Fall 2006 - Faculty of Information - University of Toronto
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informed | fundraising update<br />
Visiting Scholar Program Celebrates<br />
John Adams (BLS ’50)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Patricia Fleming<br />
– January 26, <strong>2006</strong><br />
OVER THE PAST YEAR, a group <strong>of</strong> colleagues at<br />
the <strong>Faculty</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Information</strong> Studies formed a<br />
committee to create an appropriate tribute to retiring<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Patricia Fleming (BLS ‘64, MLS<br />
‘70). Throughout her long teaching career at FIS,<br />
and in her roles as founding<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> the Collaborative<br />
Program in Book History and Print<br />
Culture, and as Director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
History <strong>of</strong> the Book in Canada/<br />
Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé<br />
(HBiC/HLIC) project, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Fleming has been a source <strong>of</strong> great<br />
pride for the <strong>Faculty</strong>. In keeping<br />
with her pr<strong>of</strong>essional interests, the<br />
committee decided to honour her<br />
with the creation <strong>of</strong> an endowed<br />
Doctoral Scholarship Honours<br />
the Memory <strong>of</strong> a FIS Legend<br />
The Late Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Ethel W. Auster<br />
10 SEPTEMBER <strong>2006</strong><br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Patricia Fleming<br />
visiting scholar program. The<br />
Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellowship in<br />
Bibliography and Book History, an endowed fund <strong>of</strong><br />
$25,000, was established late this spring, thanks to<br />
the support <strong>of</strong> colleagues, friends, family and many<br />
former students, in Canada and abroad.<br />
The Fleming Visiting Fellowship will exist in perpetuity<br />
to welcome scholars from around the world<br />
to the <strong>Faculty</strong> for a one-month period. The Fleming<br />
scholar will have access to the resources <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Toronto</strong> and will deliver a public lecture<br />
during the term <strong>of</strong> the fellowship. Every second<br />
year, the fellowship will be awarded<br />
to a scholar whose research focuses<br />
specifically on Canadiana.<br />
Speaking on behalf <strong>of</strong> the committee,<br />
member Judy Donnelly<br />
(MLS ’87) noted: “Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Fleming set high standards for all<br />
<strong>of</strong> us, as students at FIS and as book<br />
historians, through her enthusiasm,<br />
impeccable teaching and her<br />
meticulous work as a bibliographer.<br />
She has brought Canadian book<br />
history to the international stage as<br />
the director <strong>of</strong> HBiC/HLIC, a complex<br />
national endeavour which has garnered praise<br />
in Canada and abroad. The fellowship is a most fitting<br />
tribute to Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Fleming and honours her<br />
through its support <strong>of</strong> scholarship in book history<br />
and bibliography.”<br />
IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR, the <strong>Faculty</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Information</strong> Studies was pleased to announce the<br />
establishment <strong>of</strong> the Ethel W. Auster Scholarship<br />
for Doctoral Research. The award was created in<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ethel Auster, who passed away<br />
in 2005 and had made a tremendous impact on<br />
the <strong>Faculty</strong> during her time here. Working with<br />
the Auster family, the<br />
FIS community has<br />
raised $50,000 since last<br />
November. This enabled<br />
us to activate matching<br />
funds from the provincial<br />
Graduate Student<br />
Endowment Fund, creating<br />
an award that will<br />
generate approximately<br />
$6,000 annually to support<br />
PhD research at<br />
FIS. The award is a fitting<br />
tribute to a cause that was very close to<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Auster’s heart.<br />
Her son David and his wife Janis commented:<br />
“FIS was not a job, nor a career for Ethel; it was a<br />
family and way <strong>of</strong> life. Each student and colleague<br />
was someone she treasured. The scholarship that<br />
has been created in her honour is beyond moving,<br />
it is a way for her spirit and beliefs to continue on<br />
within the community that she cared so deeply<br />
about. It is our belief that Ethel would be pleased<br />
to be recognized in this way, just as she was<br />
pleased each time she helped a student. This tribute<br />
has touched our family deeply and has established<br />
a permanent bond between Ethel’s personal<br />
and pr<strong>of</strong>essional families. We are grateful to have<br />
this unique opportunity to celebrate her memory.”<br />
The <strong>Faculty</strong> is honoured to establish this<br />
award, and was thrilled by the groundswell <strong>of</strong><br />
support that allowed us to do so within just a few<br />
months.<br />
In Memoriam<br />
The <strong>Faculty</strong> remembers<br />
those who have passed<br />
on recently<br />
Mary Barber (Dip. Lib. ’36,<br />
BLS ’39) – February 1990<br />
Mary Barnett (BLS ’41)<br />
– December 26, 2005<br />
Valentine Barrow (BLS ’37)<br />
– July 31, 1998<br />
Margaret Boyd (Dip. Lib. ’36)<br />
Charles Brisbin (BLS ’59)<br />
– March 16, <strong>2006</strong><br />
Barbara Brooks (BLS ’68)<br />
– December 22, 2005<br />
Edith Lillian Clare (BLS ’37)<br />
Donald Dunlop (MLS '86)<br />
– September 25, 2005<br />
Charlotte Fee (Dip. Lib. ’33,<br />
BLS ’38)<br />
E. Evelyn Ford (BLS ’38)<br />
– March 1, 2005<br />
Ruth Garten (MLS ’75)<br />
John George (BLS ’48)<br />
– March 14, <strong>2006</strong><br />
Roman Grodzicky (BLS ’51)<br />
Dean Halliwell (BLS ’49)<br />
Walter Harrington (BLS ’65)<br />
Yvonne Hearst (BLS ’51)<br />
– April 4, <strong>2006</strong><br />
Ray Higgins (BLS ’62)<br />
– March 4, <strong>2006</strong><br />
Sharon Hood (MLS ’77)<br />
Edith Jarvi (Dip. Lib. ’43,<br />
BLS ’55, MLS ’64)<br />
– December 8, 2005<br />
Pamela Kirkpatrick (MLS ’72)<br />
– May 7, <strong>2006</strong><br />
Ake Koel (BLS ’62, MLS ’69)<br />
– April 2, 2005<br />
Philippa Marsh (BLS ’65)<br />
– June 8, 2002<br />
John Maitland Marshall<br />
(BLS ’52) – October 26, 2005<br />
Arthur Paulaitis (BLS ’52)<br />
– March <strong>2006</strong><br />
Mary Frances Price Stephens<br />
(BLS ’37) – March 26, 2004<br />
Ellen Sepp (BLS ’67, MLS ’73)<br />
– November 2004<br />
Margaret Shirley (BLS ’43)<br />
Hubertus Spekkens (BLS ’67)<br />
Hudson Standing (BLS ’57)<br />
– October 28, 2005<br />
Laszlo Szegedi (BLS ’62)<br />
M. E. Szollosy (BLS ’64)<br />
– March 24, <strong>2006</strong><br />
Keitha Truax (BLS ’66,<br />
MLS ’72) – November 23, 2005<br />
Ruth Vanderlip (BLS ’54)<br />
– June 4, <strong>2006</strong><br />
Verniece Webber (BLS ’64)<br />
– October 9, 2005