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Gibson, Frederick Wellington (1920-1992) was born in Kingston. He earned a BA from Queen's in 1942 and an MA in history in 1944. After a brief period of graduate work at Harvard, he worked at the Public Archives of Canada and was selected by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1946 as an assistant in sorting his private papers for his memoirs. He returned to Queen's in 1952, where he taught Canadian history until his retirement in 1986. He served as Queen's first Vice-Principal (Academic) from 1966 to 1969 and won the Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence in 1985. He was also well known as the university's official historian. With fellow history professor Roger Graham, he co-edited Queen's University, volume I: 1841-1917, after the death of author Hilda Neatby. The second volume, Queen's University, Volume II, 1917-1961, he wrote himself. In 1991 he earned an honorary Doctorate of Laws. He died in 1992.

Douglas Oliver William Waugh, pathologist, was born in 1918 in Hove, Sussex, England. His parents emigrated to Canada and settled in Winnipeg. Dr Waugh entered the University of Manitoba in 1935 and graduated three years later with his B.A. In 1938 he entered McGill University where he received his M.D., C.M. (1942); his M.SC. in Pathology (1948); and his Ph.D. in Pathology (1950).During World War II, Douglas Waugh served with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Following the war he held various academic appointments at a number of universities including McGill (1946-1950), University of Alberta (1950-1958), Dalhousie (1964-1970) and Queen's (1958-1964, 1970-1975). In 1975 he resigned to take up the position of Executive Director of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, located in Ottawa. He remained as Director until his retirement in 1983. After his retirement he devoted himself to writing and for a number of years carried on a popular column in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. He died in 1997.

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Dr. William Robert Thompson (1924-1979) was born in Toulon, France. He received his university education at the University of Toronto, B.A. (Hons. Philosophy) 1945, M.A. (Psychology) 1947, and at the University of Chicago, Ph. D. (Psychology) 1951. He first came to Queen's University as a teaching fellow in 1947. He then worked at McGill and at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he was departmental chairman for three terms, before returning to Queen's as department head in 1966. The book, Behavior Genetics (1960), that Dr. Thompson co-authored with J. Fuller is credited with launching the study of behavior genetics. Dr. Thompson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1960), a fellowship to the Centre for Advanced Studies in Behaviourial Sciences at Stanford University and a James McKeen Cattle fellowship. His distinction was further recognized by his election as Director of the Canadian Psychological Association and to the Presidency of the International Behaviour Genetics Association.

Poet, Toronto, Ont.

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