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Alistair Robert Campbell Duncan, was born in Scotland in 1915, and died in Kingston Ontario in 1993. He was Professor, and Head, of the Department of Philosophy for 30 years (1949-1979); and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science (1959-1964), at Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.. Duncan helped found the Canadian Philosophical Association in the 1960s, and served as one of its first presidents. He was a distinguished academic and published numerous papers and scholarly books.

Professor, Theological College, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Doctor, Gastroenterology Division, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, ON. Professor, Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, and Director, Digestive Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Lloyd Alexander was born in Toney Mills, Pictou County, Nova Scotia in 1899.Following his graduation from Pictou Academy in 1917, he enlisted in the Canadian Army and spent the next two years overseas with the Canadian Signal Corps. On his return to Canada he enrolled at Dalhousie where he received a B.A. in 1921 and an M.A. the following year. In 1926 he was awarded his Ph.D. from McGill. After spending three years at University of Manitoba as Assistant Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, he joined the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's in 1929 where he taught for the next thirty-eight years until his retirement in 1967. Over the years he published extensively on the chemistry of gels, chemical analysis, resins and colloids. He was also a keen student of the history of chemistry and an avid philatelist. He died at Brampton, Ontario in 1987.

George Whalley was born in Kingston in 1915. He obtained his B.A. at Bishop's University in 1935 and his M.A. in 1945. He obtained a B.A. from Oriel College, Oxford in 1939 and an M.A. in 1948. In 1950 he obtained his Ph. D. from King's College, London. He was a Rhodes scholar for Quebec in 1936. From 1945 to 1948 he taught English at Bishop's University before joining the faculty at Queen's University in 1950. Among his publications are In the Land of Feast or Famine, Poems 1939-1944; The Legend of John Hornby; and Poetic Process. He edited and wrote the forward for Selected Poems of George Herbert Clarke. He also edited Writing in Canada, the publication of the proceedings of the Canadian Writers' Conference of 1956; Death in the Barren Ground - The Diary of Edgar Christian; and A Place of Liberty in 1964. He died in 1983.

William John (Bill) Barnes was an Associate Professor at Queen's University at Kingston from 1962 until his death in November 1992. Born in Kemptville, Ontario, on 4 November 1936, he attended Trinity College and went on to pursue graduate studies at the University of Chicago. Bill Barnes joined the Department of English Department at Queen's University in 1962. His primary interests were in the English Renaissance, particularly John Milton, and Canadian literature and modern poetry. He won the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society Award for teaching excellence twice and also received one of Canada's most prestigious teaching awards, the 3M Teaching Fellowship. He was also choirmaster and organist at St James Anglican Church, Kingston for twenty years and his choral work was written during his tenure there. He was asked by Queen's University to write their Sesquicentennial Hymn, which received its inaugral performance on 16 October 1991. William John Barnes died 30 November 1992 in Kingston. He is survived by his daughters Catherine and Sarah, and son James.

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