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Davies, Robertson (1913-1995). The distinguished Canadian novelist attended Queen's but was unable to graduate ñ not because he fell short in the humanities, but because he struggled with math. A native of Thamesville, Ontario, Davies was an undergraduate at Queen's between 1932 and 1935. He was active in university theatrics and at the Queen's Journal, where he became literary editor in his final year. Despite his success in the humanities, he failed to obtain the math credits which were then a prerequisite for graduation; he transferred to Oxford, which had no such requirement, and received his BLit from there in 1938. After a career as a minor stage actor and theatrical assistant in England, he returned to work as a journalist in Canada, serving as editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner (1940-1965) and at the same time beginning his prolific career as a novelist, playwright and critic. Later he lectured in literature at the University of Toronto. In his first three novels, later known as the Salterton trilogy ñ Tempest Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954), and A Mixture of Frailties (1958) ñ he drew on his experiences in Kingston and at Queen's, setting the novels in a fictional town, "Salterton," modelled on Kingston, and giving a prominent place to "Waverly University," modelled on Queen's. Among his best-known novels since then are Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972), The Rebel Angels (1981), What's Bred in the Bone (1987), Murther and Walking Spirits (1991), and The Cunning Man (1994).
Day Care Centre. Established in 1974, Queen's Day Care Centre Inc is a non-profit, cooperative day care that serves the children of students, faculty, staff and other members of the Kingston community. Parents are actively involved and contribute two hours of work per month. The centre provides full day care for children six months to five years of age and a half-day program for children in kindergarten. The pre-school centre is at 169 union street and the Infant Centre is at 184 union street.
de St Remy, Elizabeth. De St Remy was the first woman to enrol in regular classes at Queen's. A native of Brantford, she was educated privately by her father, a teacher, and in due course became the headmistress of a girls' school in Kingston. In the mid-1870s she asked Queen's senate to allow her students and other young women, on her recommendation, to attend ordinary classes at the university. (Women had been able to attend some special classes in English since 1869, but had not been allowed to register in ordinary classes alongside men.) Curiously, chemistry and logic were the only subjects that de St Remy asked to be made available. The Senate granted her request on 13 October 1876, opening a limited number of courses to female enrolment. The headmistress herself was the first to take advantage of the opportunity, and in fact appears to have managed somehow to sneak in early, by registering for a course in logic on 1 February 1876, six months before the Senate's decision. She was Queen's 936th student and the first woman listed on the official registry of students. She was also an early dropout; at least she did not attend a second year of courses. See also Women at Queen's.
Deacon Street. This short street runs from Barrie Street to arch street between the Biosciences Complex and abramsky hall. It is one of five streets in the campus area named after Archdeacon George Okill Stuart, an Anglican cleric who was the original owner of summerhill, Queen's oldest building. The others are arch, george, okill, and stuart. Deacon was closed off as a road in 1999 and changed into a walk-way.
Dean of Student Affairs.Re-introduced as part of the Queen's administration in 1995, the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs has responsibility for student services provided by Queen's University. These currently are Athletics and Recreation; Ban Righ Centre; Career Services; Chaplain's Office; Community Housing; Community Outreach Centre; Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre; Health, Counselling and Disability Services; John Deutsch University Centre (JDUC); Queen's Day Care; Queen's Event Services; Queen's University International Centre (QUIC); Residences; and Town Gown Relations. The mission of the office is to interact with students and student associations, and to represent the voice of students at the Deans and Vice-Principals' level. The Dean is also involved in the broader educational activities of students related to the learning environment. The Dean of Student Affairs reports to the Vice-Principal (Academic) and features one Associate Dean. The Office of the Dean of Student Affairs is located in Gordon Hall. Please see Deans.
Dean of Women. A movement to appoint a Dean of Women started in the 1890s, when women students debated off and on whether such an official would benefit them, or whether it would interfere too much with their independence. The movement gathered steam after 1900, when the number of women students at Queen's had reached a few hundred and concerns grew about the morals and deportment of women students living in crowded boardinghouses near campus, often alongside men. But many women students were still ambivalent or opposed, so the university at first hired only an "advisor to women" in 1911. In 1918 the post was retitled and the former "advisor," Caroline McNeill, became the university's first Dean of Women. McNeill was the wife of a professor who only later became a faculty member herself, but all subsequent Deans (with the exception of Evelyn Reid in the 1970s) have held academic appointments jointly with the deanship, in subjects ranging from English to astrophysics.
When Ban Righ Hall opened in 1925 and, at the same time, Hilda Laird took over the post of Dean, the job took on a new dimension: the Dean of Women lived in residence with women students and supervised them directly, making and enforcing rules about such things as curfews, late-leaves and visitors. The Dean also made rules for women who lived off-campus, supervising how they dressed (no "slacks," except at breakfast, until the 1960s) and their choice of housing (no unsupervised apartments, no boardinghouses with men, no boardinghouses that had not been personally approved by the Dean). The Dean played a role in the day-to-day operation of the women's residences, reporting to the ban righ board. That management role became more substantial in the 1970s, when the Ban Righ Board became an advisory body only and the Dean of Women took over the whole job of running the women's residences (and, between 1987 and 1990, all residences), before relinquishing all involvement in residence management in 1990. After victoria hall opened in 1965 the Dean of Women moved her quarters there; successive deans continued to live there until 1990, when the "in-residence" tradition ended and the Dean moved to an office in mackintosh-corry hall.
By the early ë90s Queen's was one of only a handful of universities in Canada that still had a Dean of Women. Over the decades her role had evolved from that of surrogate parent to a resource for students, faculty and staff, and in particular for the women on campus. The Dean of Women was available for consultation and discussion on the wide variety of issues that affect women in the university. She provided information on services available for women in the Queen's community. She sponsored special events and offered informal counselling on personal, academic, and financial matters.
In the mid-1990s Principal Bill Leggett identified the need to re-examine the position and its activities in the context of a larger review of equity and human-rights structures at the university. The review, completed in 1996, recommended a more broadly integrated equity structure at Queen's. The position of Dean of Women was discontinued, and in 1996 a new position, the University Advisor on Equity, was created.
In 1997, determined to preserve the legacy of the position, the Alumni Association's Committee on Women's Affairs established a steering committee to direct the writing of a history of the dean of women. The result, Their Leaven of Influence: Deans of Women at Queen's University, 1916-1996, by Queen's alumnae Maureen McCallum Garvie and Jennifer L. Johnson, was published in 1999.
Deans of Women:
Caroline McNeill (1918-1925)
Hilda Laird (1925-1934)
Winnifred Kydd, O.B.E. (1934-1939)
Allie Vibert Douglas (1939-1959)
Beatrice Bryce (1959-1971)
Evelyn Reid (1971-1980)
Elspeth Baugh (1980-1993)
Pamela Dickey Young (1993-1996)
Deans. Deans are the academic officers in charge of the university's five faculties, as well as the three schools that are faculties in all but name. (These are the Faculties of arts and science, applied science, medicine, law, and education, and the Schools of business, nursing, and graduate studies and research.) The one exception to this is the dean of student affairs, a faculty member responsible for supporting the needs of undergraduate students at Queen's; for more on this Dean, see separate entry.
All Deans, including the Dean of Student Affairs, are appointed for five-year terms by the principal, on the advice of committees of faculty members and students. All are ex-officio and voting members of the Senate.
The eight ordinary Deans (that is, all Deans apart from the Dean of Student Affairs) are almost always professors in their respective faculties and schools. Their exact role varies depending on their faculty or school. In the three faculties that are divided into departments (Applied Science, Arts and Science, and Medicine), Deans are responsible for approving and passing on to the Principal recommendations from department heads for staffing (appointments, promotion, award of tenure and leaves, and salaries), for reviewing departmental budget requests, for recommending budget allocations to the Principal, and for administering faculty budgets. They also chair their faculty's Committee of Departments (composed of Department Heads of all departments with teaching duties in the faculty.) In non-departmentalized faculties and schools, the Dean is responsible for the complete staffing, budgeting and administration of the faculty, although responsibilities may be delegated to colleagues or faculty committees. The Dean of Graduate Studies has a slightly different job, reflecting the school's anomalous status (see entry on the school). This Dean administers only a few interdisciplinary schools, centres, and institutes, but is responsible for graduate programs throughout the university and for encouraging research in all faculties. All Deans play a prominent role in formulating policies for consideration by their faculty boards. Most Deans are assisted by one or more Associate Deans.
Democracy, Centre for the Study of. Founded in 1993, this centre has five objectives: To promote and conduct comparative research on democratic development ; To contribute to the process of democratization in transitional democracies through projects in education about democracy; To develop computer and Internet-based educational resources for teaching and research about democracy; To develop and deliver Internet courses on democracy; To conduct programs in public education in Canada to increase Canadians' level of understanding of the issues facing global democracy. The centre is associated with the School of Policy Studies and the Department of Political Studies, is located in Mackintosh-Corry Hall. It is led by a director who reports to the (Vice-Principal Research.)
Department Heads. These are the academic and administrative leaders of individual academic departments at Queen's. To emphasize that leadership role, the title of "head" has generally been preferred to that of "chair" at Queen's: the Department of history is the sole exception. Department heads are responsible for organizing the teaching program and teaching duties within their departments. They organize the teaching loads of faculty and the work of support staff, administer the departmental budget, and make recommendations to the dean and principal regarding the appointment, promotion, tenure, and leave of academic staff, and the salaries of academic and support staff. They are usually assisted by an administrative assistant and a variety of departmental committees, and serve on the Committee of Departments within the faculty or faculties in which their department has teaching responsibilities. They are appointed for five-year terms (renewable subject to review) on the advice of a Principal's committee made up of faculty members and students and chaired by a Dean or an Associate Dean. These committees also assess the present state and future prospects of the department, thus ensuring that there is a periodic critical review of the development of each department
Departments. There are two types of departments at Queen's: staff and academic. Staff departments provide various support services to the university and report to a vice-principal; for lists of these, see under the titles of the university's five Vice-Principals, especially the vice-principal (operations and finance), the vice-principal (academic), and the vice-principal (advancement). For the function and role of academic departments, see next entry.
Departments, Academic. These are the basic units responsible for organizing teaching and research within the university's three largest faculties ñ arts and science, applied science and health sciences ñ as well as the uniquely structured School of graduate studies and research. There are eight schools that operate in effect as departments, although under the administration of a director, not a department head: these are the School of music and the School of physical and health education (units within the Faculty of Arts and Science); the School of rehabilitation therapy (a unit within the Faculty of Health Sciences); and the three Schools of industrial relations, policy studies, and urban and regional planning (all units within the School of Graduate Studies and Research).
All departments are administered for the purposes of budget and staffing by only one faculty or school. Many, however, are teaching units in more than one faculty or school. For example, the School of Graduate Studies and Research administers no departments of its own, but embraces as a teaching unit every department in the university offering a graduate program. As well, there are four natural science departments that are administered by the Faculty of Arts and Science but which are also teaching units within the Faculty of Applied Science; and there are five basic medical science departments that are administered by the Faculty of Health Sciences but which are also teaching units within the Faculty of Arts and Science (for lists of these, see entries on individual faculties). As well, the theological college, which is itself non-departmentalized, provides the departments of religious studies and jewish studies for the Faculty of Arts and Science, while the School of business is sometimes said to provide the Department of commerce for the same faculty, although the relationship is a less formal one. These interrelationships require sensitivity on the part of the faculties administering staffing and budgeting in these departments to their responsibilities in other faculties. (This is facilitated by having the department heads in these double-duty departments attend the Committee of Departments, where they exist, in both relevant faculties; for more on the Committee of Departments, see deans.)
The internal organization of departments has been left mostly to the departments themselves and varies considerably with their size and traditions, but all must follow specific procedures laid down by the senate relating to appointments, tenure, promotions and leave, and most have several standing committees dealing with these and other matters. The Faculties of Law and Education and the Schools of Business and Nursing are not departmentalized and combine at the faculty or school level the functions performed by both the faculty boards and the departments in the larger faculties. For information on individual departments, see individual entries, alphabetized by discipline.
Deutsch, John James (1911-1976). Queen's 14th principal (1968-1974) was also a Queen's graduate; but in between he spent over 20 years away from his alma mater, rising to prominence in the federal public service. Born the eldest of 17 children on a farm near Quinton, Saskatchewan, Deutsch was the only one of his family to receive a formal education: he was educated at a Regina high school and at Queen's (BCom 1935). Over 20 years of distinguished public service followed: as a member of the research department of the Bank of Canada (1936-1942); as a special assistant in External Affairs (1942-1944); as director of the International Economic Relations Division of the Department of Finance (1944-1953); and as Secretary of the Treasury Board (1954-1956). In addition he was a member of numerous royal commissions, commissions of inquiry, and advisory commissions. In 1959, after three years as Head of the Department of Economics at UBC, Deutsch was recruited to Queen's by Principal w.a. mackintosh to overhaul the university's financial management and administration. He served as Vice-Principal (Administration) and professor of economics until 1963, when he was recruited to Ottawa again for another important assignment ñ this time as founding chair of the Economic Council of Canada. He returned to Queen's in 1967 as Principal-designate.
As Principal, Deutsch saw it as one of his most urgent tasks to maintain Queen's traditional intimacy in the face of extreme pressures to expand. He put a brake on enrolment when it reached 10,000, a move which has been crucial in helping Queen's retain its sense of community. His incisiveness, personal rapport with students, and willing expansion of students' role in the university's government also steered Queen's clear of much of the student unrest that racked other universities in the period. A companion of the Order of Canada, he received 17 honorary degrees, the hoods of which are now displayed in a work of art by Helen Frances Gregor in the ceilidh of the john deutsch university centre. He died in Kingston. His personal papers are held at Queen's archives. See also ottawa and queen's.
Development, Department of. Reporting to the Vice-principal (Advancement), the Department of Development is responsible for exploring and developing philanthropic support for the university. It consists of four areas, each led by a director: Annual Giving, Planned Giving, Major Gifts and Faculty Development, and Donor Relations and Stewardship. Annual Giving involves generating support for immediate funding needs through two main programs: direct mail and telefundraising. More than 100,000 alumni, parents, faculty/staff, students, and friends of Queen's University are contacted annually through these programs. The Planned Giving program involves promoting and arranging donations from wills, bequests, annuities, and other forms of structured giving. Major Gifts and Faculty Development is responsible for identifying, cultivating, and soliciting corporate and individual donors for large gifts; identifying marketable projects in individual faculties, and encouraging alumni involvement through faculty advisory councils. Donor Relations and Stewardship is responsible for protecting gifts made to Queen's and stewarding those who give them in a way that responds to the donor's expectations. Through a variety of programs such as naming opportunities and donor events, Donor Relations and Stewardship helps to cultivate existing donors for additional gifts and also foster long-term relationships between these donors, their families, and the University. The Department of Development is located in Summerhill. In addition, a number development officers are assigned to individual faculty locations on campus.
Developmental Consulting Program. The program is affiliated with the Faculty of Health Sciences. The program, established in 1984, contributes to teaching and research in the area of developmental disabilities. It brings together university experts from different disciplines to work on consulting projects and contracts with outside agencies in areas of social and health care service. Faculty participants come from a wide range of disciplines, from medicine and psychology to business and law. The program office is located off-campus at 275 Bagot Street.
Development Studies, Department of.This academic unit focuses upon concepts related to developing countries and to aboriginal communities in Canada, with reference to issues such as globalization, poverty, human rights, social policy and trade relations. Created in 1997 as an interdisciplinary program, it has experienced rapid growth to a total of some 125 students in 2001. It is offered as a Medial academic concentration (B.A.H) or as a Minor degree program (B.A.). Development Studies is supported by the departments of Political Studies, Sociology, Women's Studies, History, Environmental Studies, Economics and Geography. The prescribed program of study incorporates several Development Studies courses, as well as core courses from each of the supporting departments and a wide array of optional credits. Students are strongly encouraged to take advantage of development-related international exchanges and work-study placements, and receive academic credit for doing so. It is administered through the Faculty of Arts and Science, and is located in Mackintosh-Corry Hall. Development Studies does not yet have its own continuing faculty, but rather is provided through the combined efforts of several adjunct instructors and some 15 faculty members based in different departments.
Diagnostic Radiology, Department of. Courses in radiological physics were first offered to medical students at Queen's in 1920 in the university's physics department. The current Department of Diagnostic Radiology traces its origins to 1931 when W.A. Jones was appointed the first Head of X-Ray and Physical Therapy in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Radiographs remain the most familiar tool in the department, but powerful new techniques for scanning and taking images of the body have been introduced in recent decades. The department now has extensive equipment for radiography, CAT scans (which use a computer to produce, from x-rays, cross-sectional views of the body), and ultrasonography (the use of high-frequency sound to provide images of organs and tissues). Equipment for magnetic resonance imaging (the use of a magnetic field and pulsed radio waves to produce images of the central nervous system) is expected to be operational in 1994. Since 1979, when Queen's ceased to offer a Diploma in Medical Radiology, students have been able to apply for certification from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons after a four-year program in Diagnostic Imaging at Queen's. The department, which has about 15 full-time faculty, is located in Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital.
Diatribe Magazine.Part of the Alma Mater Society this publication focuses on political and cultural issues of Queen¥s University. It began in the winter of 2001 and is one of the University¥s first mixed media outlets.
Dialectic Society of Queen's College. Established in 1843, this was Queen's first student organization. Members met regularly after classes to debate and to read and criticize essays. The subjects of the debates reveal something of 19th-century students' concerns. In December, 1851, for example, they debated the question: "Would it be beneficial to England to throw off the Colonies?" Their verdict was yes. In February, 1852, they voted in the affirmative to the question: "Should novel-reading be countenanced?" In 1853, they approved of the "the dancing of the present day," but decided that Britain had not benefited India by its "dominion." The society's final debate, in January of 1857, asked: "Would mankind be better without intoxicating liquors?" Their answer was emphatically on the side of the liquors. Ironically, considering this last verdict, other activities of the society included delivering public lectures on temperance and establishing Sunday Schools. The society folded in 1858 when the Alma Mater Society was founded and took over some of its operations.
Discipline, Student.Queen's Royal Charter gave the Senate responsibility for student discipline, but the Senate now delegates much of that responsibility to other bodies. "Academic discipline" – that having to do with plagiarism, cheating, and other forms of academic dishonesty, for example – is now handled by individual faculties and schools, which have the final word except when they recommend expulsion or suspension from the faculty or university, steps which require Senate approval. "Non-academic discipline" includes all other kinds of misconduct by students, especially violations of the non-academic portions of the Code of Conduct. Since 1898, the Senate has officially delegated much of the responsibility for non-academic discipline to the students themselves, giving Queen's a long tradition of student self-government that has become a distinctive feature of the university community.
The tradition actually started less formally in the 1880s, when Principal George Grant, unsuccessful at eradicating the "Concursus," a mock court used by upper-year men to extract beer money "fines" from freshman, cleverly decided to co-opt it instead, officially sanctioning it to maintain order among students. In 1898, the Alma Mater Society took over that role, when official responsibility for non-academic discipline of students was enshrined in its constitution and delegated to the "AMS Court." Changes in campus life and student government since then mean that the responsibility is now shared among several bodies: the former AMS Court, now the AMS Judicial Committee, responsible for cases involving undergraduates; the Society of Graduate and Professional Students Judicial Board, responsible for cases involving graduate and professional students; and the judicial committees of the Main Campus Residents' Council and the Jean Royce Hall Council, which have initial responsibility for cases originating in residences, although residence administrators can intervene directly when residence safety and security is involved. In addition, faculty boards (or, in some faculties, a discipline committee designated by the Faculty Board) still retain jurisdiction over non-academic discipline when the misconduct occurs in an academic setting: during a class, field trip or lab, for example. Sanctions can range from fines and community service orders to a recommendation to the Senate for suspension and expulsion.
For most of these bodies, there are several levels of appeal. Students dissatisfied with decisions of the various residence judicial committees and appeal committees can appeal to the AMS Judicial Committee or SGPS Judicial Board. Students dissatisfied with the decision of either of these bodies, or with a Faculty Board or Faculty Board discipline committee, can appeal to the University Student Appeal Board (USAB). In cases involving complex legal issues, complex jurisdictional questions, or the possibility of suspension or expulsion, the AMS Judicial Committee, the SGPS Judicial board, or Faculty Boards may decide not to hear the case but, instead, refer the matter to USAB. Created through the Senate Policy on Student Appeals, Rights & Discipline (refer to http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/senate/policies/), USAB shall normally consist of three members: the chair (from the Faculty of Law), a student senator, and a faculty senator. USAB provides a final internal appeal process and is intended to have a relatively narrow jurisdiction, recognizing that decisions should generally be made by those who are most familiar with the context. Another Senate body concerned with non-academic student discipline is the Senate Committee on Non-Academic Discipline (SONAD). It has no direct role in disciplining students; instead, it reviews the university's discipline policies and procedures, helps to train students and administrators involved in discipline processes, and advises if there is confusion about which body is to handle a particular case.
Disraeli Project. This is a research unit engaged in producing, under the title Benjamin Disraeli Letters, the first-ever complete scholarly edition of the extant correspondence of the great 19th century British statesman, prime-minister, and novelist Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881). Copies from manuscript of more than 11,000 letters have been gathered from nearly 300 sources, making the collection one of the largest in existence, surpassed only by those of a few other voluminous correspondents such as Dickens and Voltaire. The unit has so far produced seven volumes. The Project as such was established in 1975, though initial work was begun in 1972. The project is located on the ground floor of John Watson Hall.
Dollar Bill. See William Allen.
Domesday Book of Queen's University. This book was established by Queen's trustees in 1887 to record the names of the university's benefactors and the main events in its history, which were to be written into the book every year. The book was kept up to date by Prof james williamson and his successors, librarian Lois Saunders and Prof Malcolm MacGillivray, until 1924, by which time the innovation of annual Principal's reports (begun in 1916) rendered it unnecessary. Now kept in Queen's archives, it takes its name from the original Domesday Book, a survey of England taken by William the Conqueror in 1086. See also Toshi Ikehara.
Donald Gordon Centre. Opened in 1974, this is the university's year-round conference centre, containing meeting space, accommodation, reception and dining rooms. It is used both by Queen's groups and others, and attracts national and international conferences every year. The core of the centre is Roselawn House, an elegant limestone country house built in 1841 by noted Kingston architect William Coverdale for David John Smith, a local lawyer. Ironically, Smith had bought the site, located on union street at college street, from Queen's: it was part of the young college's original 50-acre land holding. (For the story of that property and why Queen's did not end up using it, see original property.) By the time Queen's bought back the property in 1970, the house had served as a private home for over 100 years, and then, between 1948 and 1969, as the official residence of the Commandant of the National Defence College. A large modern addition, containing accommodation, dining rooms and meeting rooms, was added by Queen's before the opening in 1974. In 1989, the university contracted out the management of the centre and conference services to a private management company. In 1997, the Centre re-opened after being closed for one year. It had been completely redesigned and rebuilt to provide state of the art technology and improved levels of comfort, convenience and service.The contract is overseen by the office of the vice-principal (operations and finance). The centre is named after Donald Gordon (1901-1969), a banker, financier, public servant, member of the Board of Trustees, and generous benefactor to the university.
Douglas, Allie Vibert (1894-1988). Vibert Douglas (she usually went by her middle name) was one of Canada's best-known astrophysicists and served as Queen's dean of women from 1939 to 1959. Born in Montreal in 1894, she attended McGill, but suspended her studies in 1916 to join the War Office in London as a statistician. For her efforts during the First World War, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1918. She earned her BA from McGill in 1920 and her MSc a year later. Soon after, she became fascinated by astronomy when she studied at the Cambridge University Observatory under Sir Arthur Eddington, one of the leading astronomers of his generation and a man about whom she wrote an acclaimed biography in 1956. She returned to McGill to complete her doctorate in astronomy in 1926 and stayed at the university as a lecturer in Physics and Astrophysics until 1939, when she came to Queen's to serve as Dean of Women and as a professor in the physics department. She remained Dean of Women for the next 20 years, living in ban righ hall, and taught physics until her retirement in 1964. During her tenure at Queen's she served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society (1943-1945), as the first Canadian president of the International Federation of University Women (1947-1950), and as the Canadian representative at the 1954 UNESCO conference in Montevideo. She was named one of 10 "Women of the Century" by the National Council of Jewish Women in 1967, and admitted to the Order of Canada in the same year. She held honorary degrees from McGill, Queensland University, and from Queen's. In her honour, astronomers named a recently discovered planet "Vibert Douglas." She died in Kingston.
Douglas, James (1837-1918). Douglas, Queen's third chancellor (1915-1918), led an uncommonly varied life as a Presbyterian minister, a metallurgist, an industrialist, and a historian. He was born in Quebec City and educated at Queen's (BA 1858) and Edinburgh University, where he was ordained as a minister in 1861. Shortly afterwards he made a surprising career change, becoming a mining chemist in Quebec. In 1875 he entered industrial life in the US. He discovered valuable copper deposits in Arizona, invented new metallurgical processes for the reduction of copper, and reached the presidency of three major mining companies. He founded a huge smelting centre at Douglas, Arizona, which was named in his honour. Throughout his career he retained a deep interest in and affection for both Canada and Queen's. He wrote several works of Canadian history and donated close to $1,000,000 to various university causes. His biggest gift was to provide half of the funds for the douglas library, which was completed in 1924 and named in his honour. He was elected Chancellor in 1915 after the death of Sir sandford Fleming and served until his own death in 1918. Unfortunately, deteriorating health throughout his term restricted his contributions to the university.
Douglas Library. This campus landmark is the oldest of Queen's libraries. The southern half of the building was completed in 1923; the northern part, built in the same neo-gothic style and featuring three underground floors of bookstacks , was added in 1966. The library's functions have evolved over its 70-year history. It was originally built to house the university's whole library collection, and it also contained the offices of the principal and other senior officials until richardson hall was built in 1954. When separate faculty and departmental libraries began to multiply across campus in the 1960s and 70s, Douglas Library became the university's main social sciences and humanities library, as well as the home for the library system administrative offices, a periodicals room, and a Special Collections unit for rare or fragile publications. After the opening of Stauffer Library in 1994, Douglas Library was slated for extensive renovation and was closed until reopening in 1997. As an amalgamated library replacing individual department libraries for the Faculty of Applied Sciences and several science departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, extensive renovations to improve space and mechanical services were completed. In a second phase of renovations to one floor of the Douglas Library, the W. D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library was created and opened in 1999. At the same time a refurbishment of the two reading rooms located on the top floor reading rooms was undertaken. The building is located on the southeast corner of university avenue and union street. It is named in honour of james douglas, Queen's chancellor from 1915 to 1918.
Drama, Department of. Courses in drama were first offered at Queen's early this century in the Department of english, though students and faculty had performed plays in independent groups since the late 19th century. A separate department was established in 1947 under the directorship of William Angus, whose wife, Margaret Angus, was the second member of the teaching staff. J.A. Euringer took over the department on Dr Angus's retirement in 1963 and ushered in a new era in the department, marked by the conversion of convocation hall into a 260-seat theatre and the establishment of offices, workshops, and dressing rooms in the basement of theological hall, the building which remains the department's home. Other spaces in the building used by the department include the spacious Room 102, which is used for experimental theatre, and the Rotunda Theatre in the building's west end. Faculty in the department teach students about the theatre from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Courses in acting, directing, writing plays, stagecraft, literature, theatre history, theory, and criticism are combined with a number of actual stage productions to provide a balanced curriculum. The program prepares students for a career in the professional theatre (usually after further study in a professional school), certification through the Faculty of education as a teacher of drama and theatre arts, and for further studies at the graduate level. The department is part of the Faculty of arts and science.The history of drama at the university is told in Drama at Queen's From its Beginning to 1991, by Erdmute Waldhauer.
Duncan McArthur Hall. Built between 1969 and 1971, McArthur Hall houses Queen's Faculty of education. The huge building on west campus includes administrative offices, classrooms, labs, technical shops, and the large education library. It is named after a former professor of history at Queen's who served as the provincial minister of education in the 1940s. The entire faculty is sometimes known as McArthur College, which was, in fact, its official name until 1971.
Dunning, Charles Avery (1885-1958). A premier of Saskatchewan and a federal minister of finance, Dunning served as Queen's seventh chancellor between 1940 and 1959. Born in Croft, England, he immigrated to Canada at the age of 17 to work as a farm hand in Saskatchewan. He became general manager of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company in 1911 and was elected a Liberal MLA in 1916. He served successively as provincial treasurer and as minister of agriculture before being elected premier in 1922. He entered federal politics in 1926 and served as Prime Minister Mackenzie King's minister of railways and canals (1926-1929) and then as minister of finance (1929-1930). He lost his seat in the election of 1930, but returned to power and the finance portfolio in 1935. He resigned because of ill health in 1939 and resumed a career in business. He was elected Queen's Chancellor in 1940. He was closely involved in Queen's major financial and personnel decisions and his public and private influence made him an extremely effective fundraiser for the university. He died in Montreal. His papers are held at Queen's Archives.
Dunning Hall.Built in 1960, Dunning Hall is currently home to Queen's Department of Economics. It is named in honour of the politician and former chancellor of Queen's, Charles Avery Dunning. It is located at the southwest corner of University Avenue and Union Street and includes the spacious Dunning Auditorium, used for public lectures and large classes. Dunning Hall was previously home to Queen's School of Business before it moved to Goodes Hall in the fall of 2002. See Goodes Hall.
Dupuis, Nathan Fellowes (1836-1917). Dupuis was one of Queen's most influential and versatile science professors in the 19th century and helped to found the university's Faculty of Applied Science. He was born on a farm near Kingston and, though he had little schooling, showed unusual talent as a boy for mathematics and mechanics. He was apprenticed to a clockmaker in Kingston (Smith Bros Jewellers, which still exists) and independently pursued studies in math and astronomy. He was appointed to a junior post at Queen's observatory in 1863 and earned a degree at the university in 1866. He was appointed Queen's librarian immediately after graduation and in 1868 began his teaching career as professor of Chemistry and Natural History. He was appointed professor of Mathematics and Chemistry in 1880 and in 1881 became professor of Pure Mathematics. He took a leading role in promoting the creation of a Faculty of Applied Science at Queen's and was made dean of the faculty when it was formed in 1894, a post he retained until he retired in 1911. (For more on the foundation of the faculty, see Applied Science) He was also an inveterate tinkerer and invented numerous pieces of scientific and practical apparatus for the university, including the original clock in Grant Hall tower, which continued to work, with some new parts, until it was replaced in 1993. He died in California in 1917.
DrugXPress. A student health plan run out of the Alma Mater Society, DrugXPress provides a convenient on campus "drop off" of prescriptions and next day delivery of medications to the John Deustch University Centre without compromising patient care and with substaintial savings. This project began in 1999.
Dupuis Hall. Completed in 1966, Dupuis Hall houses Queen's Information Technology Services and the Department of chemical engineering. It is named after nathan fellowes dupuis, an influential professor of mathematics at Queen's in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a founder of the Faculty of applied science. It is located on Division Street, opposite the jock harty arena.