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J.W. Hay was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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B.A. Hay was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Peter Haworth (1889-1986), a painter, artist in stained glass and teacher of art, was born in Oswaltwistle, Lancashire, England and decided early on a career in art. He studied at the Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. It was at the Royal school that Peter met fellow student Zema Cogill. He obtained an A.R.C.A. degree from the University of London. In 1923 Peter and Bobs were married and moved to Toronto where Peter's employment as a teacher of art at the Central Technical School would mark the beginning of a teaching career that would last until 1955. Peter and Bobs also shared a career as painters, especially in water colours. At home , they maintained separate studios but frequently showed together at galleries across Canada. In 1943 the National Gallery of Canada commissioned the Haworths to tour Canada painting the war effort, especially at naval and airforce bases. Their painting shows a progression from representational to abstract style.

Zema (Bobs) Cogill Haworth (1900-1988), an artist, moved from Queenston, South Africa to attend the Royal College of Art in England in 1919. She obtained her A.R.C.A. degree from the University of London. She married Peter Haworth in 1923, and they moved to Toronto. Bobs Cogill Haworth taught ceramics at the Central Technical School in Toronto, Ontario. Peter and Bobs also shared a career as painters, especially in water colours. At home , they maintained separate studios but frequently showed together at galleries across Canada. In 1943 the National Gallery of Canada commissioned the Haworths to tour Canada painting the war effort, especially at naval and airforce bases. Their painting shows a progression from representational to abstract style.

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James Edwin (Ed) Hawley was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1897, and attended Queen's University at Kingston, where he received his B.A (1918) and M.A (1920). He obtained his PhD in 1926 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1929, Hawley returned to Queen's and became professor and Head of the Department of Mineralogy, until 1949, when this Department merged with the Department of Geology to form the Departrment of Geological Sciences. The year before he had established the Spectrographic Lab, and in 1949, he alsoa ccepted the Miller memorial Research Chair, succedding the recently deceased E.L. Bruce, a positon he held until his resignation in 1963. Hawley's areas of study ranged from petroleum geology to interpretive mineralogy in which he studied the affects of transportation and deposit on the condition of minerals. In 1955, the mineral Hawleyite was named after him. In retirement, he continued his interest in some of his original post graduate students, as well as maintaining memberships in various geological organization. J.E. Hawley passed away in 1965, in Arizona.