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).
Item is a photograph of five honorary presidents of the Dalhousie Alumni Association who were installed as life members. The photograph shows Dr. A. E. Kerr; C. L. Bennet; Prof. J. H. L. Johnstone; Samuel R. Balcom; and Dr. Horace E. Read standing together and holding framed certificates.
File contains photographs of honorary presidents of the Dalhousie Alumni Association. One photograph shows five honorary presidents who were installed as life members: Dr. A. E. Kerr; C. L. Bennet; Prof. J. H. L. Johnstone; Samuel R. Balcom; and Dr. Horace E. Read. The other photograph shows Mrs. J. R. Longard presenting a floral arrangement to Mrs. F. R. MacAloney, the new honorary president.
Item is a copy of The Alumni News (Volume 19, Number 3), a quarterly publication of the Dalhousie Alumni Association. Numbering for this new series restarted in 1943. Issue includes the article "Dr Archibald MacMechan: An article abridged from a lecture given to Homecoming Alumni in May 1962" by Prof. C.L. Bennet.
Fonds was organized by the processing archivist into editorial, financial, production and administrative series, and further sub-series such as correspondence, reports and meeting minutes. The bulk of correspondence dates from the 1970s-1990s, although there are financial and committee records from the 1950s and limited other records from the journal's inception in 1921.
