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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), novelist and critic, was born on 25 January 1882 in London, the second daughter of (Sir) Leslie Stephen. Too delicate for the rigours of regular school, she spent her childhood at her family's London house in Hyde Park Gate and country home at St. Ives in Cornwall. Her mother's death in 1895 precipitated the first of the nervous breakdowns which punctuated her life. Her father's death in 1904 was followed by another, but that was also the year of her first published work. After this Virginia, together with her sister Vanessa and her brother Adrian, settled in Gordon Square where they collected round them a group of brilliant young men whom their elder brother Thoby had got to know at Cambridge; notably Roger Fry, J. M. (later Lord) Keynes, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, Leonard Woolf, and Clive Bell. Thus was inaugurated 'the Bloomsbury group'.

In 1912 she married Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880-1969). In 1914 she had another serious breakdown, and although after a year she recovered, for the rest of her life her husband saw to it that she lived very quietly. They lived partly in London and partly in Sussex, where in 1919 they purchased at Monks House, at Rodmell, near Lewes, East Sussex. It was during this period that her chief work was done and her fame established. Of her novels, Voyage Out appeared in 1915, Night and Day in 1919. They were in a relatively traditional form. Jacob's Room, in which Virginia Woolf's characteristic manner first fully revealed itself, came out in 1922, Mrs. Dalloway in 1925, To the Lighthouse in 1927, The Waves in 1931, and The Years in 1937. She also published two fantasies: Orlando (1928) and Flush (1933); two books of critical and biographical essays, The Common Reader (first series, 1925, second series, 1932); a biography of Roger Fry (1940), and two gracefully written feminist pamphlets, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938). She also took an active part in the management of the Hogarth Press which was founded by her and her husband in 1917.

In 1939 the Woolfs moved to Mecklenburgh Square where they remained until the bombing of 1940, after which they retired to Rodmell. There in 1941 Virginia Woolf's nervous system suffered its final collapse under the strain of the war, and she drowned herself on 28 March.

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John Edwin (Ted) Hodgetts was born on May 28, 1917, in Omemee, Ontario. At the University of Toronto where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1939, he was also Rhodes Scholar and Gold Medallist. In 1940 he received the Master of Arts degree from the same University and proceeded on to complete the Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Chicago in 1946. From 1943 to 1945 Professor Hodgetts was a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Toronto. In 1945 he was appointed to the staff of Queen's University. During the next twenty years he was successively Lecturer, Assistant, and Associate Professor and, after appointment to full Professor, assumed the Hardy Chair of Political Science in 1961. From 1965 to retirement in 1982, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. In 1967 he was appointed Principal of his undergraduate college, Victoria College, and from 1970 to 1972 was President of Victoria University within the University of Toronto. Professor Hodgetts then returned to full time teaching in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and became Professor Emeritus as well as President Emeritus of Victoria University, upon his retirement. He ended up returning to Queen's in the 1990's, doing research under the Skeleton- Clark Visitor Fellowship until 2002. Dr. Hodgetts was also continually asked by various departments in the federal government to edit their reports, long after he retired. In 2005, Dr. Hodgetts was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Gomery Commission Inquiry. During his long and distinguished academic career, Dr. Hodgetts held numerous prestigious awards. In June 1989, Dr. Hodgetts was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was active in several professional Associations and in addition to his editorial work, wrote numerous articles and book reviews in scholarly journals. Dr. Hodgetts also wrote several books including "From Arm's Length to Hands-On: the formative years of Ontario's public service 1867-1940" (1995), and "Sound of One Voice: Eugene Forsey and his letters to the press" (2000).

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Hazel F. Summers, the daughter of George Horatio Summers and Isabella Mary Stevenson, began her career as an organist at age thirteen and then spent the next fifty years as a music teacher dedicated to raising the standards of teaching. In June 1965, she became a fellow of Trinity College, London, England. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from McMaster University in 1981. In 1982, Hazel became a music therapy consultant to Chedoke Hospital.

She has been active in theatre and involved in many groups, including the Hamilton Philharmonic Board and the Hamilton Historical Board. She is one of the founding members of the Arts Council.

Walter Travers was a salesman in Kingston, Ontario.

Physician, Grimsby, Ont.