National Fund - cocktail party at the King Edward Hotel
Date
May 9, 1960
Extent and medium
8 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Views of National Fund workers and lighting sketch artist George Freyer at a cocktail party in the Crystal Ballroom at the King Edward Hotel. The party was hosted by National Fund Co-Chairmen M. Wallace McCutcheon and Neil J. McKinnon to announce the grand total of the National Fund was $15,026,424. George Freyer was invited to draw a series of lighting sketch cartoons to accompany a script by Miss Pat Patterson which told the story of the National Fund.
Title
Victoria College - fundraising telephone campaign
Date
December 12, 1960
Extent and medium
10 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Views of twenty staff and faculty volunteers from Victoria College who collected pledges by telephone on behalf of Victoria's Living Endowment. Included are shots of the volunteers meeting, phoning graduates, and Ralph Albrant, U of T's Director of Development, screwing in a bulb on a Christmas tree. Albrant turned on a new bulb every time the total amount of pledges increased by $25.
Title
Homecoming - Imperial Oil Building
Date
October 30, 1959
Extent and medium
1 negative : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Exterior views of the Imperial Oil Building on St. Clair Avenue West with windows lit up in a pattern that spells out "U of T" in celebration of the beginning of University of Toronto Month.
Title
Varsity Fund campaign - telephone canvassing
Date
March 29, 1960
Extent and medium
5 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Includes shots of Mrs. Isabell Williams, list supervisor in the Department of Development, and Varsity Fund team captains in Simcoe Hall recruiting canvassers to collect pledges for the Varsity Fund from alumni within the Metropolitan Toronto Area in April 1960.
Title
Homecoming - National Fund Breakfast at Hart House
Date
October 31, 1959
Extent and medium
20 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Interior views of Hart House Great Hall where the National Fund breakfast was held. It was one of five National Fund breakfasts held for canvassers as part of the official launch of the campaign. The Hart House breakfast was televised by closed-circuit television to the remaining satellite breakfasts at Victoria College, Trinity College, St. Michael's College, and Howard Ferguson Hall. Included are shots of the head table featuring Toronto Mayor Nathan Phillips, University President Claude Bissel, and National Fund Chairmen N.J. McKinnon, Lt.-Col. W.E. Phillips, and M. W. McCutcheon
