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Edmund (Henry) Harry Botterell (1906-1997) was born in Vancouver in 1906. The family moved to Winnipeg shortly after his birth and after finishing his early schooling in Winnipeg he attended Ridley College in St. Catherines. He entered the University of Manitoba in 1926 and graduated with his M.D. in 1930. He then undertook extensive postgraduate residency and fellowship training in Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, New Haven, and London. During this period he studied under such notables as Campbell Howard, W.E. Gallie, K.G. Mackenzie, John Fulton, Frederick Banting, and Geoffrey Jefferson. In 1936, he joined K.G. Mackenzie as a junior in neurosurgery at Toronto General Hospital.

From 1940 to 1945 he served in the Canadian Armed Forces as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of neurosurgery in Basingstoke, England and was awarded the OBE for distinguished service in treating soldiers with spinal cord injuries. After the war he took a leading role in the rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. During the 1950's he turned his attention to neurosurgery and was a pioneer in the use of hypothermia in cerebral vascular surgery as well as using surgery to treat cerebral aneurysms. In 1952 he was made Head of Neurosurgery at Toronto General Hospital and instituted a residency program in neurosurgery. At an invitation from the Principal in 1962 Botterell accepted the position of Dean of Medicine at Queen's University at Kingston, a poition he held until 1970. He also held the position of Vice-Principal (Health Sciences) from 1968-1971. In 1979 the newly completed Medical Sciences Building at Queen's University was named Botterell Hall in recognition of Harry Botterell's service and achievements.

Over the years Harry Botterell received numerous awards and honours including the F.N.G. Award from the Canadian Medical Association (1977). He held honorary degrees at McGill (1972), Queen's (1973) and Dalhousie (1979) Universities, University of Toronto (1979) and University of Manitoba (1983) and in 1974 was made Emeritus Professor in Surgical Neurology and Clinical Anatomy at Queen's University. He also was made the recipient of a number of honorary memberships in associations and was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh).

In 1972, after retirement, he investigated the state of health care in Canada's prisons and in 1974, on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, he enquired into animal health care services and Chaired the National Health Services Advisory Committee, reporting to the Commissioner of the Canadian Penitentiary Services. In the early 1980's he authored a report on the findings of a study team investigating seven suicides for Correctional Services. Harry Botterell died in 1997.

Associate Professor, School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

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Essayist; high school teacher, Victoria, BC.

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William Ralph Lederman was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and educated at the University of Saskatchewan (LLB 1940), and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He made a name for himself as one of Canada's leading constitutional lawyers while teaching at Dalhousie University (1949-1958). In 1958, he was invited to become the first Dean of Law in the third iteration of Queen's University at Kingston's Faculty of Law, a post he held until 1968, He continued to teach in the Faculty until the 1980s. W.R. Lederman was constitutional adviser to then-Ontario Premier John Robarts, between 1965 and 1971, and was a mentor to many other constitutional scholars in Canada. William Ralph Lederman died in KIngston, in 1992.

Nils Ørvik (1918-2005) was a Norwegian historian, born in Skåtøy, Norway. He was appointed professor of international politics at the Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1973.

A movement to appoint a Dean of Women began at Queen's University in the 1890s, when female students debated, off and on, whether such an official would benefit them, or whether it would interfere too much with their independence. The movement gathered steam after 1900, when the number of women students at Queen's had reached a few hundred, and concerns grew about the morals and deportment of female students living in crowded boarding houses near campus, often alongside men. Still, many women students remained ambivalent, or opposed to such an initiative. So, in 1911, the University hired only an "advisor to women". In 1918, the post was retitled and the former "advisor," Caroline McNeill, became the University's first Dean of Women. McNeill, who only later became a faculty member herself, was the wife of a professor. All subsequent Deans (with the exception of Evelyn Reid in the 1970's) have held academic appointments jointly with the Deanship, in subjects ranging from English to Astrophysics.

When Ban Righ Hall opened in 1925 and, at the same time, Hilda Laird took over the post of Dean, the job took on a new dimension: the Dean of Women lived in residence with women students and supervised them directly, making and enforcing rules about such things as curfews, late-leaves and visitors. The Dean also made rules for women who lived off-campus, supervising how they dressed (no "slacks," except at breakfast (until the 1960's), and their choice of housing (no unsupervised apartments, no boarding houses with men, no boarding houses that had not been personally approved by the Dean). The Dean played a role in the day-to-day operation of the women's residences, reporting to the Ban Righ Board. That management role became more substantial in the 1970's, when the Ban Righ Board became an advisory body only and the Dean of Women took over the entire job of running the women's residences (and, between 1988 and 1990, all residences), before relinquishing all involvement in residence management in 1990. After Victoria Hall opened in 1965, the Dean of Women moved her quarters there; successive Deans continued to live there until 1990, when the "in-residence" tradition ended and the Dean moved to an office in Mackintosh-Corry Hall.

By the early 1990's, Queen's was one of only a handful of universities in Canada that still had a Dean of Women. Over the decades her role had evolved from that of surrogate parent to a resource for students, faculty, and staff, and in particular for women on campus. The Dean of Women was available for consultation and discussion on the wide variety of issues that affect women at the University. She also provided information on services available for women in the Queen's community, sponsored special events, and offered informal counselling on personal, academic, and financial matters.

In the mid-1990's, Principal William Leggett identified the need to re-examine the position and its activities in the context of a larger review of equity and human-rights structures at the University. The review, completed in 1996, recommended a more broadly integrated equity structure at Queen's. The position of Dean of Women was discontinued, and in 1996, a new position, the University Advisor on Equity, was created. In 1997, determined to preserve the legacy of the position, the Alumni Association's Committee on Women's Affairs established a Steering Committee to direct the writing of a history of the Office of the Dean of Women. The result, "Their Leaven of Influence: Deans of Women at Queen's University, 1916-1996", by Queen's alumnae, Maureen McCallum Garvie and Jennifer L. Johnson, was published in 1999.

Deans of Women:
Caroline McNeill (1918-1925)
Hilda Laird (1925-1934)
Winnifred Kydd, O.B.E. (1934-1939)
Allie Vibert Douglas (1939-1959)
Beatrice Bryce (1959-1971)
Evelyn Reid (1971-1980)
Elspeth Baugh (1980-1993)
Pamela Dickey Young (1993-1996)

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