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Christian Barber is a researcher and co-author of "Their Enduring Spirit The History of Frontenac Provincial Park 1783-1990."

Terry Fuchs was an author and instructor at St. Lawrence College (Kingston, Ontario). He was the son of Harold and Helen (nee Pfander) Fuchs, of Cambridge, Ontario. He co-wrote "Their Enduring Spirit The History of Frontenac Provincial Park 1783-1990."

Robert Ayre (1900-1980) was born in Napinka, Manitoba. He worked for various newspapers (the Telegram, the Free Press and the Montreal Gazette) and from 1944 to 1949 he was editor of Canadian Art. He later (1950-1970) was Art Critic for the Montreal Star.

Mr. Ayre has also written a number of short stories and is the author of Sketco the Raven (1961), based on West Coast Indian legends.

Benjamin Nathan Kropp (189?-1993) was a professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He was the first Jewish professor to receive full tenure at Queen's University.

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Librarian, Douglas Library, Queens's University, Kingston, ON.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Ronald Lampman Watts was born to missionary parents in Japan. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Oxford, where he graduated in 1954 with a second B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics. He started teaching as a Lecturer in the philosophy department at Queen's University in 1955. Wanting to continue in academia, Watts returned to Oxford in 1959 to pursue a Doctorate degree, which was granted in 1962. When he returned to Queen's he joined the political science department as a full-time member. After several years of teaching and serving in a variety of administrative roles, Watts became Principal of Queen's University in 1974. He held this post for ten years. During his tenure as Principal, Ronald Watts served as one of eight commissioners on the Task Force on Canadian Unity, which was quickly followed by other government appointments including an eighteen-month leave from Queen's, in the 1990's, to serve as an advisor to Prime Minister Mulroney on constitutional questions. Ronald Watts continues to reside in Kingston.

Dr. Shirley Spragge was the University Archivist at Queen's University Archives from 1992 to 1994. Born in Toronto on 22 July 1929, she received an honours degree in History from the University of Toronto in 1952, and completed her MA (1974) and her PhD (1986) in History at Queen's University. She had earlier completed the archives administration course at the Public Archives of Canada in 1973. She married Godfrey Spragge in 1953, and had two sons.
Dr. Spragge began her career at Cornell University Archives in the early 1970s, and joined the staff at Queen's University Archives in 1979. A founding member of the Ontario Women's History Network, she was active in local history, women's history, and women and theology groups. She also served on the Inter-faith Council at Queen's University.
Shortly after her retirement, Dr. Spragge passed away on 11 August 1995.

Frederick Maurice Corneil graduated from Queen's in 1923 (Science '23) and went on to become one of four divisional engineers on the International Rapids Section of the St. Lawrence Seaway project.