1962-1964; and chairman of Nature Reserves Committee, 1965); scientific advisor to the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation, 1960-1968; trustee (from 1962) and chairman (1971-1974) of the Nature Conservancy of Canada; member of the Conservation Council of Ontario (from 1962), Canadian committee of the International Biological Programme (conservation sub-committee member and co-chair of the Ontario panel, 1968-1974), member from 1969 at various dates of the advisory committees of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on nature reserves, Minnesing Swamp and the Backus Tract; honorary director from 1970 and director in 1989 of the Long Point Observatory, director from 1975 of the Owl Rehabilitation Research Foundation, member from 1981 of the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas, member of the management committee (1981-1987) and chair (1983-1987) of the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario, and member of the Ontario Rare Breeding Program (chair of management committee, 1989).

Professor Falls married Elizabeth Ann Holmes in 1952. They live in Toronto.

Elyakim (Peter) Taussig, pianist, was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, February 27, 1944. He received the first Master of Music (MMUS) in performance granted by the University of Toronto in 1970, and formed the ensemble Camerata in 1973. He has been active as a performer, composer and educator.

(George Talbot) Douglas Bodle, pianist, harpsichordist, organist, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba August 7, 1923. He taught piano, harpsichord, and organ at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music from 1969 to 1989, and on a part-time basis in 1990-1991.

Victor Danchenko, violin, was born in the former Soviet Union in 1937, emigrated to Canada in 1977, and passed away November 18, 2020. He taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music from 1977 to 1991 and 2013 to 2020, and at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music from 1979 to 1993.

Doreen (Foy) Hall, music educator and violinist, was born in Warrenpoint, Ireland May 24, 1921. She introduced the Orff-Schulwerk approach "Music for Children" to North America and later foundedthe Orff-Schulwerk Society of Canada (1974). Hall was a professor of music education at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music from 1967 to 1985.

Thomas Langan (March 20, 1929 - May 25, 2012) was born in the United States in St. Louis, Missouri. He immigrated to Canada in 1968 but maintained his U.S. citizenship. He received his bachelor’s in philosophy from St. Louis University in 1951 and his Masters in 1952. He then went on to receive his PH.D. in philosophy from Institut Catholique de Paris in 1956. Before his PH.D. education Langan also served in the United States Air Force as a 1st Lieutenant from 1952-1954.

Langan was a teacher and academic for his entire career. He began teaching at St. Louis University in 1956 as an instructor and moved his way up to Assistant Professor and Associate Director until 1960. Langan then taught at Indiana University from 1960 until 1967 as both a professor and Chairman of the Philosophy Department. He began his time at St. Michael’s College in 1967 as a visiting professor before becoming a full-time faculty member the following year. Langan was cross appointed to St. Michael’s College, Trinity College and New College between 1975 to 1978. He was a teacher in the Philosophy and Christianity & Culture programs. His wife Janine Langan was also an Associate Professor at St. Michael’s College and the founder of the Christianity and Culture program.

A prolific academic, Langan wrote well over seventy published articles in his lifetime and published eight books. Additionally, Langan was a part of a great number of committees, such as the Committee for Superior Education, and was on the editorial boards of several journal publications including Communio and New Scholasticism. He participated in many community organizations, serving on multiple Archdiocese of Toronto committees and co-founding the Catholic Civil Rights League in 1985. Langan received an Alumni Merit Award from St. Louis University in 1982. Langan was also elected to the Catholic Commission on Cultural Affairs in 1984.

Thomas Langan retired in 1994 but continued to be an active member of many community and academic organizations.

In 2006 the Archdiocese of Toronto honoured Langan as a Knight of St. Sylvester for his exemplary professional and societal service.

Steven Dann is an alumnus of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (student of Lorand Fenyves). He joined started teaching at the Faculty as an instructor in 1989-1991, 1995-1996, and then associate professor, 1996-2013.