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Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

William Harrison Hays, American politician and motion-picture executive, was born 5 November, 1879 in Sullivan, Indiana. Hays became active in Indiana political affairs, was chairman of the Republican state committee, and served (1918–21) as chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was (1921–22) Postmaster General under President Harding. As president (1922–45) of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, he administered the motion-picture moral code (popularly called the “Hays Code”), which was promulgated (1934) by agreement of the leading men of the industry.

William McCartney was a builder and contractor, residing in Kingston, Ont.

Student at Queen's University at Kingston, ON., and Presbyterian minister.

Mary Cartwright was the daughter of Sir Richard Cartwright.

Nora Catherine Keeling Hall was born in Owen Sound, Ontario in 1933. In September 1952, she entered the University of Western Ontario in the Honours Program in French Language and Literature. After two years she left to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she earned a diploma. She then went to Paris for five years to paint and write. By 1961 she had returned to language studies at the University of Western Ontario and graduated with a B.A. in 1963 and an M.A. in 1964. She continued in graduate studies to 1971 and has taught French both at the University of Western Ontario and at Fanshawe College in London. While Nora Keeling (as a student) had written dramas and poetry published in U.W.O.'s Folio she began publishing her short stories in 1971. Since then she has published three volumes of collected stories with Oberon Press.
Nora Keeling died of lung cancer on 4 March 2008.

Leonard and Reva Brooks are noted Canadian artists who have lived and worked in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, since their arrival there in 1947.

Reva Brooks was born in Toronto 10 May 1913, and was educated at Dovercourt Public School, Central High School of Commerce, Central Technical School, Toronto, and took courses at the University of Toronto. She married Leonard Brooks on 18 October 1935. A noted photographer, Reva Brooks' works have been exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, London, and Vancouver Galleries; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Anglo-Mexican Institute, Mexico; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.; Dartmouth College; Group Show Creative Photography, 1956; Salon International du Portrait Photographique, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1961; Grands Photographes de Notre Temps, Versailles, 1962; Expo 67, Montreal; Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico, 1970; Centro Cultural Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Casa de Cultra Aguascalientes, Mexico; Universidad de Guanajuato; Travelling Exhibition USA, 1971; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1972. Her works are represented in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artas, Mexico; David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico; Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; Rico Lebrun, Los Angeles; John Huston, Ireland; MacKinley Helm Collection, Santa Barbara; Ansel Adams, Carmel, California; Ayala and Samuel J. Zacks, Toronto; Helen Hayes, New York; Kate Simon, New York; Henry Miller, California; Freeman Tovell, Ottawa. Reva Brooks died in San Miguel de Allende on 25 January 2004.

Student (Meds. '89) at Queen's University and physician, Kingston, Ont.

Margaret Harrison was born on May 28, 1911, in Mimico, Ontario and attended local public schools and trained at the Toronto General Hospital, becoming a registered nurse. In 1932-33 she went through the diploma programme in public health nursing at the University of Toronto, where she studied under noted nursing educator Edith Kathleen Russell. For two years (1934-1935), she did public health nursing at Penetanguishene and Christian island, Ontario. In 1936 she joined her fiance, Herbert Horace Roberts, who was working as an architect in London, England. They were married on February 15, 1936 in Caterham, Surrey, where they lived for four years. On account of the war, Mrs. Roberts and her daughter, Jill, returned to Canada in 1940 and lived at Westport, Ontario. She died on December 26, 1985, at Toronto.

Harold Huston Stewart was a Queen's professor of electrical engineering and technical director of CFRC radio station.