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William Angus fonds
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[193-]-1995 (Creation)
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- Angus, William
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0.51 m of textual records, 8 drawings, 4 photographs
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William "Doc" Angus was a professor in the Department of Drama at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was born in Dundee, Scotland on 22 March 1897 to James and Eliza (Black) Angus. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Bowdoin College in 1919, artium magister (A.M.) degree from Northwestern University in 1928 and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1935. He also attended Harvard from 1921 to 1922.
Angus taught at Northwestern University from 1922 to 1925, the Extension Department of Indiana University from 1923 to 1925, Grinnell College (Iowa) from 1925 to 1927, the State University of Montana from 1927 to 1932, Cornell University from 1934 to 1935, North Illinois State Teachers College from 1935 to 1937 and Queen's University from 1937 to his retirement in 1963. He served as the Regional Chairman on three separate occasions of the Dominion Drama Festival for Eastern Ontario, and was the founder and director of the Queen's Summer Radio Institute from 1945 to 1949.
He was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1945; Canadian Drama Award, 1948; Nuffield Foundation Research Grant, 1958; and a Centennial Medal, 1967. William Angus married Margaret Sharp on 28 August 1929. He passed away on 3 April 1996.
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The fonds consists of correspondence, Queen's Drama Guild and Queen's Summer Theatre play programmes and photographs, and assorted typescripts of plays by Dr. Angus and several writers, including Herman A. Voaden, Eric Cross, Joseph Schull, Margaret Angus and Eric P. Nicol. Also includes a book by Dr. Angus titled 'Play Directing.'
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Donated by William Angus
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- English
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1034
1009.7
2304.2
2316.3
2999 (Robinson)
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Finding aids
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/A/Angus-William-1034.xlsx
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/A/Angus-William-2304_2.xlsx
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/A/Angus-William-2316_3.xlsx
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/A/Angus-William-1009_7.xlsx
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ULM 75-440
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- Angus, Margaret Sharp (Subject)
- Nicol, Eric Patrick (Subject)