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Wallace R. Berry (1917-1999) was born and raised in Brantford Ontario. In 1937 he entered Queen's University graduating in 1942. While at Queen's he was coach and instructor for swimming and water polo and it was also during these years that he developed an interest in photography. After his graduation from Queen's, in 1942, Wally Berry entered the Royal Canadian Navy. Following the war Wally worked with a motion picture company in Montreal, Associated Screen News. Later he returned to Kingston and established Cinema Television Productions as an outlet for his ideas, as well as opening a photographic studio. Around 1971, he opened The Village Studio in Photography located in Portsmouth Village at 670 King St West. In addition to portraiture he did some freelance news and aerial photography. In 1951 he was appointed official photographer to the Queen's yearbook. In 1954, in addition to still photography, he began filming and latterly video taping Queen's football games. In fact he pioneered this work and it brought him membership in Queen's Football Hall of Fame, builder category. he was also awarded what is now known as the Padre Laverty Award from the Kingston Branch of the Queen's Alumni Association. He closed up his studios in 1996.

Cockfield, Brown was founded in 1928 by Harry Cockfield and G. Warren Brown, in Montreal, Quebec. Over the next thirty years, it steadily grew to become one of the largest and most prestigious agencies in Canada, with branches in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, serving such clients as Air Canada, Maclean-Hunter, and Canada Packers. In 1970, it became the only advertising agency in Canada to offer its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Although a majority of shares were controlled by its own employees, the company faced a forced merger with McConnell Advertising in 1978, then a hostile takeover in 1981. The attempts of the Board of Directors to repatriate the shares held by outsiders, combined with falling profit margins, drove the agency into bankruptcy in 1982. Robert O'Hara was hired in the mail department of the Toronto branch in 1950. Through no small effort, he rose to the position of vice-president by 1967, and became a director in 1977. In 1981, he resigned from the board and left the company over a matter of principle; he then sued the company for wrongful dismissal by claiming the conditions of his contract had been materially altered. The bulk of the material concerns Mr O'Hara's duties as a director from 1977 to 1981, and his legal battles from 1982 to 1990. While some material discusses the day-to-day operations of the company, most relates to the financial structure of the company and its direction after 1975.

James Milton Courtright, former Vice-Principal (Development and Information) at Queen's University, was born in North Bay, Ontario and raised in Ottawa. He was a graduate of the University of Ottawa and Queen's University. Courtright was an Engineer with Shell Canada, and was a member of the Canadian Olympic Team Berlin 1936, and a Gold Medal javelin thrower in the British Empire Games, Sydney in 1938.

Ford Stuart Strathy was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in Septempber, 1897. He attended Upper Canada College, Trinity College (Port Hope), and the University of Toronto. Ford joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916, and trained in Ontario, England and France. He was killed in action near Nieuport, Belgium, on 17 August 1917.

Born in Bloomfield, Ontario in 1901, Morley C. Tillotson graduated with a B.Com. from Queen's University at Kingston in 1926; and an M.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1929. He was appointed Executive Assistant to the Comptroller and Secretary of the Department of Munitions and Supply in early 1940.

Created by special Act of the Canadian Parliament in September 1939, and brought into force at midnight 8/9 April 1940, the Department of Munitions and Supply carried on and extended the work of its predecessors, the Defence Purchasing Board and the War Supply Board.

During its day - it was folded into the Department of Reconstruction and Supply in late 1945 - this body was responsible for the production of country's mobile fighting force, as well as for the purchase of all supplies for its Armed Services.

For services rendered, Morley C. Tillotson received an M.B.E. in 1947. The following year he returned to Queen's University as Assistant Treasurer. In 1950 he became Treasurer and in 1959 he was appointed Secretary to the University, a post he held until his death in March 1966.

George Vosper, a mechanical engineer, university instructor, inventor and Kingston alderman, was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1923. He was the son of Lewis Vosper, a dentist, and Gretta (Haycock) Vosper. He joined the navy in 1944, and served aboard the HMS Glory until he was discharged in 1945. After the war, George started to study architecture at Dawson College (McGill University), then enrolled in mechanical engineering at Queen's University. He graduated with a BSc in 1953. His first job was with John Inglis, where he tested pumps and turbines for destroyer escorts. He then worked on the Iroquois engine for the Avro Arrow at Orenda Engines in Malton. George taught kinematics and the dynamics of machinery in mechanical engineering and headed the engineering drawing department at Royal Military College from 1955 to 1959. He also worked as an instructor of engineering drawing at Queen's University.

Vosper served as an alderman on Kingston City Council for Sydenham Ward from 1957 to 1963, and 1969 to 1973. During this time, he served on city and regional planning committees. He was instrumental in purchasing the airport for the city, preserving local heritage buildings andthe creation of Confederation Park. He also served on Kingston's Confederation Committee, the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the Eastern Ontario Development Corporation, the Cataraqui Conservation Authority, the Rotary Club and the Builders' Exchange.

George Vosper married Velma Johnston in May 1956. He has invested in real estate throughout the city, and was half-owner of Vandervoort's Hardware from 1983 to 1997.