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Beatrice Helen Worsley was born on October 18, 1922 in Mexico. She attended the University of Toronto, from 1940-1944, where she earned a B.A. with first class honours in Mathematics and Physics. Between 1946 and 1947 she attained an S.M. in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, England from 1948-1950 and achieved a Phd.D. (Cambridge) in mathematics in 1952. During World War II Dr. Worsley served with the Canadian Navy where she was involved in designing torpedoes equipped with rudimentary computers. From 1951 to 1965 she was employed by the University of Toronto where she became an associate professor of computer science. Dr. Worsley came to Queen's in 1965 where she was a founding member of the Queen's Computing Centre and developed early courses offered by the centre. In 1969 the new Department of Computing and Information Science was established at Queen's. Dr. Worsley received a cross appointment to the new department and worked on course and curriculum proposals for both undergraduate and graduate programs. An active member of both the Canadian Information Processing Society and the Computer Science Association she helped co-ordinate the functional merger of the two. During her professional career Dr. B.H. Worsley produced some seventeen technical papers for a number of learned journals and at least as many other articles on topics relating to her work. On May 8 1972, Dr. Worsley died unexpectedly while on a sabbatical leave at the University of Waterloo.

William Archibald Mackintosh, who served as Queen's 12th Principal from 1951 to 1961, was a distinguished economist and public servant who was also Queen's first truly "homegrown" leader. He was the first principal chosen from the ranks of Queen's own faculty (previous principals had all been recruited externally) and he was also the first Queen's graduate to reach the Principal's office.

Mackintosh was born in Madoc, Ontario, in 1895, and was educated at Queen's (MA 1916) and Harvard University (PhD 1922). At Queen's, he was president of his year and the winner of gold medals in history and political and economic science. A specialist in labour issues, he interrupted his studies at Harvard to teach at Brandon College, Manitoba from 1917-1919 before joining Queen's faculty in 1922 as an Assistant Professor of Economics.

When the Second World War began in 1939, Mackintosh was recruited to Ottawa to apply his administrative and economic talents to the war effort. He first served as special assistant to the Deputy Minister of Finance; later, from 1944 to 1946, he served as Director of Research in the Department of Reconstruction; and he served as Acting Deputy Minister of Finance in 1945. In the same year, he was the principal author of the White Paper on Employment and Income, which mapped out Canada's postwar economic strategy. He was also responsible for the negotiation of wartime loans and acted as a mediator when a railroad strike seemed imminent in 1950.

Mackintosh returned to Queen's in 1946, where for five years he simultaneously held the positions of Head of the Department of Political and Economic Sciences, Director of the School of Commerce and Administration, Dean of Arts, Vice Principal of the University, and Professor before succeeding Robert Wallace as Principal in 1951. His term coincided with a period of unprecedented growth for Queen's, as governments in the booming postwar economy poured money into higher education.

Mackintosh was dubbed "The Building Principal" because of the huge expansion of the Queen's campus which occurred under his leadership. Queen's built Clark Hall, Abramsky Hall, Etherington Hall, Ellis Hall, five new residences (Adelaide Hall, McNeill House, Morris Hall, Leonard Hall, and Chown Hall), founded the Faculty of Law and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, built Richardson Hall to house administrative offices, and constructed Dunning Hall for the School of Business.

The huge boom in residence building was due in large part to Mackintosh's vision of Queen's as a residential university, where the majority of students would come from outside of Kingston and live and study together in a close-knit community.

Mackintosh was known for his dedication to Queen's, and was proud of the spirit of loyalty and community that Queen's inspired. His favourite way of illustrating this was to tell a story from his experiences during the war. Once, while flying to England on government business during the war, his plane stopped in Gander to refuel and was delayed. He and the other passengers were very frustrated by the fact that, due to wartime security, they were not told when they would be departing or any other helpful information. Mackintosh was waiting quietly when an airman sidled up to him and whispered: "You will be departing at 1600 hours, you will be flying at a height of 5,000 feet for one hour, and then at 20,000 feet for four hours, and the weather outlook is most favourable. Cha Gheill!"

He retired as Principal in 1961 so that his friend, James Alexander Corry, who had been asked to become to Principal of the University of Saskatchewan, could be installed as Principal at Queen's instead, ensuring that Queen's would not lose such an able administrator. Mackintosh retained the post of Vice-Chancellor until 1965.

For his dedication to Canada, his contributions as a scholar, and his leadership of Queen's, Mackintosh received many honours: eleven universities, including Queen's, granted him honorary degrees. He was also a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and of the Order of Canada.

He was married to Jean Isobel (Easton) Mackintosh (BComm'25) and had one child, Alison (Mackintosh) Morgan, who became University Secretary.

He is buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery and his personal papers are held in the Queen's Archives.

Dr. Thomas Robinson Dupuis was a school teacher and medical doctor in Kingston. He was also an Alderman in the City of Kingston as well as a professor at Queen's University in Anatomy and Botany. His first wife, Elizabeth Emery Lake (b.1841-d.1886) whom he married on the 23rd of April, 1861, was the daughter of prosperous farmer Dennis Lake. Thomas and Elizabeth had five children; two daughters who died in infancy, and three sons.

After the death of Elizabeth, Thomas remarried Anne Jane Crawford (b.1857-d.1924), also a school teacher. They had a daughter Ethel Maude (1889-1950). After the death of Thomas Robinson Dupuis, Anne Jane became mentally ill and was institutionalized.

Charles L. Worsley was born in or around 1877. His father was Colonel Pennyman White Worsley of the 60th Canadian Militia Regiment. Charles worked in Ontario (St. Mary's) for the Bank of Montreal for over 40 years and retired to Victoria in or around 1945. He was twice widowed and died married to his third wife Harriette Keating.

George Stanley Worsley was born on June 20, 1866 in St. Hyacinthe Quebec. His father was Colonel Pennyman White Worsley of the 60th Canadian Militia Regiment. He attended and graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston Ontario. In June 1885, he enlisted in the British Imperial Army and received a Commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. After receiving artillery training, he was posted to: India, Malta and Gibraltar. By 1895, George had been promoted to the rank of Captain. Instead of continuing his military career, he resigned from the British Army in 1896 and moved back to Canada.

In October 1897, while residing in Halifax Nova Scotia, he expressed interest in obtaining a Commissioned rank in the North West Mounted Police. HIs request was not fulfilled. From 1897 to 1900, George Worsley made his way to the Yukon to familiarize himself with the Canadian frontier life and seems to have briefly been a General Merchant in company with Beringer at Peace River Crossing, North West Territories.

In early 1900, George Worsley was able to meet Commissioner Bowen Perry in Edmonton and December 4, 1900, Sir Wilfred Laurier directed Fred White to advance George Worsley’s name as the next Commissioned Officer in the NWMP. On October 1, 1914, George was promoted to the rank of Superintendent and became the Commanding Officer of Depot.

George Stanley Worsley died in Victoria, B.C. in 1945.

Born in Saskatchewan, but raised in Ontario, Howard Pain spent the better part of 25 years identifying, studying and documenting the early furniture of his adopted province. The result was the definitive work, "The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture".

Delano Dexter Calvin was born at Garden Island, near Kingston, Ont. on 7 September 1881. He was the son of Hiram Augustus Calvin and the grandson of Delino D. Calvin, a prominent politician, businessman and lumber merchant who moved from the United States to Kingston, Ont in 1844 to establish a lumber rafting operation on the St. Lawrence River. Delano (D.D) attended Woodstock College and graduated from Queen's University in 1902. He studied architecture in Paris, France and after his return to Canada he moved to Toronto and joined the firm of Darling & Pearson in 1910 to work as a draftsman. It was here that he met Ralph K. Shepard with whom he formed a partnership in Toronto in June, 1913 (see list of works under Shepard & Calvin). Together they succeeded in obtaining commissions for important buildings in both Toronto and on the campus of Queen's University in Kingston. After the untimely death of Shepard in August 1933 Calvin returned to Kingston and became unofficial historian of the university. He was the author of Queen's University at Kingston: The First Century, 1941, and also collaborated with T.R. Glover on A Corner of Empire, 1937, a story of the history of the St. Lawrence River, as well as A Saga of the St. Lawrence, 1945. He died at Toronto on 3 November 1948 and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery (obituary in the Globe & Mail [Toronto], 6 Nov. 1948, 5; Toronto Star, 6 Nov. 1948, 10; Kingston Whig-Standard, 5 Nov. 1948, 2; inf. Ont. Association of Architects).

Gerald Buist is a collector based in Kingston, Ontario.

Frederick Samuel Richardson was a photographer and painter based in Napanee, Ontario.

William Malcolm Cutts (December 16, 1857 – January 29, 1943) was a painter of landscapes and marine studies in oil and watercolour.

Cutts was born at Allahabad, India, the child of an East India Company official. His father died in India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Cutts and his mother moved to England where he attended primary school. As a boy of 13 he had a serious interest in painting. In 1870 he came to Canada with his mother and stepfather and settled in Stratford, Ontario, where he first began to work as an artist. He worked for several years as a fireman on the Grand Trunk Railroad, then moved to Toronto in 1880. He visited England for a short period to study painting.

On his return to Canada he painted portraits for the next 25 years. He visited Ontario towns as a portrait painter. He exhibited portraits, landscapes and marine studies (the latter two he began to paint around 1905) at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts annual shows from 1891 to 1929. With his second wife, Gertrude Spurr Cutts, he lived at St. Ives, Cornwall, England, for three years (1909-1912) and sketched in southern England and Wales. He also painted in Jamaica and eastern United States along the Atlantic seaboard. The Cutts shared a studio in Toronto until 1915 when they settled in Port Perry, Ontario. Like his wife, he died in Port Perry, Gertrude in 1941 and William two years later at the age of 86.