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Professor Brian D'Argaville, art historian, was first trained for the priesthood in the Carthusian Order. He took degrees in philosophy and theology at the Angelicum University in Rome and afterwards his M.A. in Medieval History at the University of Toronto in 1963. He taught at the Department of Art, Queen's University, for sixteen years and in 1968-69 was awarded a Canada Council Research Fellowship to commence a catalogue-monograph on Mattia Preti, an undertaking which was still occupying him at the time of his death and which remains unpublished.

Gerald J.J. Tulchinsky was born in in 1933 in Brantford, Ontario, where he completed his schooling. He attended the University of Toronto and McGill University and graduated with a Ph.D. from Toronto in 1971. He taught at Loyola College, Montreal, and the University of Saskatchewan before coming to Queen's in 1966 with his wife, Ruth, and three children. He taught courses on urbanization, the Jewish experience in North America and the Holocaust, in the Department of History, and was also the Director of the Jewish Studies Programme at Queen's from 1999 to 2002. He became Professor Emeritus in 2002. Dr. Tulchinsky's published work includes a two-volume history of the Jews in Canada: Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community (1992) and Branching Out: The Transformation of the Canadian Jewish Community (1998) It also includes Canada's Jews: A People's Journey (2008), which is considered an update on the previous two-volumes. He also has published Joe Salsberg: a Life of Commitment (2013). Dr. Tulchinsky was a member of the Canadian Historical Association, the Association for Jewish Studies and the Canadian Jewish Historical Society and has given numerous papers and commentaries at their meetings as well as at the gatherings of the Canadian Conference on Quantitative Methods and at other historical conferences and colloquia in Canada, Israel and Britain. Dr.Tulchinsky passed away in Kingston, Ontario on December 13, 2017.

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The Vice-Principal Services position was first formed in 1976 with the elimination of the Vice-Principal Administration. This position was now responsible for the Library, computing centre, Student services, Registrar, university services eg printing, parking, space allocation; the residences, housing and property management; cultural services eg Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Performing Arts office, CFRC, Queen’s TV, Donald Gordan Centre, physical plant and campus planning. The first person in this role was H. Morris Love. James Bennett took over this position in 1981 with approximately the same responsibilities. In 1986, Duncan Sinclair became the new Vice-Principal Services. Initially Sinclair was supposed to serve in this position until 1989, but ended up transferring in July 1988 to the Vice-Principal Health Sciences/Dean of Medicine newly combined role. William McLatchie became the new Vice-Principal Services upon Sinclair’s exit, but this position ended up being reorganized shortly thereafter under the title of Vice-Principal Research and Academic Services, thus eliminating Vice-Principal Services.

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Herbert Douglass Short was born in 1909 at Thetford Mines, Quebec. In 1933 he graduated from Queen's University with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. From 1935 to 1960, as a specialist in underground transmission cable systems, Short worked for Canada Wire and Cable (and its subsidiary Fabricon) as Development and then Chief Engineer. As consulting engineer he worked for Lacal Industries, 1963-1967, and Industrial Wire and Cable, 1967-1970. Also, as consulting engineer, he had his own firm from 1960 to his death in 1987.