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John Walter Wood was an American architect and specialist in airport design from 1931, and partner in the New York City firm of Poor & Wood, Airport Contractors Ltd. Born in Short Hills, N.J. on 5 June 1900, he possessed formidable educational credentials, graduating from Harvard Univ. in 1922, attending Oxford Univ. in 1923, and becoming a finalist for the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1926. He also studied at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris in 1928. In Canada he can be credited with the design of a significant modernist residence located on Niagara Island, Ontario, in the Thousand Islands district of the St. Lawrence River. Designed in 1930 for Sherman Pratt, this striking landmark was one of the first reinforced concrete houses built in Ontario (Architecture [New York], lxv, Feb. 1932, 63-9, illus.; Arts & Decoration [New York], xxxix, Oct. 1933, 16-18, illus. & descrip.; Pierre du Prey, Ah Wilderness! Resort Architecture in the Thousand Islands, 2004, 106-10, illus.). Three years later Wood was again commissioned by Pratt to add another structure, a ferro-concrete boathouse located on the south side of the island (Architectural Record, [New York], lxix, Jan. 1936, 37-42, illus. & descrip.). A tennis shelter for the complex was built at the same time (Architectural Record [New York], lxix, March 1936, 198, illus.). In the United States, Wood designed the outdoor aquarium at Marine Studios (now Marineland) in St. Augustine, Florida, 1937-38, and a technical school for the American Air Force in Denver. He was an acknowledged authority on airport design, and author of Airports - Some Elements of Design & Future Development (1940), and Airports and Air Traffic (1948). He later taught at the Department of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana, and died there on 24 November 1958 (obit. New York Times, 27 Nov. 1958, 29; biog. Who Was Who in America, iii, 1951-1960, 936)

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, styled Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably those of Viceroy of India from 1925 to 1931 and of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He was one of the architects of the policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1936–38, working closely with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. However, after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 he was one of those who pushed for a new policy of attempting to deter further German aggression by promising to go to war to defend Poland.
On Chamberlain's resignation early in May 1940, Halifax effectively declined the position of Prime Minister as he felt that Churchill would be a more suitable war leader (his membership of the House of Lords was given as the official reason). A few weeks later, with the Allies facing apparently catastrophic defeat and British forces falling back to Dunkirk, Halifax favoured approaching Italy to see if acceptable peace terms could be negotiated. He was overruled by Churchill after a series of stormy meetings of the War Cabinet. From 1941 to 1946, he served as British Ambassador in Washington.

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The Women's Centre was founded in 1975 as a centre for information, a referral service, and a women-only space for women from both Queen's and the greater Kingston community. It was home to the woman's resource library and the Kingston Women's Movement archives, both of which are still located in the Grey House and operated through the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre. In the summer of 2010, the Centre began to work towards revival and upheaval. The Women's Centre needed increased inclusivity, a more radical and political voice, and to start engaging with issues previously deemed peripheral to the feminist cause. The Levana Gender Advocacy Centre was created from these changes in 2011.

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