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Kerr, Alexander Enoch Halifax Regional Municipality (N.S.) File
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Photograph of the Dalhousie University faculty of 1948

Item is a photograph of members of the Dalhousie University faculty of 1948. The photograph shows H. Churchill-Smith (Commerce); L.G. Stephens-Newsham (Biophysics); J.A. McCarter (Biochemistry); J. W. Dobson (Dentistry); Paul Chavy (Modern Languages); M.O. Morgan (Classics); C. G. MacKinnon (Dentistry); A. MacL. Fraser (Pharmacology); H.L. Scammell (Registrar); Donald Mitton (History); C.A. Reilly (Chemistry); President Kerr; W.R. Trost (Chemistry); J.H. Fodden (Pathology); D.J. McNeill (Business Manager); A. F. Chisholm (Engineering); and Donald Rowat (Political Science) standing on a stage.

Photographs from Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Dalhousie

File contains photographs taken during a royal visit to Dalhousie University. The photographs show Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh being greeted by President A. E. Kerr and Colonel K. C. Laurie and taken to the Morse Room in the Macdonald Memorial Library, where they viewed the University Mace and other items.

Photograph and a photographic negative of the Dalhousie University Senate members

File consists of two copies of a photograph and a photographic negative of the Dalhousie University Senate members, present at the first Senate meeting held in the new Arts and Administration Building, in January 1952. The photograph shows Dixie Pelluet; Dean Horace Read (Law); Dean J.H.L. Johnstone (Graduate Studies); C.L. Bennet; President A.E. Kerr; Dean George Wilson (Arts and Science); Dean J.S. Bagnall (Dentistry); Dr. H.L. Scammell (Registrar); Dean H.G. Grant (Medicine); H.P. Bell; C.B. Weld; D.J. Tonning; C.H. Mercer; W.J. Chute; H.R. Theakston; W.R. Lederman; R.S. Cumming; J.H. Aitchison; John A. Aldous; George Grant; A.S. Mowat; G.V. Douglas; R.S. Hayes; C. Lamberston; Burns Martin; A.K. Griffin; J.A. McCarter; and Charles Walmsley. The photograph was selected for inclusion in the publication "The Lives of Dalhousie University, Vol. 2" by Peter B. Waite (page 183).

Photographs from the Sir James Dunn Science Building corner stone laying ceremony

File contains photographs taken during the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Sir James Dunn Science Building at Dalhousie University, which took place on October 29, 1958. The photographs show A. E. Kerr; C. D. Howe; Lady Dunn; E. C. Plow; Robert L. Stanfield; Lord Beaverbrook; G. A. Currie; Edward Appleton; Lord Adrian; W. J. Archibald; and others involved in the ceremony. The file also includes a photograph of the trowel used by Lady Dunn to lay the cornerstone.

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Kerr, Alexander - Programs and speeches

File includes a program for the Inauguration of Alexander E. Kerr as President of Dalhousie University (November 13, 1945); "Education" (delivered on CBC September 29, 1946); "The Significance of the Reformed Church Tradition for Modern Education" (1948); and other addresses delivered during his Kerr's tenure.