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Stewart Fyfe was born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan in 1928. He was educated at Queen's University, receiving an Honours B.A. in Economics in 1949, and a M.A. in Political Studies in 1954. He conducted studies for his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, England in Government, receiving that degree in 1958. In 1956, Stewart Fyfe was appointed to the Faculty of Queen's University as an assistant professor in the department of Political Science. Previously he was employed by the City of Kingston as Deputy City Clerk and City Planner. Concurrent with his tenure at Queen's University Dr. Fyfe served as, variously, Commissioner and Consultant for the Province of Ontario on several studies and reviews. As well, Dr. Fyfe worked in the Institute of Local Government at Queen's University from 1950-51, and also from the time of his appointment at Queen's, serving as the Institute's Director from 1968 to 1972. He has been involved with the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority since 1977.
Knowledgeable on town planning and local government issues, Dr. Fyfe has frequently been called as an expert witness in court cases and in city council debates. His two major publications are the Waterloo Area Local Government Review (1970) and A Look to the North: Canadian Regional Experience (1974). He has published numerous articles and reports, and retired from Queen's University in 1999.
Dr. Stewart Fyfe passed away on January 30 2019.

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John Sherwood (1931-1986), Professor of History at Queen's University, was first appointed to the faculty of Arts and Science in 1964. His undergraduate work was done at St. Peter's College, Jersey City (1953), after which he served as a French translator in the U.S. Army for two years. Following his M.A. from Columbia in 1959, a Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to study for two years in Paris. His major publication was Georges Mandel, a biography of a leading French politician of the interwar period. It was published in 1970 after considerable revision of his doctoral thesis (Columbia, 1967). Two other long studies were published in 1980 and 1985.At the time of his death in 1986 Dr. Sherwood was involved in four major projects

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John James Deutsch (1911-1976), Queen's 14th principal (1968-1974), was also a Queen's graduate; but in between he spent over 20 years away from his alma mater, rising to prominence in the federal public service. Born the eldest of 17 children on a farm near Quinton, Saskatchewan, Deutsch was the only one of his family to receive a formal education: he was educated at a Regina high school and at Queen's (BCom 1935). Over 20 years of distinguished public service followed: as a member of the research department of the Bank of Canada (1936-1942); as a special assistant in External Affairs (1942-1944); as director of the International Economic Relations Division of the Department of Finance (1944-1953); and as Secretary of the Treasury Board (1954-1956). In addition he was a member of numerous royal commissions, commissions of inquiry, and advisory commissions. In 1959, after three years as Head of the Department of Economics at UBC, Deutsch was recruited to Queen's by Principal W.A. Mackintosh to overhaul the university's financial management and administration. He served as Vice-Principal (Administration) and professor of economics until 1963, when he was recruited to Ottawa again for another important assignment – this time as founding chair of the Economic Council of Canada. He returned to Queen's in 1967 as Principal-designate and in 1968 was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor, remaining in these positions until 1974. Dr. Deutsch died at Kingston in 1976.

During his distinguished career Dr. Deutsch received honorary degrees from seventeen Canadian universities. Other awards and honors included a Vanier Medal (1968), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1968), Companion of the Order of Canada (1969), the John Orr Award (1969) and the Molson Prize (1973).

Member of the Legislative Assembly and customs officer, Napanee and Kingston, ON.

Henry Joseph Michael Donley was born in Toronto in 1901. Educated in Toronto, he attended St. Michael's College and Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1929, became a K.C. in 1945, and conducted a successful general practice in Kenora, Ontario, until he was elevated to the bench in 1948. In 1943 he was the unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate for the legislature for Kenora.

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Born in 1922, Thomas Worrall Kent has been a newspaper and magazine editor, Liberal Party policy maker and principal assistant to the late Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Kent attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class Honours B.A. in 1941 and receiving an M.A. in 1950. During the latter part (1942-1945) of World War II he was engaged in intelligence service. From 1946-1950 he was on the editorial staffof the Manchester Guardian and in 1950 moved to The Economist as Assistant Editor. In 1954 he came to Canada to be the editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. After the defeat of the St. Laurent government he became active in the Liberal Party, serving as polisy consultant from 1961 to 1963. At various times he was Co-Ordinator of Programming and Policy Secretary to the Prime Minister (1963-65), Deputy Minister of Manpower and Immigration (1966-68) and Deputy Minister of Regional Economic Expansion (1968-71). In 1971 he left Ottawa to be President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cape Breton Development Corporation. From 1980 to 1983 he was Dean of the Faculty of Administraive Studies, Dalhousie University. Since 1992 he has been associated with the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.