Rudolf Arnheim was a distinguished psychologist, philosopher and critic whose work explored the cognitive basis of art — how we interpret it and, by extension, the world. His father owned a small piano factory and he was expected to take over one day, but he eschewed this path. Studying at the University of Berlin, he took psychology, philosophy, music and art, earning a doctorate in philosophy (of which psychology was then a discipline) in 1928. He then became an editor at Die Weltbühne, a leftist magazine of politics and culture, where he published articles on film, art and architecture. In 1933, with the rise of Nazism, Arnheim, who was Jewish, fled to Rome. In the late 1930s, after Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, Mr. Arnheim fled to England, where he became a translator for the BBC. In 1940, he arrived in New York. There he taught at the New School for Social Research and also worked as a researcher for Columbia University, where he studied the habits of radio listeners. His work from this period includes collaborating on a survey of daytime-serial audiences. In 1943 Professor Arnheim joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence. From the mid-’70s on, after retiring from Harvard, he was associated with the University of Michigan and at his death, he was emeritus professor of the psychology of art at Harvard University. His work was focused on the ways in which humans experience the sensory world and was grounded in his training on Gestalt psychology. His best-known books include “Art and Visual Perception” (1954), “Film as Art” (1957) and “Visual Thinking” (1969).

He worked for Kodak Canada for 39 years, making film emulsion.

He was a nurse.

She was part of the Wellesley(teaching hospital) class of 1940 and then became a nurse, working at Wellesley Hospital, Toronto for over 25 years. She also served as Asst. Administrator Patient Services, Assistant Supervisor Patient Services, Assistant Hospital Administrator and director of the Wellesley School of Nursing between 1964-1967.

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Debenham was an active photographer and miniature painter circa 1872-1925) with studios at Ryde and Sandown, Isle of Wight.

He was an American art director and was the original art director of Playboy magazine for 29 years. After his retirement he concentrated on his own paintings and drawings.

Endel Aruja was born in Estonia in 1911 and completed his early schooling there graduating from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at the University of Tartu in 1935. From 1936 until 1938 he worked as an assistant at the University's Institute of Physics, receiving his Master's Degree in 1938. From 1938 until 1939 Endel worked as an assistant in Physics at Estonia's Tallinn Technical University. From 1939 until 1941 he was a British Council Scholarship holder at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory moving to the Physics' Lab at King's College. He received his Ph.D from Cambridge in 1943. Endel continued to work in England until 1962 when he moved to Canada and worked as a researcher in Toronto for the Ontario Research Foundation. In September of 1965 Endel joined the staff at Ryerson as a professor of Physics. In 1974 he was a visiting Professor in Lebanon at the American University in Beirut, and in 1975 at Nairobi University in Kenya. He retired from Ryerson in 1976. He was involved with the Tartu Institute (1972-2004), acting as Director, management secretary and archivist, setting up the library and archives of the Institute. He was involved in the sending of Estonian books to libraries across Estonia through the Institute. He was also a Professor Emeritus at Ryerson University from 2002 - 2007. Throughout his working career Endel was also involved in many different publications in Estonia, England and Canada. In the 1950's and 60's he edited and distributed periodicals for the Estonian National Council and helped to establish "Eesti Haal" or "Estonian Voice" newspaper. He was also the London editor of the "Baltic Review" and wrote Estonian articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica. He was also involved with many different organizations including the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the American Crystallographic Association, the Canadian Oral History Association, and the Ontario Association of Archivists. Endel Aruja was awarded an honourary degree in 1990 from Tartu University and a University of Tartu Library Medal of Service in 2002. In 1998 he was awarded the Republic of Estonia White Star V medal by the President of Estonia. Endel Aruja died in February of 2008 at the age of 97.

The company was founded as Asahi Kogaku Goshi Kaisha in November 1919 by Kumao Kajiwara, at a shop in the Toshima suburb of Tokyo, and began producing spectacle lenses (which it still manufactures). In 1938 it changed its name to Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. (Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha), and by this time it was also manufacturing camera/cine lenses.

In the lead-up to World War II, Asahi Optical devoted much of its time to fulfilling military contracts for optical instruments. At the end of the war, Asahi Optical was disbanded by the occupying powers, being allowed to re-form in 1948. The company resumed its pre-war activities, manufacturing binoculars and consumer camera lenses for Konishiroku and Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō (later Konica and Minolta respectively).

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Cyril Cropton Ashcroft was born in Toronto on July 31, 1897. During WW I he was a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd Divisional Cyclist Corps. He married Jessie Thelma Makings on September 1, 1926.

Japanese architect and writer. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1942 and in 1946–7 he worked in Tokyo. After receiving a master’s degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1953), he worked in New York (1953–6). In 1956 he returned to Japan and opened his own office in Tokyo. One of his principal concerns was the use of logical structural systems to create flexible, integrated space within buildings. He developed the use of split levels or ‘skip’ floors to combine spaces of various sizes, earning him the Architectural Institute of Japan prize in 1960. The Sony building (1966), Tokyo, was designed as a cubic spiral of skip floors, creating organic spatial continuity throughout the building with spaces that interrelate with each other and with their environment. A similar concept was used for the Japanese pavilion at Expo ’67 in Montreal, for which he received an award from the Ministry of Education. The continuity and flow of space between interior and exterior, and in the spaces between buildings, were also addressed, for example in the Komazawa Olympic Gymnasium (1964), Tokyo, which received a special award from the Architectural Institute of Japan. His National Museum of Japanese History (1980), Sakura, also won a prize, from the Japan Institute of Art. Ashihara received a PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1961 and was appointed professor at several universities, both in Japan and overseas. He was a vice-president of the Architectural Institute of Japan (1976–8) and president of the Japan Architects Association (1980–82).

Founded in 1915, the firm is still active today. Presently located in Yorkville under the leadership of Michael Shaw.

Cynthia Ashperger joined the Faculty at Ryerson in 2006 as Program Director for the Ryerson Theatre School's acting program and is currently in this position. She received her Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 2007.

Asia Publishing House was located in Bombay IndiaFounded in 1943 by Peter Jayasinghe, it became one of India’s leading publishers of scholarly books.

Samuel Askin operated a photography studio that was located in Teeswater, Ontario.

He was educated in Kingston, ON and received a BA from Queen's University. He completed a teacher training course in pedagogy in Hamilton, ON and taught for several years in Ontario. He went west in 1911 and taught at Nutana Collegiate, before becoming principal of the Albert Public School in Saskatoon. In 1913, he was appointed inspector of schools in the Rosetown area, until he joined the staff at the Moose Jaw Public School in 1927. He was principal there from 1929-1930, later being transferred to the Saskatoon Normal School and serving as president there from 1930-1934, when he was retired.

The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is a national advocacy organization representing First Nation citizens in Canada, which includes more than 900,000 people living in 634 First Nation communities and in cities and towns across the country.
In 1982, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) was created as a result of movements to restore chiefs as the voice of First Nations in a Canada-wide deliberative assembly. Prior to that time, the Canada-wide representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada occurred through the National Indian Brotherhood (NIB), which centred on representation through provincial organizations (several of these organizations began as early as the 1920s, and many were based on political traditions dating from before European contact). The NIB had succeeded the National Indian Council (founded 1961) and represented Aboriginal interests throughout the 1960s and 1970s under leaders Walter Dieter, George Manuel and Noel Starblanket. In the late 1970s, First Nations increasingly pushed for the rights of self-government. In 1979, hundreds of First Nations met in London, England, and determined to establish a new organization, and to stop patriation. Hundreds of chiefs met in Ottawa the following year, outlining their relationships with Canada and with one another in a manifesto entitled the Declaration of First Nations (signed in December, 1980). At the National Indian Brotherhood general assembly in 1982, the Assembly of First Nations was officially founded.

ARIDO, (The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario), is the only professional organization for interior designers in Ontario. First established as the Society of Interior Decorators of Ontario in 1934, then Interior Designers of Ontario, the name was changed to the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario in 1984 when the ARIDO Act was passed in the Legislature of Ontario. The act was amended by the passing of Bill Pr6 in 1999 to grant Registered Members who meet ARIDO standards exclusive use of the title Interior Designer in Ontario.
As a professional body, ARIDO's mandate is to regulate the interior design profession in Ontario for the betterment of the profession and in the best interests of the public. ARIDO sets standards for admission into membership, including education and experience standards, Practice Standards, professional development requirements as well as adherence to a Code of Ethics and Practice Standards.
ARIDO counts more than 1,800 Registered and Intern interior designers as members, representing all areas of specialty including corporate, residential, retail, hospitality, health care and institutional. The Association has a total membership of over 3,300 in Registered, Intern, Educator and Student categories.

He was an artist, who created posters of Vladimir Illyich Lenin.

He played a crucial role in the introduction of innovative 'Chicago school' ideas of structure and form to the architecture of western Canada. He was educated in Chicago and attended post-secondary courses in architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Chicago Manual Training school. Hewas employed by W. G. Barfield in 1889 and remained there for three years, before joining Jenney & Mundie in 1892 where he served as student and assistant to William LeBaron Jenney (1832-1907), the eminent Chicago architect who was influential in the development of the North American steel-framed skyscraper. He worked with Jenney on his design for the Horticultural Building at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), and in 1895 became a partner at Tuthill & Atchison. From 1896 until late 1902 he conducted his own practice in Chicago, partnering briefly with Harry W.J. Edbrooke(1903-1904), before returning to practice alone and moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He was among the first architects in western Canada to introduce steel frame construction and terra cotta cladding to high rise buildings; his most accomplished designs are those for the Great West Life Building (1909-11), the Union Trust Building (1912-13), and Bank of Hamilton (1917). In 1911 he entered the competition for the Moose Jaw City Hall and submitted a striking Beaux Arts design which was awarded first prize, but the scheme was not built . In 1913 his design for the Winnipeg City Hall was awarded third prize. That same year he prepared an ambitious proposal for Grand Avenue leading to the new Legislative Buildings in Winnipeg, but this too was never built.
He remained active in Winnipeg until early 1924 when he moved to Pasadena, California and opened a new office. There, his work was primarily domestic in nature and executed in the regional Spanish Colonial style. Assisted by his son John D. Atchison Jr., he maintained an office on East California Boulevard until 1938 when he retired, perhaps due to the injuries he had suffered in a serious auto accident in 1936.

In the Winter term 1973, Vice President Academic, H. Yates, established a Task Force to consider Ryerson's philosophy on athletics, the nature and responsibility of athletic programming and the administration of athletic programming at Ryerson.

1948-1949: Ryerson had a men's basketball team and hockey team in its first year. Women's sports consisted mainly of a swim club. 1949 (Fall): Ted Toogood is hired as Ryerson Athletic Director. 2000: The departmental name, Athletics & Recreation, is changed to Sports & Recreation.

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Grace Emily Murray Atkin was born in Montreal in 1881. She wrote novels as well as working as a copy writer for the fashion firm of Frederick's of Montreal. Her writing falls into two distinct phases, the first flourishing in four titles issued between 1919 and 1923, followed by a last book in 1954. She also published a play, "Our Lady of the Moon: A Phantasy," in the CANADIAN MAGAZINE in December 1920.

She is an author of books and white papers on retail research and a senior partner at J.C. Williams Group, Research Insights, Toronto. She has a business degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University and is a past board member of the International Downtown Association where she chaired the Information Committee. She is also a founding member of the Canadian Research Group of the International Council of Shopping Centers and a member of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association. She joined the company in 1988, after a career in research, store operations and merchandising with a large department store chain, to set up the company’s research practice.

He is recognized as the first Aboriginal person in British Columbia to earn a doctoral degree. He is the author of Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis, which introduces origin stories and draws on the ontological meaning of indigenous culture. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1968, a Master of Education in 1976, and Doctor of Education in 1990, all from the University of British Columbia. After completing his doctorate, he researched First Nations K-12 education in BC, in response to the Hawthorn Report of 1966-67.
Contributions include the creation of the First Nations Studies Department at Malaspina University College (now Vancouver Island University), where he also taught from 1994 to 2004. He taught and led research in several other post-secondary educational institutions, including the University of Victoria, University of Manitoba, Simon Fraser University, and UBC. Additionally, he lectured overseas in Poland and Germany. He has also served as a social worker, elementary school teacher, principal, federal ministerial assistant, and assistant superintendent of education. Atleo received the Equity Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers, where he served as a member of the Equity Committee since its inception.

Alex Au Yong graduated from the School of Radio and Television Arts School in 1992. He was the yearbook editor and production manager for the 1992 TARA awards.