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Radiation Oncology Clinical Research Unit
Rector
Registrar, Office of the University
Rehabilitation Society
Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of
Rehabilitation Therapy, School of
Religious Studies, Department of
Research Services, Office of
Residences
Resources Planning
Retirees' Association of Queen's
Richardson, James Armstrong
Richardson family
Richardson Hall
Richardson Laboratories
Richardson Memorial Stadium
Rideau Building
Robert Sutherland Room
Rogers, The Hon Norman McLeod
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rosen Lecture
Royal Charter
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston
Royce, Jean Isobel
Russian Studies, Department of
Ryan, Kathleen
Radiation Oncology Clinical Research Unit. The Radiation Oncology Research Unit (RORU) was established in the Department of Oncology at Queen's in 1992. RORU is a multidisciplinary group with a program of research that includes medical decision-making, outcomes research, and health policy development in the field of oncology. The Unit, which receives core support of Cancer Care Ontario, includes scientists with expertise in statistics, epidemiology, psychology, and health economics, as well as clinician-scientists with expertise in cancer surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. RORU is currently located in the Research Wing of Kingston General Hospital. RORU recently joined with the Cancer Etiology Group in the Department of Epidemiology to become the Division of Cancer Care and Etiology of the Queen's Cancer Research Institute.
Rector. This position, unique among Canadian universities, was established in 1912 and modelled after similar positions at Scottish universities. The primary function of the Rector is to represent students on the board of trustees. Some Rectors, however, have also used the office in a more informal way to help students with administrative problems by providing information and advice. The Rector also has certain ceremonial responsibilities, the most important of which is to join the chancellor and the principal on the dais at convocations. The Rector is frequently called upon to represent students on university committees, such as those which select the Principal and honorary degree recipients. The Rector has always been elected by students to a three-year term, but until 1969 no students were chosen; instead, the Rector tended to be some prominent friend of Queen's, such as the senior public servant o.d. skelton (1929-1935), former Prime Minister R.B. Bennett (1935-1937), and the businessman and chair of the CBC leonard brockington (1947-1968). In 1969, students in that age of activism forced the resignation of the Rector, Senator Grattan O'Leary, and students have been elected to the post ever since.
Rectors since 1913:
1913 The Rev S. Dyde
1916 James L. Robertson
1920 Brigadier General A.E. Ross
1925 William Coverdale
1929 Oscar Douglas Skelton
1935 The Rt Hon R.B. Bennett
1937 The Hon norman mcleod rogers
1940 The Earl of Athlone
1944 B.K. Sandwell
1947 Leonard Brockington
1968 The Hon Grattan O'Leary
1969 R. Alan Broadbent (first student Rector)
1972 Gary Michael Gannage
1974 Bruce W. Trotter
1976 Morris Chochla
1978 Hugh Christie
1980 Jeremy Freedman
1982 James Harris
1984 Richard Powers
1986 Kelley McKinnon
1988 Charis Kelso
1990 Antoinette Mongillo
1992 David Baar
1994 Peter Gallent
1996 Ian Michael
1998 Michael Kealy
2000 Daniel Sahl
2002 Ahmed Kayssi
2004 Grant Bishop
Registrar, Office of the University. This is the most important administrative office for students at Queen's. It plans and administers comprehensive enrolment management services including: undergraduate student recruitment and admissions; student record collection, maintenance and retention; scholarships (undergraduate) and financial assistance (all students); tuition fee assessment and collection; many academic support services including exams, convocation, registration, course evaluations and classroom allocation and prepares reports for the provincial government for operating grant purposes. It consists of three main units: Student Records and Services, the Student Awards Office, and Admission Services (see separate entries). The University Registrar is responsible for all these units; as well, as one of the university's top officials, he or she belongs to a number of important university committees, including the Vice-Principals and Deans Committee, the Senate Committee on Academic Procedures (SCAP), the Senate Committee on Scholarships and Student Aid (SCOSSA) and the Senate Committee on Academic Development (SCAD) and many ad hoc committees. The Office of the University Registrar is responsible to the Vice-Principal (Academic).
Rehab Society. See faculty societies.
Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of. This department was founded in 1966 on the initiative of Harry Botterell, Dean of the Faculty of medicine. It trains undergraduate and postgraduate medical students in the medicine of disability and rehabilitation, and also teaches students in the Schools of rehabilitation therapy and nursing. It originally conducted its clinical and teaching work in a 28-bed rehabilitation unit in the George Bawden Wing of Kingston General Hospital, where the Fraser Armstrong building now stands. In 1976, it established a 36-bed unit at St Mary's of the Lake Hospital and in 1978 shifted its outmoded KGH facility from the Bawden Wing to a modern 20-bed unit in the R.C. Burr Wing. Today, both units provide clinical rehabilitation therapy services to a wide variety of disabled people in southeastern Ontario, including those who have suffered strokes, head injuries, spinal cord injuries, and amputations. Future plans for the department include the consolidation of both of its facilities in St Mary's of the Lake Hospital. The department's office is located in St. Mary's.
Rehabilitation Therapy, School of. Established in 1967, this school trains students to become physical or occupational therapists and offers post-graduate multidisciplinary training in Rehabilitation Science. It offers two undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Science degrees in either Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy. Graduates of these programs are prepared to enter a professional career as therapists working in institutional, private or community settings aiming to promote and restore functional ability and independence in people with impairments and disabilities. The school also offers Master of Science and Ph.D. (Rehabilitation Science) research degree programs for individuals with degrees in physical or occupational therapy or in related disciplines. Graduate students pursue course and thesis work in one of two fields of study: motor performance or disability in the community. The School is part of the Faculty of Health Sciences along with the Schools of Medicine and Nursing. It is located in the Louise D. Acton building which also houses the majority of the School's research facilities. See also clinical education centre, Human Mobility Research Center, international centre for the advancement of community based rehabilitation.
Degrees: Bachelor of Science (BSc OT and BSc PT), Master of Science (MSc), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
Religious Studies, Department of. This department was established in the early 1970s to fill a gap in religious studies at Queen's. Religion had been taught at the university since Queen's held its first classes in 1842, but almost exclusively to train students as ministers. The 1960s saw increasing interest among students in the academic study of world religions, and the department was created to make the academic resources of the theological college available to students in the Faculty of arts and science for the first time. The college, in turn, soon expanded its complement of faculty to provide adequate coverage in the areas of specialization required in the field. Religious Studies is now one of two departments (jewish studies is the other) that is provided to the Faculty of Arts and Science by the college: that is, the teaching is supplied by the faculty members from the college, and the college is financially compensated by the Faculty of Arts and Science. (For more on this kind of relationship, see the general entry on departments.) As at other universities, the approach to religious studies at Queen's is non-confessional, pluralistic, and multidisciplinary, and the Theological College faculty who teach religious studies in fact come from a variety of religious backgrounds. Teaching and research range over the major religious traditions of the world (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, native religions) and address aspects of contemporary culture that have religious import (secularism and feminism, for example). Until 1990, the Principal of theological college was also the head of the Department of Religious Studies; since then the department has had a separate head, who is also responsible for the Department of Jewish Studies. The department is located in Theological Hall.
Research Services, Office of. This office in the School of graduate studies and research provides a variety of services to encourage and facilitate research at Queen's. The one kind of research which it does not handle is medical research; this is the responsibility of the Faculty of Health Sciences. The office keeps faculty informed about opportunities for research funding from external agencies, both public and private, and helps researchers develop proposals. It processes applications for research funding, negotiates agreements and contracts, accepts research funding on behalf of the university, and works with Queen's financial services to establish accounts for funded research projects. The office keeps a database of information about research at Queen's and issues reports to senior university administrators on research awards and proposals. It also administers discretionary research funding on behalf of the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research for minor research expenses, and provides administrative services for the school's advisory research committee. The office is located in the Jemmett wing of Fleming Hall and reports to the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
Residences. The university first offered residential accommodation to its students in 1844, when university officials, anxious to save students from the expenses of local boardinghouses and the temptations of city life, set up their own boarding house in the university's buildings at 203-205 William Street. This closed, however, when the university moved to summerhill in 1854, and students were left once again to find their own accommodation, usually in private boardinghouses near campus. For male students that situation remained unchanged for over 100 years. But there were residences for women much earlier, thanks mainly to volunteer members of the alumnae association, the association of female Queen's graduates. Concerned to provide suitable, strictly supervised accommodation for women living away from home for the first time, the association began in 1900 to rent a series of houses near campus as residences for women students: first at 66 William Street, then, after 1902, at 174 Earl Street (the "Hencoop"), supplemented after 1917 by "The Avonmore" at 207 William Street. (All of these houses are still standing.) But the longer-term ambition of the Alumnae was always to build a permanent residence for women on campus, and this they succeeded in doing in 1925, when ban righ hall was opened, providing accommodation for 60 women. Ban Righ was partly funded by the board of trustees but almost entirely planned and mostly funded by the alumnae, who raised the money through bit-by-bit fundraising over 14 years, involving dozens of teas, bakesales, bridge parties, and small donations. In exchange for their efforts the Alumnae demanded and won a role in the management of the new residence, and association volunteers largely ran Ban Righ, its "annexes" in nearby houses, and the later women's residences until the early 1970s, when the central university offices took over the management of all residences. Subsequent women's residences were adelaide hall (1952), chown hall (1960), and victoria hall (opened in two phases in 1965 and 1968). (For more on the history of women's residences, see entries on the Alumnae Association and Dean of Women).
Meanwhile, a shortage of boardinghouse space in Kingston, the result of a war boom and then a post-war boom, finally convinced university officials to build residences for men as well. Principal William Mackintosh also saw an opportunity to take advantage of the fact that most students came from outside Kingston, and give Queen's a unique niche in Canada as a residential university. McNeill house opened in 1955, followed by Morris hall in 1958, Leonard hall in 1959, the graduate residence (originally all-male) in 1962, Gordon-Brockington house in 1964, and Harkness hall (originally intended for upper year and graduate men) in 1969. These were run by a special subcommittee of the board of trustees until the early 1970s; then the university's central offices took over the management of all residences, and a Director of Residences administered the men's residences while the Dean of Women administered the women's residences. More, special-purpose residences were built during the affluent late 1960s and 1970s: an clachan, providing full apartments (1970); Elrond College (now princess towers), a cooperative residence no longer owned by the university (1972); john orr tower on west campus, another apartment building (1973); Jean Royce Hall on west campus (1974); and the graduate residence (1976). The university also acquired a house at 152 Lower Albert Street in the late 1970s for use as a small additional women's residence, and bought waldron tower from Kingston General Hospital in 1988 for use as a co-ed undergraduate residence. It was not the first co-ed residence at Queen's; in 1972 Morris Hall became co-ed, followed by the Graduate Residence in the mid-1970s, Harkness Hall in 1987, Victoria Hall in 1988, Brockington House in 1991 and Gordon House in 1992. (Morris and McNeill become all-female in 1988.)
Queen's now provides residence accommodation for about 3,000 undergraduates (mostly first-year) and 300 graduate students, and also offers about 400 student apartments. The university can guarantee every first-year undergraduate student from outside of Ontario and every first-year undergraduate who is given first-round admission a place in residence. Between 1988 and 1990, the posts of Dean of Women and Director of Residences were temporarily combined; since 1990 the Director of Residences has been in charge of all residences and the Dean of Women relinquished any direct residence management role. The Director of Residences is responsible to the associate dean (student affairs).
Resources Planning. Please see Institutional Research and Planning.
Retirees' Association of Queen's The Retirees' Association of Queen's (RAQ) was formally established April 14, 2002. For a list of events, details on how to become a member, volunteer spotlights and more, visit the Retirees' Association of Queen's (RAQ) web site
Richardson, James Armstrong (1885-1939). James Richardson, Queen's sixth chancellor (1929-1939), was the first of many members of the richardson family to play a prominent part in Queen's history. He was born in Kingston and educated at Queen's, where he earned his BA in 1906. After graduation, he entered the family firm of James Richardson and Sons, one of Canada's greatest grain exporting firms, becoming vice president in 1912 and president in 1919, and supervising the move of the firm's main office from Kingston to Winnipeg in the 1920s. He also branched out into the airline business, becoming a pioneer in the development of Canadian commercial aviation; he founded Western Canadian Airways in Winnipeg in 1926. He was a director of many companies, including the CPR, the Canadian Bank of Commerce, International Nickel, the Great West Life Assurance Co, National Trust, and Canadian Vickers. He was also president and member of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and several Canadian and American boards of trade. Elected Queen's Chancellor in 1929, he was intimately involved with the workings of the university throughout his term. He took an active role in choosing Principals; he led several fundraising campaigns; and he gave generously from his own resources. Among his most prominent gifts was george richardson memorial stadium, named after his brother, a Queen's graduate who was killed in the First World War. He was the father of Queen's tenth Chancellor, agnes mccausland benidickson, and the brother of agnes etherington, founder of the art centre at Queen's that bears her name. He died in Winnipeg in 1939. Copies of his personal papers are held at Queen's Archives.
Richardson family. The Richardsons are a Kingston and Queen's dynasty. Founders of one of Canada's greatest grain-exporting firms, James Richardson & Sons, the family has been linked with the university since early this century and has provided Queen's with some of its most distinguished leaders and important gifts. The founder of the dynasty, James Richardson, arrived in Kingston from Ireland in 1823 and moved from the tailoring trade into grain shipping and exporting, building a company that remains the largest grain firm in the British Commonwealth. Although by the end of the century the commercial activities of the company had shifted increasingly to the prairies, the head office of the firm remained in Kingston until 1923. The first Richardson to figure largely in Queen's history was the original Richardson's grandson, also james richardson (BA 1906). He was President of the family firm, a generous benefactor to the university, and served as the university's chancellor from 1929 to 1939. richardson hall, built in 1954, is named in his memory. His brother, George Taylor Richardson (BSc 1909), was a top student and a spectacular athlete at the university, but was killed in action during the First World War. After the war, the family donated the george richardson memorial stadium to Queen's in his honour, and also established the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund (see senate committee on fine arts and public lectures). agnes etherington, sister of James and George, was married to Frederick Etherington, Queen's Dean of Medicine, and left her handsome home on university avenue to Queen's to be used as the agnes etherington art centre. agnes mccausland benidickson (BA 1941, LLD 1979), daughter of James, became the second Chancellor in the family in 1980, and continues to serve in the post. Other members of the family have served on the board of trustees, and the family has made considerable donations to Queen's libraries and lectureships. The Chan-cellor Richardson Memorial Fund, established in 1968, has played a vital role in allowing Queen's to collect Canadian materials for teaching and research. The fund has contributed more than $1 million to collections housed primarily in the archives, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Special Collections, the Documents Library, and the Departments of Film Studies, Music, and Geography.
Richardson Hall. Completed in 1954, this building houses Queen's main administrative offices, including those of the principal and several vice-principals. The building is named after james armstrong richardson, a graduate of Queen's, a prominent Canadian businessman, and Chancellor of the university 1929-1939.
Richardson Laboratories. Completed in 1925, this building houses the Department of pathology. A large addition and an extra floor were added in 1962. It is named after the Richardson family, two members of which have been chancellor of Queen's. It is located on stuart street between Etherington Hall and the main entrance to Kingston General Hospital.
Richardson Memorial Stadium. See George Richardson Memorial Stadium.
Rideau Building. Completed in 1971, this building houses a variety of staff departments, including physical plant services. It is located near the west end of stuart street and is one of two buildings at Queen's named after area waterways the other being the Cataraqui building.
Robert Sutherland Memorial Room. Formerly the House of Commons in the Students' Memorial Room and the Billiards Room in the John Deutsch University Centre, this room was refurbished in 1997 and rededicated in memory of Robert Sutherland, Queen's first graduate of African heritage and first major benefactor (see also Robert Sutherland). The project was an initiative of the Alma Mater Society. See Sutherland, Robert.
Rogers, The Hon Norman McLeod (1894-1940). Rogers was a Queen's politics professor who went on to become a prominent member of Prime Minister Mackenzie King's cabinet and Queen's rector (1937-1940) before his early death in a plane crash. He was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and educated at Acadia and Oxford Universities, interrupting his studies to serve in the First World War. He taught history at Acadia University from 1922 to 1927, and then served as private secretary to Prime Minister Mackenzie King from 1927 to 1929. From Ottawa he moved to Queen's, teaching politics in the Department of Political and Economic Science (see economics and political studies) until 1935, and writing a biography of King and a series of groundbreaking monographs on cabinet government and federalism. In 1935 he was elected Member of Parliament for Kingston, and appointed minister of labour. Queen's students elected him Rector in 1937. The leading progressive Liberal in King's cabinet, he was appointed minister of national defence in 1939, and served in this important post during the first part of the Second World War. His death in 1940 in a plane crash shocked Queen's and Canada. After his death the Kingston airport was named in his honour. His nephew, Norman MacLeod Rogers (not "McLeod," like his uncle), became a prominent Toronto lawyer who served as Chair of Queen's board of trustees from 1980 to 1985. See also Ottawa and Queen's.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945). The American President briefly put Queen's at the centre of international attention in 1938, when he received an honorary degree from the university and used the occasion to make an important foreign policy speech. War was looming in Europe and Roosevelt was under intense pressure to declare what action the United States would take, if any, in the event of hostilities. He was reluctant to alienate American isolationists, but also wished to make his own sympathies for the European democracies clear. In his speech at richardson stadium on August 18 he declared: "The Dominion of Canada is part of the British Empire. I give to you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire." As bland as this assurance sounds today, it was widely reported in the press across Western Europe and North America as heralding a dramatic departure from American isolationism.
Rosen Lecture.
Royal Charter. "Queen's College at Kingston" was incorporated by an Imperial Royal Charter issued by Queen Victoria on 16 October 1841 a date celebrated ever since as University Day. Contrary to persistent myth, the Queen herself did not sign the charter; it was actually signed by Leonard Edmunds, a minor British government functionary, who later gained fame in a major British political scandal (see entry on Edmunds). The Charter established Queen's basic structure. Among other things, it created a Board of Trustees responsible for overseeing the operation of the University, provided for a Senate responsible for all academic matters, and created the post of Principal.
The charter remains the university's basic constitutional document, but it has been modified in numerous important respects by Parliament, which has authority over all amendments and additions. In 1882, for example, it was changed to allow the creation of the University Council and the position of Chancellor. (These had in fact existed at Queen's since 1874, when the University had commissioned the provincial legislature to amend the Charter to provide for them. In 1882, however, a court judgement in a case involving another institution revealed that the province had no such authority, so a federal statute repeating the desired amendments was quickly secured by Queen's.) The most important set of amendments came in 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1916, when the Charter was substantially changed so that Queen's could separate from the Presbyterian Church (for more on the separation and its motivation, see the Presbyterian Church entry). At this time the University also changed its name officially to "Queen's University at Kingston." In 1961 a private member's bill divided the offices of Principal and Vice-Chancellor (see entry on Vice-Chancellor). The most recent amendment in 1996 when the composition of the Board of Trustees was expanded to include students, faculty and staff.
The charter itself consists of three sheets of parchment with handwritten script and decorative borders, all attached at the bottom by red cord to a large seal of green wax imprinted with pictures of Queen Victoria. It is somewhat faded but still legible, and is held at Queen's Archives. A fine replica of the Charter was donated to Queen's by students for the University's Sesquicentennial anniversary and is on permanent display in the John Deutsch University Centre.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston. See Health Sciences, Faculty of.
Royce, Jean Isobel (1904-1982). Royce was the longest-serving registrar in Queen's history, a profound influence on the lives of thousands of Queen's students, and a force in the academic development of the university. She was born in St Thomas Ontario and studied at the Ontario Library School before enroling at Queen's in 1927 to study English and History. She worked briefly at douglas library, where she organized the documents collection, and as a teacher in Whitby before becoming Queen's Registrar in 1933. She served in the post for the next 36 years, during which time she is estimated to have personally counselled a staggering 30,000 students. She was renowned for her sympathy and understanding of students' problems and her skill at identifying and encouraging students of ability. She also had a significant influence on the development of Queen's curriculum, especially in the expansion of course offerings in the Faculty of arts and science in the 1950s and 1960s. For most of her tenure as Registrar she also served as secretary of the senate, and at various times she also held other positions, including Secretary of the Arts and Science Faculty Board and Secretary to the Board of Graduate Studies. She was also national president of the Queen's alumnae association, a founder of the ban righ foundation, and a member of the board of trustees (1969-1975). She received an honorary doctorate of laws in 1968 and Jean Royce Hall on west campus is named in her honour.
Russian Studies, Department of. Russian was first taught at Queen's in 1944 by the Russian émigré Valentina Krotkov. She taught the university's sole course in the language until 1961, when Russian became a full-fledged department. Today, the department offers major and medial degree programs and also a special field concentration in Russian and Soviet Studies in conjunction with the Departments of history, political studies, economics, geography, and philosophy. Most students will spend the winter term of their third year at a Russian university, preceded by a term in the Russian program at Dalhousie University. The number of students in the department has more than quadrupled since the early 1980s, in part because of the sweeping political changes in Eastern Europe. But the department is relatively small and affords students individual attention. See also language laboratory. Russian Studies, however, no longer qualifies as a degree program within the Faculty of Arts and Science. The departments' office is located in Kingston Hall.
Ryan, Kathleen (1906-1995). Ryan was one of Ottawa's most successful businesswomen and one of Queen's most generous benefactors. She was born Kathleen Whitton in Renfrew and graduated from Queen's with an honours degree in economics in 1926. She married fellow Queen's graduate Frank Ryan, who became a prominent radio broadcaster and the owner of CFRA radio station in Ottawa. She took over his business interests, which included a large family farm, after his death in 1964 and rapidly developed a reputation as one of the city's most astute business leaders. In 1976, she established the Kathleen Ryan Foundation at Queen's to provide for the preservation of buildings in the medical quadrangle. The fund helped to renovate the New Medical Building into a home for Queen's archives, which was renamed kathleen ryan hall in her honour in 1982. She also gave a significant grant to cfrc radio in 1977 to help it establish a stereo signal. Her sister, charlotte whitton, was also a Queen's alumna and, in Ottawa, became Canada's first female mayor.