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Authority record- CA QUA05991
- Person
- 8 Mar. 1927-20 Jun. 2018
Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Oldham was born March 8, 1927, in Port Chester, New York, and grew up in neighboring Rye, New York. She began visiting Nantucket in 1951, and by the early 1970s, both her mother, Amélie Oldham, and her oldest sister, Faith Oldham, were living year-round on the island. Libby worked for the better part of her early adult life in Manhattan, most notably for the Bollingen Foundation, a publisher of scholarly works in the humanities. In 1979, she took what she thought would be a brief hiatus from her New York life to await the birth of her grandson on Nantucket.
She served as executive director of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce from 1982-1992. She was a stalwart of the Unitarian Church, served as its treasurer, and was a jubilant member of the church choir. She sang in the community chorus and she was a frequent featured performer on the stage of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. She also participated in the successful campaign to restore the African Meeting House. In 1982, Libby was instrumental in establishing the South Church Preservation Fund, the nonprofit entity charged with the structural stewardship of Nantucket’s 1809 golden-domed church building that houses the Town Clock. She worked as copyeditor for Nantucket Magazine until 2005, and worked for the Nantucket Hostorical Association from 1996 to 2018. Libby passed away in Nantucket on 20 June 2018.
- CA QUA11884
- Person
- fl. 1935
V.A. Oille was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
- CA QUA01939
- Person
- n.d.
Cockfield, Brown was founded in 1928 by Harry Cockfield and G. Warren Brown, in Montreal, Quebec. Over the next thirty years, it steadily grew to become one of the largest and most prestigious agencies in Canada, with branches in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, serving such clients as Air Canada, Maclean-Hunter, and Canada Packers. In 1970, it became the only advertising agency in Canada to offer its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Although a majority of shares were controlled by its own employees, the company faced a forced merger with McConnell Advertising in 1978, then a hostile takeover in 1981. The attempts of the Board of Directors to repatriate the shares held by outsiders, combined with falling profit margins, drove the agency into bankruptcy in 1982. Robert O'Hara was hired in the mail department of the Toronto branch in 1950. Through no small effort, he rose to the position of vice-president by 1967, and became a director in 1977. In 1981, he resigned from the board and left the company over a matter of principle; he then sued the company for wrongful dismissal by claiming the conditions of his contract had been materially altered. The bulk of the material concerns Mr O'Hara's duties as a director from 1977 to 1981, and his legal battles from 1982 to 1990. While some material discusses the day-to-day operations of the company, most relates to the financial structure of the company and its direction after 1975.
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