William Sulzer (March 18, 1863 – November 6, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician, nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer. He was the 39th Governor of New York and a long-serving congressman from the same state. He was the first and so far only New York Governor to be impeached. He broke with his sponsors at Tammany Hall, and they produced convincing evidence that Sulzer had falsified his sworn statement of campaign expenditures.
1913 Italian Railway Workers Accident Committee
The 1913 Italian Railway Workers Accident Committee was organized by Philip Quattrocchi in July of 1989 to begin researching the events of the 1913 accident, to seek contributions of professional talent and donations from the community and to obtain funding for the construction of monument. The membership of the committee was comprised of the following individuals: Mr. P. Quattrocchi, Mrs. F. Metz, Dr. G. Lepore, Dr. D. Bastianutti, Mr. B. Conti, Mr. S. Carfa, Mr. P. Campbell, Mr. Garofalo, and Mrs. Lily Inglis.
Born at Kingston in 1869, William Folger Nickle was privately tutored, attending Kingston Collegiate Institute, Queen's University, and Osgoode Hall. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1895 (K.C. 1898) and practiced law in Kingston. He was the Director of the Kingston, Portsmouth and Cataraqui Electric Railway Company, President of the Frontenac Loan and Investment Society, and Alderman of Kingston, 1905-09. He was an M.L.A. 1908-11 and 1922-26, M.P., 1911-19, and Attorney-General of Ontario, 1923-26. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Queen's University, 1921-31. He died in 1957.
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.
The Journal has been Queen's main student newspaper since it was founded in 1873. It appears twice a week on campus with a mix of news, sports, and entertainment stories, editorials, letters to the editor, and photographs. The paper is students' most important source of news and general information and has been a training ground for scores of Canadian journalists.
The Journal first appeared on campus on October 25, 1873 as the Queen's College Journal, a fortnightly magazine whose avowed object was to "foster a literary taste among students." It published a great deal of verse in its early years, and its prevailing tone was earnest and evangelical: typical articles were "Longevity and Work," "What is Preaching?" and "The Formation of Habits." There were also numerous verbatim reports of sermons and speeches.
By the mid-1880s, however, debates on purely college issues and columns of college jokes were creeping in. And by the early years of this century, the familiar news, sports, and entertainment sections were emerging.
During the golden years of Queen's football in the 1920s, when the team won three straight Grey Cups, the paper cheerfully turned itself into a sports sheet and other sections were relegated to the inside pages.
The Queen's Journal has existed in roughly its present format since the 1930s. There were a few departures from format in the late 1960s and the 1970s, however, when the paper reflected the change in times; it was not unusual at that time to see the photograph of a nude or a piece of psychedelic art taking up the entire front page.
In the mid-1980s, the paper introduced computers for writing and layout. The Journal is partly funded by the Alma Mater Society but run by an independent editorial board.
Trudi Le Caine was a patron of the Arts in Ottawa, Ontario. She was born Gertruda Janowská in Passau, Czechoslovakia, and moved to Canada in 1940. While working as a French teacher in the Ottawa public school system, she helped organise the Ottawa Children's Concerts in the 1940s and 1950s. She served on the National Arts Centre Orchestra Association Board. She was also instrumental in bringing skating to the Rideau Canal. She was the step-daughter of Arnold Walter, a composer and former Dean of the Faculty of Music at the Univerity of Toronto.
Arnold Maria Walter, OC, musicologist, educator, administrator (born 30 August 1902 in Hannsdorf (Hanušovice), Moravia; died 6 October 1973 in Toronto, ON). After immigrating to Canada in 1937, Arnold Walter became a visionary and influential leader of music education in Canada, developing musical talent and helping to build audiences for musical performance and appreciation. He introduced Carl Orff's teaching method in North America, and established both the Senior School and the Opera School at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (now the Royal Conservatory of Music). Under his tenure as director (1952–68), the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto attained international stature, with the first electronic music studio in Canada and one of North America’s most comprehensive music libraries. Walter was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1971.
Darwin M. Yarish is an editor and collector. His works include "The Man who was AE : memories and recollections of George William Russell."
David Dee is a researcher in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University with a B.A. in Geography.