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Engineering professor H.R. Theakston worked at Dalhousie University for 45 years, beginning in 1918 and stopped by his death on 26 August 1963. He was born in Monkton, Vermont, in 1895 to Henry Theakston and Ella Sponagle. They moved to Nova Scotia during his childhood and he was educated at Sydney Academy and at Dalhousie, where he completed an engineering course in 1915. After serving in World War One, he returned to Halifax to complete a two-year engineering diploma at the Nova Scotia Technical College, graduating with the Governor General's Award. In 1921 he was appointed assistant professor of engineering and Engineer in Charge of Building and Grounds at Dalhousie. Promoted to full professor in 1929, he became head of the engineering department in 1949, and in 1951 was named the first Clarence Decatur Howe Professor of Engineering. He was granted an honorary doctorate from the Nova Scotia Technical College in 1954.

Dr. Theakston played an integral role in the physical development of Dalhousie's Studley Campus. He was an active member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, the American Society for Engineering Education and the Canadian Standards Association. He also served on the Senates of the Nova Scotia Technical College and Dalhousie University. His contributions to Dalhousie are marked by the Dr. H.R. Theakston Memorial Award, presented each year to the student who achieves the highest standing in Engineering Graphics and, more substantially, by the Sexton Campus building named after him.

Dr. Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan was born October 3, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1973) and got her PhD in Geology from Dalhousie University in 1978, during which time she undertook many oceanographic explorations in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In 1978, Sullivan became one of six women hired by NASA. During her time as an astronaut, she did three missions in space, including the installation of the Hubble Telescope in 1990. She was the first American woman to walk in space.

Sullivan conducted a large amount of research during her time at NASA. She was appointed Chief Scientist at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA) in 1993. Her work focused on fisheries biology, climate change, satellite instrumentation and marine biodiversity. She then became the President and CEO of the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio and the Director of the Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy at Ohio State University. In 2013 she was named Acting Administrator for NOAA having previously served as Acting Chief Scientist, and was confirmed as NOAA Administrator in March, 2014. In February 2016, Dr. Sullivan was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She was also named a fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Sullivan has also served on the National Science Board (2004-2010) and as an oceanographer in the U.S. Navy Reserve (1988-2006).

Igor Stravinsky was a well-known Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, who is considered one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. He is perhaps best known for his first three ballets, written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and the Rite of Spring (1913), the latter of which provoked a famous riot after its premiere performance in Paris.

He studied with the Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov until the latter's death in 1908. In 1910, Stravinsky moved to France with his wife, Catherine Nossenko and their children. Following the First World War, many of Stravinsky's works can be described as Neoclassical, referencing historical genres of music. In 1940, he moved to the Hollywood, California with his second wife, Vera de Bosset. His works following World War Two are more serialist in nature, following the styles of Viennese composers like Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton von Webern. He died in New York City on April 6, 1971.

Marjorie Stone is McCulloch Professor Emeritus of English at Dalhousie University, where she was first hired in 1983. She is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1995), co-editor of Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship (2006), co-editor of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems (2009) and a Volume Co-Editor for 3 of 5 volumes in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2010).

Stone is a past president of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (1996-98) and was a 2011 Fellow of the National Humanities Centre in the National Research Triangle, North Carolina. She served on several granting council committees in Canada, on the advisory boards of journals including Victorian Review and English Studies in Canada, and on the NAVSA Advisory Board.

Sir William Alexander was born in Menstrie, Scotland in c.1567. Alexander was educated grammar schools and university, and would go on to be an accomplished poet, author and scholar. His poems became the entertainment of the Royal Court. In 1609, Alexander was appointed Gentleman-Usher to Prince Charles, followed by appointments as Master of Requests for Scotland in 1614 and a member of the Scottish Privy Council in 1615.

In 1621, King James I granted Alexander a royal charter appointing him mayor of a vast territory that comprised most of Miꞌkmaꞌki, the traditional and current territories of the Mi'kmaq people. Alexander worked with King James to colonize this territory and establish a “New Scotland” in the footsteps of New France and New England. He was granted the three Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspè Peninsula. This grant however included territory governed by the French, known as Acadia. After some years of unsuccessfully encouraging Scottish settlers to immigrate to Nova Scotia, King James created the dignity of baronet on any Scottish person that would pay for Scottish settlers to immigrate. The Baronets of Nova Scotia became land owners in New Scotland. 85 baronets were purchased by 1631, when Alexander was forced to surrender his colony at Port Royal to the French.

Alexander was appointed Secretary for Scotland in 1626 and held that office for the rest of his life. He died in 1640.

John Stewart was commander of the No. 7 Dalhousie Stationary Hospital and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He was born on 3 July 1848 in Black River, Cape Breton. The son of Rev. Murdoch Stewart, a Presbyterian minister, he was educated at home and at the country school. As a youth he moved to Scotland to work on his aunt's farm, continuing his studies independently and especially enjoying mathematics and literature. He moved to Halifax to attend Dalhousie from 1872-1873, then went to the University of Edinburgh, where he was granted his MDCM in 1877. It was there that Stewart became acquainted with Professor Joseph Lister (later Lord Lister), working first as Lister's dresser, then as his clinical clerk from 1876-1877, before following him to London to work as a house surgeon. After a two-year post, he returned to Nova Scotia, settling in Pictou, where he held a general medical practice for fifteen years.

In 1894 Dr. Stewart relocated to Halifax to work as an operating consultant surgeon. He was an active member in several medical associations, serving as president of the Canadian Medical Association (1905), the Medical Council of Canada, the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, the Provincial Medical Board (1906-1916) and the Dominion Medical Council (1925). At the age of 67, he enlisted as a volunteer and took command overseas of the No. 7 Dalhousie Stationary Hospital. He remained in England and France from 1916-1919 and was decorated with a CBE. After returning from the war, Dr. Stewart was appointed Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine, a position he held until 1932. He died on 26 December 1933.

J.J. (John James) Stewart was a teacher, lawyer, editor, publisher and businessman. He was born 13 May 1844 in East Branch River Philip (Williamsdale), Nova Scotia, son of William Stewart and Sarah Emily Peppard. Educated at his local public school and then at Amherst Academy, Stewart taught and served as headmaster at the Academy until 1870, when he moved to Halifax to study law with Howard Maclean, being called to the bar in 1874.

In 1875 he became one of 88 shareholders of the Morning Herald, Halifax's fledgling Conservative daily. In 1876 he became the paper’s first president and in 1878 its third editor. He left his law practice and in 1883 bought out the majority of shareholders to become the Herald’s first publisher. Following this success, Stewart branched out into banking, rising to the presidency of the Acadia Loan Corporation and the People's Bank of Halifax.

Stewart was a member of the Masons, the Navy League, the Good Templars and the YMCA, but his primary commitments were to the North British Society and the Nova Scotia Historical Society. He was an ardent British imperialist, Canadian nationalist and supporter of Confederation. He devoted much time to the province's Conservative Party and made two unsuccessful bids for election to the provincial assembly.

Stewart died as the result of burns suffered during a fire in his home. His widow, Catherine Olivia MacKay, whom he'd married in 1880, donated his collection of 3,200 books to Dalhousie University Library.

Herbert Leslie Stewart was born in County Antrim, Ireland, on 31 March 1882 and was raised in Carrickfergus, near Belfast. He received his MA (1905) and PhD (1907) degrees from Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was awarded the John Locke Scholarship in Mental Philosophy. Stewart later took up the Cobb Scholarship at Edinburgh University, taking classes in Divinity, followed by a junior fellowship in Mental and Moral Science at the Royal University of Ireland and then a lectureship in Moral Philosophy and the History of Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1913 Stewart was appointed George Munro Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He continued to teach after his retirement in 1947 and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1951.

Stewart wrote extensively across a broad range of subjects, including philosophy, religion, history and literary criticism. His books include Questions of the Day in Philosophy and Psychology (1912), Nietzsche and the Ideals of Modern Germany (1915), Anatole France: The Parisian (1927; reprinted 1979), A Century of Anglo-Catholicism (1929), Modernism Past and Present (1932), From a Library Window (1940), The Irish in Nova Scotia (1949), and Winged Words: Sir Winston Churchill as Writer and Speaker (1953). In addition, he completed two unpublished book-length manuscripts: Thomas Carlyle (ca. 1923) and Repulse to Chaos and the Road to Recovery (ca. 1944). Stewart also published many articles in scholarly and popular journals across North America and Europe.

In addition to his scholarly writing, Stewart was a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines and radio, where he commented on politics and current events. In 1919-1920, he wrote about provincial and city issues in an anonymously penned column, "Man About Town," for the Halifax Evening Mail. In 1922 he was employed by the Halifax Herald as a special correspondent to cover the Cape Breton coalfields labour dispute. He remained a regular columnist for the Herald throughout the 1920s and 1930s. From 1931-1950 Stewart made weekly broadcasts for CHNS, then Nova Scotia's most widely-received radio station. He also provided a Sunday-night commentary on world affairs for the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Corporation (later the CBC) from 1931-1947.

In 1921 Stewart founded The Dalhousie Review and remained its editor for 26 years, overseeing its development into an internationally-recognized interdisciplinary quarterly and frequently contributing articles on contemporary issues. He was elected a fellow of The Royal Society of Canada in 1921 and of The Royal Society for the Arts in Britain. He served as President of the Halifax Charitable Irish Society and also presided over the Halifax branch of the Overseas League. He died on 19 September 1953.