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Title: Open house for Household Science and the Division of Rehabilitation Medicine
Date: February 17, 1960|February 18, 1960
Extent and medium: 42 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Views from several open houses including "Pots and Bots" by Household Science, the Faculty of Medicine's Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, "The Application of Botany to Every Day Life" by Botany, and Chemistry or Engineering. Includes shots of guests attending demonstrations and exhibits, Household Science students modeling dresses that they designed and made for a class project, and Joanne Valiant (021 and 022) demonstrating rehabilitation treatment techniques on children.

Title: A. S. P. Woodhouse honoured
Date: February 7, 1961
Extent and medium: 1 negative : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description: A. S. P. Woodhouse with Dr. Lawrence A. Kimpton, Chancellor of the University of Chicago and an unidentified man.

Title: Massey College - Claude Bissell and Robertson Davies at site of Massey College
Date: February 8, 1961
Extent and medium: 3 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description: Views of President Claude Bissell and Robertson Davies, Master-Designate of Massey College, standing at the northwest corner of Hoskin Avenue and Devonshire Place where the future Massey College would be officially opened in 1963.

Title: Dentistry - open house
Date: February 12, 1961
Extent and medium: 24 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Interior views of an open house at the Dentistry Building that was attended by 2,000 visitors. Included are shots of guests enjoying refreshments, touring the building, and receiving demonstrations from students, faculty, and alumni.

Title: School of Pharmacy - open house
Date: March 13, 1960
Extent and medium: 14 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Views of guests viewing exhibits and demonstrations provided by Pharmacy students during the "Pharmacy Today" open house at the Pharmacy Building on 46 Gerrard St. Includes shots of Professor G. R. Paterson and his son looking through a microscope.

Title: Mineral Sciences - open house
Date: March 11, 1961
Extent and medium: 18 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Includes shots of guests viewing exhibits and watching demonstrations provided by Mineral Science students at an open house.

Title: Women's Athletic Building - Open House (Benson Building)
Date: March 17, 1961
Extent and medium: 33 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Includes views of the gymnasium and pool in use showing dancing, exercises, gymnastics, swimming and diving.

Title: Special convocation ceremony held with the official opening of the Galbraith Building
Date: March 6, 1961
Extent and medium: 10 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description: Group portraits of honourary graduates and views of the hooding ceremony and address by Dr. Paul Hoffman during the special convocation ceremony held in conjunction with the official opening of the Galbraith Building. The graduates who received an honourary Doctor of Laws include Dr. Paul Hoffman, Managing Director of the United Nations Special Fund

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: Campus views - rock split by frost on Front Campus
Date: April 6, 1961
Extent and medium: 7 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Views of students investigating a massive, five-ton rock that was shattered by frost on the south east corner of the Front Campus lawn. The rock was originally discovered by construction workers during an excavation at the site of the School of Hygiene building and Col. A. D. LePan, former Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, had it moved to Front Campus as a memorial to Dr. A. P. Coleman who was a geologist, professor, and Dean of Arts at the University of Toronto from 1891 to 1922. Fragments of the rock split from frost was used as fill in at a new construction site on campus.

Title: Faculty of Music - Edward Johnson Building cornerstone laying ceremony
Date: April 20, 1961
Extent and medium: 34 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Views of ceremony and reception for the laying of the cornerstone at the Faculty of Music's new Edward Johnson Building. Included are shots of Henry Borden, Vice-Chairmen of the Board of Governors and Fiorenza Drew, daughter of Edward Johnson (after whom the building was named) leading the academic procession from the ROM to the site of the Edward Johnson Building

Title: Campus views - Cutting down of old Elm tree near University College
Date: June 26, 1961|June 27, 1961
Extent and medium: 36 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Views of workmen cutting down a dead, infected elm tree outside the Croft Chapter House as part of the University's campaign to stop the spread of Dutch Elm Disease. Included are shots of Professor H. N. Milnes, Archivist of University College, with a section of the tree trunk which he claimed for display at the College's museum.

Title: Physics department - High school students tour facilities of the Slow Poke Reactor
Date: May 25, 1961
Extent and medium: 10 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Views of Professor D. G. Andrews taking his daughter and her Branksome Hall class on a tour of the University of Toronto's sub-critical atomic reactor. The students can be seen wearing radiation monitors.

Title: Homecoming - presentation of new University of Toronto Alumni Association trophy
Date: January 1, 1962
Extent and medium: 3 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description: Includes shots of William A. E. Sheppard, President of the University of Toronto Alumni Association presenting two University of Toronto Alumni Association trophies to the winners of the 1960 and 1961 homecoming float parades. Engineering student Sam Klich (001) was presented with a new University of Toronto Alumni Association Trophy for winning in 1961 while the old trophy was presented to Max Rotstein, President of the Students' Law Society (003) to keep permanently after winning the parade for the third consecutive year in 1960.

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