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Photograph of Bill Owen, staff member at the W.K. Kellogg Library

Photograph of Bill Owen, staff member at the W.K. Kellogg Library

File is a photograph of Bill Owen accompanied by his obituary. Obituary reads: OWEN, William Hampton (Bill) / Owen, William Hampton (Bill) - 59, Halifax, passed away peacefully at home i the early hours of April 5, 1998, after a long struggle with cancer. Born in Townsville, Australia, Bill was the only child of the late Gordon Hampton Owen and the late Ruth (Clarke) Owen. Bill had a rich and varied life that took many interesting turns. He graduated from Melbourne University with a B.Sc. in 1960 and M.Sc. in 1964, and from Sydney University with a PhD in reproductive physiology in 1969. That same year he came to Halifax on post-doctoral fellowship with the Fisheries Research Board. After two years, he was in search of a career change and drove tractor trailers for a year before setting off for travels in Central and South America. After he returned to Canada, he spent a years studying Grizzly bears in the Arctic, then in 1975 took an M.Sc. in medical parasitology at the London School of Tropical Medicine. Following this, he worked as a miner in Thompson, Man., and then on the log booms on the British Columbia coast. In 1980, he graduated from Dalhousie University with a master of library service, and settled down to being a reference librarian at the Kellogg Health Science Library for the next 17 years, until his early retirement in June 1997 due to ill health. He was an avid bird watcher, photographer, traveller and had a great love of poetry, music and nature. Bill was a tireless advocate of the rights of the East Timorese, and many other causes both local and global. He had a keen wit and a booming laugh, and lived his life with great honesty, integrity and generosity. Bill is mourned by his beloved wife, Audrey Louise Samson, and his cherished children, Phoebe Ruth and Max; stepmother, Mary Owen, and stepbrothers, Tom and David Biltoft, Melbourne; his "adopted family" the Annands: Betty, Wendy, Kirk and Chris; and his many, many friends and relations in Australia and Canada. Cremation has taken place. Bill will be remembered at a gathering at the hall of the Universalist Unitarian Church, 5500 Inglis St., at 1 p.m. on Monday, April 13. Memorial donations may be made to the food bank, Oxfam or East Timor Alert Network, 33659-5th Ave., Mission, B.C., V2V 1X1. Arrangements entrusted to Dignity Cremation Services, Halifax.
Photograph of Carol Smilie - Donor of the Carol Smilie Fund for Community Health Nursing Library ...

Photograph of Carol Smilie - Donor of the Carol Smilie Fund for Community Health Nursing Library Resources at the W.K. Kellogg Library

File is a photograph of Ann Barrett, Carol Smilie, and Patrick Ellis. Accompanying note states: A new collection fund has been established for the Kellogg Health Sciences Library to support research and teaching in the area of Community Health Nursing at Dalhousie University. / The fund was established on the reitrement of longtime library friend and patron, Dr. Carol Smilie. Dr. Smilie was an Associate Proferssor at Dalhousie University School of Nursing from 1982-2001, and Associate Director of Undergraduate Cirriculum and Planning for the School [from] 1999-2001. Dr. Smilie graduated with an MSc in Health Education from Dalhousie in 1980. Her practice of nursing was concentrated in the area of community health. While assuming presidential responsibilities in the national and provincial organizations of the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Public Health Association and Directorship of the Nova Scotia Sociobehavioural Cancer Research Network, Dr. Smilie worked to enhance the understanding of and support for the preparation of nurses to work as partners in the building of healthy communities.
Photograph of Dr. Gordon B. Wiswell's Baby Clinic, Health Centre No. 1

Photograph of Dr. Gordon B. Wiswell's Baby Clinic, Health Centre No. 1

File is a photograph of Dr. Gordon B. Wiswell's Baby Clinic. Health Centre No. 1. Picture has the Dr. looking at a little baby, with a nurse and the mother looking on. Picture also has two mothers with children in the back ground. Accompanying inscription reads: Dr. Gordon B. Wiswell's Baby Clinic, Health Centre Number One.
Photograph of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Faculty of Medicine's first Graduation ceremon...

Photograph of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Faculty of Medicine's first Graduation ceremony [1973]

File is a photograph of the first graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Accompanying note reads: Diane Elizabeth Banikhin was the first of a class of 23 to graduate from Memorial University's Faculty of Medicine at a special Convocation June 16, 1973. She receives her hood from Dr. Ian Rusted, Dean of Medicine. At right is Dr. G. Alain Frecker, Chancellor of Memorial.
Composite photograph of College of Pharmacy - First Year Class, 1977-1978

Composite photograph of College of Pharmacy - First Year Class, 1977-1978

File is a composite photograph from Dalhousie's College of Pharmacy. The photograph includes 65 individual student portraits for the first year class. Individuals identified as follows: Dianne Archer, Marjorie Ardelli, Jane Ascroft, Janet Barrie, Laurel Bell, Paul Belliveau, Andrew Bennett, Cathy Bligh, Janet Campbell, Shelagh-Anne Campbell, Catherine Carson, Leonard Cassidy, Sean Cheverie, Janet Cooper, Wendy Cooper, Darlene Cormier, Christine Cosman, Anne Cote, Diane David, Beverly Dennis, Brian Dillman, Sheila Donovan, Loretta Duguay, Moira Gallagher, Candace Gallant, Pinky Gautam, Ian Gunn, Catherine Gallant, Tami Harlow, Pauline Hingston, Lowell Johnstone, Catherine Kelly, Wade Kirk, Joanne LeBlanc, Mary Goh, Susan Lord, Tannis MacAulay, Shawn MacDiarmid, Ann MacDonald, Elizabeth, MacDonald, Krista MacDonald, Paul MacInnis, Stephanie MacIsaac, Elaine MacKenzie, Theresa McLean, Nancy MacNeil, Susan ManSour, Jean Masterson, Anne, Mayich, Deborah McIsaac, Catherine Mclaughlin, Patricia Morrison, Peter Parker, Sheryl Petrie, Mary Reno, Kathy Robbins, Brenda Sangster, Danette Smith, Giselle Stone, Carol Thomas, Linda Thorburn, Marilyn Tiller, Pamela Wallace, Nadine Wentzell, Donna Wheeler.
Engraving from book West Port Murders, A laconic narrative : [1829]

Engraving from book West Port Murders, A laconic narrative : [1829]

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: A laconic narrative of the Life & Death of James Wilson known by the name of Daft Jamie. In which are interspersed, several anecdotes relative to him and his old friend Boby Awl, an idiot who strolled about Edinburgh for many years. He's to be pitied, that's such a silly elf, who cannot speak nor wrestle for himself. Jamie was such a simpleton, he'd not fight with a boy; nor did he ever curse or swear, at those who'd him annoy. Published by W. Smith, Bristo Port, Edina. Price Thrip Pence. 1829. Reprinted (1881) by A. & G. Brown, 15 Bristo Place and the Mound, Edinburgh.
Engraving of Authentic Confessions of William Burk : [1829]

Engraving of Authentic Confessions of William Burk : [1829]

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Text reads: AUTHENTIC CONFESSIONS OF WILLIAM BURK, Who was Executed at Edinburgh, on 28th January 1829, for Murder, emited before the Sheriff-Substitute of Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr. Reid, Catholic Priest, and others, in the Jail, on 3rd and 22d January. EDINBURGH: Printed and Sold by R. Menzies, Lawnmarket. 1829. Price Twopence.
Engraving of the Conversion of Galen [1798]

Engraving of the Conversion of Galen [1798]

File is a reproduction of an engraving. Inscription: Engraved by J. Caldwell. GALENT CONVERSIO.
Accompanying note:
THE CONVERSION OF GALEN.
This undated copperplate, engraved by J. Caldwell, is found in Vol. IV., third edition, of an anonymous work entitled, Medical Extracts, or the Nature of Health, London, 1798. It is credited to Dr. Robert John Thornton.
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