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Foley, Roy S.
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Roy S. Foley was born in Lansdowne, Ontario in 1887. He attended Kingston Collegiate Institute before entering Queen's University in the Faculty of Arts in 1905. He received his B.A in 1909, and a specialist certificate from the Faculty of Education in 1911. Mr. Foley was a teacher at a public school in Toronto until 1913 when he joined the staff of the Central Technical School as a teacher in the Department of English and Modern Languages. He served overseas in World War I from 1916-1918, then returned to teaching at the Central Technical School. He married Margaret Blanche Armstrong in 1919, and they had one son, Derwyn. In 1923, he received his M.A from Queen's. Mr. Foley was appointed the head of the English and Modern Languages Department at the Danforth Technical School in 1930, and remained there until his retirement in 1952. Roy S. Foley passed away on September 23, 1983.
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