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Jeff Semple was a musician who was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax in the late 1980s. For a video recording “Georgia”, Eric Delisle provided graphics and Semple provided music.
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Pamela Sears became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002 because their video recording "Footsteps” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1866-1949
Fred Coleman Sears taught horticulture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1905-1907. Born in 1866 in Lexington, Massachusetts, he was raised in Kansas and graduated from Kansas State College in 1892. He taught horticulture in Kansas and Utah before moving to Nova Scotia to teach at the Horticultural School in Wolfville, which operated from 1894-1904. After its closure he taught at NSAC for one year before, in 1907, accepting a position as Professor of Pomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. In 1914 he published a textbook called Productive Orcharding. He died in October 1949.
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- 1894-1967
Walter de Mouilpied Scriver was born in 1894 in Hemmingford, Quebec, and received his B.A. from McGill University in 1915. He served overseas from 1915-1918, returning to Montreal to earn his medical degree from McGill in 1921. He was Professor Medicine at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine from 1952-1957 and physician-in-chief at the Royal Victoria Hospital. He specialized in the field of pharmacology and had a research interest in diabetes and kidney diseases. He was instrumental in founding the Quebec Division of the Canadian medical association and served as a member of its Executive Committee from 1947-1957. Scriver died in 1967.
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Nigel Scott is a lighting, costume, and set designer who has worked with various theatre companies including Neptune Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Western Canada Theatre, and Essential Collective Theatre.
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John Scott became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their video recording compilation became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Heather Scott became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their audio recording “CKDU Long Songs” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Alfred Ernest Whitehead was born in 1887 in England. He immigrated to Canada and became a choirmaster, an organist, a teacher and a composer. In his adult life he taught at Mount Allison University as well as McGill University. Whitehead was a community and church leader while he lived in Montreal. Ill health forced him to retire to become the head of Mount Allison University’s Music Department from 1947-1953. When he retired from the university he moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia, where he resumed his organist and choirmaster activities at Trinity United Church until 1971. Whitehead was a distinguished recitalist as well as a prolific composer. In addition, he was a painter, and just before his death in early 1974 he completed the third edition of his book “The Squared-Circle Cancellations of Canada”.
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Ricardo Scipio became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in a video recordings which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Stephan Schulz is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses electronic media and custom made software to create performative electronic installations. Schulz was born in East Berlin, Germany in 1978, and received a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2007. Schulz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording on a compilation entitled “New Media Projects” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Sir Seymour Schulich was born on January 6, 1940 and was raised in Montreal, Quebec. He earned his BSc McGill University in 1961, his MBA from the Desautels Faculty of Management in 1965, and his Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the University of Virginia in 1969. His first job was at Shell Oil Company, and he worked at Beutel, Goodman & Company Ltd., a pension fund management company, from 1968 to 1990, eventually becoming president and vice-chairman. Schulich published a book titled "Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons" in 2007. He donated $20 million to Dalhousie's Faculty of Law in 2009 to fund 40 new annual scholarships. This was the largest gift of its kind ever made to a Canadian law school, and the school was renamed the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
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Mélisandre Schofield is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with narratives. Scholfield’s education includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2003). Scholfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 2000s because their audio recording “Demo for Magazine Dialogue” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- c. 1841-1898
Pavel Schlözer was a Polish pianist, teacher, and composer. Little is known about his life. In 1879, he taught at the Institute of Music in Warsaw and in 1892, he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. The only extant knwon works by Schlözer are two etudes for piano, and some contest that Schlözer is not their true composer, arguing that they were written by the more well-known composer Moritz Moszkowski.
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- 1905-1991
Harold L. Scammell was a physician and senior medical administrator. Born on Island East River, Pictou County, in 1905, he received his early education at Pictou Academy and graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1927. After practising medicine in Pictou for one year, he returned to Halifax as resident physician at Victoria General Hospital. In 1929 he was appointed Inspector of Hospitals by the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, which involved appraising over 300 hospitals in Canada and the United States. In 1931 he joined Victoria General Hospital as the Medical Assistant Superintendent and later became the Registrar and Secretary Treasurer of the Provincial Medical Board. In following years, he worked as a medical officer with the Workmen's Compensation Board. Harold Scammell remained closely connected to Dalhousie, serving as registrar and executive assistant to the president and lecturing in the Faculty of Medicine. He was instrumental in developing Dalhousie Student Counselling Services as well as the Bachelor of Science in Nursing. He was named Dalhousie Medical Alumnus of the Year in 1986. He died on21 January 1991.
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- 1947-2015
Carolyn Savoy was born on July 21, 1947 in Saint John, NB. She graduated from UNB in 1969, and then attended Boston College for her Masters, and got a PhD in Sport Psychology from the University of Tennessee in 1992. She also did a certificate of Public Administration at Dalhousie in 1986. She started teaching and coaching at St. Francis Xavier for seven years, and then in 1977 took over the women’s basketball team at Dalhousie. She coached the Dalhousie Women’s basketball team for 32 years, had a 75% win percentage (858 wins), and is the winningest women’s basketball coach in CIS history. She graduated 100% of players who played between 3-5 years. She was a five-time AUS coach of the year, and won 11 AUS league titles and 5 AUS conference titles. She produced 9 national team athletes and 16 CIS All-Canadians. She served as the sports psychology consultant for the University of Tennessee Lady Vols 1991 NCAA championship team. She worked as a professor at Dalhousie, and also served on the Dalhousie Faculty Association. “A former president of Basketball Nova Scotia, she was the technical chair for the Pan American wheel chair games in 1982. A member of Canada Basketball’s Board of Directors from 1981 to 1987, she was the chair of the National Coaching School for Women in 1988. A master course conductor and Canada Basketball level 4 coach, Carolyn was the head coach of Nova Scotia’s Canada Games women’s basketball team in 2001 and was an assistant coach with Canada’s junior national team in 1979.” She published two books and was an accomplished public speaker. Carolyn has been inducted into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame, the Saint John Sports Hall of Fame, and has an award at Dalhousie named in her honour. Carolyn Savoy passed away in 2015.
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Lorenzo Savoini is a costume and lighting designer who has worked with various theatre companies in North America, including Soulpepper Theatre, The Stratford Festival, Les Grand Ballet Canadian, Canadian Opera Company, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, MTC, Tarragon Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Blyth Festival, The Globe Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Buddies in Bad Times, Theatrefront, TheatreRun, and The Belfry Theatre. He is the Director of Design for the Soulpepper Theatre Company.
He has a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Guelph. He has taught theatre design at the University of Guelph and York University.
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Yvonne Sauriol is a set and costume designer who has worked with various Canadian theatre companies, including the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, and Neptune Theatre.
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Sylvia Lee Saunders was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1981 because of her involvement with a video recording “Walls performance” with Sherry Lee Hunter which became a part of their tape collection.
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Saunders, Mrs. Richard, fl. 1863-1866
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François-Victor Hugo (1828-1873) was the third and youngest son of Victor Hugo.
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Joyan Saunders is a Canadian artist and education who taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, York University, and the University of California, San Diego. Saunders is mainly a video or media artist, who has exhibited artwork internationally. Saunders’ video work focuses on colour and formal composition, which makes her video work akin to painting.
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- 1943-
Peter Sanger is a Nova Scotia poet and literary critic who taught at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC) from 1972-1998. Born in 1943 in Bewdley, England, he immigrated to Canada in 1953. He received his BA in history from the University of Melbourne, MA in history from the University of Victoria, and BEd from Acadia University. He taught in Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland before joining the Humanities Department at NSAC, teaching English literature, technical writing, and agricultural and scientific history, retiring as the head of the department and professor emeritus. In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University.
Sanger’s literary career includes poetry, essays and biographies. His first published book, The America Reel (Pottersfield Press, 1983), was followed by early poetry collections Earth Moth (Gooselane Editions, 1991), The Third Hand (Anchorage Press, 1994), and After Monteverdi (Harrier Editions, 1997). His most recent collection is Odysseus Asleep: Uncollected Sequences, 1994-2019 (Gaspereau Press, 2019). He was a long-serving poetry editor for The Antigonish Review and was instrumental in establishing and developing the Agricola Archival Collection.
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Ilan Sandler is a South African-Canadian artist who works with sculpture and installation artworks. He owns and operates Sandler Studio Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sandler became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2004 because their video recording “Tactility” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1835-1921
Camille Saint-Saens was a Romantic-era French composer. He is predominantly known for his symphonic poems and his opera "Samson et Dalila".
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- 1955-
Deep Sanai served as the twelfth president of Dalhousie University from 2020-2022. A career academic and accomplished researcher in plant biology, he was vice-chancellor and president of Australia's University of Canberra from 2016-2019. He grew up in India and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Physiology from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He taught at four of Canada’s U15 universities, was vice-president of the University of Toronto and principal of the university’s Mississauga campus, dean of the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, and director general of the Plant Biology Research Institute at the Université de Montréal. He began his term as the 18th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University on April 1, 2023.
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- 1965-
A Canadian composer of Ukrainian descent, Marc Sabat studied composition, violin, and mathematics at the University of Toronto, Julliard School, and McGill University. Since 1999, he has lived in Berlin and he currently teaches composition and the practice of intonation at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
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Ian Rye is a Canadian set and costume designer. He has been with Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) since 2006, serving as the Director of Production; Director of Artistic Administration; and the Chief Executive Officer (2016-present). Before joining POV, he worked as the Production Manager at the Belfry Theatre and as a set, lighting, and sound designer for various theatre and opera companies across Canada, including Alberta Theatre Projects, the Arts Club Theatre, the Belfry Theatre, Canadian Stage Company, Chemainus Theatre, Malaspina University, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Nanaimo Festival Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Touchstone Theatre, the Victoria Dance Series, Ballet British Columbia, and the Vancouver Playhouse. Rye studied theatre production and design at the University of Ryerson an the Banff Centre for the Arts. He recently completed his Master of Business Administration through Royal Roads University.
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Terry Ryan worked as the National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) Atlantic Distribution Chief in the mid 1980s. He is also a screenwriter, director, producer and entrepreneur. His film credits include producing Co-op (1991); Five Transformations (1991); Four Stories of Tuktu (1991); Three Stories for Young People (1991); co-writing the screenplay for Bayo (1984); directing The Media Between Us (1969); and Sail Away (1977). In the early 1990s he also designed and patented a one-handed keyboard.
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