
A brief list of meetings, speakers, and topics of the 2000s.
No. 108 |
24 January 2000 "Growing Pains: Mrs. Murray, Lady Minto, Mrs. Nordheimer, and the Early Years of the IODE" Dr. Margaret Gillett |
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No. 109 |
2 May 2000 "Edward Black Greenshields: the McGill Connection" Mr. Gordon Burr |
No. 110 |
10 October 2000 "From Small Acorns to Large Oaks,' Strategies at McGill: 1829-1980" Professor Henry Mintzberg, held in co-operation with the McGill Associates. |
No. 111 |
14 November 2000 "Water: Gift, Commodity, Danger, or International Weapon?" Professor Chandra Madramootoo |
No. 112 |
26 February 2001 "Philanthropy at McGill, 1855-2000" Mr. Thomas Thompson, Presidential Address |
No. 113 |
15 May 2001 "Ladies, Scholars, and Benefactors: the First Maysie MacSporran Lecture" Dr. Stanley Frost and Professor Peter McNally |
No. 114 |
15 October 2001 "Soddy and Rutherford: a New Zealand Perspective" Professor M. A. Whitehead, in cooperation with the McGill-Montreal Chapter of Sigma Xi |
No. 115 |
27 November 2001 "The McGill Grow Home: the Spirit of Enterprise" Professor Avi Friedman |
No. 116 |
21 January 2002 "Trail Breakers: the Red Birds Ski Club, 1928-2002" Mr. David Bourke |
No. 117 |
29 April 2002 "McGill's Military Nurses: 1914-1918; the Annual Maysie MacSporran Lecture" Dr. Susan Mann |
No. 118 |
7 October 2002 "Biochemistry at McGill: Endocrinology to Molecular Biology" Dr. Rose Johnstone |
No. 119 |
2 December 2002 "Respectable Burial: the Mount Royal Cemetery" Professor Brian Young |
No. 120 |
17 February 2003 "McGill as I Have Known Her" Dr. Stanley Frost |
No. 121 |
28 April 2003 "A Third Beginning at McGill" Dr. Bernard Shapiro |
No. 122 |
29 September 2003 "Expanding the Horizon: Five New Buildings at McGill" Professor David Covo, Presidential Address |
No. 123 |
24 November 2003 "Rutherford and Soddy: a McGill Centennial" Mr. Lawrence Deck |
No. 124 |
16 February 2004 "G & S at McGill: the Savoy Society Celebrates its 40th Birthday" Professor M. A. Whitehead, Ms. Shannon Cohen, and the Savoy Society singers |
No. 125 |
24 March 2004 "Looking at McGill: The First Year and Beyond; the Annual Maysie MacSporran Lecture" Professor Heather Munroe-Blum |
No. 126 |
27 September 2004 "Physicist and Principal: Robert E. Bell, Thirteenth Principal and Vice-chancellor" Professor Peter F. McNally |
No. 127 |
15 November 2004 "History of the Biology Department" Professor Valerie Pasztor |
No. 128 |
17 February 2005 "Hamlet, Prince of Quebec" Professor Leanore Lieblein |
No. 129 |
2 May 2005 "The Secret Life of Things: Perspectives on Collecting at the McGill University Archives; the Annual Maysie MacSporran Lecture and Presidential Address" Ms. Johanne Pelletier |
No. 130 |
20 September 2005 "A Commitment to Excellence: David L. Johnston, 14th Principal and Vice-Chancellor, 1979-1994" Professor Peter McNally |
No. 131 |
14 November 2005 "McGill, World War Two and the McGill Memorial Chapel" Mr. Wes Cross and Professor Chris Milligan |
No. 132 |
6 February 2006 "Going Up in Smoke; McGill and Tobacco" Professor Jarrett Rudy |
No. 133 |
24 April 2006 "Macdonald College: A Tale of Revolution and Evolution"; the Annual Maysie MacSporran Lecture Professor Deborah Buszard |
No. 134 |
25 September 2006 "The Shapiro Years: Dr. Bernard Shapiro, 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor, 1994-2002" Professor Peter McNally |
No. 135 |
13 November 2006 "McGill and the Magna Carta of Mankind: the Discovery of the John Humphrey Draft”. Presidential Address Mr. John Hobbins |
No. 136 |
12 February 2007 "James McGill Revisited: Citizen and Philanthropist" Dr. Stanley Frost |
No. 137 |
23 April 2007 "The Living Endowment: 150 Years of Alumni Leadership"; the Annual Maysie MacSporran Lecture Ms. Honora A. Shaughnessy |
No. 138 |
October 1 2007 "Eating: A Solution to the Confusion" Dr. Joe Schwarcz |
No. 139 |
19 November 2007 "Redpath Museum: Renovated & Renewed" Ms. Ingrid Birker |
No. 140 |
12 February 2008 "Rocke Robertson: Surgeon and Shepherd of Change"; the Annual Maysie MacSporran Lecture Mr. Richard Pound |
No. 141 |
31 March 2008 "The Redpath Mansion Mystery" Professor Annmarie Adams, held in cooperation with Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History |
No. 142 |
6 October 2008 "Laying the Cornerstone: The Montreal Neurological Institute, October 6th, 1933" Dr. David Colman, Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Dr. Desmond Morton, President of the James McGill Society Professor Peter McNally, Executive-Secretary of the James McGill Society Dr. William Feindel, Past President of the James McGill Society Dr. Stanley Frost, Honorary President of the James McGill Society The Canadian Grenadier Guards in attendance |
No. 143 |
3 November 2008 "Canadian Officers' Training Corps and McGill University" Dr. Desmond Morton |
No. 144 |
9 February 2009 "McGill's Pantheon: Portraits in Redpath Hall" Dr. Lily Koltun |
No. 145 |
16 March 2009 "Donald Hebb of McGill and 20th Century Psychology" Professor Richard E. Brown |
No. 146 |
5 October 2009 "A Great Transformation: Computers and Automation at McGill, 1959-2009" Professor Anthony C. Masi |
No. 147 |
9 November 2009 "How McGill Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls" Dr. Jacqueline Du Toit and Dr. Jason Kalman |