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Education

This series documents elements of Professor Richards’ and Frederic Urban’s education, beginning (for Larry) with elementary school in Matthews, Indiana and proceeding through his university education at Miami University (B.Arch 1967) and Yale University (M.Arch 1975). For Frederic, education at Cathedral High School, Merrimack College, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and courses offered elsewhere. The surviving records for Larry’s early education are fragmentary and even the files for Yale University have some gaps. The files on Frederic’s education are complemented by those in his personal records, B2007-0012. The arrangement for each individual is by institution attended in chronological order.

The series begins with notebooks and memorabilia from Professor Richard’s public school studies [for his ‘Memories of my school days’, see Series 16], and correspondence and course material, primarily project and design notes and drawings (3 major projects), and a yearbook from his undergraduate studies at Miami University. The files on Yale include the portfolio Richards’ presented for admission, course notes, project drawings, memorabilia, and a file on the Yale University tuition postponement plan, and photographs. The drawings include conceptual project material for projects under Professor Moore and a variety of project drawings and figure drawings. Urban’s files include correspondence, programmes, memorabilia, and related publications.

Employment: University of Toronto

Professor Richards was lured to the University of Toronto in 1980 by the new Dean, Blanche van Ginkel, who had earlier recruited several new young faculty members, including Alberto Perez Gomez and Daniel Libeskind. Both had left by the time Richards arrived and he soon found out why. He “walked into a rat’s nest of warring factions. The inflexible ideologues, led by Prof. Peter Pragnell, were totally closed to student and younger faculty’s interests in post-modernism.” Richards soon became disillusioned and found reward only through the new ‘Introduction to Architecture’ course he developed and taught at University College. He also coordinated the 1980-1981 fourth-year core programme and (with Michael Kirkland) the fall 1981 studio in Venice. After a year he left Toronto for the position of associate professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo.

Although Professor Richards maintained contact with the University of Toronto (he withdrew his candidacy for the deanship in 1985) and actually moved from Waterloo to
Toronto in 1990, it was not until January 1997 that he returned to the Faculty, this time as
dean, an appointment that was to last 7 and a half years. “He led a division of 22 core and 48 part-time faculty, 20 staff, and 275 graduate students, which offers three degree programs: a professional Master of Architecture, a professional Master of Landscape Architecture, and a post-professional Master of Urban Design. He gained approvals for and implemented two long-range academic plans, the 2000 PLAN and the 2004 PLAN, leading to the reinvigoration of the creative life of the school. His accomplishments included facilitating the incremental renovation of the building at 230 College Street by leading Toronto architects and establishing the Faculty’s first endowed chair, The Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design, launched in 2003. He established the Faculty’s first Advancement Office and raised more than $8-million in new funding through the division’s “Design the Future” campaign. [He also]…played a key role in assisting the University with architect selection processes for major projects on its three campuses.” On the St. George campus three significant buildings by international architects were erected: the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Bimolecular Research (Alliance + Behnisch Architekten), the Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building (Norman Foster) and Graduate House (Morphosis, Thom Mayne).

The earliest records in the series consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports and associated material documenting Professor Richards’ stint as assistant professor in 1980-1981; the files cover the activities mentioned above. There are also files on the 1985 search for a dean and the attempt to close the School, followed by several on Richards’ appointment as dean. Files are then arranged in descending order of hierarchy, beginning with the Governing Council, its Physical Planning and Design Advisory Committee’s campus planning initiatives (concerning, especially, Graduate House), and meetings of principals, deans, academic directors and chairs. Except for the above committees, those mentioned in Professor Richards’ curriculum vitae are largely absent from this series.

The records of the School/Faculty from 1997-2007 include correspondence; Richards’ activities and his reports; budgets, the 2000 and 2004 long-range plans, and fundraising initiatives. There are files on the restructuring of courses and the renaming and repositioning of the School (using, in part, the expertise of designer Bruce Mau) and the renovations to 230 College Street (the Shore Moffatt Library and the Eric Arthur Gallery). Richards kept extensive files on trips to Japan, Hong Kong and China relating to the Faculty’s ‘Designs for Living’ cultural exchange project. The series concludes with files on the creation of the Gehry Chair; courses taught; lecture series; exhibitions; and publicity. The files on the courses taught contain course outlines, assignments, tests, examination questions, and some lectures.

Architecture, art and design juries

Professor Richards has been since the early 1980s an active participant on architecture, art and design juries. The juries adjudicated projects ranging from student competitions to architectural grants (Canada Council), urban design awards (Etobicoke, Mississauga, Scarborough, Toronto), public art competitions (City of Waterloo, ice sculptures in Toronto), building projects (Coptic community master plan and cathedral, new city hall for Markham, Ontario), redevelopment projects such as Harbourfront and Pearson Airport, to architectural awards. Professor Richards was not a member of the jury for the Kitchener City Hall competition (1989) but he assembled a lot of material and also wrote about it. He was also a member of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority’s selection committee for lead architect in its Lester B. Pearson International Airport transformation project (1997).

The files contain correspondence, notes, photographs, architectural drawings, press coverage and reports. The arrangement is chronological and by the name of the project. The full name and date of each competition is listed in Professor Richards’ curriculum vitae (B2007-0011/001(02)-(06).

Advising, assessing and consulting

In addition to his work as a juror, Professor Richards was active as a consultant or advisor to a number of projects, most associated with architectural and design, but some with academic matters such as tenure and the external supervision of theses. Some of the activities listed in his curriculum vitae are filed with other series and others are not documented in this series. The arrangement is chronologically by the name of the organization or individual concerned. The files may contain any or all of the following: correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, photographs, architectural drawings and site plans.

Within accession B2007-0011, the most heavily documented of his consulting work is with the selection of an architect for the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, the Environmental Sciences Building at Trent University; as a thesis advisor (1989-1990) to Brian Christianson of Miami University whose thesis was on Canadian architecture; as a member of the 2006 program review for the School of Architecture at McGill University; and his being a consultant to and a member of the Royal Ontario Museum’s architectural advisory committee regarding ‘Renaissance ROM’ and Daniel Libeskind’s project. Two other well documented activities are his work as a member of the curatorial advisory board of Power Plant (1987-1990) and as a member of the visiting team of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (USA) to Texas State University (1992).

B2019-0009 includes documentation of Richards’ work with Kin Yeung, founder and owner of the fashion brand Blanc de Chine. After having met Yeung on a trip to Hong Kong in the early 2000s, Richards began consulting for the company to help grow its international visibility. Over the span of more than a decade, Richards worked on a range of projects including interior design for the brand’s New York retail locations (including Bleu de Chine), Yeung’s private apartments, writing and editing an unpublished biography of Yeung, and founding the Toronto studio, WORKshop. Material includes extensive correspondence, draft manuscripts, notes, journals, reflective commentaries, as well as plans and drawings for interior design projects.

Addresses

Dr. Pimlott's expertise in wildlife preservation and the ecology resulted in requests to speak at conferences, government bodies and meetings of various local groups interested in the environment. These files consist of rough notes prepared for talks in Halifax, Sault Ste Marie, Regina and other unidentified locations on such topics as Arctic ecology and off-shore drilling, history of Algonquin Wildlands League, and wolves and men, among others. Also included is a tape recording of a talk by Stephen Lewis to public meeting of the Algonquin Wildlands League.

Research files

These files consist of correspondence, notes, photographs and negatives, articles used for research, and drafts of manuscripts relating to Professor Rouillard's ongoing research about the Turks in French history, thought, and literature.

Office of the Principal

This series consists of the subject files for this office during Prof. Schabas' tenure as Principal. Files are arranged alphabetically by title and contain correspondence, financial statements, minutes of meetings, notes,etc. File titles include among others the Ministry of Employment and Immigration, Metro Toronto, the Canadian National Exhibition, Canadian Music Council, Guelph Spring Festival, Frederick Harris Music Co,and the New Music School.

Professional correspondence

This series consists of correspondence, reports, and notes relating to his professional activities as a consultant, author, teacher and administrator with the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto and with other professional associations relating to music. Included, among others, are files relating to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chalmers Performing Arts Training Grants Programme, National Orchestra Association, Ontario Federation of Symphony Orchestras, among others. Five files relating to the Musical Performance and Communications Programme are also included (Box 20, files 05 to 09).

Research and reference material

Series consists of notes, reports, essays, pamphlets, articles and clippings created and accumulated by the Potvins in the course of their research surrounding birth control and the Papal Commission on Birth Control. Some material was mailed to the Potvins by birth control and contraception specialists. It is unknown if the material was sent to all members of the Commission, if these reports were requested by the Potvins in preparation for their participating in the Commission, or if the material was collected for their general research.

Negative and Contact sheets

Series B: Negatives and Contact Sheets contains all of the negatives and contact sheets that were housed in binders in the office of Ken Jones. The binders were arranged by year and usually labelled with the year and the sequential number of each negative sheet and corresponding contact sheet, i.e. Binder 1968 (now file 2012-001B-2:2) contains negatives 181-225.

Legacy databases called “David’s database” and “Photomatica” document the subjects associated with each contact sheet. Contact the archivist to access an emulation of these databases and search through them. All subject keywords recorded on the photographs are also transcribed in each file’s “Media/Content Notes” field.

Covers of the original binders have been photocopied and stored in a file with the corresponding photographs.

Research and teaching materials

This series contains notebooks on polymer research, ca 1949, an expense book relating to his participation on the Canadian High Polymer Forum ca 1950-51 and a notebook on students made at staff meetings ca 1950-51.

Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

This series contains a variety of correspondence and subject files containing reports, briefs and studies mainly relating to the School of Nursing (later the Faculty of Nursing). Among the records are files containing copies of studies on the relationship between Sunnybrook Hospital and the School of Nursing (1967), and copies of briefs and submissions prepared by directors of the School of Nursing such as Dr.Helen M. Carpenter to the Government of Ontario and the University in the 1960s and early 1970s. Records relating to her period as Dean (1979-1988) include manuscripts of reports and studies, correspondence on presentation on the Institute of Nursing Science (1988), annual reports and a long term plan. Also included are files relating to the Margaret Allemang Centre.

University of Toronto

This series contains correspondence, notes, reports, relating to Ivey’s career at the University of Toronto, beginning as assistant professor of physics in 1949 through to his appointments as Principal of New College (1963-1974), Associate Chair (Undergraduate Studies) in the Department of Physics, and Vice-president Institutional relations (1980-1984). Correspondence within the Physics Department (1966-1990) is filed separately from various subject files documenting other administrative activities within the University (1955-1991). Included are files on Polyanyi Fund for science and Society (1988-1991), Joint Committee of the Toronto Board of Education and the University of Toronto, Television Committee (1955-1956), Presidential Advisory Committee on undergraduate instruction in Faculty of Arts and Science (1965), among others.

Pre-university education activities

Prof. Ivey was involved in the development of high school curriculum in physics, particularly Grade XIII. Within this series will be found records relating to his role as Examiner-in-chief and examiner for Ontario for the Grade XIII provincial examination. Also documented are his activities with the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) developing four teaching films with Dr. J. Hume. The films, produced at the PSSC studio in Boston were: Frames of Reference, Universal Gravitation, Periodic Motion, and Random Events.

Book files

This is a small series containing correspondence and manuscripts relating to various versions of Etkin’s book on flight dynamics. Most records relate to his first book published in 1959 entitled Dynamics of Flight - Stability and Control and his 2nd version Dynamics of Flight published in 1972. In between, Etkin did publish Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight and some correspondence and reviews relate to this as well.

Grants

Files in this series document much of the same research areas documented in Series 3 but relate to those specific projects funded by granting bodies, mainly by the Canadian and American governments. Much of the early research conducted at the Institute of Aerospace Studies by Etkin and his colleagues was funded by Canada’s Defence Research Board, the U.S. Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), and National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and later by NASA and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council .

Other government agencies supported research for specific purposes relating to their operation. For example, there are files on air curtain projects for Toronto City Hall, Ontario Hydro and the Ontario Science Centre, a file on noise research for the Toronto Transit Commission, and one file on the aerodynamic stability of helicopters for the Hydro-Electric Power Commission.

Files contain papers, reports, proposals, budgets, contracts and correspondence. They are arranged alphabetically by the name of the granting agency or the subject matter of the research undertaken.

Teaching files

This series contains mainly course outlines and lecture notes for the various courses taught by Etkin at the Institute of Aerospace studies, some of which were developed by Etkin and were the first such courses to be formally taught in Canada. A few of the courses documented include Applied Aerodynamics, Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight, Numerical Methods, Fluid Mechanics, Stability and Control, Wing Theory and Social Impact of Technology.

Health

Series documents Ham’s failing health especially from the point that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease which eventually claimed his life on September 16 1997. Included are detailed medical records, daily diary, notes, correspondence, negatives of a resonance imaging scan.

Correspondence

This series consists of correspondence files, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondence or organization and chronologically within each file.

Administrative files

The files in this series document some of Professor Warkentin’s activities while a professor in the Department of English at Victoria College and director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. They relate primarily to the activities of the Combined Departments of English (University College, Victoria College, Trinity College and St. Michael’s College) in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Also included is a portrait of Prof. Warkentin taken in her office in January 1984

Publishing projects

This series includes records created and collected while editing and/or writing literary works. Files contain correspondence with publishers and often with the authors of the original work. There is also correspondence relating to primary sources and with other academics or people familiar with the work being edited as well as with contributors. Files also contain research notes, bibliographies, reviews, publishing contracts and draft manuscripts.

Of particular note is correspondence with poet James Reaney along with his originally designed Christmas cards from him and his wife Colleen Thibaudeau. Early correspondence relates to his book Poems edited by Germaine Warkentin in 1972 but continues well into the 1990s and is often of a personal nature. Photographs of James Reaney at John Warkentin’s retirement party can be found in B2002-0006/001P (01).

In 1976 Uof T Press reprinted The White Savannahs by W.E. Collin as part of the series Literature in Canada: Poetry and Prose in Reprint. Warkentin wrote the introduction and in doing so corresponded with Collin as well as with poets Al Purdy, Leo Kennedy, A.J.M Smith, Frank Scott and Dorothy Livesay.

In 2001 Warkentin’s edited work Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700 was published. This book was based on papers presented at a conference in 1976, organized by Warkentin and sponsored by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College. Records in this series document the conference along with the subsequent publication and include files on funding, correspondence with contributors, readers and the publisher.

Warkentin was also involved in the publishing project, The History of the Book in Canada. Included is correspondence, reports, drafts and planning documents.

Graduate students

This small series documents Prof Warkentin relationship two of her Ph.D. students and included mainly correspondence, manuscript revisions and critiques of their dissertations.

Research – other projects

This series contains research records on areas of research, that although resulting in published papers, did not materialize as books like similar records in Series 8. Files contain a varied of material including including annotated copies of articles, notes, related correspondence and draft articles. Two areas of on-going interest for Professor Warkentin are documented:
1) research on Italian renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch including notes filed alphabetical by source, draft articles including several files for a chapter in a book referred to as “Wilkin’s Material” (boxes 002-005)

2) research on French Jesuit, Louis Nicholas including draft papers, proofs, notes and essays (boxes 006-007)

Professional activities

This series documents Ham’s activities in professional engineering and academic associations, his extensive work on public boards and committees in the areas of occupational health and safety, science policy and the effects of technology as well as his work as a consultant on matters of engineering and higher education. Records include correspondence, minutes, planning documents, reports and financial remuneration records. They are chronologically arranged by activity i.e. Committee, board, contract etc.

Included are records relating to his trip to the U.S.S.R. in 1960. He was one of the first scientists to visit the Soviet Union under a National Research Council exchange. There is some limited records documenting his role in the Royal Commission on the Health and Safety of Workers in Mines (1974-75), Royal Commission on the “Ocean Ranger “ Marine Disaster, (1982-85) and the Ontario Nuclear Safety Review (1987-88). Original records for these bodies reside at the Archives of Ontario.

There are extensive files documenting the following two bodies and these have been filed after the general files:
-National Research Council - Associate Committee on Automatic Control: Ham was instrumental in founding this committee and served as Chairman from 1959-1964.
-Engineering Centennial of Canada: Technical Program Committee; Ham served as Chairman from 1985-1987.

Addresses and talks

This series contains records relating to Ham’s numerous speaking engagements at conferences, seminars, convocations, meetings of professional groups, luncheons, briefs to committees and government bodies. Files contain notes, working drafts and final copies of talks, as well some related correspondence. Early in his career, addresses were mainly academic in nature relating to his research in automatic control. Throughout his later administrative career, his wisdom and knowledge was sought out on issues relating to higher education, engineering as a profession, occupational health and safety, science and technology and the role of the University in society. Arrangement is chronological according the date the paper was presented.

Appointment books

This series consists of appointment books noting meetings and engagements of both a professional and personal nature. There is a complete run from 1963 to 1993 as well as a second set for the years 1967-1969 while he was Dean of Engineering.

Personal correspondence

This series is almost entirely made up of letters of condolence to the Ham Family at the death of Jane Ham, a daughter who was tragically killed by a truck on her way to school. A note written by Mary Ham describing the event and her daughter’s special needs, can be found in a file preceding the correspondence. There are few other items of a personal nature including a letter by Mary Ham to her husband during an Easter holiday at the cottage in 1985 as well as correspondence with the Ham’s Chinese friend Xiansheng Li. There is the odd piece of correspondence with friends from the 1960s and matters relating to the Ham’s Boathouse (1955).

Personal and general correspondence

This series contains general correspondence, curriculum vitae, letters of reference for clerical and professional staff broadly documenting his activities as teacher, administrator and author, as well as other professional activities. Correspondence files for example, relate to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Providence Villa, and the University of Toronto Department of Medicine.

Grant applications

While the bulk of funding for the Lipid Research Project came from the US National Institutes of Health (see A2002-0009), funding for additional studies was sought from Canadian sources, mainly the OHF (the Ontario Heart Foundation and now the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation) and the national organization, Canadian Heart Foundation (now the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation).

Files in this series contain copies of grant applications, correspondence, and curriculum vitae for researchers and fellowship/scholarships applications for research associates involved in these studies. Studies include “Continuing Development of Nutrition Counseling Service for Patients with Hyperlipoproteinemia” and the “Study of Effect of Sugar in Practical Controlled Fat Diets on Serum Lipids in Hyperlipoproteinemia Patients”. Also included are files relating to the GXT (Graded Exercise Test) and ECG (Electrocardiogram) Labs for the purposes of the Prevalence and Coronary Prevention Trial subjects. This series also contains records relating to the first discovery of patients with APO (Apolipoprotein) CII Deficiency.

In addition to receiving funding from the OHF, Dr. Little and his team applied for funds from Health and Welfare Canada and the US Department of Health, and the National Institutes of Health, Atkinson Foundation, J.P. Bichell Foundation, Connaught Labs, Medical Research Council of Canada and St. Michael’s Hospital Research Society.

Department of Veterans Affairs Project: Atherosclerosis Study

In 1952, the Canadian Department of Veterans Affairs authorized a research project to study coronary atherosclerosis, a leading cause of death among veterans [1]. This ten-year study was one of the first to look into the link of blood lipids to heart disease. It was centred at Cardiology Clinic of Sunnybrook Hospital, a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto. The Director of the Cardiology Clinic, Dr. H. E. Rykert appointed doctors J. A. Little and H. M. Shanoff to design and conduct the Atherosclerosis Project. Additional funding was also received from the Ontario Heart Foundation (OHF). A lipid laboratory for determining serum free and ester cholesterol and phospholipids with high accuracy was established at Sunnybrook Hospital. Lipoproteins were determined at the Ultracentrifuge Laboratory at McGill University. “The purpose of the project …was to study a carefully selected group of [male] veterans with proven coronary heart disease. It was proposed to follow these patients over a ten-year period and attempt to correlate the serum lipid factors with the course of their disease. A control group of male veterans without clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis [were] studied in comparison” [2]. Seventy-seven male veterans with proven coronary atherosclerosis and a control group of approximately 25 male veterans were studied. Patients ranged in age from 30 to 83. By the end of the ten-year period the group had been reduced to less than 50% of the original number due to deaths.

There were approximately 25 subjects in each decade from the fourth to eighth. These studies showed that patients with coronary heart disease have higher average serum lipid levels than ‘normal’ subjects especially in the younger decades. During the follow up period after myocardial infarction there appeared to be no relationship between survival and concentrations of total serum cholesterol and …lipoproteins” [3].

While the project ran from 1952 to 1962, articles and correspondence continued to be generated by Dr. Little and his colleagues as interest in the project continued well into the 1970s.

NOTES

  1. Other hospitals running projects were Queen Mary Hospital, Montreal, Westminster Hospital, London, Ont., Shaugnessey Hospital, Vancouver and Camp Hill Hospital, Halifax. However the Project at Sunnybrook did not have any interaction with these. (Dr. J.A. Little to Garron Wells, March 2003.)
    1. B2001-0040/018(22) “Serum lipids in carefully selected ‘atherosclerosis’ and ‘normal’ males” Paper given in Chicago, October 1954. J. A. Little, H.M. Shanoff, R.W. Van der Flier and H.E. Rykert.
  2. Ibid., Eighth Annual Report of the Atherosclerosis project 41-52. By Alick Little, Henry M. Schanoff, November 1960, p. 1

Grant applications/reviews

This series contains records documenting Dr. Fowler’s application for funding for various research projects throughout his academic career and then as President of his not-for-profit company, Center for Early Learning Inc. It includes files for successful as well as unsuccessful applications. Files contain correspondence, written research proposal, application and other supporting documentation. Research projects included, among others, cognitive learning, reading and general intellectual training, developmental learning, establishment of an infant early childhood research laboratory, gender differences, and early language stimulation. Note that applications relating to the Mothercraft project will be found in Series 9.

As well, files relating to Dr. Fowler’s assessment of other individual’s applications to funding bodies are also included. These include mainly requests for assessment from the Canada Council (later Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council).

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