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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Cleaver, Kathy
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Description area
Dates of existence
[ca. 1972]
History
Katherine Anne Cleaver is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. Cleaver earned her BSc, MSc, and MEd from the University of Toronto. She joined the faculty at Ryerson in the Department of Home Economics in 1972. She taught in this department (later known at the School of Nutrition, Consumer and Family Studies) until 1996, when she moved to the School of Fashion. In 1981, Cleaver founded the Ryerson University Fashion Research Collection, which contains several thousand donated garments and accessories dating back to the latter part of the nineteenth century.