Photographs taken during a meeting of Faculty of Arts and Science Council in Convocation Hall, in 1969. It includes photographs of Council members and participants asking questions to the council.
Title
Pollution Probe - members address meeting at Toronto City Hall
Date
July 07, 1969
Extent and medium
107 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during City of Toronto hearings on the link between the death of ducks on an island in Toronto Harbour and the use of Deazinon (pesticide) by the Metro Toronto Parks Department. This issue mobilized Pollution Probe, a student organization to join forces with a local environmental group - Group Action to Stop Pollution (GASP) - to convene an unofficial inquiry at which these photographs were taken. Commissioners included Dr. Robert McClure, Moderator of the United Church of Canada; Prof. Ernest Sirluck University of Toronto Vice-President and Graduate Dean and Prof. Marshall McLuhan, Director of the University's Center for Culture and Technology. Prof. Donald Chant, chair of the Department of Zoology, a member of Pollution Probes, spoke as a witness at the hearings.
Title
Scarborough College - Exhibit: "Art for Architecture - The Wall"
Date
September 21, 1969
Extent and medium
65 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken at the opening of the exhibit "Art for Architecture - The Wall", a traveling exhibition mounted by the Art Gallery of Ontario, at the Scarborough College "Science Street", in 1969. The exhibit included 33 leading Canadian artists. There were 15 contemporary wall hangings by Micheline Beauchemin, Joni Baker, Charlotte Lindgren, Joyce Weiland, and others; 15 walls of aluminum, ceramics, paintings, posters and sculpture by Michael Snow, Margot Ariss, Merton Chambers, Louis de Niverville, Roy Speirs, among others; and 6 illuminates by Harold Town, John Masciuch, Zbigniew Blazje, Michael Hayden and Margit Gatterbauer. Photographs show artwork as well as artists, visitors, staff members of the College. Also documented are William Withrow and E. G. Bovey of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Miss Anita Aarons, organizer and Wynne Plumptre, principal of the Scarborough College. There are also interior views of Scarborough College.
Title
Fundraising - United Appeal lunch
Date
October 03, 1969
Extent and medium
26 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a United Appeal lunch for funding campaign "Big Give", in 1969. It includes photographs of guests and United Appeal representatives.
Title
University College - Alumnae symposium.
Date
October 17, 1969
Extent and medium
121 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during discussions and presentations that occurred at Hart House during the 1969 Alumnae Symposium on "Challenging the Deep". It includes photographs of attendees.
Title
International Student Centre - House party
Date
May 03, 1968
Extent and medium
21 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a party at the International Student Centre, in 1968. It includes photographs of students dancing, engages in discussions and photos of a band playing music.
Title
International Student Centre - House Party
Date
May 23, 1968
Extent and medium
62 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a party at the International Student Centre, in 1968. It includes photographs of guests engaged in discussions, dancing and musicians playing.
Title
School of Business - photographs taken for brochure
Date
December 11, 1968
Extent and medium
56 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of students attending classes, using the library and other facilities of the School of Business in 1968.
Title
University College - Alumni Dinner
Date
June 06, 1969
Extent and medium
45 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a University College Alumni dinner, in 1969. It includes photographs of guests.
Title
International Student Centre - Katherine D. Riddell barbeque
Date
June 22, 1969
Extent and medium
54 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during Katherine D. Riddell's barbeque at the International Student Centre, in 1969. It includes photographs of international students and Katherine D. Riddell.
Title
Faculty Retirement - Dr. Pidgeon
Date
June 20, 1969
Extent and medium
32 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during the retirement dinner for Dr. Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science in 1969. It includes photographs of Dr. Pidgeon and guests.
Title
Panoramic views of St. George Campus
Date
July 14, 1969
Extent and medium
29 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Includes views of the following buildings: University of Toronto Press Building, Sir Daniel Wilson Residence, Sidney Smith Building, McLennan Physical Laboratories, University College and general views of the front campus.
Title
Commission on University Government - meeting
Date
July 31, 1969
Extent and medium
45 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a meeting of the Commission on University Government (CUG), in September 1969. It includes photographs of Commission members.
Title
School of Nursing - Open House
Date
February 28, 1969
Extent and medium
2 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm and 24 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken at an open house at the School of Nursing. Includes views of a mock spinal injury treatment, prospective students talking to faculty, looking at brochures and handouts
Title
University of Toronto Alumni Association - meeting
Date
May 03, 1969
Extent and medium
88 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a meeting of the University of Toronto Alumni Association, in 1969.
Title
Hart House - shooting of CBC Film
Date
August 26, 1969
Extent and medium
70 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during shooting in Hart House of CBC film "Auctioneer" directed by F. Chapman, in 1969. It includes photographs of film sets, shooting crew and actors.
Title
President Bissell addresses students
Date
September 17, 1968
Extent and medium
36 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 26 negatives: b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Photographs show Claude T. Bissell, University President, welcoming first year student and addressing the student body in Convocation Hall (Opening address). Students greet returning Bissell who was away teaching at Harvard University the previous year. Free watermelon is given to the students prior to the meeting as a form of protest to Bissell's stance on University governance outside of Convocation Hall. Also, included are images of students and tents in front of Hart House representing "Tent City," which is a dramatization of the student housing shortage at the University of Toronto. This issue is further documented in photographs of student crowds in front Convocation Hall being addressed by student leaders.
Title
Scarborough College - Scarborough Fair
Date
September 28, 1968
Extent and medium
35 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during the Scarborough Fair open house activities at University of Toronto Scarborough College in 1968. Includes photographs of students enjoying various activities including a concert. There are also several shots of sculptures of Sorel Etrog on Scarborough College campus.
Title
Marshall McLuhan's Return Party
Date
September 28, 1968
Extent and medium
110 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 2 negatives : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm
Description
Photographs taken during the University of Toronto's "welcome home" reception given in honour of Professor Marshall McLuhan's return from Fordham in 1968. The party was held at the University President's home in Rosedale. Decorations were the works of Professor Peter Pragnell and his team from the Faculty of Architecture. The "God-bless-you-Marshall-McLuhan" buttons were worn by all the guests. Some people in attendance were: Dr. Floyd Chalmers, Chancellor of York, Robert F. Chisholm of Varsity's Board of Governors, Principal Donald Ivey of New College with Sydney Hermant (a U of T governor), and Mrs. Hermant, Professor Peter Pragnell of the Faculty of Architecture, Frank Shuster and his wife, Mrs. Bissell, Johnny Wayne, Principle Wynne Plumptre of Scarborough College, Honourable Mr. Justice Bora Laskin, Rev. J. M. Kelly, President of St. Michael's, Dr. Robertson Davies, Master of Massey College, Dr. D. Carlton Williams, the president of University of Western Ontario and Mrs. Williams, Ernest Sirluck, Morley Callaghan and Professor W.A.C.H. Dobson.
Title
Sports - intramural football and soccer
Date
October 10, 1968
Extent and medium
49 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of football and soccer teams competing during the Varsity's intramural games in 1968. It includes images of Professor John E. McCutcheon, Director of Intramural Athletics as well as football and soccer matches being played on the back campus.
