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File consists of a recording of Alumni Reunion (classes of '17 and '27) interviews.

File consists of a recording of Margaret Angus. Topics of the conversation include TAPE ONE University education as foregone conclusion since childhood; large number of women attending university; parents' belief in higher education, expectation that daughter should maintain high grades, scholarships. Marriage to professor during junior year; family expectation that subject should complete education, outrage at social commiseration,' what a waste of a good education'. Position as faculty wife during final year; amusing relations with mildly disapproving Dean of Women as chaperone of student contemporaries. Student acceptance of limited career opportunities for women; 'put-down' by male law students as sole female non-law student in class. Student concern for campus politics (U. of Montana), lack of interest in national affairs. Transfer to Cornell Univ. with husband and newborn daughter; role supporting husband through doctoral studies; effect of Depression on Cornell, restriction of husband to quarter Assistantship. Employment after birth of second child with Publications Office (Agricultural Dept., Cornell); 'tight living' on joint salaries combined with previous savings, close friendships with other couples in consequence. Cornell as one of three contemporary American universities to offer PhD in Drama. Belief that difficulties would pass; concern for husband's post-doctoral employment, weekly purchase of Sunday New York Times to check for deaths among current us Drama professors. Fear of growing trend toward payment for services in goods not money. Optimism, individual initiative in face of Depression difficulties; freedom from modern weakness of expecting government to solve everything. Lasting inhibition of personal extravagance; lifting of poverty in next situation, indulgence of desire for play-going, etc. Resentment of narrowminded feminine society ('bridge, babies, and recipes') during husband's employment at Teachers' College; transfer to Queen's, contrast of active intellectual atmosphere. Arrival in Kingston after abdication of Edward VIII; apprehension of Royalist Canadian resentment of Americans; self-consciousness of accent, banished at multinational faculty tea. Familiarity with Canada through university course in comparative government, Montana awareness of prairie provinces; impression made by Canada on us as source of alcohol during Prohibition. Postponement of Canadian citizenship till death of patriotic American father; feeling that lack of voting privilege did not restrict important civic activities; application for citizenship (postponed by shock of Kennedy assassination) following research contracts with Canadian government. Vivid recollection of surroundings on hearing of Pearl Harbour bombings; ability of shocking news to imprint visual impressions on memory indelibly. Public approval of inland transfer of Orientals during 'Japanese scare'; blackout measures in Washington, DC; fear for younger brother (in submarine at bottom of Pearl Harbour bay, 'depth charges breaking all around him'). Queen's faculty provision in private homes of accommodation and entertainment for training officers (WWII); amusing evening entertaining trainees, Babel of mixed foreign accents.//Personal involvement in WWII: death of younger brother, daily apprehension for remaining brother. Effect of brother's position as Supreme Commander (Pacific region) in qualifying subject's response to Viet Nam War.; brother's silence on war issues as ideal discreet officer. Scorn for inexperienced, irresponsible criticism of Viet Nam war effort; approval of criticism in conjunction with active political responsibility; feeling that many critics didn't accept their share of the burden and the blame, expected solutions to be 'handed to them on a platter'. Queen's control of student reaction to Viet Nam war owing to excellent communication, quick transfer of educated opinion in small community. Queen's Drama Dept. during husband's chairmanship; ambitious student production schedule; subject's love of sewing, challenging work in costume design. Close relationship with Drama students. Campus fame of costume help as 'sticky bun crowd', source of several student romances. Student recollections of subject's kindness, visits to 'Doc and Mrs. A' in Kingston; sizeable Angus 'Christmas letter list'; 'nice warm feeling' of being so affectionately regarded, frequently visited. Successful 'team' relationship with husband; continuous engagement in historical interests, stimulated by move to Kingston; incessant writing of historical short stories, plays, scripts for radio; surrender of full-time radio station job (after husband's retirement) to make time for writing work, ironic discovery that more demands were made on her as an informally employed woman than when she had work. Current 'peak' in personal activity (past age 70) as certainly enjoyable, sometimes tiring. Involvement in radio: writing work, Queen's summer course in radio work originated by husband, attended by staff of esc; responsibility for entertaining CBC students. Decision to challenge extent of personal abilities in radio; 11-year Directorship of CFRC (offered by Queen's administration alarmed by degenerate tendencies in Engineering students' broadcasting). Initial student resentment of subject's high standards, changing to dedicated enthusiasm; original work done by students for no official credit; excellent work of female students involved, including technical operations. Kingston as an 'historic goldmine'; astonishment at people who take it for granted, travel to Charleston to see what they ignore here. Queen's Prof. Rex Trotter's suggestion of local material as an unexplored source for subject's novel-writing activities. Positions as President of Ontario Historical Society, first female President of Kingston Historical Society; scatheless involvement as sole female representative in many official capacities - it's pretty hard to put me down'. Concern as newly-elected President to alter Toronto-based character of OHS; travels to chapters throughout Ontario, reputation as 'crusader for involvement'. Sensation of loneIiness as sole female committee member, soon conquered; position as sole female participant in Ontario Heritage Act deliberations at Toronto's exclusive York Club, required as woman to enter by side door, appointed to OHA Board nonetheless. Receipt of Heritage Canada's first travelling award for contribution to preservation of historic buildings. Conclusion (as executive/board member of countless historical associations) that despite conclusions of younger members, exciting progress is being made. Desire not to be identified as 'women's libber' despite recognition of sexist discrimination; doubt as to gains made by women's movement, opinion that some notorious feminists act the role through inability to do much else.//TAPE TWO Necessity to be 'better' in various capacities than male counterparts; approval of male colleagues' identification of her approach as 'masculine' (i.e. realistic, practical). Tendency of women active in historical preservation programmes to damage causes through blind idealism; contribution of Depression experience to subject's successful 'masculine' approach. Effect of personal success on daughter, granddaughters; closer proximity to daughter's outlook on life than to mother's. Importance of realistic estimate of personal talents and limitations; limitless fund of subject's ambitions within the range of her own abilities. Doubtful value of excessive introspection; importance of taking responsibility for personal happiness, working to achieve goals; own experience of disappointments, good sense not to dwell on them.

File consists of a recording of Elizabeth Bagshaw. Topics of the conversation include secret decision to study medicine; registration with male students at U of T. medical school. Drs. Stowe, Trout, Henderson, Cullen. Father's death; co-practice in Toronto with Dr. Skinner Gordon. Removal to Hamilton, 1906, as fill-in for Mabel Henderson. Rental horse-and-rig for housecalls; playing tricks on horse-proud Jack Griffith. Use of bicycle for frequent night-calls, maternity calls; VON assistance at home births. Depression period; establishment of birth control clinic, 1932. Adoption of John, despite restrictive adoption policies (no single women, women over 40). Disapproval of unmarried co-habitation, too many abortions. Bringing round St. Joseph's Hospital staff to accept work in birth control; Catholic bishop's annual graduation harangue against planned parenthood workers as 'devils and heretics'; Quebec as example of effective planned parenthood. Fundraising teas for birth control clinic, participation of Hamilton social elite; absence of legal interference with birth control work. Early women doctors in Hamilton; female doctors' preference for urban practices; failure of women's medical societies. Deaths of Drs Davis and Henderson. Discrimination against Toronto female doctors by male colleagues; foundation of Toronto Women's Medical College. Enjoyment of Hamilton status as 'one of the boys'. Disagreement with male colleague. Dislike of John Munro. Women's medical schools at Toronto and Queen's; Hamilton as leader in preventive medicine; doubtful value of much current medical research. //Subject's recent ailments, cures; recent poor experience in hospital. Approval of OHIP and Canadian medical working conditions. Former professional expectation that female doctors would quit upon marriage. Dr. Shortt. Social activities, work with Canadian Federation of Medical Women. Dr. McVean. Holiday travels. Why women study nursing, not medicine: to marry doctors. Opinion that nurses performed better in old days; description of former inferior equipment and supplies.

File consists of a recording of Annie Baker. Topics of the conversation include Queen's women's residence houses, forerunners to residences proper; subject as housemother (responsible to warden) at Macdonnell House, population of 15 students. Residence restrictions; closeness of residence staff to students neighbourly attitude no longer felt among students since university expansion. Comparative poverty of students then: basic wardrobe of a few skirts, pairs of shoes; absence of radios. Close tabs kept on students. University as a sexual meeting ground, possible source of exciting marriages. Independence of present day students, friendly dependency of earlier residents. 'Fanatic' religious group on campus (1960s) led by Donald Wilson. Dramatic, dangerous orientation pranks, since reduced to level of simple fun. Protected farm life during Depression years. Work at Alcan during WWII ; hiring of women by the thousand during labour shortage, placement according to weight; happy integration of male and female workers. Postwar lay-off of female workers; rehiring priority accorded to single female workers. Varying degrees of education achieved by siblings, according to whether or not they were wanted on the farm; subject's sole educational regret that she is not bilingual. Assumption of part-time work at Queen's as children reached school age; co-ordination of family and work schedules. Opinion that degree of Depression poverty depended on individual drive; social problem of laziness then, high job expectations now. Arrival in Kingston (1941). Canadian sense of security during WWII; dutiful feeling of subject's enlisted acquaintances. Veteran loan benefits. Obloquy attached to conscientious objection; lingering resentment of French Canadian war resistance. Red Cross volunteer-work, knitting of mittens with special hand-openings. 'Do without' upbringing of subject's generation, dependence on luxuries of youth today; difficulty of return to more basic existence (e.g. fuel economy); harm done by credit card economy. Experience as housewife, neighbour; childcare co-operation among neighbourhood mothers; dangers inherent in women's coffee-party syndrome. Rising standard of living in 1940s, 1950s, current economic inflation; expectation of sudden economic 'crash'. Church attendance, concern that children should be given religious instruction; religion as an out­moded social need given today's money, leisure, mobility. Inability of working mothers to transmit basic home-making skills to younger generation; 'craft hunger' of today's young, desire to regain skills of foremothers. Stimulation of return to work (1960), enjoyed as an opportunity for decision-making. Satisfaction with working life; value of experience as cleaning lady in contributing to sense of fair play as supervisor. Replacement of residence houses in 1960s development of Victoria Hall womens' residence, hectic conditions of fall opening. Residence custom of student visits with parents in 'Parents' Room'; gradual relaxation of restrictions in response to student protest. Problems of student uppitiness with cleaning staff, usually resolved by time, discussion. Change in woman's educational aims from marriage-goal to career-motivation. Sad phenomenon of divorces in 1950s caused by educated male's spurning of ignorant woman who dropped education to put him through college. Easy attitude to equal career opportunities for women. Feeling that marriages thrive on variety (lawyers shouldn't marry lawyers). Kingston city expansion; city resentment of rural workers taking additional work in factories; agitation by university dependents against admission of industry to Kingston. Sizeable Kingston boardinghouse business lost to university residences. Dedication required of farming candidates, now lacking; loss of family farms through children's preference for spendable money, freedom, rather than committed time, invested riches. Female night-duty residence desk staff. Change in motivation for attending university from brilliant dedication to mere necessity to fill in time. Change in pattern of university attendance: former custom of obtaining university credits after attending Faculty of Education, by attending summer school (thus requiring decades of work to obtain degree); current receipt of teacher training after BA degree, hence dwindling status of summer school. Teachers' current disillusionment with teaching, discipline problems, problems with uncooperative parents; sharp contrast with subject's upbringing 'to mind the teacher and do as we were told.'

File consists of a recording of Bertha Bassam. Topics of the conversation include family background. Converting Queen's library to Library of Congress system; work for librarian Lois Saunders. Extramural courses at Queen's, two years full study while coping with illness. Sunday night political discussions at subject's home, 1922. Charlotte Whitton's loyalty, outspokenness; 'her own worst enemy'. Barriefield area during ww1; Armistice Day, 'flu epidemic. Attendance Pratt Institute of Library Sciences. Abortive trip into disreputable New York district: young women reprimanded by fatherly policeman. Class distinctions, prejudices, in Princeton; work at Princeton University Library. Position at Columbia University Library, $1800 annual salary. Selection to work for new University of Toronto Library Sciences school. Offer to join Pratt Institute as Assistant Director, satisfied decision to remain with Toronto. University of Western Ontario's ill-advised library programme.//Male assumption of library administrative positions, despite larger numbers of female graduates; need to encourage women into supervisory positions; women's career-destructive anxiety to please men, fear of criticising. Subject's dislike of 'battling' women's libbers: support of equal opportunity for women, strong support of position of mothers at home. Male, female attributes as largely the result of conditioning. Claude Bissell. Importance of courtesy as a social lubricant. Queen's Alumni parties at Canadian Club, New York. Volunteer work during WWII. Subject's character as Director, respect for colleagues, appreciation of high level of cooperation. Generous proportion of women on U.of T. Senate; subject's opinion that women have not been inhibited by male majorities. Activities prior to retirement: YWCA National Board, American and Canadian Library Associations, etc. Mother's gentle criticism of subject's reticence, importance of formula 'you can't do it' as a goading stimulus. Work at University of Michigan under brilliant director. Career success as the result of opportunities and encouragement, not ambition.

File consists of a recording of Marjorie Bates. Topics of the conversation include childhood in Prince Edward County; enrolment at Queen's following family tradition. Resistance to Ban Righ regulations after lenient years at YWCA, Hen Coop; close affiliation of women residents with male rugby team. Determined social life, desirability of attending all dances; general introduction of men to women at Freshmen's Reception, Grant Hall. Superficial assessment of dates by looks, dancing; moral firmness, abhorrence of 'sordid' advances likely to spoil the fun; appreciation of 'pure fun' feeling that lasts a lifetime. Lack of participation in student politics, feeling that students are too young to handle them. University socializing at that time as leading perhaps to engagement, not to marriage. Subject's engagement, later broken; mother's insistence that she not marry while ignorant of the household arts; year's attendance at MacDonald Institute, Guelph, splendid education in domestic, dietetic skills. Employment as private dietician for sanatorium, movie director's wife, while staying in Los Angeles; return home at parents' bidding. Attendance at Ontario College of Education; six years' enjoyable teaching (1930-36), marriage to school principal. OCE warning that 50% of students would not get jobs. EngIish instruction at Port Arthur Collegiate; position at Burlington Central High; enthusiastic participation in dramatic events, continued with pleasure after retirement: newspaper article 'Goodbye Mrs.Chips' following husband's retirement (1964). Subject's philosophy of education: belief in exams, standards, as preparation for life; dislike of 'open concept' schooling as too confusing, distracting for discussion purposes. Mental backbone of her generation, despite frivolity; 'tough' quality compared with today's coddled students. Ten-year gap between subject's graduation, marriage; lack of parental pressure to marry. Grant Hall as focal point of Queen's experience, site of examinations, initiation, dances, etc. Initiation programme, later abolished due to one participant's heart failure. Initiation psychology: emotional impact of two weeks' subservience to seniors, public ridicule, ending in formal acceptance by seniors at Candlelighting service; tremendous bonds formed as result of ordeal. All-night formals at Grant Hall, glories of a by-gone era; disappointment of gym formal 5 years later. Subject as founding member of flourishing Burlington Arts and Letters Society; volunteer involvement with United Church Women of Canada; 12-year participation, presidency, in Joseph Brant Hospital Auxiliary.

Joseph Brant pre-operative programme for children, leading up to hospital experience. Possible role of hospital Auxiliary in heart resuscitation education: present-day need for life-saving skills, subject's desire to 'train the whole town'. Male participation in Auxiliary. Subject's belief in strict supervision of volunteers, rules preventing them from helping patients in natural ways leading to accidents, liability. Decade of frequent travel, effectively distancing husband from work after retirement. Home study preparation for travel; enjoyment of Africa, Scandinavia; designing trips as immersion into national culture, home­ life. Subject's feeling of having experienced everything in life at the right time: high school when attitudes were healthy; college without drugs, alcohol; teaching when the students were receptive; travel when places now barred/blown up were still accessible. Strong feeling that high school students aren't prepared for, shouldn't have to cope with, pressures such as social dope-pushing. Lesson of Depression years that current 'bureaucratic spending spree' won't work. Husband's citizenship award, 'Man of the Year'; portrait commissioned by students, scholarship founded in his name.

File consists of a recording of Clara Brooke. Topics of the conversation include TAPE ONE Queen's University Principal's residence (Summerhill) seen through eyes of child visitor (early 1900s): Scottish Victorian atmosphere under Principal Gordon. Wilhelmina Gordon as sociable bluestocking, good sportswoman; dual responsibility as university lecturer in English, house chatelaine for widowed father. Prominence of Theological College in university affairs. Grandfather (Very Rev. Malcolm Macgillivray) as Queen's graduate, Minister of Chalmers Church, Kingston (1893-1927); position as Moderator of Presbyterian Church of Canada (1915), service to ecumenical movement (United Church of Canada); assistance to Principal Grant during Queen's great fundraising drive. Bursaries awarded to student nominees of contributors to Principal Grant's fund drive. Teenage acquaintance with Principal Bruce Taylor's family, 'a rowdy, zestful, humorous lot': female children's accomplishments, later ambitious careers (law, dietetics, music); Mrs. Taylor's mental illness, death; importation from Scotland of Principal's sister as indomitable mistress of Summerhill. Enrolment at Queen's; concentration on social life, theatricals, to detriment of studies; determination (against father's wishes) to transfer standing to McGill, finish degree in dietetics; interim year at Queen's achieving science course prerequisites. Father as Queen's grad, Kingston lawyer, police magistrate, member of Queen's Dominion Championship football team. Founding of Kingston Juvenile Court by women founders of Ban Righ women's residence (Mrs. Harry Lavell, Anne Campbell Macgillivray, Marion Redden, Mrs. Arthur Clark). Sunday social routine of Queen's students (after-church dinner at manse or professors' houses); enlightening nature of home visits (e.g. for rural students), contrast with today's restaurant socializing. Summer 'loafing', sporting habits of women students; Taylor family as excellent sailors, daughter's high-diving accomplishments. Utilization of Queen's buildings for WWI military purposes. Superior, aggressive stance of WWI veteran freshmen: science men's 'great fights', 'a tough lot'. 'Thés dansants' social entertainments ('the only French word we ever used'); student theatrical revues, dramatic excellence of Prof. Hicks' wife. Degree course in dietetics at Macdonaid College (McGill Univ.); physics instruction in practical applied science (changing fuses); stimulation of ambitious fellow-students, revealed meaning of true studying. Boarding-school attendance in Toronto during WWI. Summer tour of Great Britain, western Europe: sociable third-­class voyage by ship, impression of lonely first-class travellers' envy. Male students' summer employment on oceanfaring cattleboats. Employment as dietician in Presbyterian Hospital, New York; complicated individual menu calculations for diabetic patients (abhorrent sense of forcefeeding) during period of American assimilation of Canadian discoveries in insulin research. joyous experience of New York: International Students' House conviviality, Greenwich Village arts and crafts quarter. Employment as first Dietician, Queen's Student Memorial Union; special table (steak diet) for football players, catering services for campus dinners, use of radiators (Grant Hall) as warming platters. Happy participation in Queen's Faculty Players, typecasting as company 'ingenue'. //Artistic beauty of Summerhill home during Principal Fyfe's residence; Mrs. Fyfe's exceptional organisational abilities (planning furniture arrangements of Summerhill before removal from English home, sending plans ahead), 'Japanese eye' for interior light and space, flower-arranging artistry. Grandmother's hospitable compassion as minister's wife throughout Depression. Holiday abroad after quitting Students' Memorial Union; marriage to Queen's Associate Professor Reginald Jackson (1934), transfer to University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Sense of Canadian identity; poor social apprehension of Quebec (1930s), bewilderment at Quebecois self-distinction as 'French' Canadians. Men's snowshoeing parties to Wolfe Island for winter sport (father's generation). Aspect of Edinburgh streets during WWII; Edinburgh women's census, shock of encountering stratum of Edinburgh population her own age, noting the range in health, poverty; Edinburgh tenement conditions, health, breaking labour of women transporting laundry to public washhouses and back. Conscientious objection during WWII: anti-Franco pacifist element, Scottish nationalist objectors; fear of invasion, heightening public scorn for 'malingerers'. Husband's position in Home Guard, premature death in 1946. Return to Kingston with two children, residence with 80-year-old father; discouraging experience of having to 'shut off' recent Scottish experience, dredge up former knowledge of Kingston society, adopt its interests. Intellectual isolation as widow; wish that women would share their husbands for general conversation, 'good talk'. Ban Righ Board membership: Adelaide Hall women's residence building campaign, 'great women' co-workers Thelma Bogart, Emily Graham, May Chown, Mary Chown; Alumnae women's 'superlative job of voluntary work' from Ban Righ fundraising onwards; Alumnae retention of Adelaide project despite university administrative attempts at takeover. Principal Wallace's 'kindly, whimsical humour', friendly chairmanship of Ban Righ Board, role as financial middleman between donor R.S. Maclaughlin, Ban Righ Board executive. Initial meeting with Vibert Douglas. Jean Royce interview with 'poor prospect' freshman: encouraging ability to draw him out, 'I've never been talked to like that by anyone'. Mrs. Wallace's perception of need for Faculty Women's Club: campaign efforts following WWII, while maintaining heavy routine hospitality at Summerhill; FWC cultural programmes, daily tea service for male student-faculty informal discussions. Preference for lighthearted, 'impromptu' university atmosphere during 1920s; personal happiness during Fyfe regime (instructive social life, membership in Faculty Players). TAPE TWO Son's quick adaptation to Canada (through having to learn to skate, play hockey); daughter's trials as 'bumptious Scot', solved much later by Queen's enrolment, Philosophy major under Prof. Sandy Duncan. Son's position as Professor of English, Victoria College, Univ. of Toronto; daughter's position with Faculty of Philosophy, Leeds Univ., England. 'Disturbing' tendency of modern films to 'belittle' characters, be disrespectful. Sympathy with women's movement, defence of its 'natural' occasional blatancy, overstepping of limits. Crusade to save Kingston Grand Opera House from demolition for downtown carpark; years' efforts (1960-5) at fundraising, renovation; difficulty sustaining townspeople's interests, 'small group' resuscitation efforts directed by subject and Mrs.John Delahaye; victory, supported by Symphony, attacked by sectors of town, university. Subject's fascination for former Kingston Theatre of her childhood, concern to protect Grand Theatre for younger generations.

File consists of a recording of Clara Brooke. Topics of the conversation include TAPE ONE Queen's University Principal's residence (Summerhill) seen through eyes of child visitor (early 1900s): Scottish Victorian atmosphere under Principal Gordon. Wilhelmina Gordon as sociable bluestocking, good sportswoman; dual responsibility as university lecturer in English, house chatelaine for widowed father. Prominence of Theological College in university affairs. Grandfather (Very Rev. Malcolm Macgillivray) as Queen's graduate, Minister of Chalmers Church, Kingston (1893-1927); position as Moderator of Presbyterian Church of Canada (1915), service to ecumenical movement (United Church of Canada); assistance to Principal Grant during Queen's great fundraising drive. Bursaries awarded to student nominees of contributors to Principal Grant's fund drive. Teenage acquaintance with Principal Bruce Taylor's family, 'a rowdy, zestful, humorous lot': female children's accomplishments, later ambitious careers (law, dietetics, music); Mrs. Taylor's mental illness, death; importation from Scotland of Principal's sister as indomitable mistress of Summerhill. Enrolment at Queen's; concentration on social life, theatricals, to detriment of studies; determination (against father's wishes) to transfer standing to McGill, finish degree in dietetics; interim year at Queen's achieving science course prerequisites. Father as Queen's grad, Kingston lawyer, police magistrate, member of Queen's Dominion Championship football team. Founding of Kingston Juvenile Court by women founders of Ban Righ women's residence (Mrs. Harry Lavell, Anne Campbell Macgillivray, Marion Redden, Mrs. Arthur Clark). Sunday social routine of Queen's students (after-church dinner at manse or professors' houses); enlightening nature of home visits (e.g. for rural students), contrast with today's restaurant socializing. Summer 'loafing', sporting habits of women students; Taylor family as excellent sailors, daughter's high-diving accomplishments. Utilization of Queen's buildings for WWI military purposes. Superior, aggressive stance of WWI veteran fresh­ men: science men's 'great fights', 'a tough lot'. 'Thés dansants' social entertainments ('the only French word we ever used'); student theatrical revues, dramatic excellence of Prof. Hicks' wife. Degree course in dietetics at Macdonaid College (McGill Univ.); physics instruction in practical applied science (changing fuses); stimulation of ambitious fellow-students, revealed meaning of true studying. Boarding-school attendance in Toronto during WWI. Summer tour of Great Britain, western Europe: sociable third­class voyage by ship, impression of lonely first-class travellers' envy. Male students' summer employment on oceanfaring cattleboats. Employment as dietician in Presbyterian Hospital, New York; complicated individual menu calculations for diabetic patients (abhorrent sense of forcefeeding) during period of American assimilation of Canadian discoveries in insulin research. joyous experience of New York: International Students' House conviviality, Greenwich Village arts and crafts quarter. Employment as first Dietician, Queen's Student Memorial Union; special table (steak diet) for football players, catering services for campus dinners, use of radiators (Grant Hall) as warming platters. Happy participation in Queen's Faculty Players, typecasting as company 'ingenue'. //Artistic beauty of Summerhill home during Principal Fyfe's residence; Mrs. Fyfe's exceptional organisational abilities (planning furniture arrangements of Summerhill before removal from English home, sending plans ahead), 'Japanese eye' for interior light and space, flower-arranging artistry. Grandmother's hospitable compassion as minister's wife throughout Depression. Holiday abroad after quitting Students' Memorial Union; marriage to Queen's Associate Professor Reginald Jackson (1934), transfer to University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Sense of Canadian identity; poor social apprehension of Quebec (1930s), bewilderment at Quebecois self-distinction as 'French' Canadians. Men's snowshoeing parties to Wolfe Island for winter sport (father's generation). Aspect of Edinburgh streets during WWII; Edin­ burgh women's census, shock of encountering stratum of Edinburgh population her own age, noting the range in health, poverty; Edinburgh tenement conditions, health­ breaking labour of women transporting laundry to public washhouses and back. Conscientious objection during WWII: anti-Franco pacifist element, Scottish nationalist objectors; fear of invasion, heightening public scorn for 'malingerers'. Husband's position in Home Guard, premature death in 1946. Return to Kingston with two children, residence with 80-year-old father; discouraging experience of having to 'shut off' recent Scottish experience, dredge up former know­ ledge of Kingston society, adopt its interests. Intellectual isolation as widow; wish that women would share their husbands for general conversation, 'good talk'. Ban Righ Board membership: Adelaide Hall women's residence building campaign, 'great women' co-workers Thelma Bogart, Emily Graham, May Chown, Mary Chown; Alumnae women's 'superlative job of voluntary work' from Ban Righ fundraising onwards; Alumnae retention of Adelaide project despite university administrative attempts at takeover. Principal Wallace's 'kindly, whimsical humour', friendly chairmanship of Ban Righ Board, role as financial middleman between donor R.S. Maclaughlin, Ban Righ Board executive. Initial meeting with Vibert Douglas. Jean Royce interview with 'poor prospect' freshman: encouraging ability to draw him out, 'I've never been talked to like that by anyone'. Mrs. Wallace's perception of need for Faculty Women's Club: campaign efforts following WWII, while maintaining heavy routine hospitality at Summerhill; FWC cultural programmes, daily tea service for male student-faculty informal discussions. Preference for lighthearted, 'impromptu' university atmosphere during 1920s; personal happiness during Fyfe regime (instructive social life, membership in Faculty Players). TAPE TWO Son's quick adaptation to Canada (through having to learn to skate, play hockey); daughter's trials as 'bumptious Scot', solved much later by Queen's enrolment, Philosophy major under Prof. Sandy Duncan. Son's position as Professor of English, Victoria College, Univ. of Toronto; daughter's position with Faculty of Philosophy, Leeds Univ., England. 'Disturbing' tendency of modern films to 'belittle' characters, be disrespectful. Sympathy with women's movement, defence of its 'natural' occasional blatancy, overstepping of limits. Crusade to save Kingston Grand Opera House from demolition for downtown carpark; years' efforts (1960-5) at fundraising, renovation; difficulty sustaining townspeople's interests, 'small group' resuscitation efforts directed by subject and Mrs.John Delahaye; victory, supported by Symphony, attacked by sectors of town, university. Subject's fascination for former Kingston Theatre of her childhood, concern to protect Grand Theatre for younger generations.

File consists of a recording of Helen Brunton. Topics of the converstation include TAPE ONE Role in women's affairs at Univ. of Saskatchewan. Employment as 'ball of fire' reorganiser of local YWCA (Depression period): unguarded women's residence, communal dining facilities, 'I was always about forty years ahead of my time'. Decline in YWCA religious role 'to lead young women into personal loyalty to Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord'. Detailed humorous account of self-surrender to God with pre­ war Oxford Group Movement: personal situation at time of surrender (guilt-ridden, 'heading for a beautiful nervous breakdown', jeopardising successful job); suggestion of Ox­ford Group Movement 'cure' by United Church minister, 1933. Self-measurement against standards of absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love; prescribed 'sharing' of sins; huge relief of absolution, 'the load went off'; surrender to God's guidance, practical meditation; facing up to dishonesty of personal relations, confession of true feelings to boyfriend, mother; happy pragmatic assessment, "it worked". Pressured work at YWCA, misunderstandings, unsatisfactory social life; transfer to Toronto (armed with references from R.B. Bennett, local mayor, Member of Parliament), employment as staff writer for Robert Simpson Co. Divine urge to 'go east', acquaintance with Queen's grad Ray Brunton; idyllic marriage, despite middle age, depression weariness, staccato production of children; premature death of husband 12 years later. Supportive offer of farmhouse by husband's relatives; happy four-year rustic existence; need of paying job. Interview with Queen's Registrar Jean Royce, persuasion to drop Royal Military College librarianship offer in favour of work at Queen's. //Employment as medical librarian (Summerhill); excellence as reference librarian, despite lack of training ('just up my alley, and I loved it'); transfer as Supervisor to Reserve Room, Douglas Library, to make way for professional librarian. Excellent rapport with Reserve Room staff, successful cooperative approach to problems; post­retirement friendships with former employees, happy memories of Queen's. Father as English immigrant, graduate of Guelph School of Agriculture, supervisor of Oakville fruit farm; mother as UE Loyalist descendant, schoolteacher; subject's West Indian childhood, parents' failing health, transfer to 'Golden West' (near Saskatoon); vivid recollection of prairie landscape, still revered as ideal territory. Distinction between Canadian Easterners, Westerners; identification with Westerners, their grievances with Ottawa; friendly frontier nature of West, distrustful establishment nature of East. Social Credit victory, Premier Bill Eberhardt (report from IBM employee, 'I've never dealt with such an honest government'); local admiration for Woodsworth. 'Household word' status of Nellie McClung; meaningful acquaintance with Violet McNaughton, 'a real power in the grain growers' movement'; memory of father soaking mother's feet after mother's excursions on behalf of women's suffrage. Poor legal status of prairie women despite working status as husbands' partners; inability to claim after husband's death. Focus of local schooling on English­language instruction for Russian immigrants; canoe trip across Saskatchewan River, two-mile walk, four-mile ride to school for English-speaking children; ringing howl of coyotes on return ride. Attendance at ladies' boarding school (Prince Albert) under Principal Virtue; at Univ. of Saskatchewan; at Havergal (Toronto); at normal school; rural school-teaching appointment, Saskatchewan (1922). TAPE TWO Announcement of WWI by breathless rider; parents' tense reception of news; uncle's seeming exemption as cattle farmer; neighbourhood prize skater returned from war minus a leg yet continuing to practice. Preoccupation with motherhood during WWII (no enlisted loved ones to be concerned for); sharing of extra rationed supplies; husband's fascination for following broadcast news developments. Hardworking enjoyment of early motherhood. "Eldest son's motorcycle accident, brain damage, followed by second son's accident, while subject was working ('we just had a mad house for about ten years'); eldest son's recovery, successful career. Loneliness resulting from dispersed family; travel-cure; revelatory impact of Herb and Judy Claire's Backpacking Abroad, membership in Globetrotters Club (London, England); trip to England, camping sidetour to Greece. Love of casual group travel, 'common' people; preferred travel by bus, not train; wonderful acquaintances, lasting friendships, made through travel; club membership 'The Ulyssians'. Mother's attempts to help out during hard times, underpaid employment as married female worker, restricted to substitute teaching only: 'she felt it, but I wasn't aware of any bitterness'. Unequal pay for equal work of YMCA-YWCA throughout Depression (subject's unusually healthy salary); obscuring of women's rights issue by human rights issue (all salaries should be higher, this is clearly impossible, why even think of agitating for higher women's salaries only?); submission to circumstances. Militant organisation as the sine qua non of success of social rights movements. Vocal female participation in public affairs, 1930s. Switch from outside career to married life (aet. 35); fulfillment in marriage, intellectual upbringing under husband's guidance. //Discussion of books supplied by husband, membership in Fabian-socialist-oriented Left Book Club (contrast with former conservative outlook). Total childcare responsibility: husband's role as breadwinner, thinking companion. Willingness to remarry now, poverty of choice amongst septagenarians. Unparalleled physical vigour following research into sound nutrition (former anaemic constitution); need for expanded nutritional education programmes. Advocacy of equal-parenting marital relation­ ships, improved system of daycare; desirability for men's own sakes of educating boys in domestic science. Dismay at younger generation's esteem for alcohol. Belief that every personal act is critical, either right or wrong. Envious admiration of today's 'marvellous' young people, regret for victims of same generation. Youth-worship in western cultures, shameful casting aside of widows. Value of parents' insistence on social participation, with or without company: 'if I was to go, I went, and I went alone; and after a while I lost my fear of being alone'. Ambition to author book encouraging senior citizens to shed inhibitions, to travel; poster-saying, 'You can fly, but that cocoon has got to go!'. Free time as her generation's old-age luxury. 'Getting right with God' as critical liberating act of one's lifetime; importance of seeing through materialism, laying up treasure in heaven. Membership in Millhaven Penitentiary 'Black Culture Group', organised by prison members.

File consists of a recording of Beatrice Bryce. Topics of the conversation include Increase in female student population at Queen's. Achievements as Dean of Women: changes in childishly restrictive, complicated residence regulations; advocacy of student representation on Ban Righ Board. Strength of Queen's Women's Residences Council, Queen's Alumnae; Alumnae interest in Ban Righ. Residence life as it supports and protects academic excellence. Demands made on subject's 24-hour availability for student consultation. Subject as 'a very maternal dean'; women's growing self-reliance, necessitating change in role. Subject as founder, Canadian Association of Women Deans and Advisors. Expansion of residences, crowding difficulties: packing in students 14 to a room at beginning of term. Attitude to women's lib movement; concern for female students under heavy sexual pressure in freshman year; birth control, abortion, pregnancy in residence, putting out children for adoption. Lack of student rebellion at Queen's (1960s) as result of good student-faculty communication. Housing issue. Sense of enjoyment and power working with men. Dean of Women as a non­ academic position. Equal opportunity for women in graduate studies as an accomplished fact; female representation in student government, Alma Mater Society. Early career, enjoyment of teaching; enforced retirement upon marriage, 1936; career resumption after death of husband, invitation to teach at Queen's. Early decision to teach, parents' encouragement to attend university. Major contribution of women's sorority to student life at U. of T., continuing influence on subject's work habits. Changes in women's prospects, expectations; career-marriage combinations; unusual contact as U. of T. student with pregnant professor. Marital feelings about dependency on husband. Improving effect of marriage on teaching: learning to think of student above all, not of self. Daughter, granddaughter. Subject as Chairman, Kingston Board of Education. Husband's work with Alcan, leading to happy residence in Kingston. Saner relations between male and female residences as result of WRC work, co-educational living in general; former 'panty­ raids'. Single sex residences at Queen's, natural evolvement of co-educational dining. Continued contact with former students. European travel. Art appreciation, gallery tours. Post-retirement work: Board of Trustees, McArthur Advisory Board. Queen's Faculty of Education, present plight of teaching graduates. Inevitability of university career-orientation. Old hiring prejudice in favour of male teachers; market tightness caused by shortage of schools. Difficulty of Noranda mines issue (reinvestment in Chile) for Queen's students, Board of Trustees.