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Robin Russell, a prominent Liberal, was born in 1941 at Cobourg, Ontario. After graduating in Political Science from Waterloo, in 1964, he was employed, in 1965, by the Speaker of the House of Commons on the Inter-Parliamentary Secretariat. In 1967, he was Provincial Candidate, (Liberal) for Northumberland; he lost that election. From 1967 to 1971, he was Special Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition at Queen's Park, Robert Nixon. Except for the years from 1971 to 1975, when he worked as a property manager and as Administrative Assistant for Toronto's multi-heritage festival, Caravan, Mr. Russell has made his career in politics. From 1979 on, this career has consisted of a variety of jobs that might, all together, be summed up by calling him a part of the "Political Staff" of the Liberal Party. This does not mean that he was employed directly by the Party, usually he received a government salary as part of a Member of Parliament's staff and was required to resign when that member left office. His work alternated between provincial and federal politics and he was frequently employed by various "Campaign Committees" working for the election of Liberal candidates. More specifically, his work included inter-ministerial liaison; special events design and implementation; scheduling: supervision, implementation and protocol; communications strategy; speech writing and research; political organizing and training; re-election planning, sensitivity to urban, rural and multicultural realities. By 1999, Robin Russell had served on the political staff of five federal ministers and one provincial minister.

In 1944 six families got together to discuss lack of affordable housing in Kingston. Those charter members were the Epplett, Estall, Hay, Kropp, Lash and Lee families. These discussions eventually led to the formation of the Grenville Park Co-operative Housing Association. The Association was officially incorporated on July 3rd, 1946. It was the first "co-operative community" in Ontario to provide affordable, suburban housing for a group of young professionals. It continues to operate today.

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Alfred Brooker Klugh, academic and amateur photographer, (born at South Hampstead, London, England, 6 May 1882; died at Kingston, Ontario, 1 June 1932) came to Canada with his parents in 1896. After a session at the Ontario Agricutural College in Guelph, Klugh studied botany and zoology at Queen's University, Kingston, graduating in 1910 with his Master of Arts degree. From then until his death he was associated with the university in one of several teaching capacities. He obtained his Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell University in 1926, and was made an associate professor in 1930. He was killed in a train-automobile collision only two years later.

As early as March, 1900, when he was only 17, Klugh helped found the Wellington Field Naturalists Club. Shortly thereafter he became a charter member of the Great Lakes Ornithological Club. While at Queen's he founded or organized several other naturalist clubs. He also wrote widely aabout many nature subjects in both Canadian and foreign magazines.

Klugh was president of the Queen's Camera Club during the teens, and wrote articles on nature photography for the American Annual of Photography in 1916 and 1917. His major contribution to photography was, however, in the "Nature and Wildlife" column which he wrote monthly for the American Photographer from March 1924 until June 1932: several pages of editorial material on a wide variety of subjects, concerned with photographing wildlife or nature in general, and offering considerable technical guidance. Each article carried several photographs - often his own - which looked out of place beside the pictorial work found in the rest of the magazine. He tried hand-colouring prints, and by the mid-1920s, he was experimenting with colour photography, probably transparencies.

Alfred Klugh was the only Canadian amateur whose work was regularly published in any photographic magazine, American or British. His column was evidence that an audience existed which sought an outlet in accurate scientific photography, rather than in pictorialism.

Vice-Principal Academic began in 1966 with Frederick W. Gibson as the first VP Academic. The position was primarily responsible for overall academic planning. George A. Harrower was appointed as Vice-Principal Academic in June 1969. Harrower remained in this position until April 30 1976 when a reorganization that saw the elimination of the Vice-Principal Academic. However, in 1995, a restructuring of the vice-principal portfolios by Principal Leggett resulted in the formation of the Vice-Principal Academic position once again. David Turpin served as the first Vice-Principal Academic in this new iteration. The role of Vice-Principal Academic was further changed in 2009 with the additional title and responsibilities of Provost.

The Bader International Study Centre (BISC) is located on the historic 200-hectare Herstmonceux Castle estate in East Sussex, U.K. The estate was donated to Queen's in 1993 by Queen's alumnus Dr. Alfred Bader and his wife, Dr. Isabel Bader. After extensive renovations to the moated 15th century castle (which housed the Royal Greenwich Observatory earlier in the century), the BISC now offers an ideal setting for an innovative undergraduate program in experimental international learning that involves extensive use of integrated field study activities, both in the British Isles, and in continental Europe. While the BISC is owned and operated by Queen's, its award-winning programs are offered in conjunction with a consortium of top-ranking Canadian universities that includes The University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Dalhousie University and Huron University College. The BISC provides a unique First-Year Program (offering selected first-year Queen's courses in the arts, humanities, languages, and social sciences), an Upper-Year Program (which in addition, offers Queen's courses in Commerce and Law), and an academically enhanced ESL Plus Program for international students. The BISC campus includes Herstmonceux Castle (housing classroom, conference, computing, library, study, and dining facilities), Bader Hall (a modern three-story residence for students, faculty, and guests), formal Elizabethan gardens, and an extensive wooded medieval park. While the academic programs are the central focus of activities in the fall, winter and spring terms, the BISC also serves during the spring and summer months as a conference centre for academic and business gatherings, as well as a bed and breakfast facility for visitors.

Teacher and author of childrens' books, Priscilla Galloway (née Peebles) was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1930. She studied at Queen's University (B.A., 1950) and at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1959; Ph.D., 1977). Although she had dreamed of doing graduate work in journalism, she instead began her 31-year career as an English teacher at secondary public schools in Toronto (1954-56) and in North York (1956-86), while raising three children. She contributed stories, poems and articles to education journals and popular magazines in Canada, sometimes under the pseudonym Anne Peebles. In her mid-40s - finally finding the time, energy, and space for herself - she began writing short stories, published poetry, and studied for a Ph.D. (University of Toronto, 1977). Her first two works were both published in 1980: Good Times, Bad Times, Mummy and Me is a children's picture book; and What's Wrong with High School English?: It's Sexist, unCanadian, Outdated is based on her doctoral research. Galloway has also taught part-time in the graduate faculty of education at the University of Toronto and has been writer-in-residence at three libraries in northern Ontario. Her recent publications have merited numerous awards: Truly Grim Tale; Atalanta, The Fastest Runner in the World; and Aleta and the Queen received the Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" Award in 1996, The American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, and a Quick Pick for Young Adults in 1996.

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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