Subseries 4 - University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society

0.2 m of textual records

In about 1977, I was invited to serve on a revamped University of Toronto Press Manuscript Review Committee. I had served on a large unwieldy committee in the early 70s. The new committee, under the chairmanship of Jack Robson, was composed entirely of scholars from different parts of the University. I have served on it continuously since then (file 2). In 1993 I was appointed vice-chair of the committee and, after Jack’s death in 1995, I became the chair of the committee. As vice-chair, I chaired meetings that Jack couldn’t attend, including the two years that he was on sabbatical. In 1990 I replaced Jack on the Management Board of the Press and have served on it as a director since its incorporation (file 12).

I have kept very few records of the many meetings of the Committee (file 3) and only a very small number of the many assessments of manuscripts that I did as a member of the committee (file 4). I also kept only a handful of assessments by others (file 5). Similarly, I have kept very few records of the Press Management Board, apart from records for the year 1991, which happened not to have been thrown out (file 13-15).

There are also records of the 1984 Task Force on Scholarly Publishing set up by Alex Pathy and chaired by John Lyerle (files 6-10) and records of the search for a director to replace Harald Bohne, which ended up with the appointment of George Meadows as the Director and later President of the Press (file 11).

There are two files on my involvement with the Osgoode Society, which started in about 1984. Again, I have kept very few records of the many meetings I attended (files 17 and 18).

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Photographs removed from files in this series have been placed in Series 9: Photographs