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Julie M.L. (O'Grady) Clarke, Arts (Levanna) 1942.

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Brenda Wang is a undergraduate student attending Queen's University at Kingston.

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George Theodore de Hueck was born in Toronto in 1921. He was the son of the Baron Boris de Hueck and the Baroness Catherine de Hueck Doherty. He graduated from Queen's University in 1948 as a member of Arts '46 having taken time off to serve in the Canadian military during World War II. As a Lieutenant in the Canadian military he was appointed to a position in the combat teams under the US forces in 1943 when Canada decided to participate with the United States in the Kiska Operations in response to the threat to continental security. While at Queen's de Hueck was editor of the Queen's Commentator, president of the International Club and recipient of the Sir Wilfred Laurier Scholarship. In 1953 he founded a consulting firm for insurance companies, a job he continued to do until his death in Mobile, Alabama in 1991.

Bill Fritz was born in Ferrybank, Alberta on August 14, 1914. While attending Walkerville Collegiate, Fritz set several WSSA, WOSSA, and Ontario records. His 1931 440-yard time of 52.6 seconds was unbroken at the WSSA Intermediate level until 1953. The following year, Fritz set two WSSA Senior records. His 22.4-second 220-yard time lasted until 1975, and his 50.2-second 440-yard time, bettering his Junior record, held until 1965. At the 1932 WOSSA meet, Fritz ran the 440-yard dash in 50 seconds flat, setting a Canadian Inter-Scholastic record.

Fritz went on to study at Queen’s University, where he won eight intercollegiate championships in the 220 and 440-yard races. He was the ninth winner of the Jenkins Trophy, one of the university’s oldest ongoing honours. The prestigious trophy is awarded annually to the school’s most outstanding well-rounded scholar-athlete. During his racing career, Fritz is known to have trained through the winter in Kingston’s snowdrifts. This harsh regimen is said to have propelled him to starring performances against the world’s best at indoor meets in New York and at the Boston Millrose Games.

In 1933, at the age of 23, Fritz contributed to Canadian record in the mile relay that was not broken until ’47. Fritz, Art Scott, Glenn Sherman, and Ray Lauzon combined to set the mark while racing for the Windsor Olympic Club under coach Hec Phillips. Fritz achieved international recognition at the 1934 British Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games) in London, England. Two years later, at the Berlin Olympics, Fritz finished fifth in the 400-metre final. As part of the Canadian mile relay team, Fritz won a gold medal at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. Bill Fritz passed away on October 14, 1995 in London, Ontario.

Robert Sutherland was the first student of colour at Queen's University at Kingston, and one of its most important early benefactors. He was born in Jamaica to unknown parents, though there is some evidence that his father was Scottish. He entered Queen's in 1849, just eight years after the university was founded. He may have been the first student of colour in Canada, as well as at Queen's; the subject has not been fully researched, but none of the handful of other universities that existed then have uncovered records of an earlier entrant. Sutherland led an extraordinarily successful academic career at Queen's, winning 14 academic prizes, including one for general merit in Latin that was awarded after a vote by fellow students. He graduated in 1852 with honours in classics and mathematics and went on to study law at Toronto's Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1855 and moved to the growing town of Walkerton, south of Owen Sound, where he practised law for more than 20 years. He died unmarried in 1878 after contracting pneumonia. He had drawn up his will just three weeks before his death and left his entire $12,000 estate to Queen's. It is unclear why he did so, but friends recalled that he often said Queen's was one place where "he had always been treated as a gentleman." His donation was the largest that any one person had yet given to the university and came at a time when Queen's was still battling its way out of poverty. Principal George Grant ordered that a large granite tombstone be placed on his grave in Toronto's Mt Pleasant Cemetery – where it still stands – to mark his connection with Queen's. The City of Kingston dedicated a plaque in Grant Hall to his memory in 1973. In 1997, the Robert Sutherland Memorial Room was unveiled, located on the third floor of the John Deustch University Centre. In 2009, the Policy Studies building was renamed "Robert Sutherland Hall".

Dr. Margaret E. MacKay Sawyer was a professor of physiology at Queen's University for almost forty years. She was born in New Glasgow Nova Scotia, and received her B.A and M.A in Biology from Dalhousie University. She then received her PhD in Biology in 1930 from McGill University, and continued her postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sawyer moved to Kingston in 1939 and started teaching Physiology at Queen's University: first as a fellow, then a lecturer, and finally as a professor. She continued her research alongside her teaching career and wrote numerous articles for academic journals, such as the American Journal of Physiology. After the passing of her first husband, Dr. Sawyer married Dr. G. Harold Ettinger - a colleague from the Physiology Department - in 1969. Because of this, she is sometime identified as Dr. Margaret Ettinger. She passed away in Kingston in 2003.

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James Morton was born in Killalea, County of Armagh, Ireland, August 24th, 1808 and died in Canada in 1864. Not much of Morton's early life in Ireland is known. Morton came to Kingston the 24th of June, 1824, and was a bookkeeper to Thomas Molson until 1831 when he partnered with a Mr. Drummond to form the Kingston Brewery and Distillery. After the death of Drummond in 1834, Morton became the sole owner of the business and continued it in his own name -- "Morton's Proof", a whiskey, was known and consumed all over Canada. In addition to the Distillery Morton had other business ventures. In conjunction with John R. Dickson he built the Kingston branch of the Grand Trunk Railway, and he established the Ontario Foundry and the Kingston Locomotive Works to build locomotives. He also utilized the labour of convicts from the Kingston Penitentiary to manufacture furniture by steammachinery.

Morton's business success was interrupted when he received a contract for the construction of a Southern Ontario Railway from Buffalo and Fort Erie to Windsor and Detroit. The contract became a matter of legal dispute and an adverse decision by the Court of Chancery was a severe blow to Morton's prosperity.

Although financially struggling, Morton was still well liked in Kingston. With encouragement from his close friend, Sir John A. MacDonald, Morton became a member of the Legislative Assembly for Frontenac in 1861. Morton became ill during these years and rarely sat in the House. He passed away in 1864, survived by his wife, Margaret Morton.