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Walter Pitman documentation files

File contains Walter Pitman's documentation files. It includes correspondence, memorandums, greeting cards, a list of the Ryerson media library motion picture and videotape holdings, proposals, position papers, programs, statements, agreements, publications, zero-base budgeting manuals, brochures, and a certificate. Also, there is specific correspondence related to the Standing Administration of Justice Committee, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and the Council of Ontario Universities.

Terry Grier documentation files

File contains Terry Grier's documentation files. It includes notices to the Ryerson Community, vacancy notices, flyers, a presidential budget statement, and a copy of a Ryerson insert that appeared in an issue of Maclean's magazine.

University status for Ryerson Polytechnical Institute files

This file contains documentation relating to the school's efforts at achieving university status. The main documents are "Ryerson's Case for University Status", prepared by the Institute in June, 1991 and the Ontario Council of University Affairs' response (Advisory memorandum 91-VII) entitled "The Developmentof Ryerson Polytechnical Institute". Supporting correspondence and other records originating from the President's Office on this matter can also be found in this file.

Technology Division files

File contains the Technology Division files. It includes correspondence, reports, memorandums, a copy of the Operating Engineers Act of 1965, programs, meeting minutes, publications, a sample certificate, a directory, and a program syllabus.

Ryerson Centre files

File contains the Ryerson Centre and Ryerson Union files. It includes correspondence, reports, memorandums, by-laws, a copy of the pre-programme study, proposals, and financial statements.

President's Council records

File contains the President's Council records. It includes reports from the president, correspondence, agendas, a listing of the council members, and meeting minutes. It also includes reports on the Trimester system.

Certificate to Terry Grier in recognition of University status

A framed certificate presented by the Ryerson Alumni to President T. Grier in honour Ryerson's achievement of university status. Presentation was made at Skydome Stadium on the occasion of Ryerson's 1993 Homecoming celebration, by CFTO-TV sportscaster and RTA '79 graduate, Suneel Joshi, on September 10.

Framed Partnership in Product Design Certificate

Certificate recognizing the partnership between the University of Toronto, Ryerson Polytechnical University, and the Ontario College of Art in research and design. It is signed by the three school presidents.
The document reads:

"Partnership in Product Design
April 26, 1994
This document recognizes the activities of the Creative Design Research Unit Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Toronto Since 1986 it has developed partnership initiatives in education, outreach, research and development in various aspects of product design. This involved co-operative teaching and interdisciplinary project work with other University of Toronto Departments, the Industrial Design Department - Ontario College of Art, Departments of Business, Marketing and Engineering - Ryerson Polytechnic University and participation of professionals in various relevant disciplines, manufacturers and entrepreneurs.
This document also recognizes the interdependence of various disciplines and methodologies which must be linked to interact in design research, product development, and in successful manufacturing and marketing of new products and systems, with significant economic benefit to the Canadian and Ontario industrial sectors and to the export potential of innovative, well designed products in a global context This document also records agreement to encourage and foster the continuance of partnership between the signing institutions in this type of endeavour and also to involve other institutions, professional associations, corporations and governmental interests that may be able to participate in the future."

Framed collages from Roberta Bondar's space mission

Dr. Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman and second Canadian to travel into Space when she flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery in January, 1992. From the early 1990s, Dr. Bondar worked with the former Centre for Advanced Technology Education (CATE) at Ryerson in researching and investigating bloodflow under weightlessness conditions, as well as experiment methodology, modelling, evaluation, data collection and analysis through a contract with the Canadian Space Agency. Her research methods were applied on her flight aboard the Discovery shuttle. Dr. Bondar received a Ryerson Fellowship in 1990 and became the University's first Professor of Distinction in 1993.Two framed and signed collages of photographs and crests, including a small cotton patch bearing the Ryerson logo that was in the shuttle's payload, were presented to Ryerson President, Terry Grier, in a special visit, lecture and presentation in 1992. The montages were deposited in the University Archives in 1995 by President Grier, upon the completion of his term of office.

Proposal and reports to organizational reform going into the 1980s

Ryerson's Board of Governors engaged Hickling-Johnston Limited in April 1979 to recommend an appropriate overall organizational structure enabling Ryerson to operate successfully in the 1980s.

Documentation includes :

  • Proposal : Organization Structure Review : Finding The Tough But Positive Solutions, February, 1979.
  • Report : Organization Testing Workshop : Feedback Report, August 9, 1979.
  • Report : A Path to Organizational Reform at Ryerson, September 19, 1979.
  • Response : Presidential Response To Hickling-Johnston's Report, October 17, 1979.
  • Miscellaneous memoranda from senior administrators, 1979-1980.

Howard H. Kerr

Framed photograph of Ryerson's first principal Howard Kerr. Mr. Kerr is in convocation robes and is seated on an ornate wooden chair with "RIT" carved into its back. Small silver plaque attached to the bottom of the frame.

Dr. Donald Mordell

Framed photograph of Ryerson president Donald Mordell. He was president of Ryerson from 1970 - 1974. He is pictured wearing a convocation robe and mortar board and holding a book. There is a small silver plaque on the frame below the picture.

Walter Pitman

Framed photograph of Ryerson president Walter Pitman. He was president of Ryerson from 1975-1980. He is pictured in convocation robes holding a tied up scroll.

Terry Grier Convocation gown and mortarboard

File consists of the official gown and mortarboard worn by Terry Grier at convocation ceremonies during his tenure as Ryerson's President. The blue gown is a combination of rayon and velvet with gold embossed trim. The mortarboard is blue velvet with gold.

Nursing department files

File contains the Nursing department's files. It includes correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, budgets, agendas, membership lists, memorandums, proposals, and agreements.

Debentures records

File contains the debenture records. It includes correspondence, estimates, and applications for capital funds for approved projects.

Director of Student Affairs files

File contains the Director of Student Affairs' files. It includes correspondence, complaints, a copy of the "THINK" magazine from 1965, briefs, job descriptions, a brochure, event plans, and reports.

Accounting files

File contains account files including correspondence, blank salary schedules and financial statistics, proposals, travel expenses, and an investment schedule.

Placement Office files

File contains Placement Office documents. It includes correspondence, brochures, statistics, memorandums, reports, proposals, a questionnaire, and a student placement handbook.

Registrar's Office files

File contains the Registrar's Office files. It includes correspondence, memorandums, reports, withdrawals, statistics, schedules, newsletters, and meeting minutes.

Special Event files

File contain the special events files. It includes an address on the dedication of Jorgenson Hall, correspondence, notes, and an aide memoire to President Mordell.

United Way Campaign Thank You plaques

File contains three thank you plaques from the United Way Campaign from 2008 and 2009.

RG 12.186.01 United Way Campaign 2008 Thank you to the employees of Ryerson University

RG 12.186.02 - Thank you plaque from United Way Campaign 2008 to Sheldon Levy. Signed by campaign chair Bill MacKinnon "Sheldon, Thanks for all your help and support to the campaign. I ____ very much appreciated, Bill"

RG 12.186.03 Thank you plaque from United Way Campaign 2009 to Sheldon Levy. Signed by campaign chair Bill Downes "Sheldon, Thank you for your personal leadership in the 2009 campaign. Bill"

Fred C. Jorgenson portrait

Large sized framed portrait of Ryerson President Fred. C. Jorgenson. President Jorgenson's tenure ran from 1966 - 1969. In the portrait he is in convocation robes and is standing with an architectural model of the Ryerson campus.

6/10 U.P.A.C.E.

File contains correspondence from U.P.A.C.E. (University Planners, Architects and Consulting Engineers).

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