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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

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