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.
