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Wright, Peter Murrell (oral history)

Oral history interview with former Dean Peter Wright conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Covers his family background and education through his tenure as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Focusses on the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, its Deans and curricula, 1968-1987, and the administrative history of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 1970-1987.

Wright, Peter Murrell

Wightman, Keith John Roy "Cator" (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Commences with a discussion of his family background and early education. Focusses on the period of 1930-1977, the administrative history of the Faculty of Medicine, its teaching staff and curriculum changes and developments, specifically in the Dept. of Therapeutics. Also discusses the Toronto General Hospital, provincial aide to higher education in medicine, the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation and Gairdner Foundation.

Wightman, Keith John Roy "Cator"

Wayman, Morris (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Robin Harris. Covers his years as a student in the Toronto public school system and as an undergraduate and graduate student in chemistry at the University of Toronto, 1932-1941; extra-curricular activities as founder of the Communist Club of the University of Toronto, in the University College Parliamentary Club and the Historical Club of the University of Toronto. Especially good on student politics in the 1930s.

Wayman, Morris

Wallace, Mary Elisabeth (oral history)

Oral history interview of Mary Elisabeth Wallace by Elizabeth Wilson. Focuses on the period 1930-1974, Wallace's undergraduate professors and student activities, the School of Social Work and its relations with the Dept. of Political Economy, her career in the Dept. of Social Work and the faculty, students and curricula in the Dept. of Political Economy after World War II.

Wallace, Mary Elisabeth

Urquhart, Frederick Albert "Fred" (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Paul A. Bator. Covers early childhood interest in natural history through post-retirement research ca. 1930-1978. Focusses on his undergraduate and graduate work in the Dept. of Biology, curricula, academic staff, the Royal Ontario Museum and its relations with University of Toronto and his ongoing research on the Monarch butterfly.

Urquhart, Frederick A.

Tatham, George (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Allan Irving. Covers his choice of academic field and his arrival in Canada to teach at the University of Toronto (1939-40) through to his departure in 1960. Discusses the establishment of the honors course in geography and its curricula, the administrative history of the Dept. of Geography, prominent personalities in the Dept., including Griffiths Taylor, Donald Putnam and Kenneth Hare, Harold Innis and Sidney Smith and his involvement with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association during and after World War II.

Tatham, George

Surerus, John Alvin (oral history)

Oral history interview with John Surerus done as part of the Library Oral History Project by Humphrey N. Milnes. Commences with an account of his primary and secondary education. Focusses on his career at Victoria College and subsequently with the Dept. of German; the effects of both World Wars on the Department and the University. Discusses his associates on the faculty and staff of the University as well as various aspects of the administrative history of the University and Appleby College.

Surerus, John Alvin

Stuart, Ronald Stiles (oral history)

Interview recorded as part of the Library Oral History Project by Robin Harris of Ronald Stewart who was a student in chemistry during World War II, 1940-1944. Discusses life as a student with observations on the programme, faculty, facilities and extra-curricular activitities.

Stuart, Ronald Stiles

Smith, Leonard (oral history)

Oral history interview with Leonard Smith conducted by Humphrey Milnes as part of the Library Oral History Project. Covers the period 1920-1974, focusing on anecdotes concerning senior administrative staff and faculty. Discusses convocations, the administrative history of the University and the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on the University.

Smith, Leonard

Slack, Zerada (oral history)

Oral history interview by Elizabeth Wilson with Zerada Slack, Director of Athletics and Physical Education for Women as part of the Library Oral History Project. Account of her involvement with athletics and physical education and training for women at McGill University, as a high school teacher in Hamilton, with the Y.W.C.A. during World War II, and at the University of Toronto. Focusses on the period 1946-1961, the development of intercollegiate athletics for women, salaries and allowances and available facilities for women, events leading to the constrution of the Benson Building, and the expansion in curricula and student activities.

Slack, Zerada

Sisam, John William Bernard (oral history)

Interview conducted by Barbara Byers as part of the Library Oral History Project. It focusses on the period 1931-1971, from his graduation through to his tenure as Dean of the Faculty of Forestry. Discusses the Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests and the Faculty's relations with the Ontario government, the provincial, national and international forestry associations, and the position of women in forestry.

Sisam, J. W. B.

Sirluck, Ernest (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Paul A. Bator. Covers Sirluck's education in Manitoba in the 1930s through his departure from the University of Toronto in 1970. Topics discussed include his graduate work in the Dept. of English at the University of Toronto and professors in the Dept. of English including E.K. Brown and A.S.P. Woodhouse, and the general state of graduate education in Canada. Focuses on the period of his tenure as Associate Dean and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (1962-1970), commenting on the administration of the School, university finances and budgeting, the role of the federated colleges, the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, the establishment of University Professorships, the Robarts Library, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Graduate Dept. of Educational Theory, student-administrator relationships, the Americanization of the Faculty and the move to unicameralism.

Sirluck, Ernest

Saunders, Richard Merrill (oral history)

Library oral history interview with Richard Saunders, professor of History at the University of Toronto, by Charles Roger Myers. The interview covers early childhood through post-retirement work, with focus on the period ca. 1920-1974 and his studies at the American University in Beirut, graduate work in history at Cornell University, the effects of the Depression on universities, appointment to the Dept. of History and association with the Toronto Field Naturalists.

Saunders, Richard Merrill

Rouillard, Clarence Dana (oral history)

Interview with Clarence Dana Rouillard of the Department of French conducted by Robin Harris as part of the Library Oral History Project. It covers his university education through to his post-retirement activities, focussing on the University of Toronto years (1935-1972) and including: the administrative history of the Department of French; its curriculum and academic staff; Presidents Cody, Smith and Bissell; University College; his war service; the founding of Carleton University; and the activities of the Department of French in the community.

Rouillard, Clarence Dana

Rosevear, Robert A. (oral history)

Interview with Robert A. Rosevear, Professor in the Faculty of Music, by Valerie Schatzker done as part of the Library Oral History Project. Discusses his own musical education in the United States before coming to the University of Toronto at the instigation of Arnold Watter; the development of curricula in the Faculty of Music and the Toronto, later Royal, Conservatory of Music particularly under Dean Boyd Neel; the general state of music education in Ontario and student musical acitivty on campus, noting particularly the patronage of Sidney Smith.

Rosevear, Robert A.

Rose, Albert (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor Albert Rose of the School of Social Work, conducted by Allan Irving. Covers family background and situation in the 1920s through the period as Dean of the Faculty of Social Work 1972-1976 and immediately thereafter. Discusses undergraduate work in the Dept. of Political Economy (B.A. 1939); graduate work at the University of Illinois 1939-1942; service in World War II (1939-1945), return to Toronto as Research Director of the Welfare Council of Toronto 1946-1948; arrival on staff of the School of Social Work; influence of Harry Cassidy; curricula; student-administrator relations; transition to the Faculty of Social Work 1972; research and policy development in Canadian urban housing.

Rose, Albert

Robinson, Edward Arthur "Peter" (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor Edward Arthur Robinson conducted by Paul A. Bator. Commences with a brief autobiographical sketch of immigration to Canada and pre-University of Toronto career. Focusses on the administrative history of Erindale College, its architecture and construction, budgeting and finances, buildings and grounds, and curricula both at Erindale and in the Dept. of Chemistry, ca. 1962-1984. Also discussed are appointments, promotions and tenure policy at Erindale College, Principal John Tuzo Wilson, and relations with the St. George campus, and the office of the president during the incumbencies of John Robert Evans and James Milton Ham.

Robinson, Edward Arthur "Peter"

Priestley, Francis Ethelbert Louis "Felp" (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Valerie Schatzker. covers family background, his emigration to Canada, his experiences in the Canadian educational system from student to University Professor. Focusses on curricula in English at the Universities of Alberta, British Columbia and Toronto and the history of the Dept. of English, its faculty and students. Comments on the tenure of Presidents Smith and Bissell.

Priestley, Francis Ethelbert Louis "Felp"

Pounder, Irvine Rudsdale (I.R.) (oral history)

Oral history interview by Robin Harris. Commences with his decision to study at the University of Toronto in 1907. Subjects discussed include the Dept. of Mathematics, faculty, promotions and tenure, salaries and allowances, the Senate, and election of the Chancellor involving Henry John Cody and Charles Vincent Massey.

Pounder, I.R.

Phillips, Charles Edward (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Barbara Byers. Covers family background and education at Harbord Collegiate Institute through the establishment of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Focuses on the period from ca. 1925-1966, his teaching career at the University of Toronto Schools and the Ontario College of Education, curricula, faculty, students, finances, relations between Ontario College of Education and the Government of Ontario, and University of Toronto and the establishment of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Phillips, Charles Edward

Parker, Jack Horace (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor Jack Horace Parker conducted by Paul A. Bator; includes summary. Covers arrival at the University of Toronto in 1931 through 1973 and his tenure as Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Focusses on his career as a graduate student and professor, the administrative history of the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, its faculty, curricula and the various reorganizations which led to the separation of the Dept. of French and Italian. Discusses the School of Graduate Studies and Dean Ernest Sirluck, the Senate, Office of the President, and the University of Toronto Faculty Association.

Parker, J.H. ( Jack Horace)

Park, Edna Wilhelmine (oral history)

Oral history interview by Barbara Byers. Covers family connections with the Massey family and decision of the Park sisters to enter the Faculty of Household Science. Focusses on the administrative history of the Faculty of Food Sciences, its Deans, curricula, finances, salaries and allowances, and the Canadian and Ontario Dietetic Associations.

Park, Edna Wilhelmine

Northway, Mary Louise (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Covers family background through post-University of Toronto work at the Brora institute to 1968. The Dept. of Psychology, its faculty, students and curricula are discussed, as well as the faculty and courses in child development and child psychology in the Institute of Child Study. An account of relations between the Institute and the dept. of Psychology and the University administration is included, together with comments on her research in Sociometry and interest in camping.

Northway, Mary Louise

Nelson, William Harold "Bill" (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor William Harold Nelson conducted by Paul A. Bator. Covers his graduate work and arrival at the University of Toronto in 1952 through the passing of the University Act of 1971 and its implementation. Focusses on the period 1962-1972 and changing practices in appointments, promotions and tenure and curricula, particularly in the Dept. of History. The University of Toronto Faculty Association, the Commission on University Government, circumstances surrounding the passing of the 1971 Act and the operations of Governing Council are also discussed.

Nelson, William Harold "Bill"

Morgan, Brian (oral history)

Oral history interview with Brian Morgan conducted by Paul A. Bator. Discusses the life of a student politician at the University of Toronto. Focusses on Trinity College, Students' Administrative Council, student housing, the role of students in university government, the transition to unicameralism and events leading to the construction of and undergraduate access to the Robarts Library, and student-administrator relations.

Morgan, Brian

Moloney, Peter Joseph (oral history)

Oral history interview with Peter Moloney by Elizabeth Wilson. Covers from his arrival in Toronto through his research activities in retirement. Focusses on the period 1910-1974, he discusses undergraduate curricula in Arts, student housing, the Graduate Dept. of Chemistry, the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, the School of Hygiene, insulin and the development of vaccines and toxins.

Moloney, Peter Joseph

Moir, John Sargent (oral history)

Oral history interview with Douglas Tushingham and Ronald Williams conducted by John S. Moir. Interviews for John Moir's "History of Biblical Studies in Canada" (1982). The theme is biblical archaeology, with emphasis on the roles played by individuals at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum. Douglas Tushingham was Chief Archaeologist at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

Moir, John Sargent

McCorkell, Edmund Joseph (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Richard Alway. Commences with decision to accept a religious vocation through to retirement. Focusses on the period 1910-1960, training for the Basilians, the Dept. of English, the effects of World War I on the Basilians, the University of St. Michael's College, the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, finances, land titles for St. Michael's property, athletics and student activities.

McCorkell, Edmund Joseph

Main, Oscar Warren (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor Oscar Warren Main, conducted by Paul Bator. Covers the period from his arrival at the University of Toronto in 1941 through to his retirement in 1982. Discusses the history of the Centre for Industrial Relations, the Institute of Business Administration, the Faculty of Management Studies, curricula, faculty, the role of part-time students, buildings, particularly those occupied by or proposed for the Centre, Institute and Faculty, relations with the Dept. of Political Economy, particularly regarding the Commerce and Finance program, the School of Graduate Studies, Presidents Sidney Smith, Claude Bissell and John Evans, Harold Innis, Vincent Bladen, Eric Phillips, the Senate, Board of Governors and the administration of the University of Toronto.

Main, Oscar Warren

MacGillivray, Agnes Telfer (oral history)

Oral history interview by Humphrey N. Milnes. Covers her undergraduate years at the University of Toronto through retirement. Focusses on the period 1912-1960, the curricula and faculty in the Faculty of Arts, the effects of World War I on the University, her work on the University of Toronto Roll of Honour and in the Office of the Registrar, the Office of the President and the Faculty of Music.

MacGillivray, Agnes Telfer

Library Oral History Programme collection

  • UTA 5001
  • Collection
  • 1973-1990

Consists of Oral Histories created as part of the University of Toronto Library's Oral History Project, which interviewed key faculty members, administrators and students involved with university governance. See file listing for specific individuals.

Library Oral History Programme

Levesconte, Helen Primrose (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Covers family history through retirement, ca. 1914-1967. Gives an account of her first encounters with Occupational Therapy during World War I, Professors Bott and Haultain and their therapeutic use of handcraft with veterans, the Division of University Extension and the establishment of a diploma course in Occupational Therapy. The faculty, students, curricula and quarters of Rehabilitation Medicine are discussed, together with the development of the combined course in Physical and Occupational Therapy and transfer to the Faculty of Medicine.

Levesconte, Helen Primrose

LePan, Douglas Valentine (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor D.V. LePan conducted by Paul A. Bator. Commences with childhood visits to campus with his father, who was the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds and concludes with his resignation as Principal of University College. Focuses on the period 1920-1971, and discusses University of Toronto Schools, curricula, faculty and student activities, the Dept. of English, his principalship of University College, Sir Robert Falconer, Claude T. Bissell, Vincent W. Bladen and Canadian Literature.

LePan, Douglas

Laskin, Bora (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Robin Harris. Covers decision to study at the University of Toronto through retirement from the Board of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, ca. 1930-1970. Discusses legal education, the curricula, faculty and administrative history of the Faculty of Law, and disputes between the Law Society of Upper Canada and the University concerning legal education. Other subjects covered include the University of Toronto Faculty Association, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Claude Bissell, the Laskin Committee on the School of Graduate Studies, the Senate, Governing Council and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Laskin, Bora

Kruger, Arthur (oral history)

Oral history interview with Principal Arthur M. Kruger conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Covers early academic career, choice of discipline, post-graduate work, teaching at University of Toronto, 1959-1962, Wharton School and his return to University of Toronto 1963. Discusses his administration of Woodsworth College, 1974-1977, and his tenures as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, 1977-1982. Other subjects include admission standards and curricula, planning, administration and governance.

Kruger, Arthur

Kirkwood, Mossie May Waddington (oral history)

Oral history interview with Mossie May Waddington Kirkwood, by Elizabeth Wilson. Covers undergraduate years through to retirement, focusing on the period ca. 1910-55. Discusses Trinity College, the education of women and role of women faculty, her philosophy of education, physical education and training for women, members of the faculty, Presidents Falconer and Cody, student housing and student activities.

Kirkwood, Mossie May Waddington

Jones, L.E. (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor L.E. (Ted) Jones, conducted by Paul A. Bator; includes summary. Covers Professor Jones' family bcakground and early education through his retirement. Focusses on the period 1933-1975, and the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, its history, faculty, student activities, curricula, the Ajax Division, his role as unofficial Faculty Advisor, Hart House and Know College.

Jones, L.E.

Ireton, Henry John Cunningham (oral history)

Oral history interview with Henry John Cunningham Ireton, by Charles Roger Myers. Covers family background and early education, 1912-1973. Focusses on the Dept. of Physics. Discusses prominent international physicists, the effects of both World Wars on physics research. Other subjects considered are Presidents Falconer, Cody, Smith and Bissell, senior faculty members and administrative staff, and the Board of Governors.

Ireton, Henry John Cunningham

Ireland, Frances A. (oral history)

Oral history interview with Mrs. Frances Ireland conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Covers family background and education through to retirement, focussing on the period 1934-1979. Subjects discussed include Trinity College, Dept. of Classics, student activities, student housing, the effects of World War II on the University, the administrative history of the University and particularly the Office of the President through the incumbencies of Presidents Cody, Smith, Bissell, Evans and Ham. Tape summary available.

Ireland, Frances A.

Hogg, Helen Battles Sawyer (oral history)

Oral history interview by Valerie Schatzker. Covers family background and early education through post-retirement appointments, 1935-1976. Discusses the David Dunlap Observatory, its faculty and astronomical observations, the faculty, students and curricula of the Dept. of Astronomy. Other subjects covered include women in science and her own research on variable stars in globular clusters.

Hogg, Helen Battles Sawyer

Hermant, Sydney Morris (oral history)

Oral history interview by Robin Harris. Covers entrance to the University through his election as Vice Chairman, Governing Council, ca. 1929-1975. Focuses on student activities, Hart House, the Dept.of Political Economy, W.P.M. Kennedy and the curricula in law, the efects of the Great Depression on the University, Presidents Falconer through Evans, the Students' Administrative Council, National Federation of Canadian University Students (NFCUS), the Senate, the Board of Governors, Governing Council, and the events surrounding the election of the Chancellor in 1947.

Hermant, Sydney Morris

Heard, John Frederick (oral history)

Oral history interview conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Covers his university education through Directorship of the David Dunlap Observatory, ca. 1925-1975. Comments on his studies at the University of Western Ontario, McGill, London, and the Greenwich Observatory. Discusses the history of the David Dunlap Observatory, Clarence Augustus Chant, and the Dept. of Astronomy, with reference to its faculty, students and relations with the Observatory. Includes comments on appointments, promotions and tenure, salaries and allowances, and the effect of Sputnik I on research grants.

Heard, John Frederick

Harris, William Bowles (oral history)

Oral history interview with William Bowles Harris conducted by Paul Bator; includes summary. Covers his arrival at the University of Toronto as an undergraduate through his selection as first Vice-Chairman of Governing Council, 1946-1972. Topics discussed include faculty, curricula, Hart House and student activities, the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Board of Governors, the Senate, the Commission on University Government, the University-Wide Committee, the sale of the Connaught Medical Research Fund, the Presidential Search Committe for a replacement for Claude Bissell. Other subjects include John Evans, Claude Bissell, Malim Harding, and Trent University.

Harris, William Bowles

Harding, Charles Malim (oral history)

Oral history interview with Charles Malim Harding conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Covers Harding's family background and education through his retirement as first Chairman of Governing Council. Focusses on the years 1967-1976, covering his service on the Board of Governors, transition to Governing Council with comments on the Commission on University Government, the University-Wide Committee, the role of the provincial government, President John Robert Evans, and McMaster University.

Harding, Charles Malim

Hanly, Charles Mervyn Taylor (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor Charles M. T. Hanly, conducted by Paul Bator; includes summary. Covers family background and early education through to a discussion of the operations of Governing Council. Focusses on the period 1950-1980 and the Dept. of Philosophy, faculty, students, and curricula, Fulton Henry Anderson, student activities, Oxford University, salaries and allowances, student demonstrations in the 1960s, Rochedale College, the Transitional Year Program, the transition to unicameralism, the University of Toronto Faculty Association and the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.

Hanly, Charles Mervyn Taylor

Grube, George Maximilian Antony (oral history)

Oral history interview by Robin Harris. Commences with a brief summary of pre-University of Toronto days through to his last campaign for public office. Focusses on the period ca. 1928-1950s, the effects of the Great Depression on the University of Toronto and particularly on Trinity College. Other subjects discussed include salaries and allowances in the Dept. of Classics, curricula, faculty and students, relations with the School of Graduate Studies, the Provosts of Trinity College, the Senate and political participation of faculty.

Grube, Georges Maximilien Antoine

Graham, Theodore Corbett George (oral history)

Oral history interview with Professor T.C. Graham conducted by Paul Bator. Covers Graham's undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering through his retirement from the Directorship of the Institute of Business Administration. Focuses on the period 1950-1960, the faculty, students, curricula and degrees of the Institute, the Senate and the selection of Oscar Warren Main as his successor.

Graham, Theodore Corbett George

Gow, James (oral history)

Oral history interview with Mr. James Gow conducted by Paul A. Bator. Commences with Gow's high school education through retirement. Focusses on the period 1947-1982, Gow's time on staff and he comments on the Deans and academic faculty of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, student activities, student housing, and student-administrator relations, the work of the Office of the Assistant Dean and Secretary, the Ajax Division and the effects of computers.

Gow, James

Frye, Herman Northrop (oral history)

Oral history interview with Chancellor H Northrop Frye conducted by Valerie Schatzker. Begins with his family background and early education continuing through to his perception of educational trends in the 1980s. Focusses on the period 1930-1980, and comments on the curricula, faculty and student activities in Victoria University. The Dept. of English at Victoria University and at University College, the Graduate Dept. of English, Emmanuel College and the federated colleges are also discussed, in addition to the Student Christian Movement, Merton College, Oxford University and fascism and education.

Frye, Herman Northrop

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